At a time when the traitor Obama is pushing a new jobs bill that will pay corporations to hire the unemployed through tax subsidies and sweat heart contracts, an incident in Oregon should be taking stage, front and center. Four contractors/corporations, G.E. Forestry, Cutting Edge Forestry, Summitt Forestry, and Ponderosa Reforestations, received fourteen Recovery Act contracts worth $7,140,782 in 2009.
These monies were intended to put unemployed Oregonians to work doing clean up and maintenance in National Forests in Central Oregon. Instead this money was paid to foreign workers brought in on H-2B visas, which is to say workers from another country. Though the reporting parties have been careful to hide the country that the workers came from, I think it is safe to assume that they were Mexican nationals.
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