Showing posts with label outsourcing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outsourcing. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Obama Administration Using Taxpayer Dollars To Outsource English Speaking Jobs Overseas.

There's a great deal of bombastic rhetoric coming from President Obama these days about 'standing up for the middle class'.

Most Americans understand that this president's policies have killed jobs, run up massive debt and skyrocketed the price of food and energy.

But it's now surfaced that not content with that, the Obama Administration has been spending our tax dollars in well funded efforts to directly aid outsourcing overseas and eliminate jobs here in America:

While the president has been urging “insourcing,” the government has been sending money to the Philippines to train foreign workers for jobs in English-speaking call centers.

According to New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, this is unacceptable and “shocking.”

The pair are calling on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to immediately suspend what is known as the Job Enabling English Proficiency (JEEP) program.

According to Jones’ office, in 2010, after the two men compelled USAID to end a similar training program in Sri Lanka, the agency assured the congressmen that they would “conduct a review to ensure the project will not take any jobs away from Americans.”

In a letter to the USAID administrator, Rajiv Shah, Bishop and Jones expressed their displeasure at learning of the effort they thought the agency had explicitly promised against.

“I believe it was reasonable to conclude from that statement that your agency’s outsourcing training program was terminated, particularly in light of President Obama’s ‘insourcing’ initiative announced earlier this year,” the pair wrote. “Therefore, I was shocked to learn that USAID has used taxpayer dollars to invest in outsourcing training programs in the Philippines at the expense of American workers.”


There are over 4.5 million Americans who now have jobs in call centers here in America. I guess this president thinks of them as 'The Rich' who don't really deserve to be working anyway.

This needs to be publicized widely and made into a major issue by the GOP.

USAid is also the agency responsible for sending millions of tax dollars to the 'Palestinians' in Gaza and in the Arab-occupied areas of Judea and Samaria (AKA The West Bank. And this president deems that use of your tax dollars so important that he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton actually did something unheard of in Washington and overrode a congressional hold on $1.5 billion in jirzya for their 'Palestinian' friends.