[TXBSAFH]

There are not many American companies left, most are multinationals who only have loyalities to money.

[stuartcr]

$$$ has, and always will be, a uniting factor.

[uncbob]

There are not many American companies left, most are multinationals who only have loyalities to money.

What makes you think it was any different when they were so called AMERICAN COMPANIES

[Mase]

There are not many American companies left, most are multinationals

I guess this depends on how you define multinational. I'll assume, for the sake of argument, you are referring to the major multinational corporations that are very large. These companies have offices, factories or branch plants in different countries and have a centralized head office where they coordinate global management.

Now let's look at your statement from the small business perspective. According the the SBA, in 2002 there were 22.9 million small businesses in the U.S. Of that number 17.2 million were sole proprietorships (roughly equivalent to nonemployers) and 5.7 million have employees.

Small businesses, as defined by the SBA, have less than 500 employees. Not exactly what you meant by multinational or transnational corporation is it? Lets look at how important these small businesses are to our economy:

• Represent more than 99.7 percent of all employers.
  
• Employ more than half of all private sector employees
  
• Pay 44.5 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
  
• Generate 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually.
  
• Create more than 50 percent of nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).
  
• Supplied 22.8 percent of the total value of federal prime contracts (about $50 billion) in FY 2001.
  
• Produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms. These patents are twice as likely as large firm patents to be among the one percent most cited.
  
• Are employers of 39 percent of high tech workers (such as scientists, engineers, and computer workers ) .
  
• Are 53 percent home-based and 3 percent franchises.
  
• Made up 97 percent of all identified exporters and produced 29 percent of the known export value in FY 2001.
  

SBA Office of Advocacy

It's bad enough that you characterize American based multinationals as un-American. However, It's requires total ignorance to believe that there are not many American companies left. I think you need to find a new bogeyman.

Our economic success is driven by the search for profits. Any businessman not loyal to making a profit does no one any favors and will not be in business long. To suggest that these millions of business owners would sell out their country for that profit is reprehensible. I know more than a few vets who own these kinds of businesses who would love to give you a quick impersonal lecture on exactly where their loyalties lie.