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Whirlpool is closing factories, even while receiving millions of dollars from our Federal Government stimulus dollars. And they get government contracts. And when they lay people off our government steps in and provides unemployment, etc. And our local governments also are put on the spot with lost taxes, while providing local services. And, of course, Whirlpool pits states against each other for tax breaks and subsidies just to keep a few jobs, like what they are doing with Indiana vs Iowa. This is called socializing the costs and privatizing the profits.
This is what companies today do. It is just the way the game is played, the way the system works, the way the incentives are structured, the way the ball bounces, the way the cookie crumbles...(someone stop me, please)... There aren't "good" or "bad" companies; ANY company will do these things because if they don't they lose out to the companies that do. BECAUSE WE LET THEM. In fact, by letting this happen we make it happen because, as I just wrote, if one company doesn't the next will, and the company that doesn't loses out.
Should companies with federal contracts be required to hire American workers?
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