Reply #24: Society Depends on Healthy Employed Citizens [View All]

[mhr]

From this perspective one could call the dismantling of America's industrial and technical base treasonous.

The argument that companies must do these things implies that there are no other alternatives which is not the case.

In the present case, we have large corporations motivated only by greed and self preservation. These organizations, under current law, have no legal or moral obligations to the countries that supply them labor or provide a base of operations.

So it is ok for them to prosper without returning allegiance to the people that made their success possible. This is the heart of the problem and this is one of the things that will need to change under law.

The survival argument is a popular one but is without merit in the real world as it dismisses the needs of a country to grow and prosper by supporting healthy citizens and a healthy society.