Your tax dollars are being used to train foreign IT workers to take your jobs

[Stoic]

This is one more instance in the war against the American worker.

ZDNet

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.

[dkf]

1. Are we saying we dont want the rest of the world learning how to use

Java?

[WVRICK13]

2. Nope

I don't care if they use it. I don't care if they learn how to program it, but dammit not on my dollar. Why would I pay someone to compete with our workers?

[OnionPatch]

3. +1

I've already seen two of my former positions go overseas and am lucky to have a job at all right now. Many of my IT friends have been unemployed or underemployed in low-paying jobs for years. It's simply unacceptable that our own tax dollars are being used to encourage the outsourcing of American jobs. :grr:

[Bitwit1234]

4. NO but why should we pay for their training when we

could be using that money to train our workers. That is what I have been saying. Back when FDR set up the camps and projects to give people work, we didn't have the technology we have today. There are a lot of Americans who could benefit from this type of training. That's why I said set up these training centers, funded by stimulus money, and train US workers to do all kinds of tech work. Maybe one might turn out to be a high powered geek. One who could invent all kinds of goodies for the US> That stimulus money should have been used for training as well as construction, and other things. this doesn't take a genius to figure it out. It just takes common sense. And I think those in the White House and Congress don't have very much of it. They have disconnected with the average American. That's the problem with congress and this administration. They have sat on their butts with their privileges for so long they can't understand how real America lives and tries to get along.
Wish I could set some domestic policies for this country. And boy would I forget about this so called bipartisan crap.I'd "damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead".