Part of the reason some of those businesses have gone overseas is the yards of bureaucracy that the Federal govt has created. A case in point look at Michigan. When your "govt" employees outnumber your manufacturing employed you are in serious trouble. When I was in college I got to know my sociology teacher we'll enough that he'd loan me books from his personal library much of which covered the period 1900-1940 in the U.S. After watching Beck and doing my own research I can now understand the look I remember on his face as he discussed "progressives". It is the same look my mother in law gets when she sees a spider, fear and revulsion.