Despite President Obama’s pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $36 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.
Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent’s low labor costs.
Under director Rajiv Shah, the United States Agency for International Development will partner with private outsourcers in Sri Lanka to teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java (Java EE) programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support. USAID will also help the trainees brush up on their English language proficiency.
 Sends our money to India |
We buy from Walmart, K-Mart, Sears, Pennys etc. They get most of their merchandise from overseas. Billions of dollars of trade deficit every year is the status quo. With that we have the erosion of the tax base which has been going on for decades. Then there is the foreign debt.
May be this is the wrong question but how do we stop the paid off politicians and get the country on track?
Alf==of course, you ask the only relevant question. And the answer is: VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE! They are all corrupt. The candidates and recent office takers will continue to think they are “special” and have duped the American Public: VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE for another round or two until candidates come to understand a new demand is being made of them: represent the PEOPLE and not special interests.
It will be hard because your brain is totally twisted by a lifetime of lies. You think many special interests are your own, but you are a fool to think so/vote so. ((See JB of someone so corrupted. He nailed himself fairly well.))
Remove voting in favor of social/moral issues and focus on achieving a balanced budget. Cutting the waste out of the budget will do alot to get these non revenue building projects off the books. In 10-15 years, post the same question again, and we’ll polish that lump of coal just a little bit harder.
Not amazing at all, because I understand that the US government increasingly has been usurped by corporations. Not amazing at all.
Corporations can bundle and funnel much more money than human individuals, toward our so-called Representatives.
“I hope we shall… crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” –Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816.
#22,
Just NUKE washington and build a NEW one in the middle of a corn field, 20 miles from ANY HUMANS..
The United States government and our political parties are terminally infected with a disease.
This disease results in the rotting death of the host.
Corporations, politicians and the super-rich are gutting this country on a massive scale like vultures.
It doesn’t matter what party is power; it is a government culture problem.
“…American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent’s low labor costs.” That’s all you need to know and where to squarely place the blame.
What makes you think India would be annoyed if Sri Lanka fought off the Tamil Tigers? Tamil is a single-state language, in the less wealthy part of the country. I doubt they would carry much weight in the federal government. Plus I thought I read last year that Sri Lanka had eradicated them in a move that if done by Israel would have gotten them condemned around the world, but because it is Sri Lanka, no comments from the Left. You would think India would have been at the UN leading condemnations.
wooow!! so cooooooool !!!
BTW, what’s up with all the bots and the end?
#25 Two in a row that I agree with you. Hope that your vision about the two parties being corrupted & useless isn’t new. But if it’s so, it’s a welcome one.
More stimulus money being used well?? Obama may have had change on his mind and had some very good intensions. But I am afraid Government is too corrupt for even Jesus to save us now. Let’s hope those Alien’s know how to run a government better. We sure need something!
Why not stop USAID altogether?
The objective of USAID is to promote US corporate and crony capitalist interests. It does not represent the charitable interests of the American people.
Israel, Egypt and Jordan are the top recipients of USAID. Wall Street and Big Business including defence contractors are all robbing the US taxpayer, while there are big cuts in social and civic spending all over America.
Some pittance spent on a far corner of the earth does not matter. Don’t miss the woods for the trees.
#21
I don’t buy anything at Walmart, or Target, or Sear’s, or Penny’s, or Safeway for that matter. Just stopped shopping. I buy used, or hand crafted, or I do without (or make it myself).
I buy local. I shop local. I don’t eat foods that have been made in a factory (including beef, chicken, eggs and bread).
Screw the corporations. They can go belly up — the world would be a much better place.
Give a cat a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a cat to fish and he will pout waiting for you to give him a fish. Color me unsurprised.
#32 Thanks for the description. Now we have a complimentary picture of thyself.
Another pastime of USAID is dumping U.S. Agricultural surplusses on the markets of developing countries as food aid, forcing local farmer out of the market as they watch prices plummet. I’d say for us it all works out in balance.
When will these companies get it through their heads?!?!? When you take jobs from the poor and the middle class, there won’t be anyone left to buy the crap you’re making overseas…or the crap you’re making here with parts made overseas.
Say it with me… Aaaaaaaatlas Shrugged. (by Ayn Rand)
35,
Correct..
For all the food SHIPPED OUT at free and low prices..They RAISE the price in the USA..
the USA SUPPOSEDLY supplies about 30% of the worlds food.
#32..
Thats great.
When I was younger, its WAS cheaper to do much of the work at home..from Bread to pasta.
Its not so cheap NOW.
ALSO with this idea came STORAGE.
If you have the money for a GOOD freezer great.
If you have a GOOD dry cabinet, WONDERFUL.
My house hasnt enough room for a DECENT KITCHEN.
I still say..
we lost Many jobs to over seas, lets SHIP the rest of the CORP WITH THEM.
The ONLY reason they STAY HERE is for the CHEAP TAXES AND DEDUCTIONS. FEW other nations have those.
These, mostly intelligent, comments are refreshing. So what can we do?
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There’s three things you can do to stop this betrayal of our goodwill:
1.Call USAID at 202-712-1023 to demand they suspend all programs that teach foreign citizens how to better take jobs from American workers.
2.Call your representative to demand that he or she join Congressman Bishop in suspending funding for these destructive programs.
3.Bust the inevitability myth that there’s nothing we can do to stop offshoring jobs.
When technology CEOs threaten that they’ll just offshore more jobs if corporate visa programs are fixed – they’ve set their own trap. Just spring the trap by calling the H1-b what it is–the outsourcing visa.
Rolling, Rolling, Rolling in 2011 .