Look on the bright side: if it is American companies who are making these huge profits overseas, then there is some chance of the jobs being created in America, whether forced to by government or voluntarily. Foreign companies making huge profits outside of America are not going to spend money or hire people in the U.S.
"there is some chance of the jobs being created in America"
Wow, so we have to pin our hopes on a chance that American companies will throw us a couple pity jobs in America _maybe_?
We need a term describing the labor equivalent of "regulatory capture"; something that describes our collective misguided hope that corporations will somehow give us back "our jobs".
I think everyone should just try to start a business. Seriously, everyone who is out of work or underutilized in some job they are completely overqualified for should just start any kind of hare-brained scheme or hustle or side-somethingorother. Move if you have to, to some tax-advantaged or microscopic cost-of-living state. Anything has to be better than {un|under}employment or working under the thumb of an employer who not only knows but (perhaps) relishes in the workload they can continue to offload on you because they know you can't leave in this environment.
To heck with getting "our country back", we need our individual (and collective) dignity back.
