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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by jruppert</i> <br /><br />Maybe not. But who buys stock in large american companies? <br /> - Foreign conglomerates. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Then they REALLY tend to tighten the old screws,,, Like when Kone bought Montgomery elevator or Tyco bought Simplex, Grinnell, and ADT. <br /> <br />Granted, it's not good to see all that cashflow going overseas, but it doesn't bother me as much as seeing all the manufacturing jobs sweeping to foreign continents. <br /> <br />I mean a "sit on your duff all day and clip dividend coupons" stockholder is a "sit on your duff all day and clip dividend coupons" stockholder. where ever they are. Unfortunately the days where the owner of a company had pride in the products produced because they had his name on them are almost gone.
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