Rural Summit & Outsourcing In Question

Rural Summit & Outsourcing In Question

Rural Summit & Outsourcing In Question plus Food Forethought. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. The National Rural Summit gets underway tomorrow in Missouri where Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the event will help shape the dialogue and discussion on key issues involving rural America. VILSACK: One of the things that we want to do obviously is sort of frame this properly so I'll have an opportunity at the beginning of the process to give opening remarks and to basically use this as an opportunity to educate not only those in attendance and the media but hopefully those that are watching on CSPAN precisely where we are with rural America. There is nothing quite as frustrating as trying to call a technical support phone number only to receive assistance from someone who barely speaks English and who you know is only reading from a script. I have had my patience severely tested on numerous occasions. Well in a bid to reduce outsourcing of U.S. jobs, a Senator Charles Schumer said on Sunday he will push legislation to make companies inform customers when their calls were being transferred outside the United States and charge companies a $0.25 excise tax for those transferred calls. Most outsourced calls go to India, Indonesia, Ireland, the Philippines and South Africa, places where workers generally receive lower wages and work longer hours than their U.S. counterparts. Now with today's Food Forethought, here's Lacy Gray. It's an understatement to say the debate over delisting wolves in the northwest is an emotional issue for both sides. The media has branded opposing sides as the "wolf lovers" and the "wolf haters", which isn't a fair or accurate moniker for either side. Farmers and ranchers who are working hard to prevent massive predation of their livestock do not hate wolves in the context of wishing the entire species was non-existent, they only want to protect their livelihood. Pro wolf and animal rights activists would probably change their tune a bit if they were to find themselves, their pets, and their livelihood under vicious and deadly attack on a daily basis. The old saying, "If you want to know how a man feels walk a mile in his shoes", continues to ring true. Currently the wolf population appears to be concentrated in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana with more showing up in Washington and Oregon daily. The key here seems to be in determining a state's legal requirement for the wolves "significant portion of historic range". In reality that range would extend widely across most of the United States. If wolves actually occupied their historic range, delisting could occur and a natural balance could be achieved. Thanks Lacy. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
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