“According to InformationWeek, the U.S. agency known as USAID (United States Agency for International Development) is partnering with outsourcing service companies in countries like Sri Lanka to teach more than 3,000 workers technology skills in tools like Enterprise Java.

To make it easier for those workers to work with American companies who have outsourced work, American taxpayers are also paying to train the workers in English.”

This is from the InformationWeek article:

“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. [...]

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.

Apparently USAID is beginning a similar program in Armenia.

This whole “let’s ship US jobs overseas and keep our friends in the extremely profitable IT outsourcing business fat and happy” project is run by Rajiv Shah who was hand picked by President Obama.

Obama is the guy who swore that if he was elected he would keep tech jobs here at home, and who is just another politician who plays to the masses when he wants to get elected but pays to the rich and powerful now that he’s in office.

Why is it that our government will help fund a free education for someone overseas, but in the country where people pay the taxes that fund this project, students are expected to take on massive amounts of debt to pay for that same education?

Complaining to influential politicians like Harry Reid will result in a lot of white noise, but no action. The closest thing to a solid answer you will get is that “it’s already funded,” followed by a non-committal” I’ll look into the matter.”

(Reid, Pelosi and company swore they would change the way congress runs; right up until the day that they got the power.)

Our Government is Helping to Send Thousands of Tech Jobs Overseas is a post from: Rag Hand

Two former stockholders recently asked the court to unseal those documents, but a North Carolina judge, Albert Diaz, has ruled that while the two former Wachovia stock holders may view the depositions given by former Wachovia CEO Bob Steel and three other executives for use in their appeal, the contents may not be made public.

They are appealing the judges decision.

The Courts Still Protect the People Who Destroyed Our Economy is a post from: Rag Hand

From the Rolling Stone article originally published June, 04, 2010.

Salazar was far less aggressive, however, when it came to making good on his promise to fix MMS. Though he criticized the actions of “a few rotten apples” at the agency, he left long-serving lackeys of the oil industry in charge. “The people that are ethically challenged are the career managers, the people who come up through the ranks,” says a marine biologist who left the agency over the way science was tampered with by top officials. “In order to get promoted at MMS, you better get invested in this pro-development oil culture.” One of the Bush-era managers whom Salazar left in place was John Goll, the agency’s director for Alaska. Shortly after, the Interior secretary announced a reorganization of MMS in the wake of the Gulf disaster, Goll called a staff meeting and served cake decorated with the words “Drill, baby, drill.”

Of course there’s always the infamous “moratorium” issued by the president -giving sufficient forewarning that several “exceptions could be issued before it went into effect.

Not only did the MMS have time to do a few favors for their friends, the ban itself is just a dog and pony show that halts exploratory drilling at only 33 deepwater operations, shutting down less than one percent of the total wells in the Gulf.

Even the white-house’s fair haired boy, Secretary Salazar said that “the moratorium is not a moratorium that will affect production.”

Read the entire article to get an understanding of just how deep the influence of the oil industry runs, and how little their bought_and_paid_for lackeys care for the people they allegedly serve.

It only reinforces what everybody already knows: Crooked politician and dishonest bureaucrat are both redundant.

Obama and Company are as Bad as Bush and Company is a post from: Rag Hand