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.