Should these large corporations stay in America, and operate at a loss, paying a janitor of a line $25. per hour to empty the waste baskets so that you can feel good about them? Should they stay here when regulatory morass has their operating costs so high that they have to shutter lines to comply with painting a yellow line leading to the rest rooms for the people who have worked there for 20 years? Should they report to the shareholders that they are not making any profit, because people like you think that profit is evil, and unfair?....
There it goes, the old "blame everyone else but corporate greed for the ills of the current economy" meme.
Of course, none of that was the result of fiat currency and the inherent inflation that goes with it. So inherent that all of members who claim to be economists argue about how "normal" it is and how it should be ignored or accepted. Why should anyone expect more wages when their original pay doesn't cover their basic needs anymore due to devalued currency?
None of that was the result of stockholder greed, demanding massive returns on relatively minimal investments which led to policies of cutting costs by any means necessary to increase profits. An attitude happily supported by coporate officers whose efforts allow them to demand annual salaries 150 or more times greater than any worker they get rid of.
None of that was the result of business practices that turned entire rivers into such polluted messes they frequently caught fire, or areas of land so poisonous people died living on or near them. Practically forcing government interference in environmental regulation.
Of course, it's all the Unions fault for developing out of the horrors of American sweat shops, unsafe mines, and factory nightmares. Where men, women and even children were compelled to work 12 to 15 hour days little better than paid serfs just to make enough to make ends meet.
BTW, all this wealth and power was built on land and resources stolen from the original owners and then "legally" transferred by the magic of "land claims." Of course a land claim was nothing more than "I just killed the prior owners, so this is MINE now." Well, with that as a historical basis, it's hard to argue that someone else can't come along and simply TAKE what was yours if they get strong enough and pissed enough to do so.
Now, you blame a particular political party, and a particular President who happens to currently hold the office
instead of recognizing no political party has the moral high ground here? You don't strike me as a man who is himself a "captain of industry" rolling around in wealth you feel needs protecting; you sound more like a drone indoctrinated in the ideals that greed is good and if you only wait long enough and get lucky enough you too will reap the rewards and get to have your kids prance around the world like Paris Hilton.
I am no "leveler." I think every man IS entitled to the fruits of his labor or the wealth gained by his mind. All I am saying is, why cut your own throat by destroying the very economy that allowed you to gain those fruits and that wealth?