[Captain Peter Blood]

These companies made bad investment decisions. What is your proposal? Outside of the Government nationalizing them and propping them up to keep people employed this is the way Capitalism works. Things are ever changing and evolving.

[Age of Reason]

See my post above, #82, for the solution.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Thanks for asking.

If I could create some sort of construct, it would involve complete, wild-west no holds barred anything-goes competition domestically.

Combined with a hard tough-as-steel national trade policy which brooked no quarter, and hammered on our competitors without mercy or pause, until America owned them.

Obviously, both would end up compromises some measure from those two ideals... :)