“It’s more like the bazooka was pointed by the union at those factory jobs, demanding they be paid more than they were worth—until the factories shut down and went out of business.”
Riiight. Because big corporations are weak bitches who have no leverage against those mean, nasty unions. Now what kind of cheese would you like with that whine? Like I said, they moved so they could pay some kid chicken feed, dump their sludge wherever they felt like it, and the American worker be damned.
Michael Moore: please explain to the thread what leverage those evil corporations do, in fact, have against unions?
When an evil corporation hits union extortion then their only options are to shift operations to a better state, shift operations to a better country or to go bankrupt (like Hostess).
Capital goes where it is treated best. India, China, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and so forth are gaining capital because they are (comparatively) hospitable to capital. America is bleeding capital because it is currently inhospitable to it.
Your plan - such as it is - would be to institute financial repression. You would wall up capital so that it couldn’t move out of the country and also force Americans to buy protected, Government-approved brands.
Which would be an absolute disaster. Financial repression hasn’t worked for Argentina or Venezuela or Zimbabwe - why would it work for the US of A?