Seize Freedom, by Rep. Thad McCotter: on Corporations


Ronald Reagan: Goal is not material gain; but to renew the American dream

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan, at the Conservative Political Action Conference declared, "Higher productivity, a larger gross national product, a healthy Dow Jones average--they are our goals and are worthy ones. But our real concerns are not statistical goals or material gain. We want to expand personal freedom, to renew the American dream for every American. We seek to restore opportunity and reward, to value again personal achievement and individual excellence. We seek to rely on the ingenuity and energy of the American people to better their own lives and those of millions of others around the world."
Source: Seize Freedom, by Rep. Thad McCotter, p. 90 Feb 8, 2011

Thad McCotter: Decentralized virtual corporations create rootless capital

During our Global Age, an innovation revolution spurs increasingly democratized and consumer--driven economic enterprises. Big government must be reset to mirror this horizontal model. As during industrialization, today's Americans are vexed by the potent economic, social and political forces radically reshaping their lives. But now American corporations are busy decentralizing into "virtual corporations" that outsource jobs to other nations to obtain lower labor costs and evade domestic laws and regulations. Such "rootless capital" being sent around the world in a keystroke to "low--cost countries" has dearly cost Americans their livelihoods, reduced their wages and employer--provided benefits, diminished their unions' memberships, raised doubts about our economy's continued vitality, and, in cases of extreme economic distress, destroyed marriages and families.
Source: Seize Freedom, by Rep. Thad McCotter, p. 63-64 Feb 8, 2011

  • The above quotations are from Seize Freedom!
    American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age    ,
    by Rep. Thad McCotter.
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