It isn't just Green jobs being offshored, money offshored

Caterpillar offshore outsourced.  

JP Morgan Chase received TARP funds, increased offshore outsourcing by 25%

Citigroup received TARP funds, signed a $1.2 billion dollar contract to offshore outsource jobs.

IBM is firing people in droves, offshore outsourcing jobs.

Microsoft is firing 5800, offshore outsourcing jobs...

the list goes on and on and on.

"One of the most absurd things I find offshore outsourced is state jobs to manage social services. That's taxpayer dollars to help those who need a job and to get food stamps."

You know, I believe the politician who pioneered that was Governor Gary Locke of Washington, who is now President Obama's Secretary of Commerce, the same secretary of Commerce who signed all those "buy offshore" waivers for the American-based multinationals in receipt of federal stimulus funds.

Those jobs could easily be done from home too. So, here we have people out of work, desperate, receiving welfare and instead of hiring some of those people to work for state social services, states offshore outsource those jobs.

It sure seemed the Obama administration was bound and determined to get the biggest corporate puppet they could find in that Sec. of Commerce post too.

What is even more scary is how NASSCOM has inroads to state and federal contract awards.

As in bias and that's a foreign nation, India, their BPO industry, getting contract after contract and frankly I question any claim these are "economically competitive" from the overall contract awards amounts I see flying by.

I don't believe it. I think we have yet another "Inside track" on how to bribe obtain government contracts, like Accenture....the guys who cannot code their way out of a paper bag, yet manage to obtain billion dollar contracts, even though they have failed, failed, failed on delivery. Same with SAIC, there are a bunch of them...
and many of these "projects" have actually failed. Billions wasted with no results.

Give me a break! One could hire teams of out of work techies in the U.S., out of work call center people - call centers could be great for single mothers, people with disabilities because one could easily do that job from home....

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