Tuesday February 3, 2009, 4:33 pm


See, I'm a little confused. Because for years, big companies like IBM have insisted there were so few talented IT workers in the U.S., they had to import them from India. And yet now we have so many, we can send them to India! Isn't that funny?

If I were a suspicious sort (and God knows, I'm not), I'd wonder if this isn't really a way to keep experienced American workers while artificially suppressing their wages. And of course, I'd also have to wonder: If you're offered one of these jobs and you decline, are you then ineligible to collect unemployment compensation? Because that already happens with big companies in the U.S.

Isn't this new personal responsibility thing fun? Who knew we'd get to see the world at company expense?

The climate is warm, there's no shortage of exotic food, and the cost of living is rock bottom. That's IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s pitch to the laid-off American workers it's offering to place in India. The catch: Wages in the country are pennies-on-the-dollar compared to U.S. salaries.

Under a program called Project Match, IBM will help workers laid off from domestic sites obtain travel and visa assistance for countries in which Big Blue has openings. Mostly that's developing markets like India, China, and Brazil.

"IBM has established Project Match to help you locate potential job opportunities in growth markets where your skills are in demand," IBM says in an internal notice on the initiative. "Should you accept a position in one of these countries, IBM offers financial assistance to offset moving costs, provides immigration support, such as visa assistance, and other support to help ease the transition of an international move."

The document states that the program is limited to "satisfactory performers who have been notified of separation from IBM U.S. or Canada and are willing to work on local terms and conditions." The latter indicates that workers will be paid according to prevailing norms in the countries to which they relocate. In many cases, that could be substantially less than what they earned in North America.

IBM has laid off more than 4,000 workers in the United States since the beginning of January, according to an employee group. The company has confirmed layoffs but won't comment on specific numbers.

Tuesday February 3, 2009, 4:39 pm
and ... Republican't$ want to give the$e American corporation$ more tax break$????

Yes, GM is gonna take our money and "invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market."
Every single person who made this possible should be put in the stocks and left to the judgment of the American people. In February, in Detroit.

Tuesday February 3, 2009, 5:41 pm
* These idiots never learn: "Wells Fargo & Co., which received $25 billion in taxpayer bailout money, is planning a series of corporate junkets to Las Vegas casinos this month."

Tuesday February 3, 2009, 6:06 pm
What did McCain and Lieberman KNOW and WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT???


MCCAIN AND LIEBERMAN IN INDIA

Wednesday February 4, 2009, 1:26 pm
I smell 2 skunks and both are $enator$ ...
McCain, Lieberman And Kyl To Skip Stimulus Vote

Wednesday February 4, 2009, 1:26 pm

Light Up The Phones!


Call your Senators toll-free at 1-866-544-7573 and demand immediate passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

OurFuture.org's Bernie Horn, "Stand Up and Fight!":
"Here in Washington, D.C., the word on the street is that the Right is
killing us with phone calls to Congress. One congressperson said the
calls are running 100 to 1 against the Obama economic recovery plan.
The legislation is now on the Senate floor. If Senators perceive that
Americans side with Obama in this fight, that will strengthen the power
of progressives in the debate and we'll get a good bill. If, on the
other hand, Senators are feeling the heat from conservatives, then our
advocates will be weakened and we’ll get a lousy bill. That's just
the way things go on Capitol Hill. Those who worked for the election of
Barack Obama and are currently sitting on the sidelines waiting to see
how his economic recovery bill turns out -- it's time to stop waiting.
Stand up and fight!"

Thursday February 5, 2009, 3:05 pm
MY VIEW OF IBM IS DIM and has been for a long time, they made fortunes working for Adolph Hitler to make a way for him to stay up and track the JEWS so he could kill them, not unlike the ALL ENCOMPASSING BUSH BUNCH that provided loans to Hitler before and during WW II. What IBM did was create the punch card. So dirty hands have dirty minds too. And most of the time their checkbooks are dirty too.

What I would do if the big boss, tell the corporate jocks you ship our good jobs off shore-----YOU MOVE TOO TAKE ALL YOUR UPPER CLASS AND INTELLECUTAL AND POLITICAL PUNDITS CLOWNS WITH YOU TOO. OH don’t forget to take your LAWERS LOBBYIST BUNCH OF UNSAVORY FOLKS TOO.

Join the movement of WE THE PEOPLES LOBBY WPTL
Once that is done then all our petitions will be taken seriously.
Contact Dwight Baker Chairman of the Grass Roots Movement
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

Thursday February 5, 2009, 3:48 pm
Looks like Lieberman still can't decide which side of the fence he wants!

Sunday February 8, 2009, 10:05 pm
Right-wing talking points on Free Choice Act crumble like an old cookie