A good friend predicted back in the
80’s that globalization would take a heavy toll on America’s economy. Another said that multinational corporations
would become bigger than governments.
Submitted for your approval: America
has lost some 7 million jobs due to multinational corporations and others
shipping the work we used to do to places where labor is cheaper. If you do not approve, we may have some ideas
in common.
I’d like to buy a shirt made in USA
of domestic cloth. I’d like to go to the
Big Box hardware and buy a tool not made overseas, but in America. I’d like to go to the Bed & Stuff store
and buy quality dinner table flatware made in, you guessed it, made here! Domestic shoes, anyone?
Billionaires have something in
common. They all seem to be in favor of
things that enable them to make more money.
Whether it’s the TPP, offshore tax havens, corporate inversions,
reducing domestic taxes even though schools and bridges etc suffer (can you say
‘Kansas’, boys and girls?), or making sure the penalties for wrong doing at
their level are rarely and mildly punished.
To paraphrase Willard Motley, knock on any billionaire’s door.
Around here, we think this is what
makes most ordinary Americans angry, in spite of efforts to get us all worked
up about immigrants and people of color stealing our precious prosperity. Why, then, we wonder, do so many struggling
voters want to vote for billionaires?
Does that make ANY sense?
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