Welcome to the global economy.
There are things about it that I really don't like. However, the realities are that global corporations are more important than countries now. National identity is going to go away. It won't be that you are "American", rather you will be an employee of .
Daimler-Chrysler? for goodness sakes. Ford owns or controls Mazda, Jaguar, and several others. Wal-Fart gets almost everything from their own plants in China. Wal-Mart will see a good idea for an invention, steal it, sell it, and hire more lawyers to keep the small company that invented it tied up in court until the small company is out of business. Microsoft does te same thing.
It just doesn't matter anymore if something is "American made". It is also very very sad.
As long as we Americans keep voting the same type of politicians back into office, nothing will change. Voting without researching, and thinking should be criminal. It is not. You have the right to vote stupid. And we usually do.
Oh well. According to the book "The Prince", as long as a politician doesn't make life to bad all at once with the general population, then they can get away with anything.