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    WWW US tax money is being used to train offshore workers to replace us

    Obama had promised that he would keep well paying technical jobs here. However our tax money is being used to train offshore workers in third world countries. Your tax dollars are at work.

    http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=226600094
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    Default Re: US tax money is being used to train offshore workers to replace us

    That sickens me. Of course certain people will say this is because American workers are too expensive, but I am tired of this.

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    Default Re: US tax money is being used to train offshore workers to replace us

    Disgusting.

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    Travel Re: US tax money is being used to train offshore workers to replace us

    I sent an email copy of this to my senator. This is the type of story that gets buried and you won't hear about it from the main media. This is really about both parties screwing us over. Send a copy to whoever you can so people will know. I also complained to the senator about the H1-B program which is being manipulated to ignore unemployed Americans and depress American salaries illegally. So since they have to train new people to be cheaper even than Indian labor, it has nothing to do with quality. Those slave wages are very good for the bottom line.

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    Default Re: US tax money is being used to train offshore workers to replace us

    ^^^ one of the responders on your link page summed up the situation pretty well ...

    (snip)"Welcome to the dark side of globalization, where the wealthy individuals of all nations unite with each other, and against their own countrymen, to infinitely increase their wealth and power, and human labor and intellect become a commodity to be squeezed as far out of the production process as possible and then bought from the lowest bidder in a sea of desperate "have nots". This happened in the "gilded age" of the late 1800s, when the technical breakthroughs of the industrial revolution created incredible fortunes for those who got ahead of the curve and great misery for the workers who played catch up. While that great divide was largely closed by the 1950s through better public health and education, the same period marked the birth of current computer, information and globalization age which has created another similar social and political disruption and disparity in wealth.

    For those who don't read the political or financial blogs, our government was long ago corrupted and co-opted by politicians and bureaucrats who play "flunkie" to special interests and use taxpayer money to help their friends instead of help to build their own country. It's unfortunate, but the best interests of the new globalized robber barons, unlike their industrial revolution counterparts a century ago, depend upon uniting with each other to squeeze more wealth out of the global economy rather than building strong infrastructure and markets in their own countries to build and sell their products. Although the breakthroughs of IT have made this world possible across a variety of industries, it is ironic that the working people in the IT industry are now seeing the pigeons come home to roost. "(snip)

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