Posted on 10/21/2011 9:34:17 AM PDT by Qbert
A Labor Department Inspector General report released this week found that $7,140,782 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds went to four Oregon forestry services firms who hired no U.S. workers. From the report:
Only two Oregonians were listed on the employer recruitment reports, indicating that workers in Oregon were likely unaware these job opportunities were available. In fact, although 146 U.S. workers were contacted by the three employers regarding possible employment, none were hired. Instead, 254 foreign workers were brought into the country for these jobs.
The Labor OIG even interviewed local workers to find out why no Americans were hired. The OIG reports:
We spoke with two workers who reported that the employer used discouraging language, such as references to age and the ability to speak another language, which are not valid conditions of employment.
Reached for comment by The Oregonian, there was bipartisan anger at the what OIG found. "This is a timber area and we hadn't been cutting trees for years," Republican state Sen. Chris Telfer told the paper. "It really ticked off a lot of people here."
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., who asked the OIG to investigate the program in September 2010, was also displeased: "The goal of the stimulus bill was to put Americans back to work, not foreign nationals. ... Oregonians have been logging for over a century, our workforce is one of the best in the world, and these contracts should have been awarded to companies that hire Oregon loggers."
This is not the first time President Obama's policies have killed Oregonian jobs. In July, the Obama administration rescinded a Bush administration plan to double logging in Western Oregon. “Communities throughout western Oregon are facing extreme economic dislocation that has been compounded by a lack of timber coming from the BLM forests--southwest Oregon has become a sacrifice zone for this Administration,” American Forest Resource Council Tom Partin said in a release.
Oregon ping
Fascism/Socialism/Marxism does not work. Never has. Never will. This Fascist/Socialist/Marxist administration MUST be deposed.
Brought in from where? They couldn't find enough illegal aliens for the jobs?
What are the odds that these four companies were owned by big Zerobama donors or campaign bundlers???
This person wants nothing more than to leave the country so far in debt it will never survive! And he is taking his orders from the Establishment. It is time the people make a change in the way things are done i8n Washington!
Incidentally, it sounds as though Laura Ingram is taking her orders too.
I now recall an article earlier this year where the Forest Service here was requiring Spanish speaking SUPERVISORS.....will try to find it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53A2jpDqV3w
FOX News reported SUPERVISORS being REQUIRED to speak SPANISH....from 2007.
Page 10 of the OIG report lists the companies. Here’s what the office manager of the company that hired no US workers, G.E. Forestry, said a year ago- he sounds like a real racist (and this was likely intentional discrimination):
“G.E. Forestry office manager Victor Gomez said his company brings in visa workers because they do the job better than locals...Because foreign workers are here just to work, Gomez said, they’re often more motivated than U.S. employees...”
http://callofthepatriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/story-of-lost-stimulus-jobs-to.html
Another company in the report (Cutting Edge Forestry, Inc.) got hit with a immigration raid- back in 2007:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2007/may/26/usfs-contractor-hit-by-immigration-raid/
“..G.E. Forestry.”
As in NBC Immelt GE?
That would be par for the course.
Obama promised that he would save or create jobs.... he didn’t promise that they would be jobs for Americans.
Fl. b
sorry...no US Americans willing to work for 28k a year.
Approximately 1:1.
Obama stimulus cash goes to foreign workers ($7M to four Oregon firms who hired no US workers)
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This WILL come back and bite VP Bite Me.
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1007-other/183145-stimulus-could-haunt-sheriff-biden
“Now, there were a lot of naysayers back then who said that there was no way we could implement the Recovery Act without massive waste, fraud and abuse,” Biden said in a June 13 post on the White House blog announcing the new “Campaign to Cut Waste,” which was to root out wasteful government spending at every agency and department.
“You know what? They were wrong. Thanks to our diligence (and some help from advanced computer models and sophisticated data analysis), the Recovery Act has had an unprecedentedly low level of fraud, with less than 0.6 percent of all awards experiencing any waste or abuse.”
Makes me sick!
The CEO who got money to build an electric car -- can't but he got Obama's blessing and NASA's rocket money was pulled and given to HIM to build the new rocket.
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oh goodness. This admin is criminal.
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