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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:36 PM
Subject: [cp] Global Control - who is accountable for redress now? Tennessee funds welfare jobs in India

Watching how Enron was taking over the world, is nothing more than seeing the fact that the corporate government and what we think of as "corporations" are one and the same.  Government and courts act in the corporate interest/money, which is their own interest/money.   
 
Interviews on the news recently showed Indian officials testifying that they were threatened politically if they refused Enron contracts - billion dollar fraud.  Right now Andersen accounting is manipulating a plea bargain so that there will be no trial where the facts come out about their racketeering, fraud and violations of the public trust. 
 
This is how the bar ALWAYS keeps the facts hidden from the people, these are crimes certain individuals have commiitted and they must be prosecuted.  The courts throw out the counter claims, and th Supreme Court refuses to hear cases that would expose the rampant systemic public rights violations.
 
Thnking you are dealing with local business is as wrong as thinking you are in a constitutional court.  You are not told who you are really dealing with.  In America as it is you cannot get redress against the state,  who thinks  you will ever find accountability with the person you are dealing with  across the world?
 
The corporations call the banking and accounting fraud "business as usual", and now it is ccoming out that the only way all this has come to this point is that it has been kept secret.
 
In Oregon, when you call for DMV information you are routed through the prison.   The uniformed people at the metal detectors in the Marion County Couthouse do not work for the state of Oregon - they are privately hired from Washington state.  Our jobs are being sent overseas or prison labor, KEVIN MANNIX prison industry - the bar  member agenda is corporate  - and they figured out a way to get Americans to work for slave  wages, and the rest ships overseas where they volunteer to work for slave wages.
 
And right now they are talking about open borders, new money called the AMERICO for Mexico, US and Canada ......  we are being forced into slavery to this corporate "state", if we don't stand up to all this NOW ......
 
With all the immigration allowed in the last ten years it has changed the face of our Nation.  Other countries do not have a Bill of Rights or sovereignty, won't fight for it and don't expect it. 
 
Freeborn Natural People have to stand against this and excercise our rights.....we are the only ones who can !!!!  It is our RIGHT, DUTY, OBLIGATION and RESPONSIBLIITY  to protect this Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the foundation of God given Inherent Rights.
 
 
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From: Bill Mayhar <protecor@...>
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Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:06 PM
Subject: Fw: Tennessee funds welfare jobs in India

Some of you have seen this and some have not.  For those who have not, this is interesting reading.
 
Bill -
 
 
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Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:13 PM
Subject: Tennessee funds welfare jobs in India

Bob this is interesting....DBD_Mike

             Tennessee funds welfare jobs in India

This is a story you need to read. It's by Lynn Redmon and it appeared in the Powell Post, a weekly paper in Knox County. Since the Post doesn't have an internet link, I have copied the column here, by permission.

This is an example of your Tennessee tax dollars at work, creating jobs in India. After you read it ask yourself a question. Could this company be required, as part of the contract, to locate the call center in Tennessee?

 
http://www.frankcagle.com      ........By Lynn Redmond

When a welfare recipient in Knox County calls a toll free number asking for help    with food stamp problems, the representative of the state of Tennessee who answers  the phone is located in Bombay, India.
Tennessee's Department of Human Services has entered into a contract with a large international company, eFunds, to provide round-the-clock call centers to help food stamp recipients across Tennessee work out problems with their benefits.
 
At the program's beginning in 1999 Tennessee's callcenter was located inMilwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2000 eFrunds closed the Milwaukee center and moved all call operations to Bombay, India.

A spokesman for eFunds said of the closing "It was a matter of staying competitive.   It cost us $12 an hour for an employee in Milwaukee and only $3 an hour for an  employee in India."

These actions of the Department of Human Services stand in stark contrast to the  goal of Tennessee's much ballyhooed Families First welfare program which is to get  people off the welfare rolls and out into productive jobs.

The eFunds company, headquartered in Arizona and with over 2,000 employees in  India, recently opened its second call center in Bombay at a cost of $3.4 million.  eFunds, which reported a last quarter increase in revenue of 37 percent, administers   welfare programs in 47 other states in this country.
 
The company has been one of the leaders in moving call center jobs and other office jobs out of the U.S. to India.

India is a favorite with companies like eFunds because large segments
of the population already speak English. The employees are given fake names so that Tennesseans will feel more comfortable talking with them. So instead of Ravi or  Nirupa, Jason or Ashley answers the phone.

Last Thursday I called the food stamp number (1-888-997-9444) and was welcomed to "The state of Tennessee EBT customer service line."
 
When I punched 1 for instructions in English my call was routed to India. After
I worked through several layers of recorded messages I talked live with "John."
 
John spoke with heavily accented British-Indian English and tried to be very helpful. When I asked where he was located, he said: "They do not like us to reveal
that."

Programs such as this speak volumes about the attitude of a state government toward its citizens. That our state would even consider funding a program that takes job opportunity away from the people it claims to help is beyond belief.
It is especially unbelieveable because of the Levi's plant in Powell that is one step away from closing forever because of the competition oflow-wage foreign workers.

If the Levis company is unable to keep the plant open, and if some laid off workers end up using welfare benefits, and if some of those call the toll-free number, it will be the ultimate indignity courtesy of the state of Tennessee.

 The toll-free number to India is 1-888-997-9444.

                                                 
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