I'm currently reading Steven Greenhouse's book The Big Squeeze. In the book we read about the all too familiar plight of the working poor and middle class American worker. I mean seriously, people are really being made to live on fumes. Wages haven't kept pace with inflation and there are millions of people without the basics like health care. American, multi-national and global corporations who employ Americans really don't care about you period. Just look at outsourcing and off shoring as another factor in this race to the bottom we're on. Even immigrants both legal and illegal who come here often end up suffering and being taken advantage of by big corporations and sometimes even small businesses too.
I've also been doing some reading about poor communities and areas of our country where there is no opportunity. You could ask the question: why don't people just move? Why don't they leave and go anywhere even if it's overseas in search of a better opportunity? Then I had this thought. What if companies in other countries with stronger labor movements and more of an active civic engagement form it's citizens, which kept these companies a little more honest; were to start hiring some Americans and bringing them there little by little? After all we're doing the same thing right now importing skilled labor to work in the tech sector. Other countries could import Americans who knew how to do all sorts of things from tech to manufacturing to service based jobs.
I admit it I haven't thought this whole thing through. I'm just throwing this out there. Consider it a rant even. But it would be funny to see an exodus of Americans going to some other country because the government which is currently overrun by corporate power and their trade associations continued to treat workers the way they are now.