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AnneD

(15,774 posts)
40. This is the problem I have with multinational companies......
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 01:24 PM
Mar 2012

they have no loyalties. Their CEO's have no county loyalty. Their only allegiance is to the company they work at until their contract or the profits run dry. They are like a roving plague of locusts.

Just like maintaining an automotive manufacturer, maintaining refining capability is essential to maintaining our national sovereignty and security. Which brings me to the thought that maybe they don't want us to have our sovereignty. Maybe their idea of the future of humanity is a world wide feudal working class, a corporate merchant class, and a less that 1% ruling class.

That is what it looks like to this curmudgeon.

With thanks to the adorable person who sent me the 'toon Tansy_Gold Mar 2012 #1
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This is the problem I have with multinational companies...... AnneD Mar 2012 #40
well -- my mom turned 102 yesterday xchrom Mar 2012 #12
Hope she has a wonderful day and life forward Demeter Mar 2012 #13
she had a great day -- the family took a drive up to Gold Country. xchrom Mar 2012 #20
If it makes you feel better.... AnneD Mar 2012 #34
aww that was sweet -- it was an adoption that almost didn't happen. xchrom Mar 2012 #35
LOL.... AnneD Mar 2012 #36
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