1. WRONG. When companies outsource and send jobs to other countries ... Americans become unemployed. Unemployment damages the economy. Now ... think larger ... think of what happens when ALL COMPANIES DO THIS WITHOUT BEING CHECKED!!!!!
Well, that's pretty narrow-minded.
When a company sources it's labor expense outside, it decreases it's operating costs, which either improves the profitability of the company (often making it possible to remain in business), which translates to either higher dividends to share-holders, who...go out and either spend the money in the local economy or re-invest in other companies, or the money is re-invested into the company, again improving it's standing in the market and possibly the development of new endeavors that grow the company further.
On the other side, the company is typically charging less to remain competitive with others in the market, and when companies are competing for market share by pulling down prices, the consumer benefits because the dollars they're not spending that service can be either invested or spent as the consumer sees fit.
The only people not benefitted by outsourcing are the overpriced employees who made outsourcing an economic interest in the first place.
2. Big companies are by definition ... dishonest and not worthy of being helped. I DO NOT support corporate welfare. That is a bull**** Republican scam used to make taxpayers pay for the greed and stupidity of corrupt corporations.
Right. Absolutely no tax dollars are spent on corporate welfare when Democrats control either the White House or the Congress.
3. There is NOTHING irrational in my complete and total loathing of big business.
Absolutely not. You're a paragon of reason and clarity.
Given that I am living in a horrible economy and cannot make a decent wage because some scumbag CEO outsourced my job --- I have ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO DISLIKE CORPORATIONS.
Or...maybe you made a bad career choice.
I joined the Navy to learn how to run a nuclear reactor, a fine career choice, then that Hanoi Jane broad decided to declare war on the United States and attacked our nuclear power industry with an ignorant propaganda screed, and the media fed that paranoia with inflated angst over a minor accident in Pennsylvania that injured no one.
So guess what?
Pick another damn career and quit whining. No one cares.