Utah’s Jobs for Utah’s People

Outsourcing and the Perpetuation of Poverty in Utah

A few months ago it was in the news that the State of Utah has outsourced the jobs for processing welfare application information to workers in India. They went on to say that over 40,000 families in Utah are on some form of welfare assistance.

I was disgusted when I heard this revelation for these reasons:

1. I think that people in Utah who desperately need those jobs should have those jobs. 

The state must enact legislation banning outsourcing to foreign countries, cancel these contracts 

and set up our own call centers, employing OUR poor and allowing dignity to OUR welfare recipients who

could easily handle the calls.

2. YOUR TAX DOLLARS are being sent overseas and out of state to employ overseas workers. This removes MILLIONS in income from our tax base FOREVER instead of pumping up Utah’s economy and allowing Utah’s unemployed the dignity of work. Almost all people would rather work than take welfare handouts. In fact I am convinced that they would be happy to put time in on honest jobs doing this type of work (the jobs that were outsourced) in exchange for welfare help.

3. Government Outsourcing amounts to an attack on the poor and the disabled in Utah, by the state of Utah. It has a tendency to perpetuate and deepen poverty. I am disgusted that the State of Utah would be so short sighted and stupid as to give our desperately needed jobs and tax money to workers in India.

4. People applying for welfare usually don’t have a clue that the State is or could send ALL or part of your personal information to India, or elsewhere for that matter, and that people around the globe could have access to confidential state data bases. If or when you apply for Food Stamps and/or Medicaid you have to give them your name, date of birth, Social Security Number, phone number, bank account number and other sensitive and personal information on the 10 page application. Utah is one of only four states who require an asset test to determine if you should get Medicaid. You have to give detailed information to the state regarding this as well.  With all the identity theft going on now in the computer age, I am thoroughly outraged that your personal information is no longer secure because of the stupidity of the State of Utah.

I want the State of Utah to stop this unethical outsourcing right now.  I want the State of Utah to give those jobs to people here in Utah who need those jobs. I want the State of Utah to take immediate steps to safeguard your private and sensitive personal information in their data bases. The governor and the state legislature are responsible for the people that manage Human Services and Workforce Services for the State of Utah, and must take immediate action to stop this fiasco.

I know you don’t want welfare, you want a job. You want your Identity to be confidential and your personal information to be secure. Your Right to Privacy has been violated, your right to work has been sold to the lowest bidder, and your tax money has been hijacked by Globalists who spit on your dignity.

THIS MUST CHANGE NOW!