Paying To Lose A Job

American taxpayers are paying millions to train foreigners to take our jobs.  This is another example of wasteful federal government spending that further increases the deficit while sending jobs overseas.  It it time to reduce the size of the federal government and balance the budget.

Asian Call Center Workers Trained With U.S. Tax Dollars

Despite President Obama's recent call for companies to "insource" jobs sent overseas, it turns out that the federal government itself is spending millions of dollars to train foreign students for employment in some booming career fields--including working in offshore call centers that serve U.S. businesses. 

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The program is called JEEP, which stands for Job Enabling English Proficiency. ... That's the same agency that until a couple of years ago was spending millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money to train offshore IT workers in Sri Lanka...
JEEP is part of a larger USAID initiative in the Philippines, known as Growth and Equity in Mindanao (GEM), on which the agency is spending about $100 million per year, according to an audit by the USAID's Office of Inspector General.

NSA Vacuum

The NSA is illegally vacuuming data from Americans, says a whistle-blower.

The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails

He estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion "transactions" — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans. This likely includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States.

Surveillance Nation

Drones are watching.  Don't look up.


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Whooping Cough Vaccine Fails

In California, vaccinated children were more likely to suffer from disease.  If the vaccine fails, why take the risk of injecting the vaccine and the toxins into our children?

Whooping cough vaccine fades in pre-teens

During a whooping cough outbreak in California in 2010, immunized children between eight and 12 years old were more likely to catch the bacterial disease than kids of other ages ...

What was very surprising was the majority of cases were in fully vaccinated children.