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No. It is not government's job to "demand" that American businesses hire Americans. I believe the problem is two fold: the Federal government has put so many restrictions and money-grabbing laws on businesses that they are having a tougher and tougher time of it. I can see what my boss has to go thru keeping his business going, despite all of the red tape. That being said, businesses should have an obligation to have some LOYALITY to their country. If they think more of profits than the future of the Nation that ALLOWED them to have their nice business, they should have the integrity to hire Americans. Often, in big fat-cat companies however, integrity takes a back seat to profits. THAT is why illegal Mexicans are flooding this country and why companies are using slaves overseas. THAT is why one can only buy junk made in China now. THAT is why no more American workers take pride in making and buying American-made products. Capitalism is the BEST system going (and the only one that works), but, taken to extreme, it causes BLOODTHIRSTY RUTHLESSNESS that is DESTROYING this Nation. Unfortunately, since big-businesses can't think past what is best for THEM (since THAT personality is what makes a successful business, and failure to do so would cause their business to fail), they cannot see what they are doing to this country. What are the big-businesses going to do when no one here in America can BUY their shoddy Chinese-made products because there aren't any jobs? I say we do two things: remove restrictions and money-grabbing laws on businesses, break-up the monster mega-corporations (I hear the hisses now) and make it law that any corporation who hires over-seas slave labor CANNOT sell their goods to America. What will happen? Prices will go up, manufacturing jobs will explode here in America, and, eventually, prices will go back down some and Americans will be able to buy better quality products. No one will be as well off: Americans will no longer be able to buy a cheapo VCR for 30.00 and companies will not make obscene profits, but both will be better off and , more importantly, the COUNTRY will be better off.

Well, at least you are proposing something. a few would be considered "anti-capitalist" but at least you are telling me something. So far, I have seen nothing but calling Bush a corporate whore and that jobs are owed to us by the govt...

One of the negatives of capitalism is that it doesnt demand loyalty to the country unless the countrymen stop buying their product. That how we have to get these companies to start employing more Americans.