Corporate patriotism of Honeywell

This story of corporate patriotism is familiar : " Honeywell

    to lay off 374 in Pawtucket " ( Providence Journal, front page, April 3)

             Better opportunities in France ? Nope - the jobs will be moved

    to China or Mexico. Hopefully executives who are American citizens will

    even get a big tax break - a gift from our patriotic president. Nice to

    love your country without having to give it anything, without really

    OWING it anything.

                Meanwhile a toxic emotion -militant nationalism - is aroused

    in the much abused, exploited working class. Nothing morally wrong

    with GLOBAL perspective of the capitalist ruling class. But let a

    worker THINK globally - WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE - and let him

    express this idea at work. How fast do you think he will get promoted?

    How fast will he be escorted out of the building -  a dangerous

    trouble-maker  ?

                  Many corporate executives love America as much as they

    love unions.If a blue-collar American moved to France - a country which

    I love as much as my own - because the minimum wage was higher over

    there, he would be judged a defective, soul-less  human being.

               And  if the blue collar worker also questioned our war

    against Iraq, he will be lucky not to be FRENCH-FRIED at work .

                I guess the real purpose of the Statue of Liberty in New

    York City - a gift of France - is to make a mockery of American capitalist

    hypocrisy.

                 God bless Honeywell !