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[quote=snazzymike]Here is somethibng i found on the web in anser to a question as to if the Irish goverment could have did anything to get dell to stay..and that was by means of grants etc,,the reply was as follows 
That probably wouldn't have mattered. Dell took all manner of government and tax incentives to buy property here in Nashville, TN to set up a manufacturing and distribution center. As soon as they could according to all the 'agreements', they laid off most of the workforce and now use the facility as a tax write-off. The Nashville government gave them all sorts of incentives with the sole purpose of seeing a lot of locals employed there with good, stable jobs and now most of those folks are back out of work and in the unemployment lines as, along with Dell, most companies are sending their tech support and customer service jobs overseas to India, etc. :(

The only power we currently have to halt this nonsense is to refuse to do business with the 'international' companies and let them know WHY a local competitor is getting our business. I've called and written to all sorts of companies that I used to do business with after calling them for something to discover that I couldn't communicate with the foreigner on the other end of the phone and, evidently, I'm not the only one that's been doing this as I've begun to see news blubs about some U.S. companies bringing their customer service jobs back state-side during the past several months.
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