Thursday, November 19, 2009

N.A.A.C.P. Prods Obama on Job Losses - HISPANDERING OBAMA SAYS "NO LEGAL NEED APPLY" Got To Keep Wages Depressed For Wall Streeters"

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OBAMA CARE ABOUT JOBS? GET REAL! THE ONLY JOBS OBAMA CARES ABOUT ARE HIS, AND HIS BANKSTERS!


SOMEONE ACTUALLY THINKS BARACK OBAMA CARES ABOUT THE AMERICA PEOPLE, JOBS, FORECLOSURES, UNEMPLOYMENT, MEXICAN GANGS AND DRUG CARTEL?

WHAT WAS MORE REVILING THAN OBAMA’S TRIP (FINALLY) TO NEW ORLEANS WHERE HE SPENT FORTY SECONDS?

THIS IS A MAN THAT IS OWNED BY BANKSTERS, KISSES THE BUSH’S FRIENDS, THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDI’S ASS, SERVES UP BIG BONUSES TO CRIMINAL BANKSTERS, PROMISES THESE BANKSTERS NO REAL REGULATION, AS BANKSTERS’ PILLAGE ROLLS ON AND ON… AND IS DETERMINED TO IMPOSE THE LA RAZA DEMS’ AMNESTY.

WHAT HAS BEEN MORE DEVASTATING TO BLACK AMERICAN THAN THE INVASION, OCCUPATION AND WELFARE STATE CREATED FOR ILLEGAL MEXICANS?

IN LOS ANGELES, MEXICAN GANGS REGULARLY MURDER BLACK AMERICANS IN COLD BLOOD. MEXICANS ARE THE MOST RACIST PEOPLE IN THE HEMISPHERE. THERE ARE 500 – 1000 PEOPLE MURDERED BY MEXICAN GANGS AND ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY YEARLY.

IN LOS ANGELES 47% OF THOSE WITH A JOB ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.

LOS ANGELES PAYS OUT $50 MILLION PER MONTH IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, AND THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE IS CALCULATED TO BE $2 BILLION PER YEAR.

OBAMA IS NOTHING BUT AN EXTENSION OF THE CORRUPTION OF 20 YEARS OF BUSH, HILLARY, BILLARY, BUSH, DURING WHICH THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS THAT WALKED OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS BECAME 40 MILLION…..

40 MILLION ILLEGALS AND POTENTIALLY FUTURE OBAMA VOTERS! HE KNOWS HE HAS LIED TO US SO MUCH NO AMERICAN WILL VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN. OBAMA WILL HAVE THE BANKSTERS’ MONEY, HE JUST NEEDS THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES. THEREFORE HIS LA RAZA MINISTER FOR “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP” JANET NAPOLITANO HAS ANNOUNCED THAT AFTER BANKSTERS CLEAN UP AND ARE GUARANTEED NO REGULATION, AND THEN IT’S AMNESTY!

THERE HAS ALREADY BEEN A NON-TRANSPARENT – NO PRESS INVITED CONVENTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR LA RAZA DEMS, LA RAZA RACIST MEXICAN PARTY, AND THE SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT BENEFIT FROM OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCO MEX!

ISN’T IT TIME TO END THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION? ISN’T IT TIME TO END WALL STREET’S STRANGLE ON OUR LIVES?


