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Business is to make profit, provide a source of income for it's employees, provide a service or product in demand to the consumer.

Has no responsibility to the country if country means government.

Business has no committed role or responsibility to a country or nation. They can go to other countries like many have done to make money and provide jobs and services.
How about a country with no government that is ran by business? The bottom line is not the well being of the people, but rather the well being of profit and bonuses.

I'm not anti-Business. However I am pro-priority. That priority is me. If the doors close on my job tomorrow, I will find away to provide what I need to survive. Just like a business will do to maintain it's profits. There is no illusion of loyalty by me, or the company I work for. I learned that lesson when my best job pulled up stakes and went to Mexico and Europe. And I realized that no amount of concessions by the workers would have prevented that. Because business is loyal to making money and a profit. However what we fail to understand is that without us ( the consumer buying ) things, businesses cannot make money. So even though businesses don't have a committed role in this country, it does have a need of it's people to buy things if it wants to continue making money in this country. The auto industry makes this point very clear I think. Even though Chrysler and GM had factories and business in other countries, it was this country ( The USA ) that brought them down. Why? Because this country is still the biggest consumer of American made goods and services in the world.
What is the role of business? Ask Gm and Chrysler.

With the rise of the world-wide multi-national companies , we are running into a new dynamic between business and government . The modern big business actually has a more global outlook than government does . I believe that big business sold our government a real Brooklyn Bridge with the idea of free international trade . It makes a lot of sense for business , but it makes absolutely no sense for the largest consumer nation in the world to be an advocate of free trade when it has a much higher cost of production than so many other areas of the world .In effect , the USA has been financing prosperity in Brazil , Mexico, India , and China at the expense of workers here in the USA .

Dirck, we are going to have to quit meeting like this. ~grin~

You have made a fairly concise assessment of the situation I have seen during the last 30 years of being actively concerned with the business of manufacturing.

I agree with Pancho and Yichel. The role of business is to make money for the business owner. Or perhaps it's the GOAL. Everything else is gov't requirement of owning a business.

There is no reason that a business can't make a profit and still think in terms of a greater good. is there???

No and there is an otganization that encourages that busines ___ something social responsibility. many busineses offer community development grants. but their primary purpose is profit.

The purpose of business is to make money for its owners. Any claim of a higher-minded ideal is disingenuous.

" .In effect , the USA has been financing prosperity in Brazil , Mexico, India , and China at the expense of workers here in the USA . " Dirck

And in those countries with no industry, we send billions of our workers' dollars in foreign aid.
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we believe charity starts at home as does social responsibility. somehow jobs in areas that produces value added work need to get back here or developed.