Boeing ain't exactly patriotic. It's all one big multi-national sellout job these days. Filling those Norwegian ULCC 787 orders with Ex-Im sweetener then telling us to wave the red white and blue while they ram us up the rear with a broomstick paid for with the extra labor value they stole from us in the first place. Meanwhile the damn thing has more foreign component suppliers than a "Dodge" assembled in Méjico.
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Globalization is a scheme to pit the unwashed masses against each other in one proverbial paper bag, while the capital owners watch like God as they twist the top shut and let 'er rip. In the desperate and dark tumble, we fight each other for the remaining 70% income replacement capable family-sustaining jobs, for ourselves and our progeny. The distraction of course, is the canard that as long as you have access to a cheap smartphone and entertainment venues, your house-poverty, your retirement insolvency, your educational de facto lifetime debtor prison, and your medical bankruptcy, is all par for the course. GTFO here. Modern day Hunger Games.
So forgive me, I have not seen much "patriotism" from the capital owner class in this Country. Yeah.... Eff Boeing.
The very airplanes that Boeing and Airbus build caused globalization. Moving goods around the planet below a certain size and quantity is handled by them.
Next up are massive ocean freighters. Mass goods are handled that way.
The house-poverty, retirement insolvency, educational debtor prison, and at least some of the medical bankruptcy issues are hinged on personal fiscal decisions and lifestyle choices. If you buy into the idea that you have to have the lifestyle pushed by marketing, and that debt is the way to obtain it, you're signing up to work for the company store.
House: Buy at 25% of income or less and only after saving for a standard down-payment. No "zero-down" loans with high fees and PMI which is a drain that can only be plugged after seven years of mostly-interest payments and most people move every seven years. Better is not buying until you're not going to move. If you have a mortgage on it, the lie is that you own it. You don't own jack. You're a tenant of the bank and signed of your own free will to be so. If you didn't have a plan to pay it off fast, welcome to working for the bank.
Retirement insolvency: Mathematically it doesn't take that much money to live comfortably in retirement if you own everything outright including your home. See above. If your expectation of good retirement living is what the consumerist marketing pushes, you'll have to save a lot of money. If your tastes are simpler (and still above what the vast majority of the population of the world gets) it's a lot easier mathematically.
Educational debt prison: One of the most easy things to control that people don't. The "progeny" tell the parents what the school is they want to go to instead of the parents parenting and explaining to the progeny that there's little evidence a high end school in a great many jobs will garner any higher wages in that job. A couple of years at a community college for pre-requisites and transferred credits to the larger school, along with judicious shopping of the larger school via price, as it relates to easily estimated income level for the job types that a particular degree can expect to work in, is rarely done. There's only a tiny fraction of jobs that require a particular "pedigree" of degree, and a couple years into a career, nobody cares anymore what school logo is on the piece of sheepskin for the most part. There's even fairly plentiful vocations that still require no degree whatsoever. I know three people in the contractor trades who make really nice livings relatively, and never paid a dime for higher educations. All three founded and own their own businesses started from shoestring budgets and nothing.
Retirement insolvency: You have more control over this than you think. And frankly you also have various "entitlement programs" that probably aren't going away underpinning your personal fiscal plan. It's quite unlikely you're going to starve or be homeless if you at least made an effort. If you actually plan, you're not that likely to be insolvent.
If you think life is about consumerism and buying crap, well... you're not alone, but it leads to indentured servitude of the sort you've described. You've got about six decades of earning potential years to figure it out. Each decade that passes the catch up is harder, but most folk know by 25 maybe 30 at the very latest, where their time spent working is being spent and what they're buying with it. Hopefully much sooner.
Other than mass taxation and shared debt, there's very little any of those terrible global elites can do (or even want to do) to you that will stop you from reasonably comfortable fiscal success in this country. Being consumed with envy isn't an effective use of anyone's time. The concept that it's a zero-sum game is also broken. You can make a product or service they want and sell it to them fairly easily. And they need people to sell, service, maintain, and manage their goods and services too.
The vast majority of those with a Net Worth of over a million dollars didn't inherit it, the average GPA of a millionaire is 2.9, most never bought a new car more than once, and almost none borrowed money to make money.
Hunger Games: Were you promised something different when you popped out and the Doc slapped you on the butt? Life is a Hunger Game. If you want to eat, you have to get up, leave the cave, go kill something, drag it home, and cook it.
I'm going to guess that since you posted the above at 2AM my time, you're probably not down at the public library using the "free" internet and community computer to post from, so you've probably got at least $500 worth of hardware and a monthly bill for internet service for anywhere from $480 a year to $720 a year tied up in posting stuff like the above, that literally got you nowhere.
Perhaps you should spend that on your "progeny" who are starving, as you contend? Toss it in a savings account for their education and leave a legacy through them instead of entertaining yourself at their expense on the Internet?
If you don't want to play the entertainment purchase game those evil global overlords are selling, don't. Shut off the expense and go fishing or something. That'll help feed the starving "progeny" too. They'll appreciate more time with you, too, I imagine. You can tell them bedtime stories of the evil globalization business owners who are coming for them. Every kid likes a good fairy tale.
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