Did you know that foreign corporations were in control of our ports?

[Inland]

Poll question: Did you know that foreign corporations were in control of our ports?

Despite all the concern about port security after 9/11, how many here had any idea that the USG was outsourcing port management?

[montanacowboy]

1. Foreign corporations...yes

but...the UAE is a different ball of wax - that is a FOREIGH GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE

[The2ndWheel]

3. Increasingly

becoming the same thing.

[The2ndWheel]

2. Surprised I didn't know

We live in a globalized world, I've known we live in a globalized world, so it only makes sense.

The term "foreign corporation" doesn't seem to make much sense anymore. Nation-states exist only in so far as they keep some kind of order where humans are concerned. The only way there could be a foreign corporation would be if we were all living inside a corpo...hmmmm.

[Inland]

4. "foreign Corporation" makes sense here, see post no. 1

It's not just organized in a foreign country, but is actually owned by a state.