That is the bottom line. They can be bought and sold by GM twenty times over. The multinationals dictate policy through financial endorsements to the Politicians and their campaigns.
Politicians are scum and liars.
The US government has the power to prevent US multinationals from exploiting the race to the bottom, by attaching US labor and environmental standards to the export of US capital. US Labor has long ago learned that beating up strike breakers is not half as effective as making it illegal for management to hire strike breakers. Yes, the Seattle of the backlash against globalization is real. Just ask the second Seattle. We open to you, but you don't open to us.