Why is the Obama administration training 3,000 offshore IT workers?
U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers
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 $22 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…
How pathetic and sad is this?
I have to agree with David Sirota when he says.
Now look, I’m all for a robust foreign aid budget – we don’t do nearly enough to help the developing world. However, using foreign aid money to specifically help private corporations “take advantage of low labor costs” in the developing world – that’s absolutely grotesque.
I know thousands of people right in the President’s backyard in Southeast DC who could use this training! WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING?!!
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