
Make America Great Again…
That is a great campaign slogan, no matter what your opinion is of Donald Trump. However, he seems to define it in mainly terms of removing illegal aliens and implementing tariffs. I also would like to make America great again, but focus in a different direction
This America still exists but not in the numbers some fifty years ago. Beginning in the 1980s numerous industries began to go down the road of consolidation. For acquired private firms it often resulted in a major culture shift. For publicly traded companies, an acquisition was often sold as to what was in the best interest of shareholders. In the last 50 years many shareholders for public companies are mutual funds, pension funds, and other investment firms that have only a financial and not personal interest in the firm. This strategy has often been at the expense of employees, customers and communities. These three have also been at a similar disadvantage at some privately held companies too…. (Contd. – page link below)
