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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is in D.C. urging Congress to save DACA
Recode ^ | Sep 19, 2017, 3:03pm EDT | Tony Romm

Posted on 09/19/2017 1:31:31 PM PDT by seacapn

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It's tough for a lot of older conservatives to understand that many big corporations in the US have swung to the far-left on a lot of social issues. This is no longer the Reagan era were "leftists" were on one side and "business" was on the other - today, many "business leaders" are open leftists on everything but a narrow set of economic and tax issues which benefit them personally.

This is a big shift from the past. Another effect is that the idea of "the real world" (ie, the business world) is also gone. I remember stories over the years about crazy kids at universities, followed by comments about how they'd be getting a "wakeup call" when they began working and entered "the real world." Well, this IS the real world now, and many of those crazy campus leftists are being indulged with cushy jobs as a political statement by these corporations.

"Business" has turned hostile toward conservatives in many ways, and it's important to remember this going forward.

1 posted on 09/19/2017 1:31:32 PM PDT by seacapn
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Go away, Ginni.

2 posted on 09/19/2017 1:36:14 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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"...after President Donald Trump moved to eliminate a program that protects some young immigrants from deportation,"...

The President Ms Ginni is responsible for enforcing the laws that Congress passes. Surprising a CEO of a major Corp seems to think it is Trump that is the problem.

3 posted on 09/19/2017 1:37:07 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is in D.C. urging Congress to save DACA

Why? What's in it for IBM?

4 posted on 09/19/2017 1:37:44 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Rometty has been named among the worst CEOs by several publications including the Motley Fool, 24/7 Wallstreet, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal.

- Wikipedia

5 posted on 09/19/2017 1:38:12 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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So this women clearly sends her children to public school right? She lives in a modest neighborhood that is being increasingly flooded with foreigners? She has graffiti showing up on the stop signs near her house?


6 posted on 09/19/2017 1:39:13 PM PDT by The Toll
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"Business" has turned hostile toward conservatives in many ways, and it's important to remember this going forward.

If Government is the "King", Business is the "Aristocracy." The rest of us are just peasants.

7 posted on 09/19/2017 1:40:15 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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I think they call that corporate social responsibility.


8 posted on 09/19/2017 1:42:00 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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DACA was unConstitutional from the get-go.

End it.


9 posted on 09/19/2017 1:46:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
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Why? What's in it for IBM?

Cheap labor of course.

10 posted on 09/19/2017 1:46:33 PM PDT by rdl6989
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Why does the IMB CEO think she has more say than us regular schmucks? Can I meet with Senators if I go to DC?


11 posted on 09/19/2017 1:47:08 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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No wonder IBM is no longer #1 in computers.


12 posted on 09/19/2017 1:47:48 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Constantly doing things in opposition to human nature is insanity.)
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IBM: "“We’ve got 31 of these people at IBM,”"

So we are supposed to put up with tens of thousands of violent gang members and welfare parasites so that IBM can hire 31 illegal aliens?

Hey IBM, we have plenty of American "Dreamers" in the hills and hollows of Appalachia. Hey IBM, why don't you check with them before hiring illegals!

Appalachian child poverty

13 posted on 09/19/2017 1:49:23 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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Did you forget that you work for the shareholders? Your share price shows your eye is not on the ball.


14 posted on 09/19/2017 1:52:11 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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Sure if you can offer them money or a cushy corporate job if they choose to leave office. Notice how Eric Cantor wasn’t too torn up about losing his seat in Congress; he just slid right into a $3 million/year job set up for him by his “friends.” Which makes you wonder, what was he doing for those friends while in Congress which was worth that much money to them?


15 posted on 09/19/2017 1:53:49 PM PDT by seacapn
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So IBM can have cheap janitors?
None of them are professionally qualified to work at IBM.
Plus, IBM has been reducing headcount since 2000.
Who is paying her off to say this?


16 posted on 09/19/2017 1:56:48 PM PDT by Zathras
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Engineers at IBM laugh at her.
Same opinion they had of Carly at HP.


17 posted on 09/19/2017 2:00:18 PM PDT by Zathras
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No surprise. The Globalists love cheap illegal labor at the expense
of legal Americans who are quite capable of doing those jobs.


18 posted on 09/19/2017 2:00:42 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

IBM: ““We’ve got 31 of these people at IBM,””
For those who don’t know, they are all janitors and they are paid minimum wage.


19 posted on 09/19/2017 2:03:54 PM PDT by Zathras
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“We’ve got 31 of these people at IBM,” said Christopher Padilla

...

Wow! 31 out of how many? Something tells me they don’t have their priorities straight.


20 posted on 09/19/2017 2:05:13 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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