For all of the rhetoric claiming America innovates and needs the best and the brightest, here is the reality on how IBM treats it's American technical expertise. They had to sue to government to get federal aid after IBM dumped them and offshore outsourced their jobs.

The Hartford began paring down its IT staff after outsourcing a number of tech and back office jobs to IBM in 2007. 110 IT staffers were initially let go, and IBM subsequently laid off a number of former Hartford workers that were transferred to Big Blue under the outsourcing deal as the company moved a number of the positions offshore.

Yet another 500 more U.S. workers are being canned by labor arbitrage agenda master IBM.

The union Alliance@IBM is documenting the latest.

International Business Machines Corp., the world’s largest computer-services provider, cut almost 500 jobs across the U.S., according to Alliance@IBM, a group that represents some employees.

At least the post calls it with this is a greek tragedy.

New York Post, NYC HIT BY NERD JOB ROB CITY $$ FOR INDIAN HIRES:

While the city vows to save and create jobs for recession-ravaged New Yorkers, one of its biggest contractors is importing techies from India, instead of hiring local computer nerds.

Here goes IBM again. CNET is reporting IBM quietly lays off North American staff:

BM has been quietly laying off workers in its North American offices since Wednesday, according to numerous reports online.