Tuesday, September 22, 2009

CITY of LOS ANGELES cuts wages BUT NOT WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!

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The many rapes of the American middle class
“In this, the two parties of big business are counting on the active support of the unions, which can no longer be considered organizations of the working class in any meaningful sense. The treacherous role of the Los Angeles city unions during these latest negotiations confirms this fact.”
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Gov. Schwarzenegger said California is facing “financial Armageddon”. He is making drastic cuts in the budget for education, health care and services. But there is one place he isn’t making cuts… services for illegal immigrants. These services are estimated to cost the state four to five billion dollars a year. Schwarzenegger said he is “happy” to offer these services. We will have a full report tonight.
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There are only eight states that have a larger population than LOS ANGELES. LOS ANGELES IS NOTHING BUT A MEXICAN DUMPSTER. IT IS WHAT ALL OF AMERICAN WILL LOOK LIKE AS AMNESTY IS GRANTED TO 38 MILLION MEX FLAG WAVERS BREEDING LIKE BUNNIES.
You won’t read about Los Angeles County cutting the $50 million in welfare paid to ILLEGALS PER MONTH.
You can do a search on Los Angeles Times to find daily news on Mexican gangs which have spread across the country from Los Angeles. The Christian Science Monitor characterizes Los Angeles as the “Mexican gang capital of America”.
One in five births here are by ILLEGALS paid for by the American people. One in ten in the rest of the country.
In Los Angeles 93% of all arrest for murder are of ILLEGALS from Mexico. There are 500 to 1,000 of these murders every year which is more than the entire EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED KINGDOM.
Los Angeles is a sanctuary city, like West Hollywood, and San Francsico. This means that laws are not obeyed pursuant to the illegal hiring of illegals. 47% of those employed in Los Angeles are ILLEGALS.
WHO PAYS FOR THIS?
You won’t hear the virulently racist LA RAZA party mayor, ANTONIO “TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA asking Mexico to pay for the Mexican welfare state he’s created in Los Angeles.
The Mexican occupation is paid for by the assault on the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
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Los Angeles unions back Democrats’ assault on city workers
By Dan Conway
22 September 2009
The city of Los Angeles, California faces a $405 million deficit during the current fiscal year. The administration of Democratic Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, with the full collaboration of unions representing city workers, has begun to impose severe cuts in workers’ wages and benefits in order to make the working class pay for the crisis.
Last Friday, the City Council met with members of the Coalition of LA City Unions, which includes the local chapters of the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Teamsters. After the meeting the mayor said the coalition had accepted “real” givebacks and boasted, “The people will feel these concessions in the pocketbook.”
The concessions include what is being called an Early Retirement Incentive Package, or ERIP. The scheme had originally offered workers a $15,000-$30,000 incentive to retire five years early. The payoff has now been delayed for a year or more and workers must contribute an additional 0.37 percent of their paychecks to cover the cost of their own buyout. Workers who accept the ERIP must also pay an additional 1 percent of their monthly pension to cover the cost.
Another key component of the concessions agreement is the elimination of all cost-of-living increases for city workers.
The budget package also includes $78 million in so-called “hard concessions.” While the details of these concessions have yet to be publicly released, the Los Angeles Times says the list includes strict rules on overtime pay along with the imposition of a 50 percent pay cut on the 10 holidays per year city workers are allowed to take.
Like their counterparts at the state level, the city administration is implementing wage and benefit cuts through unpaid furloughs and reduced holidays—presenting this as a less onerous method of slashing labor costs. In fact, it is a substantial reduction in the living standards of workers. The implementation of three unpaid furlough days per month by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, has resulted in a net reduction in pay of approximately 14 percent for state workers.
The 6,400 city workers who belong to the Engineers and Architects Association (EAA), which is not part of the Coalition of LA City Unions, will be required to take 26 unpaid furlough days per year. These furloughs will be devastating, not only for the workers themselves, but for the public that will be hit by reductions in services already depleted by decades of budget cuts.
The nation’s second largest city will now have fewer resources and workers at its disposal to repair its dangerously outdated infrastructure. The city experienced 34 water main blowouts during the month of September alone, not to mention the massive damage caused by frequent wildfires on the city’s outskirts.
One such water main break, which occurred in the Los Angeles suburb of Valley Village, caused a large sinkhole, which swallowed up half of a fire truck that had responded to the scene. Another blowout in the suburb of Studio City—caused by the bursting of a water main that had been installed prior to the First World War—resulted in flooded homes and businesses.
The unions have unhesitatingly agreed to all of the concessions, despite the fact that Villaraigosa had earlier promised them that the cuts would be limited to the ERIP. Councilman and former LA Police Chief Bernard Parks, now a multimillionaire, claimed in early September that the ERIP was dead and that drastic measures had to be taken to avoid bankruptcy. Mayor Villaraigosa followed suit, prompting the unions to complain that they hadn’t been consulted earlier to help carry out the “hard decisions” to overcome the budget crisis.
In a statement posted on its web site, officials from the Engineers and Architects Association responded to Parks’ comments: “Unfortunately, what he [Parks] says is probably true and it mirrors the position that EAA has taken all along: that the ERIP costs too much to help the City, the City has a spending problem, and the longer the City Council puts off making the hard decisions, the more drastic the decisions must be.”
After originally saying he would achieve cost savings by the early retirement package alone, Villaraigosa declared that he would veto any agreement that did not include far more sweeping concessions than the buyout program alone. In a recent press conference he claimed there was overwhelming public support for cutting workers’ wages. In reality, there is widespread opposition to such measures, except within the corporate and political establishment.
The mayor began his political career as field organizer for the United Teachers of Los Angeles and as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees. His attack on city workers is the logical outcome of the transformation of the unions into instruments of the corporations and government, as well as the anti-working-class character of the Democratic Party.
The mayor also served on Barack Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Board. His attack on city workers is in line with the efforts by the Obama administration to exploit the economic crisis to destroy long-standing achievements of the working class. While handing trillions to Wall Street, the White House has rejected any serious aid to bankrupt states like California, which is experiencing the worst unemployment rate since 1940.
In this, the two parties of big business are counting on the active support of the unions, which can no longer be considered organizations of the working class in any meaningful sense. The treacherous role of the Los Angeles city unions during these latest negotiations confirms this fact.
The Socialist Equality Party urges workers to vote down the concessions agreement at the ratification meetings being held in less than three weeks. City workers should form rank-and-file committees, in collaboration with all public and private sector workers, in order to break the stranglehold of these organizations and conduct a struggle against the Democratic Party and the corporate interests it represents.
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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
WHY THE NEW JOBS GO TO IMMIGRANTS

By David R. Francis

Wall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in February.
But it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001.

Why the apparent contradiction? Reasons abound: population growth, rising retirements. But one factor that gets little attention is immigration. In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs. "There has been no net job gain for natives," says Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University.
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MEXICO PREFERS TO EXPORT ITS POOR, NOT UPLIFT THEM


http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html

Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them At this week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not US actions.

By George W. Grayson

WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad. Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace. Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.
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