[StolarStorm]

"Some workers are scheduled to be informed of the plan for their jobs by the end of January. After that they will be expected to train an overseas replacement worker in the U.S. for several weeks. The IBM workers marked for replacement have 60 days to find another job inside the company, likely to be a difficult task at a time when IBM is holding down hiring. "

Anyone who trains their replacement is a traitor to themselves and their country.

[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.

[The Old Hoosier]

This outsourcing will help PC buyers. It will help American small businesses by lowering costs and freeing up capital so they can expand and hire more workers and devote more money to research, to finding the next generation of technology. The money saved nationwide will help create whole new businesses and even whole new industries. It will have the same effect as a tax cut.

You all have the mentality of government workers who will protect their fiefdoms at any cost. Democrats fight the outsourcing of these government jobs, which are wasteful and unnecessary, even though it could result in savings to taxpayers that would create more private sector jobs that actually serve a useful purpose.