Obama Administration: We're training foreigners to take American IT jobs - Granite Grok

Obama Administration: We’re training foreigners to take American IT jobs

Yep – overseen and given guidance by Hillary Clinton’s State Department, USAID is paying for newly minted Asian IT pros to offshore more American IT jobs away.  It’s one thing to compete but who came up with this plan to tilt the board against Americans?  If I remember right, Hillary did say, after saying that she wants to put all Appalachian coal miners out of business, that she wanted to retrain them, partly in IT.  So, kill their self-dependance and then kill their hopes in one fell swoop? Emphasis mine:

Despite President Obama’s pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $36 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia… Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent’s low labor costs.

Under director Rajiv Shah, the United States Agency for International Development will partner with private outsourcers in Sri Lanka to teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java (Java EE) programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support. USAID will also help the trainees brush up on their English language proficiency. USAID is contributing about $10 million to the effort…

So what are Americans to think when their own government is working to put them out of work?  I thought the purpose of the American Government was to, at the least, not hurt American jobs.

But I guess that these Progressives see other countries as having been oppressed by America and MUST help those victims.  If they happen to deliberately make our own citizens oppressed by an overreaching Government, well, because KARMA!

Oh, this Rajiv Shah dude? So nice to see that Hillary is all down with Crony Capitalism:

The head of USAID at the time was Rajiv Shah, who was a former top director with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Microsoft has been one of the nation’s biggest lobbyist for expansive immigration policies, which would allow corporations to replace American tech workers with foreign laborers who will work for a fraction of the Americans workers’ salary. For example, in 2014 Microsoft pushed for greater admissions of low-wage foreign workers into the United States at the same time as the tech giant was laying off 18,000 of its own employees.

(H/T: Breitbart)

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