IBM downsizes U.S. layoff plans

Another example of how Americans let themselves get screwed...: Personally, I say...boycott IBM...for that matter any of the hundreds upon hundreds of companies that sellout to foreign countries. If you don't take a stand, it will only get worse.

Though I still laugh at the companies that do this. Think about it. You make a product that, while it sells world wide, it basically sells the best in the USA...then everyone lays off people to high the cheap foreign labor who can't afford their products on what they are paid anyway. So all the Americans are laid off...we are all collecting welfare or whatever...who do they think will buy their crap? That 2% of the population that owns 98% of the wealth? Well, once those few thousand people are done loading up on toys...then what??? The companies who pay their over-inflated pompus CEO's 10 million dollar a year salaries? Well, they won't take a pay cut to buy technology, and all their employees are in foreign countries anyway, so what do they care?
Its just plain stupid...it is the typical short sighted view of the American company. Lets make sure our books put us in the black this quarter, who cares about 10, 15, 20 quarters from now...I'll be retired in the Carribian with my 2 billion dollars by then anyway...; Posted by: Stellardyne Posted on: 08/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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