[Norse]

Well, what exactly do you want? If IBM does not take advantage of this, other international companies WILL, and I promise you that they WILL put OUR companies out of business, leaving us completely dead in the water. The correct thing is not to call our businesses traitors for simply wanting to SURVIVE, but to enact reforms here at home that make it more advantageous to do business in the U.S. than in other foreign nations.

[RockyMtnMan]

You make the assumption they (foreign competitors) have the talent and innovative drive to beat us in these markets. They will only have the know-how if we move the jobs overseas and train their third-world arses.

These moves are short-sighted and will create a whole new classes of competitors in the future. I predict these same companies will go whining to the fed about IPR and copyright infringements in the near future. We'll here them say "something must be done, we can't compete with them". Right now it's the techies who are suffering, later it will be the short-sight corporations facing their new low-overhead competitors.

[Paul Ross]

Yes, in part, that is true. Those reforms are called "Tariffs" which is something the Republicans advocated unceasingly for 120 some years. The part that is wrong, is that once 'OUR companies' have relocated all major manufacturing and software operations abroad, they are no longer 'OURS'. They will be THEIRS. [China's and India, et al.] And they will not be so polite about letting them leave as we were.

[SoulStorms]

but to enact reforms here at home that make it more advantageous to do business in the U.S. than in other foreign nations.

Like what--give every worker a mud hut and pay them in rice and beans?