Globalization shouldn't be a "free ride"

in my work in various countries, i see plenty of this...

As American companies move more and more of their manufacturing offshore, many take on the status of "free riders." They enjoy all the benefits of being "American" -- government services and subsidies, the protection of the US military -- while discarding reciprocal obligations to the country: jobs, economic investment and paying a fair share of the tax burden.

fortunately, i've seen nothing as egregious as what's going on in iraq, or even, for that matter, the desecration that's already been perpetrated on the environments of such places as irian jaya, the congo, bolivia, and peru...

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