Salon Posts on Outsourcing, Admits There Exists a Non-Racist Part of Trump's Platform

Snapshot of a broken system: How a profitable company justifies laying off 1,400 people & moved their jobs to Mexico

This entire article is worth a read.  It's nice to see a publication acknowledging that Trump has ideas that appeal directly to working class Americans, the traditional Democrats of the country, as well as the supposedly liberal dislike of corporations.

However, I will make a few comments on Mr. Dayen's concluding paragraphs:

We need to figure out how to restrain capital flight, and what to do for low- and middle-skill workers abandoned by factory jobs, beyond just giving them a paper McDonald’s hat and a spatula. We need to be honest about what free trade with China has done to millions of Americans’ job security and career prospects. But until we rethink the purpose of a company, and put that into action in corporate charters, we won’t get anywhere resisting what corporations see as functional imperatives.

Corporations can do more than make their stockholders rich. And “profit” can mean more than dollars and cents. We don’t have to treat Carrier workers in Indianapolis like this. We just have to say no to the tyranny of shareholder value, and set a more proper role for corporations in our society.


He's on the right track.  We do need to "rethink the purpose of a company" and understand the nature of a corporation.  Mitt Romney famously (and he wasn't the first) said, "Corporations are people."  Well, Mitt, what about those 1,400 Americans who now have no jobs?  Are they the "people" of your corporation?

We need more than rethinking.  Corporations will do what we tell them to do, Mr. Dayen, and they'll do it not because we complain and write articles.  They'll do it if the working class elects a candidate who is outside of their control.  A candidate who the elites hate and by "elites" I mean the political class, the banks, and the multi-national corporations.  Because it is these people who have spoon-fed Americans all the bullshit about free trade and the "role of corporations in our society."

Sorry to tell you this, but fixing it sounds like a job for Trump.  Perhaps Bernie Sanders could make some noise, but that's a moot point--he doesn't have a chance in hell of getting the nomination.  I saw it on a forum today: "The problem with Trump is that Trump is necessary."

If we're serious about changing the culture and protecting American jobs, there really isn't another option.  More Americans will catch onto this as the presidential race begins and that's why Trump will beat Hillary like a drum in November.