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 need to deter these aggressors, these governmentpukes, with lethal weapons.
*gasp* Say it ain’t so! Obama would NEVER do such a thing. He’s a champion of middle class America and our savior!
I’ll try to beat Dallas with the lib’s perspective on this story.
This was a George W. Bush secret plan to get the hand-picked Obama appointee in place. (aka The Manchurian Candidate movie). The repubs will try to get voters to be upset with Obama, but when the Bush connection leaks out, it will sink all the Republican candidates in 2010.
Did I nail it?
“The rape of the poor, middle, and rich class continues = all to the benefit of the SUPER RICH.”
REPEAT, until this finally sinks in.
Reformulating this as a Dem/Obama issue is partly how this is accomplished.
Silly Hoomans.
I want ALL corps that IMPORT goods, rather then have them MADE in the USA, BE SENT to those nations that have workers.
THEIR tax laws are VERY straight forward. tHE more YOU MAKE, THE more THEY TAKE.
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Stop it!!!!! My sides are hurting.
Hmmm. My nome de flame got all screwed up. My cursor/drag and click hasn’t been working since Win7/64bit. Speed control is very sensitive now.
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Hmmm. My nome de flame got all screwed up. My cursor/drag and click hasn’t been working since Win7/64bit. Speed control is very sensitive now.
Silly Hooman.
JB==you nailed me!!!
American human resources are too uppity.
#3 Heckuva job! Spoken as if you were a true sheeple.
The original InformationWeek article states that this program is for 5,000 unemployed and underemployed Sri Lanken students. The article also mentions that a similar program is now being implemented in Armenia with a business group that includes Oracle’s Sun Microsystems division. This program is to train workers for these businesses.
The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, in the late 1980s, was spending ad money in foreign countries for Burger King, then owned by Grand Metropolitan, a British company.
USAID is a foreign aid agency. Are you against foreign aid?
Well Mickey–I assume this is another lame attempt by you into the area of ironic commentary?????
The roots of this years ago was the notion that if we (USA) built up foreign economies then they could buy our goods. We would be teaching people how to fish rather than giving them fish.
Another excellent example of something “sounding good” but not turning out so great. Even if these are “internet jobs” that we would have lost anyway, still no reason to make the hole in the bottom of our boat even bigger? OTOH==given they are internet jobs, maybe we are helping Sri Lanka in order to combat the Tigers Rebel Force??? Seems to me, we are just pissing off India. Hard to play a good game of “fall over domino’s” when all the domino’s are connected.
Rajiv Shah = douchbag
Kill the gravy train. It’s not our job as tax payers to teach others how to fish. If people want to learn then they need to pay their way instead of us paying their way for them. ESPECIALLY in this economy.
People are already taxed enough and frivolous things like this only angers tax paying Americans who are looking for tax relief.
This isn’t news to me.
In 1989 I was working in a factory in Canada. The bosses bought a plant in Mexico for some possible future use as a “subsidiary”. They also thought it would be a great idea to videotape us as we worked so the Mexicans would be able to see how to do our jobs.
Within two weeks of NAFTA kicking in, our plant was abruptly closed and all production moved to Mexico. 80 Canadian employees got the sack.
Two weeks later, the plant in MEXICO closed. Seems most of the tools and machinery shipped down there had been sabotaged or “damaged in transit”. The company went bankrupt immediately thereafter.
This is the disease of the western world.
It is terminal. The corporations have no long term intelligence.
Do the bankers?
#18 Hah, sounds like Canadians still know how to throw the Sabot.