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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	I forgot to mention fishy
	Date:	12/12/2011 8:43:15 AM

What that tells me is that the number of "working" poor in this country is huge. Not everyone who is poor is sitting on their butt collecting welfare.

It wasn't just the corporate tax rate that drove manufacturers offshore. It was also the very seductive cheap labor rates and virtually no labor laws. It was "offsets" that foreign countries imposed on companies too -- that they had to guarantee so many jobs and technology would come to their country in order for them to buy from a company.
My observation is the most companies are painfully short-sighted in their pursuit of profits, and their immediate bottom line.

Now before you dismiss me for being a bureaucrat, just remember that a significant part of my government job had to do with keeping US companies from giving away our most significant defense technologies, and know how.