What do the following Beer have in common: Budweiser, gasoline CITGO, good humor, Ben and Jerry's ice cream and Breyer, have French mustard, refrigerators, Frigidaire, Adidas shoes and Reebok New York Plaza Hotel and the Chrysler Building, Caribou Coffee and Church's Chicken, Trader Joe's, 7-Eleven, the Holiday Inn, Dial soap, T-Mobile, Firestone tires, the Sunglass Hut, the Indiana Toll Road – a portion of Interstate Route 80, and Toll House cookies? The answer is that eachapparently this brand and the actual American owned and controlled by a foreign company. The selloff in the United States of America has had for some time, and foreign-owned companies now control 50% or more of the many important industry in the United States:
* Sound recording industries – 97%
* The contracts for the sale and trading of goods – 79%
* Film and sound recording – 75%
* Production of iron ore – 65%
* Film and video productionIndustry – 64%
* Wineries and distilleries – 64%
* Databases, directories and other publishers – 63%
* Publishers of books – 63%
* Cement, concrete, lime, gypsum and Production – 62%
* Engine, turbine and power transmission – 57%
* Eraser – 53%
* Non-metallic mineral product manufacturing – 53%
* Plastics and rubber products manufacturing – 52%
Plastic * – 51%
* Other insurance related activities – 51%
* Boilers, tanks andContainer – 50%
And while the debt of Americans continues – by individuals, businesses and governments – will continue unabated as trade deficits, our country is literally sold from under us. The good news is that the world more than ever seems interested in investing in America. But to see the reality of increasing foreign ownership in the U.S., which once again we need to look at the relationship between our government and increasingly powerful multinationalCorporations.
When the Supreme Court in 1886 decided firmly in Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad, a case concerning the tax treatment of goods by rail from the State of California, the judge ruled that the companies before the same protection as individuals under the Fourteenth Amendment authorized the U. S. Constitution. In its ruling earlier this year falls electoral law, the Court further extended by the 1886 ruling extending First Amendment rightsCompanies and unions, including multinational corporations by non-US citizens and foreign governments are controlled.
Most Americans do not seem to understand that their rights as Americans increasingly sold to multinational companies. The oil industry, insurance and the pharmaceutical industry, food industry, banking and finance – all these are largely outside the control of public bodies. Despite the damage they cause. The Federal CourtJudgement in the case of the Obama deepwater offshore drilling moratorium is only the latest evidence of growing business scope. The Home Office moratorium applied only to 33 projects well is deep and there are more than 3,500 wells currently in production in the Gulf of Mexico. Even in the event of catastrophic damage to health, property and livelihoods of thousands of people who live and work in the Gulf region, the power of big business rules.
Is not it time that wehas a new look for companies with the same rights as individuals? With the use of their enormous resources, not only companies have the same rights, but it can be argued, entitle much more. We are not talking of entrepreneurial capitalism, we are talking about international capitalism. They are not the same.