Reply #5: You are partly preadching to the choir

[theriverburns]

the world pay for YOUR ambitions?

They didn't ask for you to do all that.

The US is no longer an isolationist country, doing it's own thing within it's own borders. There are bases and interests around the world...employing Americans I might add.

But if a country wants to have a global reach, it also ends up with global problems.

I never asked to be the world's policeman. But, my kids will have to pay for it. And, the same corporations who are shipping these jobs overseas were the ones who benefitted. They are leaving us with the debt and jumping ship.

Work able to be done on-site by the natives...for less.

With the net, work able to be done at a distance by natives elsewhere...for less.

Do you really think any business or company, no matter the size is going to turn that chance down for a chance to be noble?

No. But I have the right to petition my government to tariff, tax and cut funding to companies who do this. Say maybe tax companies/products based on a combination of the tax/wages/environmental costs of their product. Even the playing field and bring wages up overseas instead of bringing them down here.

And the natives all know they are being paid less than Americans would be for the same job, and they know that their work, and the money saved by them doing it is going for the greater glory of America, not their country.

So if in the meantime, they can bootstrap themselves up by getting a raft of new jobs and learning as they go, are you surprised they do so? They have to get something out of the deal you know.

Crabs in a barrel.

You want to be global policemen? You want empire?

It costs.

Don't blame me for what my corporatist government has done. But, also, don't say that you and the rest of the world haven't benefitted from the contributions of the US, AND HER PEOPLE, either.