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Obama to train 3000 IT workers to assist in OutSourcing & Offshoring jobs to SE Asia (Disgusting)
Information Week ^ | August 4, 2010 | Paul McDougall

Posted on 08/04/2010 9:07:56 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote

U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers

$22 million, federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language.

By Paul McDougall, InformationWeek Aug. 3, 2010 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500202

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.

"To help fill workforce gaps in BPO and IT, USAID is teaming up with leading BPO and IT/English language training companies to establish professional IT and English skills development training centers," the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, said in a statement posted Friday on its Web site.

"Courses in Business Process Outsourcing, Enterprise Java, and English Language Skills will be offered at no charge to over 3,000 under- and unemployed students who will then participate in on-the-job training schemes with private firms," the embassy said.

USAID is also partnering with Sri Lankan companies in other industries, including construction and garment manufacturing, to help create 10,000 new jobs in the country, which is still recovering from a 30-year civil war that ended in 2009.

But it's the outsourcing program that's sure to draw the most fire from critics. While Obama acknowledged that occupations such as garment making don't add much value to the U.S. economy, he argued relentlessly during his presidential run that lawmakers needed to do more to keep hi-tech jobs in IT, biological sciences, and green energy in the country.

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.

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."

Obama in January tapped Shah to head USAID. At the time of his appointment, Shah—whose experience in the development community included senior positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—said the organization needed to focus more on helping developing nations build technology-based economies. "We need to develop new capabilities to pursue innovation, science, and technology," said Shaw, during his swearing in ceremony.

Sri Lanka's outsourcing industry is nascent, but growing as it begins to scoop up work from neighboring India.

In addition to homegrown firms, it's attracting investment from Indian outsourcers looking to expand beyond increasingly expensive tech hubs like Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. In 2007, consultants at A.T. Kearney listed the country as 29th on their list of the top 50 global outsourcing destinations.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: asia; august; clowardpiven; it; java; liar; obama; obamanomics; outsource; outsourced
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Hoax & Change
1 posted on 08/04/2010 9:07:59 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: GlockThe Vote

This article made me want to puke.


2 posted on 08/04/2010 9:09:20 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: GlockThe Vote

the alien muslim continues to take care of his own. perhaps Americans need to learn that lesson too.


3 posted on 08/04/2010 9:15:40 AM PDT by bareford101 (Be loud! We have nothing – NOTHING - to apologize for in fighting for our Country!!)
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To: GlockThe Vote

He just told members of the AFLCIO and others, that he is helping companies get tax breaks if they “don’t” ship jobs overseas. Promises, promises...........sounds like a campaign speach.


4 posted on 08/04/2010 9:15:40 AM PDT by RC2 (Remember who we are. "I am America")
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To: GlockThe Vote

Barry’s gonna train them? I didn’t think he was smart enough to know anything about IT.


5 posted on 08/04/2010 9:17:39 AM PDT by crosshairs (Celebrate diversity. Own a variety of firearms.)
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To: GlockThe Vote

The part that is NOT mentioned is that these 3,000 IT workers are just the start of outsourcing US jobs.

Each of these workers will train 2 or 3 interns, and it will spread. Once they have some people and the training materials, they will simply reproduce the training materials and teach entire classrooms of eager minds.

And our taxdollars are funding this whole movement. Saw similar things when I worked at Dell. American taxpayers giving money to a multi-billionare to fire tens of thousands of US workers, to build plants in China, India and Taiwan - and the US workers who built Dell to where they are now are left without a job, without a means to support their families, and are forced to sell their homes to find another job.

And when you throw several thousands on the market at the same time; the homes sell for far less than what they were purchased for. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.


6 posted on 08/04/2010 9:17:51 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: GlockThe Vote

India also just implemented new tough rules as well.

Must give them source code, must hire locally, etc, etc.

So we give them money and they pass new rules.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100803/ap_on_hi_te/as_india_telecom_security_2


7 posted on 08/04/2010 9:19:50 AM PDT by edcoil (Truth's commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed.)
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To: GlockThe Vote

My tax dollars at work to drive down my wages and reduce opportunities by flooding the market with cheap labor, f’in fantastic.


8 posted on 08/04/2010 9:19:54 AM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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To: GlockThe Vote

I simply do not have the words to describe how much I hate this regime and if I found them they would get me banned.


9 posted on 08/04/2010 9:22:01 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: GlockThe Vote

10 posted on 08/04/2010 9:22:28 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: edcoil
must hire locally, etc, etc.

Funny how India and China always make this a part of their dealings with western economies. They must really be stupid to want all these jobs that nobody wants...
11 posted on 08/04/2010 9:23:10 AM PDT by Yet_Again
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To: RockyMtnMan

Maybe we should join the UAW and build GM vehicles?

Why bother with education, advanced training and certification?

Nut on bolt, nut on bolt, nut on...BREAK TIME!


12 posted on 08/04/2010 9:26:05 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: GlockThe Vote

I believe it is their plan to destroy the middle class, not just the dem’s, but all of the North East eilites.
Once we are dependant we will be willing slaves, or so they think.


13 posted on 08/04/2010 9:46:06 AM PDT by Colvin (Proud Owner '66 Binder PU, '66 Binder Travelall,)
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To: Colvin

My utter hatred for this communist knows no bounds.


14 posted on 08/04/2010 9:49:45 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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...Shah—whose experience in the development community included senior positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...

Worthless oligarchs like the Gates are dead set on the destruction of this country and all of civilization really.

Personal guilt, lack of spiritual fulfillment, I don't know but they just want to see it all burn.

15 posted on 08/04/2010 9:51:09 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: GlockThe Vote
he argued relentlessly during his presidential run that lawmakers needed to do more to keep hi-tech jobs in IT, biological sciences, and green energy in the country.

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.

Hoax and Change indeed.

16 posted on 08/04/2010 9:58:43 AM PDT by mas cerveza por favor
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To: GlockThe Vote

Americans don’t need jobs, we get unemployment compensation. /libtard


17 posted on 08/04/2010 10:01:34 AM PDT by PogySailor (BHO - Dividing the country into tribes since 2008.)
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To: GlockThe Vote
Just facilitating the systemic corruption that Americans won't...

 
 
It is incumbent upon the honorable craftsman to be aware
of whether or not his services are being used
as a means to accomplish evil ends -
and to act accordingly.

Veritas Honor!

18 posted on 08/04/2010 10:05:24 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: GlockThe Vote

FUBO !

I am in high tech and finding work in that field is impossible thanks to gov’t meddling where the cost of having US employees go higher ! What pisses me off even more is I get to pay for that privilege of helping those companies to ship those jobs overseas !


19 posted on 08/04/2010 10:06:22 AM PDT by CORedneck
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To: mas cerveza por favor

The gop should run w this.


20 posted on 08/04/2010 10:07:37 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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