We have a corporate class of managers in America who see themselves as belonging to no nation at all, but rather "Citizens of the World". In general, most companies with managers of this type have no qualms about selling "dual use" technologies to Communist China that could be used very effectively against us in weaponry of the future (I don't think Stanley Works is one of them...somehow I don't see the commies taking us out with hand tools).
Everything is the bottom line to them, and mainly it's their personal bottom line. Their stock options. Their salary. Their golden parachutes. Fuck America.
I have a dream of a golden past, which probably never existed...
1) Of politicians who tread lightly on citizenry because they believed in limited government.
2) Of red-blooded American company managers who wanted the best products in the world to be made by American hands in America, and made it so.
=========================================================
See, you guys don't get it. Whether we blame the politicians or the corporate bigwigs we are on a sinking ship. Everyone in power appears to be in it for themselves.
Thank God that Americans like Johnny Mike Spann still exist, or Todd Beamer. Too bad they're dead and can't lead companies or run for office...though they'd probably stay away from that cesspool anyway.
(Sigh)
Just out of curiousity, have you ever read Atlas Shrugged? Short sample:
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on the earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.