I'm not the most patriotic of Americans, but I do love my country and hate to see big-business destroying it. It seems that everyday I read the news, I see some big-business is investing millions or billions of dollars in some foreign country. Meanwhile, back home, the US unemployment rate is at 7.6%, which is higher than it's been since 1984, and the economy has been in recession since December of 2007. I understand that being a "world leader," if you can still call the US a world leader, requires helping others as much as yourself, but US big-business doesn't seem to even attempt to help out the US economy other than their pockets.
Just yesterday, I was telling someone that while I worked for Coca-Cola, I enjoyed it because I knew my job couldn't be outsourced. You can't merchandise a product from India, you can't really build pallets of product each night in China and then deliver it by 6am the next morning in Effingham, Illinois, I felt comfortable and safe in my very physical job. Now, I see that Coca-Cola is finding other ways in showing the US that they care more about their bottom line by investing more money in China than they do about the country of their origin by doing nothing to encourage, or inflate the local economy. It's not just Coca-Cola, it's all big businesses. I was thrilled when I read a news article about Intel investing billions in new facilities in the US, and even more thrilled when I heard AMD was doing the same through Twitter. However, Intel just pumped more money into a plant in the city I'm living in now as well... for those of you who don't already know, I currently live in China.
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