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social services offshore outsourced (4.00 / 1)

dunno if you are aware of this but many state governments use Indian call centers for food stamps and other telephone services, support and backend.

Makes a hell of a lot of sense, use offshore to give people not enough to survive on instead of using those very people, giving them the damn job, keeping taxpayer money in the US so less people need social services.

Have fun.  

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by: Robert Oak @ Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 17:49:39 PM CST

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Which Is Why I Wrote "Heavily Weighted" (4.00 / 1)

We have a lot of work to do, rolling back all sorts of neo-liberal/privatization BS.  But the goods and services being delivered are still reaching folks here in the US who desperately need them, which is what the short-term response is all about.  I think that rebuilding the public sector properly belongs in the long-term time frame.

"Long-term" meaning that it starts taking effect later in 2009, as opposed to Jan 21st at the latest.

"Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition"

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 19:43:00 PM CST

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glad you're doing that (0.00 / 0)

Getting a practical realization that stimulus should primarily first go to the economy they are trying to stimulate, discussion, stats, economic realities are almost non-existent on the hill.  

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by: Robert Oak @ Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 20:05:21 PM CST

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