Dear David...

The Portland paper Willamette Week has named Barack Obama their Rogue of the Week for his campaign's aggressive fundraising here in Stumptown. Glad I'm not the only person who is feeling shafted by not being able to find a job, having to choose between paying for health care and other essentials to like food and shelter. Between the shake down and the shaft (Rick Warren) this is starting to feel like the Reagan years again. How ironic that in the online version of the New York Times

today was an add welcoming skilled workers to reside and live permanently in Canada. So in addition to recruiting foreign workers here in the US on H1 visas, I wonder how many red blooded Americans like myself may consider emigration to the North? Healthcare for everyone and equal rights versus a $1000 tax cut under the proposed economic stimulus act. Come on this is hardly the WPA like program we were promised and we so desperately need, and who is going to pay for this? We've already mortgaged our grandchildren's futures to China. We need jobs Mr. President-Elect, good jobs that will not be exported overseas with the blessing of Wall Street and disgraced financial gurus. We need to stop our police of importing lower paid "guest workers" to do the our jobs when American citizens are willing and able to perform them at a fair living wage. And if we don't well we're already seeing what happens, the best and the brightest will abandon the ship while the band plays at your party.