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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Sorry to put a damper in this, but it is nothing but a well-intended dream...it is a contamination of ideology from the left... anyone adhering to this has never had a seat in the boardroom. “Economic Patriotism” belongs in the marketing department...PROFIT belongs in the boardroom. You want jobs to stay here? You want to put America back to work? You don’t do it with “Hope and change” logos...you do it by causing the behavior in the boardroom (where those decisions are made), to change because it increases profit! Reduce the corporate taxes, get the unions and government out if the way of business and entrepreneurism. Anyone in a real boardroom would put as much weight to “Economic Patriotism” as they did Occupy Wall Street. Don’t fall for the do-gooder theme of the moment. Make the hard choices...reduce taxes, reduce regulation...you won’t need anything “hopy and changy”, change the business platform to increase a company’s profits and success and the desired result will happen instantly and automatically. (What Would Reagan Do?)...better yet...(What DID Reagan do?)


9 posted on 07/20/2014 8:25:36 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

I don’t know.

China is (rapidly) taking our place.

China is not open to free enterprise. China has laws regarding their own involvement in industries, which support China.

China was very good for global capitalism, but is now in danger of taking over. American investors, cannot own businesses (except in the minority) in China. Everything is majority owned, by one race: Chinese.

We need to focus on American industry. Stop selling everything, to a competing system.

We continue to see the world as nothing but a gigantic support for the American industrial machine.

China is becoming the world’s premier industrial country. China’s population is nearly five times America’s.

America needs to wake the heck up, and bring back American industry.

I’m completely series. We need to stop making excuses for every country but America.

We need to build back up, or own nation.


13 posted on 07/20/2014 8:33:25 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
“Economic Patriotism” belongs in the marketing department...PROFIT belongs in the boardroom.

How true! Corporations don't "pay taxes", they pass them on to their customers in the form of higher prices. When our byzantine labyrinth of IRS regulations penalizes companies who have earnings abroad (as they do now), the "Smart" move is to MOVE the corporation's base to the most tax friendly international destinations!

Remember, if you want more of something you subsidize it..., if you want less of something you tax it! Obviously "our government" wants less domestic corporations since it makes "Economic Patriotism" very costly!

15 posted on 07/20/2014 8:40:37 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Exactly right!

Talk is talk, profit is money, money is priceless.


16 posted on 07/20/2014 8:42:58 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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