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Asian Call Center Workers Trained With US Tax Dollars
gManZboy writes in with a troubling story about tax dollars being used for overseas call center training. "Despite President Obama's recent call for companies to 'insource' jobs sent overseas, it turns out that the federal government itself is spending millions of dollars to train foreign students for employment in some booming career fields--including working in offshore call centers that serve U.S. businesses. The program is called JEEP, which stands for Job Enabling English Proficiency. It's available to college students in the Philippines through USAID. That's the same agency that until a couple of years ago was spending millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money to train offshore IT workers in Sri Lanka. Congressman Tim Bishop (D-New York), told about the program on Tuesday, called it 'surprising and distressing.' Bishop recently introduced a bill that would make companies that outsource call centers ineligible for government contracts."
How else is Obama supposed to fund the research that will ultimately result in the time machine allowing him to go back and be responsable for everything you claim?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
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Oh no no no no!!! You referenced "ax"! That's officially "ebonics" now. You can't question or criticize that or anything like it because that's racist... unless you're black, then you can say that all day long, in which case, please forgive me for talking down to you because I'm just a guilty white man.