AND YET OUR "POLITICAL" LEADERS GIVE TAX INCENTIVES TO AMERICAN COMPANIES WHO TAKE JOBS OUTSIDE OUR BORDERS. LETS FACE REALITY HERE. SOME OF AMERICAS BEST ARE NOW FOREIGN OWNED. THE LIST IS LONG . THE TRUTH IS THIS "AMERICA IS FOR SALE" ..

Interesting perspective.

But imagine if, in 1980 the US voters had made "Crime Against Community"--the closing of a company employing more than 100 workers and reopening a similar one outside the US--a capital offense for the management and Board.

Then we wouldn't have seen the Great Betrayal, the de-industrializing of the United States by American corporations, and its dire consequences.

We even just voted in a Governor, who closed a US plant when he was a computer executive. Will we ever learn...?

Very interesting article Dave. Thanks. Very deep and complex subject obviously. This problem if it really is a problem has been developing for a long time. To use your analogy, we are the frog(s). Maybe we need to evolve into something with a greater sensitivity to rising temperatures. (This sounds suspiciously like the global warming debate.) Anyway, we make decisions every day and these choices accumulate and affect our future. Nexteer is in our backyard. We don't have to send an army overseas to confront a threat. Work hard, shake a hand, make a friend. Communicate and confront your fears. Work through them and make the future your home. Easier said than done but that is why they call it work.

Hold the presses!

I take back all that stuff I just said.

It can't be another frog, but what is it?

Lady Gaga Arrives in Giant Egg at Grammy Awards

http://awards.music.yahoo.com/blog/90-lady-gaga-arrives-in-giant-egg-at-grammy-awards?nc

The decision to be made now? Sunnyside up or over easy.

I meant to say hard boiled or soft.