More Trouble in Lewyland

Forget the eejits occupying Portland. Fed dollars slated to aid locals spent to hire "foreign workers" instead. At least $7,000,000.00 of taxpayer dollars.



This is Tom's industry and his colleagues south of us aren't too happy about it.

WASHINGTON -- At least $7 million in federal stimulus money intended to provide jobs to unemployed Oregonians instead paid wages to 254 foreign workers, federal investigators have concluded.

The money was for forest clean-up jobs in central Oregon where thousands of experienced workers were idle. When the contracts were announced in 2009, Oregon had the third-highest unemployment rate in the nation at 11.1 percent, with rates in the state's rural forest counties nearly 15 percent and higher.

Even so, the contractors told federal regulators they could not find enough local workers for the jobs.

That came as a surprise to local officials, who said they often got hundreds of responses to every job opening.

The political disgust is bipartisan, by the way.

Read the rest from the Oregonian.