FYI: Sprint is now a Japanese company.

[onehandle]

So that's another foreign corporation in the no column for me.
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Sprint and SoftBank Announce Completion of Merger

Through this transaction, approximately 72 percent of current Sprint shares are being acquired by SoftBank for $7.65 per share in cash, and the remaining shares are being converted into shares of a new publicly traded entity named Sprint Corporation.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sprint-softbank-announce-completion-merger-220000438.html

[Laelth]

1. I see this as a positive development.

Japanese management is likely to be better in most respects.

-Laelth

[onehandle]

2. More money and jobs going overseas. nt

[Ikonoklast]

3. Japanese corporate culture at the very top is many ways even worse than in this country.

Secretive, double-dealing, lying to shareholders, graft, corruption...yep, they, too, have it all.

[AZ Progressive]

6. Their wanton disregard for the people is much less though

Japan is far more equal than the U.S. as a result.

[FarCenter]

4. So there is some hope that it will be competently run

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Welcome to globalisation

simpleminded economic nationalism is, frankly, just stupid, I'm sorry. (I invite you to imagine the consequences if people in other countries took that attitude to American corporations that do quite a lot of their business outside the USA, like: Boeing, Ford, GM, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, et cetera.)

[AZ Progressive]

7. I must post this again