[tcostell]

"Corporate types who make those decisions should be shunned by their fellow citizens. "

They should be forced to stay here and do what we tell them to instead of what will be best for themselves. Don't they ever think of the people?!! No not them. They only think of themselves and their evil shareholders. Wicked greedy capitalists!!!

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[PGalt]

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth

What a moron!

[ricpic]

I'm always suspicious of people who make several highly debatable statements that "we all know are true."

Was the late 19th Century a period when robber barons "raped the land, exploited the American people and created hellish slums?" Why then did millions uproot themselves from their homelands to come to such a disaster?

Was America "a nation that was poor a lot longer than it's been rich?" European visitors were making the comment as early as colonial times that the American yeoman farmer was much better off than his equivalent, the European peasant. Relative prosperity from the outset was the fundamental reason Americans saw themselves as independent beings not to be trifled with.

How do you argue with someone who says that we shouldn't be treated "as economic cogs?" But when that is followed up by statements that capitalism isn't good at redistributing wealth, that corporate profits are "excessive," that globalization boils down to "the takeover of the world's resources by multinational corporations," what is the implied solution? Fascism? Corporations in private hands in name only but actually under governmental control? It seems to me that that's where Reese's argument leads.

[sam_paine]

It is far more important for Americans to have decent-paying jobs than it is for any corporation to make excessive profits.

What a false dilemma. I work for a company that's bleeding money as fast as they can raise it. They're trying to move manufacturing to the far east to merely break even, not make "excessive profit." If that doesn't work then we all lose paychecks here in the states, period, not "profit." It's not about outsourcing low dollar manufacturing to save my white coller design job, it's about mere survival against everyone else.