[speekinout]

You're laying off American workers and hiring in India as they're cheap.

They're transferring low skilled jobs to places where low skills get low salaries.How much are you willing to pay for low skilled jobs? How much are you willing to pay to get your house cleaned? Your lawn mowed? Buy a software program?

Most people look for low prices. Unless you are willing to start a movement to pay premium prices for goods and services, you can't reasonably complain.

[Elliott Jackalope]

So we are all no longer citizens of a country, we are just economic widgets to be bought and sold on the basis of our economic value? No problem. When the "leaders" of this former "country" want us "citizens" to go and fight and die in the next foreign war, I humbly suggest they go out and hire Ghurkas and Chicoms to do their dirty work. Since they have absolutely no loyalty to us "citizens", then we have no responsibility to them or this so-called "country". Deal?

[dljordan]

Yeah, they're transferring such low skilled jobs as Computer Operator, Systems Programmer, Storage Management Technicians, Database Administrators, etc. Their management goal is to cut employees by ten percent per year. I wonder what they'll do when they get to zero. It ain't the management that runs things at IBM it's the workers that make the wheels go round. They have very hard working, loyal and competent employees that are being betrayed. I watched them outsource one of their computer operations to Brazil and it's a disaster but the management won't admit they're wrong. So it goes. Some people just aren't interchangeable.

[Dazedcat]

Congratulations, you've passed the Republican Party final examination on global economics. You may get your diploma, get out of jail free card; now proceed to Introduction to American Corporate Policies and Practices 101.

Here you will learn how to literally run an offshore corporation with border-line slave labor while still enjoying all the protections and privledges of operating within the continental United States. Upon your graduation from this class, we move onto Advanced American Political Economics 102. Here we learn to give BIG political contributions to the major American political parties on a continual basis, thus ensuring your corporate "expansion" and other business practices sundry learned in 101 above.

After these courses are passed, six figure salary and stock option bonuses are a guarantee. If you at some point need a refresher course, just remember the crib notes...."they're not really people, just cost centers"

Regards;