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Adding insult to injury, Emmons and the others had to train their replacements.

As a pretty hardcore free market capitalist this makes me sick.

They have a right to hire and fire whoever they like, but using people in this fashion is immoral and our government issuing visas to these Indians by manipuplating immigration laws to placate interests is infuriating.

People are starting to get pissed off. Pissed off techies can become problematic.

I love free business environment but I don't like watching people get f***ed. It's practices such as this that bring business regulations and enemies. Unions were borne out of this type of greed.

I agree, the business community will do one of two things.

A) Slow down offshoring until the heat is gone and then incrementally reintroduce it.

B) Continue at the same pace and risk government intervention.

If B happens and the government doesn't respond (or appear to respond) then the Republicans will earn their big business label.

I voted for Bush and support his foreign policy decisions but his domestic initiatives have been too left leaning for me (excepting the tax cuts).

When it was the blue collar worker it was just fine, that was just capitalism at work. Now when the commodity of the techies is being shipped to the 3rd world it becomes immoral...

I do not like this any more than I liked moving the industry jobs to slave labor.I just think it is revealing to see how people react when it is them and not their neighbor

others had to train their replacements. As a pretty hardcore free market capitalist this makes me sick.

If you are a free market capitalist you can refuse to train them too. Let your boss do it. If he can't he can hire you as a consultant at a pretty penny to do it. THEN you can call the shots of your own success -- and others as well if you're as good as you think you are.

Are you greedy because you shop for a good deal? Neither are these companies who found a more competitive wage to get their job done.

You can't come to grips with the fact that these programmers' jobs aren't worth what they used to be. Buggy whip manufacturers faced the same thing when cars were invented or earlier when steam engines were invented.

We called them Luddites back then. Today we call them envionmentalists.

It's practices such as this that bring business regulations and enemies. Unions were borne out of this type of greed.

It is more complex than mere greed. People buy the cheapest product that has the best performance for the price. Modern technology makes it easier to use the cheapest labor in this equation. Why do think that most every product you now see has a label on it where the made in line contains something other than USA?

About the only thing that we have as an asset that remains unchallenged by other countries is our agriculture, but you see it maimed by environmental regulation, consolidation, conversion, etc. How much arable land have you seen converted into subdivisions, malls and the like? We have already "destroyed" many assets by environmental controls. Etc, etc. Greed may be involved, but I think we have imposed this problem on ourselves. We do not need any more Democrats screwing things up with Republican help. And I am a Republican. Get our judges confirmed. The ones that could not be considered activists. Get rid of unnecessary taxation, get rid of unnecessary environmental rules, get rid of unnecessary minimum wages, hiring rules, quit intruding into the mechanisms of business and they will be less likely to go elsewhere for workers.