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greenleaf, your last post is right on the money.
That's why I am thinking that it would behoove our country to make this THE most business friendly place on Earth.
A good start would be making the United States a place that corporations would want to move BACK to and bring all those jobs that are currently overseas back to the U.S.
I'm not in the govt. or an economic guru...but there are many ways to do that.
But right now, there is such an anti-business atmosphere on the left side (you can read it in their posts that are always talking negatively about corporations) that I don't know if that's going to happen.
I do know that IF we could bring all those jobs back...giving business tax incentives for example...we could put those "average" people back to work making a decent living.
I watched it happen in the late 1990's when I lived in upstate South Carolina and BMW put a plant there to build cars.
It was non-union & the state gave them massive tax incentives.
The entire area was hurting because it used to be a textiles industry center.
But once BMW moved in...hundreds of people got high paying jobs. And the surrounding food establishments, housing, etc. all profited from it and the entire area took off economically.
If the unions in Detroit were out of the picture then the same thing would be happening for that god-forsaken place.
So it is possible. It just takes the govt. creating the correct environment for business to thrive.
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