Senate Democrats decry Voice of America `outsourcing'

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http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/11942794.htm

Senate Democrats decry Voice of America `outsourcing'

BY SAM SINGER

Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Labor leaders and activists have denounced the business community for years for "outsourcing" work to other countries. Now the federal government is planning to shift a handful of highly symbolic jobs overseas, and labor unions and lawmakers are protesting angrily.

The Voice of America recently decided to move part of its late-night news operation to Hong Kong, possibly hiring foreign workers. That has caught the attention of the Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who are joining labor groups in urging the news service to keep the positions inside U.S. borders.

In a strongly worded letter to VOA Director David Jackson, 14 Democratic senators said the shift would undermine VOA's mandate to "present a balanced and therefore comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions."

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[Sanity Claws]

1. Is this a joke?

How could it call itself the Voice of America, when Americans aren't even working there?
I wonder whose pockets are being lined by this.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Outsourcing can be good sometimes

Example

US outsource Bush to Afghanistan as President...

Opps I appologise to the Afghanistan people for using their country as an example. No harm intended.