On 1/27/2011 4:16 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On 27/01/2011 1:59 AM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> My personal feeling is, if a company has more than 50% of its damn
>> resources, product *or* employees in some other country, and its not
>> *specifically* claiming to be a resaler (which would not have the same
>> "rights" as the rest, including being able to muck with politics *at
>> all*), it can't claim to be an "American company", no matter where their
>> "head office" is located. If we used that logic on something like
>> diplomats, foreign dignitaries could claim to be members of bloody
>> congress, on the grounds that their embassy is on US land, and they do
>> all their work from the embassy office, without ever going back to their
>> own country for visits.
>>
>
> What is the big deal about being American?
>
If its a foreign company, it can't get tax breaks, privileged treatment, 
and all the other BS that lets them get by with shit they do. This is 
the dream of the Repuglicans, straight from Texas:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/01/texas_our_bold_leader_into_the.php

This is what they think will "save the country", while whining that 
their goal is to do the exact opposite. More money, power, and privilege 
to companies, even the ones that outsource 90% of their jobs to some 
foreign country, and everyone else gets completely screwed. So.. Its 
simple. Stop treating companies that outsource more than 49.9% of their 
jobs to China, or the like, as privileged, US, companies, with all the 
rights and special treatment that come with it. Apply the same foreign 
import taxes, and the like, to them that anyone else that manufactures 
outside the US has to. If they won't hire us, they should at least 
frakking pay enough taxes to to make up the difference it costs in 
keeping the people that can't find work from starving to death.

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