Report: Ohio stimulus work outsourced due to foul-ups

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

Posted: 11/19/2010
Last Updated: 6 hours and 38 minutes ago


By: Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio watchdog concludes multiple slip-ups led to the state's inadvertent use of overseas workers in a program funded with federal stimulus money.

A Texas company hired to run Ohio's $11 million appliance rebate program earlier this year outsourced some of the processing to El Salvador. Ohio Inspector General Thomas Charles said this week the state Department of Development failed to require that U.S.-based call centers be used.

Charles' investigation also found the department did not make the contractor state where work would be done. The report says the company was not as clear as other bidders, who stipulated they would use call centers in the U.S.

Asked for comment by The Columbus Dispatch, the department issued a statement praising the rebate program.


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[ihavenobias]

1. From bad to worse. n/t

[notesdev]

2. slip-ups my TSA-molested ass

This happens due to systemic corruption. These people don't know of any other way to operate than to undercut the American worker in every way possible.

[bluedigger]

3. Several people need to join the ranks of the unemployed. n/t

[ChromeFoundry]

4. Why would Ohio hire a Texas based company?

This is as bad as when the electronic voting machine data was being outsourced to Tennessee. Would it not make more sense to hire an Ohio based company, pay them, revenue returned via taxes?!?

Way to go Buckeye State!

Now that Kasich is in office... expect a lot more of the same. Game over.




(definition: Buckeye - a useless nut.)

[awoke_in_2003]

5. as a native Ohioan...

(and transplanted Texan) I ask the same question.