Why U.S. Companies Aren't So American Anymore

American companies who left America for cheap labor should be considered as traitors. China is still a communist empire .An no nation should be allowed to build factories that will financially assist them with income that is. beening used in record amonts. To build their 200,000,000 man army. The American companies as well as other free nations who built companies have helped arm one of the deadliest regimes on the planet. They have not only caused a direct threat to us but a threat to our children an grandchildren. The American companies that turnt Communist friendly an traitor should be imprisoned.

Crittergetter of NC 6:29PM October 02, 2012

America has lost its mind too send jobs overseas has killed our economy & hurt many people that these companies have gotten so big was by Americans first & foremost, so they thanks us by sending jobs overseas making americans poor. I won't do business with them. I am personally gonna Boycott all these companies that are on this list. I vow to never buy any of their products or food or banks I would rather they all fail miserable for being Greedy On A Epic Level.

JWTX of TX 3:42PM February 15, 2012

I agree that American companies are not so American anymore. Now that the US Supreme Court has declared corporations to be people I would also say that American companies are not loyal to the USA. I question their allegiance to America. Perhaps now that corporations are people that are not loyal to America they can be tried for treason and hung!

Debbie of CA 10:45AM September 28, 2011

@Robert Barrows: I read your poem. (Aren't Comments" section wonderful for self-promotion?)

In essence, your poem is saying, in part, that capitalism is just fine -- *until* it goes international.

In your poem, you overlook a fact this article points out: much of the strength of the stock market in the last couple of years has been precisely *because* of the globalization of business. And a whole bunch of us own stocks in companies who depend to some degree on foreign profits to bolster their balance sheets -- and to be able to pay higher dividends to stockholders than they otherwise would have been able to pay.

Look at some of the names of the companies listed in this article. It's true that Walmart and McDonald's are perennial whipping boys when we discuss globalization. But Dow Chemical? GE? *Ford,* for pete's sake -- how much more quintessentially American an image can a company have than Ford, founded by an American guy who basically invented the modern production line???

Many anti-globalization folks also either don't know or ignore other ways in which we Americans directly benefit from globalization. One large example comes in the form of retirement funds -- many of which invest in ways that generate income for their members -- us -- from sources abroad.

When we ignore these facts, we inflict fear upon ourselves.

There's another side of this some simply don't know: people in *other* countries bemoan the fact that sometimes they have to buy foreign-made products, including American-made ones. I wonder how many anti-globalization people would support those foreigners in driving American firms out of their countries, or driving their products out in the case of firms that sell in Country A but don't operate there otherwise. My guess -- as an American who has lived in Asia for 24 years -- is that such a move would be seen as hostile anti-Americanism.

In other words, we sometimes argue that what's good for the goose (foreign sales for U.S. firms) is NOT good for the gander -- sales by foreign companies in the U.S.

But then we come to the well-known reality of sticker shock, which leaves such people flopping out of water. How many of us are TRULY willing to pay $1,500 for that computer we just bought at Walmart for $600 -- pay $1,500 so it is made in America? Yes, some would, if they could, and they genuinely can't. But I know folks who easily could fork over that $1,500 -- but don't and won't.

It's not an easy topic of discussion, and pat answers don't help. . . .

Mekhong Kurt 12:10PM July 12, 2011