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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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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 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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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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“We’ve got 31 of these people at IBM,” said Christopher Padilla

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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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Sorry IBM....no wetbacks for you! And while he's at it the President will make sure that the pool of Indian computer techs dries up,forcing you to hire Americans again.
24 posted on 09/19/2017 2:26:18 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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Rometty is another affirmative action :success” story who has driven IBM stock values down 25% in her tenure.

IBM has become a sad shadow of its former self. It is no longer a technology company - it is a “service” company that has exported most of its jobs overseas and brings in thousands of H1B immigrants to displace American workers here.

While she enjoys her membership at Augusta National Country Club, the small towns where IBM used to be located when they ruled the computer world - Endicott, Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, NY, a 1960s farm town San Jose, CA, Rochester, MN, have become depressed enclaves where Americans, AMERICANS, now live on welfare and social security.

And she worries about DACA “kids”, average age 24, who think they have a right to get whatever they want.
Maybe she needs to have a talk with Nancy Pelosi about these nice DACA kids.


27 posted on 09/19/2017 2:35:42 PM PDT by oldbill
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When Rometty was named CEO, the outgoing CEO tellingly said:

“Ginni got it because she deserved it... It’s got zero to do with progressive social policies.”


32 posted on 09/19/2017 2:55:00 PM PDT by BeauBo
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Why? Are they legal or illegals. Are you pro America or not? Why did you hire them in the first place?


35 posted on 09/19/2017 3:25:17 PM PDT by mulligan
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Ginni’s IBM laid off US workers to move high tech consulting jobs for resiliency and disaster recovery expertise to India. And that was done as recently as fall 2016.

Just saying.


36 posted on 09/19/2017 3:39:04 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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I would like for all the Dreamers and their parents to be deported. Once the wall is completed, let them come in the correct way.

My prediction is that all of them will be issued green cards and fast tracked to citizenship.

The construction of the wall quickly is imperative.

5.56mm


37 posted on 09/19/2017 3:39:45 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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Another company to boycott.

(Not that I have bought an IBM product for many years....

I think the last IBM branded product I bought was a mouse, which lasted maybe two months.)


39 posted on 09/19/2017 3:47:52 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Total bullshit. I work for IBM. We're a global company. If these 31 get deported, they can still work for IBM wherever they end up. No loss of expertise.

January will mark 40 years at IBM. Looking forward to retiring.

46 posted on 09/19/2017 4:29:43 PM PDT by Dilbert56
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