[gcruse]

What is the real intention of the U.S.-based multinational corporations?

To make enough bucks to survive corrupt unions, overtaxation,
and onerous regulations.  Try it sometimes.  It's not easy.

[DTA]

"The analogy between the terms "global" [2] and "universal" is misleading. Universalization has to do with human rights, liberty, culture, and democracy.

By contrast, globalization is about technology, the market, tourism, and information. Globalization appears to be irreversible whereas universalization is likely to be on its way out. At least, it appears to be retreating as a value system which developed in the context of Western modernity and was unmatched by any other culture.

Any culture that becomes universal loses its singularity and dies. That's what happened to all those cultures we destroyed by forcefully assimilating them. But it is also true of our own culture, despite its claim of being universally valid. The only difference is that other cultures died because of their singularity, which is a beautiful death. We are dying because we are losing our own singularity and exterminating all our values. And this is a much more ugly death."

see: The Violence of the Global by Jean Baudrillard

[chainsaw]

America is burning while our politicians fiddle!

[vbmoneyspender]

Until globalist corporate America understands it is the national interest, and not short-term profits and stock market prices, that represents the ultimate "bottom line," this erosion of the economic infrastructure of the United States will continue.

I am a 50% shareholder of a close corporation -- so I am interested in learning when a corporation becomes part of the globalist corporate America complex. Will my corporation become a sentient member of evil corporate America when it employs 10 people or 50 people or a 100 people. Or does a corporation have to employ tens of thousands of people before it becomes evil? Hopefully, someone can define for me what the cutoff point is so that I will know when to stop expanding my business so that it doesn't become evil incarnate and instead continues to be run for profit for the benefit of its shareholders, its employees and its customers.

[martian_22]

They want the same thing every corporation wants - power. Power to make a profit.

As with all human forces and forms, it depends upon the use/mis-use of their power to measure their direction. Are you a good corp or a bad corp?

[Calpernia]

The USA was founded by Pioneers and grew to what it is today from entrepreneurialism. Part of the American dream was to come here, be free and OWN your own business.

Now adays, these large corporations (most of them) are nothing more than mini regime conditioning.

The Board of Directors keeps all the wealth and throws enough 'perks' to the employees to keep them coming back. Not much different than ShareCroppering.

Between corporate conditioning and our educational system, people from the babyboomer generation and on don't even know how to start and run a business.

WorldCom, Tyko, Enron, Global Crossing, Qwest, and more are just as much the crooks and a harm to our traditional values of the USA.

[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.

[Consort]

National boundaries will disappear.

[MissAmericanPie]

"In theory, minimized wages yield minimized costs which result in maximized profits. Unfortunately, this also increases unemployment and reduces the quality of life in the United States"

As the CEO for Boeing commented after revealing their plans to move jobs to India, "Americans are not entitled to their standard of living".

[Radioactive]

The #1 reason why companies are going overseas and taking the jobs with them is THE INCOME TAX!!!!!!!!!!

We are being lied to. The income tax is by far the biggest non manufacturing cost for every business.

When you make a business act as an unpaid agent for the government, and you make these businesses spend money on collecting this tax, you destroy the productivity of the worker and the profitability of the business.

Don't forget all the government regulations and the unfunded mandates and you have a mess that we have today.

Time to get the central planners the hell out of government and kill the IRS and the central banks once and for all.

[harpseal]

ping

This is just a brief argument against the multinational's raping of the American economy.

on or off this list let me know

[Quix]

THIS IS CERTAINLY A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE EVIL GLOBAL STRATEGY.

They really don't care that much if they run the global economy into the ground. They want 1/3 to 2/3 less population anyway--all the easier to manage a smaller population of serfs.

And wars, disasters etc. along the way all play into their hands very helpfully.

Thankfully, God's a better General.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"Roosevelt threatened to nationalize the mines if the owners continued to refuse to negotiate."

Sounds like Teddy could not be bought by the mine owners.
I wonder what he would do with today's U.S. based multi-national corporate execs that replace their American workforce with slave-wage foreigners?
Would he pretend that there is no problem?

Or, what would our current President have done with the miners and owners? Would he have sided with the owners? Probably. Would he have done what Teddy did? I doubt it.

I would love to hear the Bushbots try and say that Teddy was a Marxist who belongs on DU.

The fact is, our nation is facing an economic crisis. We need leaders of strong character who are not bought and paid for by several "U.S. based multi-national" corporations. We need more like Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo and we need to let the rest know what we think of them.