State of Tennessee Outsourcing Call Center Jobs to India

It isn’t unheard of for industries to outsource jobs and send them overseas. But if the state recently put unemployed Tennesseans to work for Tennessee in a state-run call center in Perry County, why is the state still outsourcing a huge amount of call center work overseas?

Perry County struggles to be a portrait of the American dream. Patriotism waves strong even as prosperity fades and factories close. The county’s unemployment rate is the highest in the state and one of the highest in the nation.”We need the jobs here in the country, not out of the country,” said restaurant owner Betty Bell.

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Her restaurant is one of the few places that’s surviving in a county where fewer people are finding work.”It’s noticeable from the kids at school to the grocery store to everywhere in town,” said Bell.In an effort to help jump-start the county’s economy, the state opened the call center using stimulus money.The 14 part-time operators will help Tennesseans with unemployment claims, but the state needs operators for other spots, too — spots that aren’t being filed with Tennesseans. These jobs are being filled by people who live outside of the United States.The state has a lot of call centers, but at least one is on the other side of world in India. And that’s where the additional jobs are going.

The state has a lot of call centers, but at least one is on the other side of world in India. And that’s where the additional jobs are going.The state is looking at extending a contract to keep the call center and the jobs that go with it in India.

Read entire article @ WSMV.com

Talk Show Hosts May Be Accomplices Under Hate Bill

Just like Steve has always said…………here it comes……HATE SPEECH……the states should stand on the 10th amendment on this one as well. It appears this article is combining two bills together, one the Hate Crimes Protection Bill and the other the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act (HR 1966).

he Hate Crimes Prevention Act which has passed the House of Representatives by an overwhelming margin is now facing hearings in the Senate. There are already similar hate crime laws in place, however, this bill imposes much stronger federal enforcement, which is a clear violation of the Tenth Amendment. It grants greater power to federal prosecutors to prosecute hate crime laws by prosecuting those who have been found innocent by local or state courts. The current bill will extend special privileges to gays and transgender individuals that are currently only granted to ethnic and religious minorities. The most dangerous part of the Bill which is a direct assault against the First Amendment is that it allows for the prosecution as accomplices in a hate crime for talk show pundits that the person who commits the alleged crime claims to influence their actions.

Here is the essential text:

Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce [radio, TV, internet] any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (HR 1966, SEC 3, Sec. 881a)

Reverend Ted Pike of the National Prayer Network says that “this means that if any pastor, talk show host or guest, or anyone communicating on radio or the internet is repeatedly “hostile” to the practice of homosexuality and “intends” to cause “substantial emotional distress” in homosexuals, leading to repentance, he is guilty. The speaker doesn’t even have to succeed in causing such conviction for sin, even though he will be especially guilty if he does. In either case, the federal government is empowered under this bill to invade any state to prosecute the “bully” of the airwaves.”

This Bill is the first major step to stripping away our rights to freedom of speech in the 1st amendment. Recently the Plains State ADL Director denounced the 1st Amendment by saying that “freedom of speech does not extend to racist groups, nor give their supporters the right to threaten and intimidate others or commit acts of violence.“In many western nations, an individual can be prosecuted by the government for certain speech.

Though we still have the First Amendment we are headed in that direction of Europe and Canada where people can be prosecuted for thought crimes. Organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League have aggressively promoted hate crime legislation. These organizations have endorsed Europe and Canada’s policies on prosecuting what they deem as hate speech. The ADL openly advocates for their model anti-hate law.  In 1988 the ADL gave out an award to law student Joseph Ribikoff for writing a proposed hate crime bill that would criminalize hate speech against gays and minorities.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, ADL Washington counsel Michael Lieberman spoke in support of the Hate Crimes Bill. “We have no illusions about this legislation,” Lieberman testified. “We know that bigotry, racism, homophobia, and anti-Semitism cannot be legislated out of existence. A new federal law that finally addresses all victims of hate crimes will not eliminate them.”

Examiner.com