This is the most absurd and outrageous story. Ohio Governor Ted Strikland is giving $19 million in tax credits to TATA Consultancy Services, the notorious Indian H-1B user and offshore outsourcer.

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland is quick to admit that he doesn’t “particularly enjoy heights.” So why would he climb into a cherry picker to be lifted 40 feet in the air?

To show off a 196,000-square-foot office park in the Cincinnati suburb of Milford to executives from Tata Consultancy Services, India’s biggest tech company and a thriving part of the Tata Group conglomerate.

To sweeten the deal, Strickland threw in $19 million in tax credits and invited the TCS crew to a state dinner at the governor’s mansion.

The governor's mansion. A notorious labor arbitraging, offshore outsourcing, foreign worker importing, steal American jobs as a business model....gets a invitation to the Ohio Governor's mansion.

These same companies are responsible for hundreds of thousands of lost American jobs. They commit labor arbitrage and displace U.S. workers.

Why in God's name is Ohio simply not funding a start-up to simply take on these same state contracts with U.S. workers?. Ohio is intent on enabling more offshore outsourcing with these acts.

Look at this spin:

Tata has hired some 250 graduates of Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, and other nearby schools.

Note, these graduates are not claimed to be U.S. Citizens. What happens is Indians, come over and get some sort of degree in the United States and thus qualify for a special H-1B guest worker Visa category of 20,000 available.

India companies are notorious to not hire Americans. On this site we have posted various lawsuits against some of these companies. One can go to any job board and find discriminatory job ads which clearly state H-1B Visa holders only need apply. Even more absurd, why in God's name, after giving contracts to these foreign companies, instead of American companies, would they not be simply giving state and government contracts directly to U.S. companies hiring U.S. citizens?

Why are these companies building centers in the United States? One reason. The law does not allow this work to be moved out of the country.

So, why in God's name would the government gives these contracts to foreign business entities in the first place? Why would they not demand a U.S. company and U.S. workers?

Instead, they are going to be huge tax breaks to further incentivize and enable the displacement of U.S. workers?

Anyone else smell corruption and graft (even if legal)?

Even as it hired a few hundred American employees in 2009, TCS took on tens of thousands of newbies in India. And TCS has more than 11,000 Indians working in the U.S. on temporary visas, while Wipro has 7,000.

The only reason they are hiring any Americans at all, is for public relations purposes. Look at the ratio, it's a sea of Indians, exclusively, on guest worker Visas.

Folks, you should ask for the impeachment of Ted Strickland for this. Ohio is in serious trouble with high unemployment. He should be trying to get advanced manufacturing and funding a U.S. company with U.S. workers for these jobs....not enabling offshore outsourcers.

Look who else is targeting American jobs! Why are these foreign companies allowed these contracts? We have a 10% unemployment rate, and currently economists are predicting a high unemployment rate for a decade!

Infosys Technologies, meanwhile, is planning an operation in Dallas, to target some of the $52 billion the U.S. government will spend on outsourcing work just in 2010.