re: #70 Expand Your Ground

Counter-talking points

“Outsourcing is a part of modern buiness in America, we all benefit from it in the form of cheaper consumer products.”

“A businessman is there to make a profit for his shareholders. Jobs are a by-product.”

“Businessmen are there to make money, that is why they are in business.”

All reasonable arguments. For a businessman. Not for someone who is supposed to represent us all, not just his colleagues and shareholders.

Greed is not evil in itself, but like any other force of nature, it needs to be contained in order to benefit everyone. Flowing water can irrigate a field or power a turbine. it can also scour the countryside and level cities.

Greed can help build empires and employ thousands of people. It can also nearly wipe out an economy, as it would have done in America in 2008 without government intervention. Good thing the dikes held…

The problem is that big corporations use to have a sense of social/economic justice in this country, an interest in the community.
Now with all the multi nationals and outsourcing that is no longer true on a grand scale.
The result has been that the government has had to fill in the gap. So the very thing the conservative base screams about…big government vs free enterprise…the welfare state, food stamps, unemployment etc.. their policies, in part, has led to the expansion of those programs.