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.

The Department of Labor's ruling that Hartford and IBM workers are eligible for TAA benefits applies to those who lost their jobs on August 27, 2009.

The DOL found that the workers met an eligibility requirement that there was "a shift by the workers' firm to a foreign country in the production of articles or supply of services like or directly competitive with those supplied by the workers' firm."

The good news is at least the DOL recognized this is happening. The bad news is that it happened at all. The even worse bad news is IBM still receives Federal and State government contracts.

IBM should be barred, period from any U.S. taxpayer money. The Government should directly hire these same displaced techies and put them to work on contracts originally awarded to IBM.

How hard is that one to figure out? Not very and it's amazing we do not have even one politician suggesting this as a course of action with an unemployment rate of 9.8%.