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

Angry?

Some Excerpts:

“The U.S. government is spending $22 million to train workers in foreign countries to learn tech skills and English so they can outsource American IT jobs.”

“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.”

In our current economic environment, when Americans struggle with high unemployment and the fear of an economy that can get worse, it is frustrating to think that the U.S. Government (or specifically YOUR tax dollars) is paying for the training of foreign worker to take over the very jobs that we (Americans) are losing. Is it not the responsibility of a sovereign government to put it’s citizens first? Whatever the reasons that propelled these actions, we cannot deny that no one in these foreign countries have done anything wrong. So we cannot be angry with anyone looking for a job themselves. The question is can we be angry with our own government? Should the U.S. be primarily concerned with with it’s own people, or should everyone look first and foremost to the global community?

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