[Willie Green]

"What is the real intention of the U.S.-based multinational corporations?" Perhaps economic globalism represents an attempt to equalize incomes of the First World and Third World.

While that may be the political agenda of government bureaucrats, it is NOT the intention of transnational corporations. Their motivation is much simpler: to profit from the economic disparities that exist globally, without concern for the implications for the people of any particular nation. At this point in time, they view the American Middle Class merely as a market to plunder, and not as a workforce to employ. Once we are beaten down to parity with the global poverty level, they may (or may not) return to establish production facilities within our borders.

[Willie Green]

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

--Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119

"We are infinitely better off without treaties of commerce with any nation."

--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1815.

"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

--Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816. FE 10:69