From: Scribe1865-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 03:24:10 EST
Subject: a little political irony at the end


US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India
[You can also read the article at: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11219]

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in India to 
raise funds for itself and for its chieftain, George W. Bush. Young people at 
the call centres are helping robots to phone American citizens to enlist their 
support and money for the political party, with plans to extend the scheme if 
they whip up enough donations.

There's a high degree of automation involved in the process, according to 
Indian newspaper the Business Standard, which says that HCL Eserve is handling 
the business for the party. India is the biggest democracy in the world, and has 
stayed that way since it threw off the yoke of the British Raj in 1947, 
courtesy of the Labour Party.

The magazine claims that "human intervention" is limited because of an 
integrated voice recording technology which picks up on clues from people that pick 
up the phone.

We do hope and trust here at the INQUIRER that the irony of underpaid people 
in Harayana helping robots to call possibly out of work Americans because of a 
widespread policy of corporate outsourcing is not lost on our readers.

    
    



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