Jobs & Immigration in Georgia

The AJC reported that 65,100 jobs would be created in Georgia in 2014 like it was good news.  If Georgia is anything like the rest of the country, our workforce participation rate would mirror the national rate, 62.5%. 

Our total population in Georgia is about 10 million with about 5.5 million in the Atlanta metro area.  So, if 62.5% of our folks are working, we would have 6.25 million working in Georgia and 37.5% not working.  Well, 37.5% of 10 million is 3,475.000 and that’s the number of working age folks in Georgia without jobs. 

In the AJC article “State Economy Builds Steam” 5/30/14, doesn’t appear to build many jobs.  According to the AJC, 65,100 or 1.87% of our Georgia population will find jobs in 2014, leaving 3,408,900 without jobs and waiting for next year, when we hope to create 89,200 jobs.

Nationally we immigrate and give work permits to over 2 million immigrants each year. We also graduate 1.8 million new work force entrants.  Jobs created amount to about 1.8 million a year.  This job deficit grows each year by about 1.8 million. 

Half of each group can’t find jobs and will stay with relatives or go on welfare. Jobs would be more available if we reduce immigration, but politicians run and hide when the immigration issue arises.  

We always limited immigration to numbers we could support with work, but in 1989 we doubled immigration to 1 million a year. Then in the 1990s we exported most of our jobs and we kept increasing immigration numbers, this time to about 2 million a year.

My conclusion is that our federal government is actually trying to impoverish our citizens and crash our economy using immigration as a weapon.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader