What prominent corporations are guilty of shifting jobs overseas? This article states that "The Wall Street Journal reports today that Corporate America certainly isn't doing its part to help bring America out of its economic malaise. The paper surveyed employment data by some of the nation's largest corporations -- General Electric (who has mastered the art of paying little to no taxes), Caterpillar, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Chevron, Cisco, Intel, Stanley Works, Merck, United Technologies, and Oracle -- and found that they cut their workforces by 2.9 million people over the last decade while hiring 2.4 million people overseas.
That's only a handful of the many global-type corporations who have outsourced many more millions of jobs overseas and, as further evidence of the damage that is being done to American manufacturing, there have been over 50,000 manufacturing plants closed in this country in the past ten years.
To combat the un-American agendas of these corporations, we need new, creative ideas and ways to remedy this situation. The American people must open their minds and think out of the box for a change. While I know that I personally can't do much to combat these massive rogue corporations that are preying on this nation and society, I certainly have the power to stop spending my money on their products. So here's what I do. I never buy anything from the retail giants whose names end with "Mart" since I know they import the majority of their products from China rather than American sources.
I will never do any business with any of the Big Five banks (I just dumped a small amount of the stock of one of them). And I also have adopted the practice, when I listen to the radio and watch TV, to hit the mute button when the commercials of the massive global corporations come on because I have no intention of ever buying their products. I do, however, make an exception for those commercials that are for what I consider to be good causes or are presented by exemplary corporations, of which there are still quite a few in America.
If that practice seems to be spiteful and mean-spirited then so be it and I only wish I could think of additional forms of appropriate payback for these job killing corporations. This, in itself, may represent a small, very insignificant exercise but just think of what might happen if many millions of other Americans would begin doing the same. At some point, we might see the inception and growth of a national movement to boycott and drive the worst of these rogue corporations out of business for good; those same corporations that are throwing this country's workers under the bus.
So what's it going to be? Will the American people and its workforce continue to allow themselves to be battered and beaten by these profit-crazed global corporations or will they use their massive power to fight back? With all the creative people in this country, we should be able to come up with many innovative ways to do just that. I say it's time for payback.
Michael Payne
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