Ohio Bans Offshore Outsourcing in Public funded contracts

[Robert Oak]

From The Economic Populist:

Columbus, Ohio--Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today issued an executive order that prohibits the expenditure of public funds for services provided offshore.

"Outsourcing jobs does not reflect Ohio values," Strickland said. "Ohioans have been among the hardest hit by more than a decade of unfair trade agreements and the trickle-down economic policies that promoted offshoring jobs at the expense of Ohioans who work for a living. We must do everything within our power to prevent outsourcing jobs because it undermines our economic development objectives, slows our recovery and deprives Ohioans and other Americans of employment opportunities."

"Ohio's policy has been--and must continue to be--that public funds should not be spent on services provided offshore," Strickland says in the order. "Throughout my Administration, procurement procedures have been in place that restrict the purchase of offshore services. Despite these requirements, federal stimulus funds were recently used to purchase services from a domestic company which ultimately provided some of those services offshore. This incident was unacceptable and has caused me to redouble my commitment to ensure that public funds are not expended for offshore services."

Video report from NBC4i at the link.

raw link:
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/ohio-bans-use-public-funds-offshore-outsourcing

[Sanity Claws]

1. All government entities should ban offshore outsourcing

[Robert Oak]

2. yes they should, plus interested in more reports

There has been quite a bit of Stimulus money offshore outsourced, but if anyone has more reports, I'd like to know about it.

[valerief]

3. +16 trillion

[Lifelong Protester]

4. Absolutely.

If it is my tax money, I want it to go towards providing a job and income to one of my fellow Americans. Not to some outfit that is outsourcing the job overseas.

(Actually I always write on the memo portion of the check we send to the IRS, on years we do: DO NOT SPEND THIS MONEY ON BOMBS)