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November 7, 2009

THE PEOPLE SPEAK: Feds should stop issuing worker visas

Why has the current Washington administration allowed the federal government to continue issuing 125,000 new green cards and temporary worker visas every month, increasing the current labor pool? Do they not care that 15 million Americans have lost their jobs and are looking for work?

Taxpayer-funded economic stimulus funds (they say) have created 650,000 jobs at an expenditure of $230,769.23 per job for the anticipated 1.5 million foreign workers admitted to the United States plus the 15 million unemployed legal workers.   

Any eighth-grader knows this is poor economics and cannot be sustained. How can Congress not figure it out? Is it time to replace congressmen with eighth-graders? 

Carol Helm, director IRON Group,

Jenks

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