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
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.
...As recently as Monday, Obama, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Atlanta, boasted about his efforts to reduce offshoring. The President said he's implemented "a plan that’s focused on making our middle class more secure and our country more competitive in the long run -- so that the jobs and industries of the future aren’t all going to China and India, but are being created right here in the United States of America."
Hmmm... how can we blame Bush for this one?
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But the world will like us so much better!
ReplyDeleteJust like we'll like Obamacare so much better, after Obama spent $700k of our tax dollars on his ad campaign.
Oh, but Bush **is** to blame... read to just below the middle of the article.
ReplyDelete"He also accused the Bush administration of creating tax loopholes that made it easier for U.S. companies to place work offshore in low-cost countries."
Had Bush not created the tax loopholes, Obama would not have paid for 3,000 people to be trained in Sri Lanka.
"Had Bush not created the tax loopholes, Obama would not have paid for 3,000 people to be trained in Sri Lanka."
ReplyDeleteI know, right? Like how can Obama not take advantage of the tax loopholes when Bush used those evil conservative mind rays to force him to use it!