Once upon a time there was a bad economy and everyone complained that American corporations were looking for rich consumers in foreign countries instead of making their own employees here at home rich enough to afford their products.One day at the United Nations, America was sanctioned for subsidizing it's Steel production and imposing Tariffs on European Steel imports, so huge general sanctions totaling $6,000,000,000.00 were imposed by the European Union.
The very next week food prices in America doubled and nobody could afford to buy food. It didn't matter because the corporations that were once American disavowed any connection to the U.S. and merely moved their offices to their offshore locations in the Bahamas where they lived happily ever after.
Anticipating violent revolts and riots, the Attorney General of the United States issued a memo that made it easier to conscript cheap prison labor in order to compete with developing countries for manufacturing contracts.
Finally everyone (who mattered) was happy. Americans lived in big factory buildings where they could eat, sleep, and work without polluting the air or destroying the environment with their SUV's, Corporations could finally hire Americans in manufacturing jobs, and European corporations could buy American Farmland.
The End