November 17, 2009
N.A.A.C.P. Prods Obama on Job Losses
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
With unemployment among blacks at more than 15 percent, the N.A.A.C.P. will join several other groups on Tuesday to call on President Obama to do more to create jobs.
The organizations — including the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group— will make clear that they believe the president’s $787 billion stimulus program has not gone far enough to fight unemployment.
They will call for increased spending for schools and roads, billions of dollars in fiscal relief to state and local governments to forestall more layoffs and a direct government jobs program, “especially in distressed communities facing severe unemployment.”
In speaking out on jobs, N.A.A.C.P. leaders say they are not trying to pick a fight with the first African-American president. Rather, they say, they are pressing Mr. Obama in an area where they believe he wants to be pressured.
“It’s time for us to really stoke this issue up,” said Hilary O. Shelton, the N.A.A.C.P.’s senior vice president for advocacy and policy. “We’re not so much trying to convince him to do something he doesn’t want to do, but urging him to move forward on an issue we have agreement on.”
African-American leaders say it makes sense to pressure the president on jobs because the unemployment rate for blacks has jumped to 15.7 percent, from 8.9 percent when the recession started 23 months ago. That compares with 13.1 percent for Hispanics and 9.5 percent for whites.
The black unemployment rate has climbed above 20 percent in several states, reaching 23.9 percent in Michigan and 20.4 percent in South Carolina.
In recent months, the N.A.A.C.P. has lobbied Mr. Obama on numerous issues, including the hate crimes bill and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which makes it easier for employees to sue over pay discrimination. But this is the first time in Mr. Obama’s presidency that the organization is throwing its full weight into the economic debate.
It is being joined by another group that fought for civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
“Make no mistake, for us this is the civil rights issue of the moment,” said Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference. “Unless we resolve the national job crisis, it will make it hard to address all of our other priorities.”
Mr. Obama has invited groups nationwide to voice their views and recommendations on jobs in preparation for his job summit next month.
“Obama keeps saying, ‘Push me to do the right thing,’ said Steven Pitts, a labor economist at the University of California, Berkeley. “I don’t see this as any break with Obama. The current political alignment of forces doesn’t support a new economic stimulus package. They’re trying to create an alignment of political forces to counteract that.”
Kevin A. Hassett, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative group, said it was laudable that the N.A.A.C.P. and other liberal groups were pressuring Mr. Obama, although he said their call for additional stimulus was wrong.
“Everybody should pressure him,” Mr. Hassett said. “And it might be the conservative groups aren’t pressuring him enough, because they think maybe he won’t listen. I would hope the people pressuring the president would push away from the divisive type of recommendations that we need more of the same, that we need more stimulus.”
Mr. Hassett called for cutting taxes to create jobs and for reducing many workers to three-fifths or four-fifths time in work-sharing programs to avoid layoffs.
The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group, coordinated the jobs statement being released Tuesday, which will also be joined by the Center for Community Change.
“Despite an effective and bold recovery package, we are still facing a prolonged period of high unemployment,” the groups say. “Two years from now, absent further action, we are likely to have unemployment at 8 percent or more, a higher rate than attained even at the worst point of the last two downturns.”
The groups call for spurring private-sector job growth through tax credits and loans to small and medium businesses. They note that 17.5 percent of the labor force — more than 27 million Americans — are underemployed, including one in four minority workers. They say they expect one-third of the work force — and 40 percent of minority workers —to be unemployed or underemployed at some point over the next year.
“Americans are confronting the worst jobs situation in more than half a century,” the groups say. “This is not a situation we must continue to tough out. A robust plan to create jobs in transparent, effective, and equitable ways can put America back to work.”
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America's economic pain brings hunger pangs
USDA report on access to food 'unsettling,' Obama says
By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The nation's economic crisis has catapulted the number of Americans who lack enough food to the highest level since the government has been keeping track, according to a new federal report, which shows that nearly 50 million people -- including almost one child in four -- struggled last year to get enough to eat.
At a time when rising poverty, widespread unemployment and other effects of the recession have been well documented, the report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides the government's first detailed portrait of the toll that the faltering economy has taken on Americans' access to food.
