The Nation provides the corporation with workers and with the mechanisms
for
raising capital. The Nation's security and police forces provide a
civilized background against which the Corporation can do its business
with
some semblance of safety, security, and reasonable expectation of
longevity.... not only to its entity, but to its people, its material, and
its capital. The Nation's network of laws provide displute-settlement
mechanisms to help ensure that the Corporation will not be cheated, and
that
help it carry out business in a level playing field. In many cases, the
Corporation has received preferential tax treatment to locate plants in a
particular location to assist local economy.

I would argue that it is very much the responsibility of Corporations to
"give a real damn for their country".

Where your logic goes awry is when you forget the very simple fact that
Corporations are made up of citizens, just like you and me.

This fact -- so often ignored by the ignorant youth of our nation -- is the
utter downfall of the Left's anti-business/anti-corporation ideology.
Somehow, some way, the Left trash talks "multi-national corporations" and
"big corporations" as if they were messengers of evil, when, in fact,
corporations represent the ultimate, perfect expression of communal
ownership of capital.

In short, they represent everything the Left supposedly stands for...

This bitter irony never fails to make me laugh out loud whenever I see the
violent, left-wing protesters outside the World Trade Organizations
meetings...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"