Reply #32: What Did Big Business Expect?

[Demeter]

They weren't paying attention in the 70's when the engineers were talking about the reverse-engineering process in Asia stealing America's innovative products (and then going TWO better by making things cheaper and better).

Did GM and whoever think with their over-extended, loyalty-free operations they were going to overcome a nuclear nation (in both the tribal and the weapons meanings of the word)?

Did they really think they could put the squeeze on 1.6 billion people? Did they think the US was a gun for hire, now that Bush-Cheney are no longer at the wheel of the ship of state? We already have two major wars and God knows how many little ones on the stove.

For too long American administrations have prostituted the nation for multinational corporate gains. And today we see the result--America hollowed out like an orange after juicing, a people traumatized by the cruelty of Capitalism Unbound, two or three generations starved for everything.