"Joe the plumber” became famous when he asked a question of candidate Barack Obama at a town-hall meeting in Ohio. You haven’t heard of Frank the carpenter, but Frank has had even more trouble getting his questions answered than Joe did.

Joe the plumber asked a question about small-business taxes, whereas Frank the carpenter has a question about small-business jobs – thousands of jobs being lost to illegal workers. Lost jobs should be a hot topic in the middle of a severe recession, but politicians run from Frank’s questions like vampires running from a cross.

Frank the carpenter is not a political activist. He works all day and sometimes weekends, and he can’t get time off to attend political rallies. But he is a citizen, a taxpayer, a father and grandfather, and he is as worried about his country as any Campaign for Liberty enthusiast.  Full Piece