The magnitude of the increase in food shortages -- and, in some cases, outright hunger -- identified in the report startled even the nation's leading anti-poverty advocates, who have grown accustomed to longer lines lately at food banks and soup kitchens. The findings also intensify pressure on the White House to fulfill a pledge to stamp out childhood hunger made by President Obama, who called the report "unsettling."
The data show that dependable access to adequate food has especially deteriorated among families with children. In 2008, nearly 17 million children, or 22.5 percent, lived in households in which food at times was scarce -- 4 million children more than the year before. And the number of youngsters who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million.
Among Americans of all ages, more than 16 percent -- or 49 million people -- sometimes ran short of nutritious food, compared with about 12 percent the year before. The deterioration in access to food during 2008 among both children and adults far eclipses that of any other single year in the report's history.
Around the Washington area, the data show, the extent of food shortages varies significantly. In the past three years, an average of 12.4 percent of households in the District had at least some problems getting enough food, slightly worse than the national average. In Maryland, the average was 9.6 percent, and in Virginia it was 8.6 percent.
The local and national findings are from a snapshot of food in the United States that the Agriculture Department has issued every year since 1995, based on Census Bureau surveys. It documents Americans who lack a dependable supply of adequate food -- people living with some amount of "food insecurity" in the lexicon of experts -- and those whose food shortages are so severe that they are hungry. The new report is based on a survey conducted in December.
Several independent advocates and policy experts on hunger said that they had been bracing for the latest report to show deepening shortages, but that they were nevertheless astonished by how much the problem has worsened. "This is unthinkable. It's like we are living in a Third World country," said Vicki Escarra, president of Feeding America, the largest organization representing food banks and other emergency food sources.
"It's frankly just deeply upsetting," said James D. Weill, president of the Washington-based Food and Action Center. As the economy eroded, Weill said, "you had more and more people getting pushed closer to the cliff's edge. Then this huge storm came along and pushed them over."
Obama, who pledged during last year's presidential campaign to eliminate hunger among children by 2015, reiterated that goal on Monday. "My Administration is committed to reversing the trend of rising hunger," the president said in a statement. The solution begins with job creation, Obama said. And he ticked off steps that Congress and the administration have taken, or are planning, including increases in food stamp benefits and $85 million Congress just freed up through an appropriations bill to experiment with feeding more children during the summer, when subsidized school breakfasts and lunches are unavailable.
In a briefing for reporters, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said, "These numbers are a wake-up call . . . for us to get very serious about food security and hunger, about nutrition and food safety in this country."
Vilsack attributed the marked worsening in Americans' access to food primarily to the rise in unemployment, which now exceeds 10 percent, and in people who are underemployed. He acknowledged that "there could be additional increases" in the 2009 figures, due out a year from now, although he said it is not yet clear how much the problem might be eased by the measures the administration and Congress have taken this year to stimulate the economy.
The report's main author at USDA, Mark Nord, noted that other recent research by the agency has found that most families in which food is scarce contain at least one adult with a full-time job, suggesting that the problem lies at least partly in wages, not entirely an absence of work.
The report suggests that federal food assistance programs are only partly fulfilling their purpose, although Vilsack said that shortages would be much worse without them. Just more than half of the people surveyed who reported they had food shortages said that they had, in the previous month, participated in one of the government's largest anti-hunger and nutrition programs: food stamps, subsidized school lunches or WIC, the nutrition program for women with babies or young children.
Last year, people in 4.8 million households used private food pantries, compared with 3.9 million in 2007, while people in about 625,000 households resorted to soup kitchens, nearly 90,000 more than the year before.
Food shortages, the report shows, are particularly pronounced among women raising children alone. Last year, more than one in three single mothers reported that they struggled for food, and more than one in seven said that someone in their home had been hungry -- far eclipsing the food problem in any other kind of household. The report also found that people who are black or Hispanic were more than twice as likely as whites to report that food in their home was scarce.
In the survey used to measure food shortages, people were considered to have food insecurity if they answered "yes" to several of a series of questions. Among the questions were whether, in the past year, their food sometimes ran out before they had money to buy more, whether they could not afford to eat nutritionally balanced meals, and whether adults in the family sometimes cut the size of their meals -- or skipped them -- because they lacked money for food. The report defined the degree of their food insecurity by the number of the questions to which they answered yes.

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