Massive corporate taxation, limitless legal vulnerability, crushing environmental regulation and pro-Union arbitrary Government: these are why industries have increasingly chosen to relocate away from the USA.
Not to mention the job-killing tidal wave of ObamaCare.
Free Trade is simply economic Freedom of Association. Corporations take their capital to where it is treated best. Right now that isn't the US.
Corporations are strictly bound to look out for the interests of their shareholders. They are not our property and they owe us precisely nothing. Why should they put their shareholders' capital at risk just to provide some union guy with an early pension?
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Pure Business School Bull Crap. You could eliminate all taxes and regs on US corporations that are into manufacturing and the tide of off shoring would not be stemmed one iota.
Hear! Hear!