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richardhutnik on 19 July 2011
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goforgold said:
richardhutnik said:

Would you rather I say businesses ARE charities?  They aren't.  The end up working to maximize profits.  That is how they work.  Of course, how they do this can be done a lot of ways, and whether they think short or long term.  If they think short term, they will totally ruin long term profit potential.  Beyond this, one needs to ask if maximizing profits is the ONLY set of values that society has.  If society has more values, then things that run against long term interests can be mitigated to a certain degree.

And yes, short term maximizing of profits can not only kill a country, but also an economy.   You can create systemic issues in the economy that can't be gotten out of easy.  And the idea of deficit spending, suggested by Keynes, and gospel by economists now, has been done for years, so there isn't much else to go back to.

so hiring Americans which would also reinforce this countries economic stability is considered a charity, and these are the people d*ck riding the constitution, beyond absurd

and @ the bold the fact that we as a f*cking species still offer that as a question is just pathetic,

I mean come the f*ck on it's 2011 not 1


The thing is, when you have multinational corporations, they don't care about anything outside of maintaining markets (with the least effort possible on their part) and maximizing profits.  Your rant in the last bit comes from someone who has a degree of patriotism, and you see such echoed also in the likes of Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanan.  And such individuals can be strongly pro-constitution, and have these concerns also.

 Multinational corporations have no patriotism at all.  While hiring Americans would help, it isn't in their perogative.  And you do have every right to be upset about it.  But I believe there needs to be more than you being upset and ranting about it, to make a difference here.