If you feel that it is not your responsibility to help your community or that somehow all will work out; or if you subscribe to the idea that every company take care of their bottom line first and not the people that make up the company than,you are not an American.
America is an an Ideal....not an economic theory.
I do what I can to support the ideas America was founded on, which is above all individual Freedom; let the individual decide what is best for themselves. That was the philosophy of my ancestors, President's Adams, Adams, and Monroe. It was Reagan's principle philoshophy, too.
"While Microsoft shareholders may be Americans they are a small minority...."
So?
" The employment of American workers and the ancillary effects on communities benefits Americans first..."
Did you just say, "employment of Americans benefits Americans?" If so, then thanks for stating the obvious. Feeding Americans benefits Americans, too. In fact, clipping the toenails of Americans benefits Americans.
" If you feel that it is not your responsibility to help your community..."
I donate a lot more to my community than you do, trust me. I also employ more than you, too. Of course, I am "rich management," and won't employ unionists, under any circumstances.
"...or that somehow all will work out..."
It will if you are for American values, including hard work, individual responsibility, and being thankful to your employer, for allowing to be employed. It is not a right, you know. I hire and fire based on individual performance. Some hate that, but they are the lazy freeloaders, usually dumb as a box of rocks. The rest love it, and are rewarded greatly. Based soley on performance, nothing else.
... or if you subscribe to the idea that every company take care of their bottom line first..."
Of course I subscribe to that. Companies are not in business to be altruistic. Companies are there to make money. Including mine. If you want to force companies to be altrusitic, be prepared for a low standard of living, like they have in France. Better yet, just proclaim your love for socialism, and move there. Have fun in your cramped house, and filthy streets. We capitalist individual freedom lovers will be fine.
"...and not the people that make up the company than,you are not an American..."
One of us is not an American, but it certainly is not me. I understand the principles this country was founded on, and it is not to close our borders and unionize, to protect "jobs."
Let me be perfectly frank: Anyone who supports unionizing, and closing our borders to trade, is absolutely un-American.
But would do well in Germany and France.
" America is an an Ideal....not an economic theory."
Actually, economic theory here is derived from the ideal. Let people make their own choices, leave them alone, and prosperity follows. Reagan knew this. I suggest you study him.