Originally Posted by
DYNASTY HVY
Then, I will close this company down, move to another country, and retire. You see, I’m done. I’m done with a country that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be
destroyed, and with it, will be my citizenship.
I generally agree with most of your above post involving the cost to the nation's economy regarding the support of never ending entitlement programs.
However, I gotta take you to task for the above statement I've quoted from your lengthy letter.
Where are you going to go? If it's not the vitriolic latte drinkin' Bush-haters who moved to Canada, it's the cigar chompin' fat cats threatening to move to where? The Philippines, Thailand, Mexico?
The problem is, in my opinion, that plenty of corporate types have already done what you are thinking about- like starting 20 or so years ago.
A humongous portion of the U.S.'s good paying manufacturing, professional, and skilled labor jobs have gone with them.
We can argue about whether or not that's good for the U.S. in the long run, but what do you tell the people of Flint, MI? Or Pittsburgh? Or the A+P's who used to do heavy maintenance on US jets in the US? Work that is now done at overseas MRO's? What do you tell the skilled, well paid construction workers who have been superseded by illegals because we've failed to police our borders and immigration standards? Look around, the entire US economy's backbone has been broken by cheap labor, and unfair overseas trade policies benefiting few except, for yes, the "fat cats".
I don't believe that our new incoming administration has suddenly embraced the idea that the poor are the engine that drives our economy, only that many people in that incoming administration are cognizant of the damage done to the American middle and lower classes by some "globalization" policies and are trying to set up some damage control. I also believe that "the poor" are a convenient scapegoat for what truly ails the U.S. economy right now. That's what I think anyway. Take it for what it's worth.
Maybe you could set up an overseas housing swap deal with some ultra lefties depending on what administration policies you want to be in the U.S. to experience?
Did you write the above, DYNASTY HVY? If so, I wish you and your business the best. And I wish all Americans the best, too.
E Pluribus Unum!