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[quote user="henry6"] If there weren't a return on investment investors wouldn't invest...getting back more than you put in is what it is all about and I am all for it.  Over the past 25 or so years, however, I believe investors have been, well, greedy and shorsighted.  They have demanded huge and quick returns with very little concience to the future of the product, the company, and, horrors to horrors, the country. To send manufacturing jobs off shore has been good for the quick bottom line but has only yielded higher unemployment, downgrading of cities, and a dumbing of the American public.  But we are told that they are more patriotic who invest than those who toil.  Or question thier motives and the modus operndi!  Thus I am niether Democrat or Rebublican but Cynical! [/quote] It seems to me that if a company believes they can make more money by going offshore and it backfires on them, then it was a matter of bad business judgment or simply a business mistake.  But you seem to be saying that they were greedy and thus wanted too much too fast.  You also seem to be suggesting that private companies have some sort of civic duty to make the country collectively more well off even if it means that such companies will make less money in the process.   <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> But is it not good business sense to want your business to make as much money as it possibly can in as short of a time as possible?  Should companies settle for less profit if by doing so, they can remain in the U.S. as a favor to the U.S. citizens who want jobs? <o:p></o:p> Question:  How has the fact that companies have moved offshore yielded a dumbing of the American public? <o:p></o:p> There are many companies that move their production offshore with great success to their business.  Would they be greedy and shortsighted just like the companies which were unsuccessful in going offshore?   And one more question:  What exactly is greed when it comes to business?  How do you know when you cross the line?
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