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REPORT ILLEGALS TO: 1-866-DHS-2-ICE.
WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF FEINSTEIN, BOXER, AND PELOSI? THEY’RE ALL THREE ON JUDICIAL WATCH’S TEN MOST CORRUPT. THEY’VE GOTTEN FILTHY RICH LYING TO US, SELLING US OUT TO THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS AND ILLEGALS FOR THEIR ILLEGAL VOTES.
YOU THOUGHT, HOPED OR JUST WISHED THAT CALIFORNIA’S MELTDOWN WAS AN ACT OF NATURE, AND NOT ORCHESTRATED AT GREAT PROFIT BY THESE WHORES AND THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS?
At this very minute, our CA LA RAZA DEMPSTERS, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, and PELOSI are still trying to convince us their healthcare package DOES NOT INCLUDE ILLEGALS. In fact that’s true! However, as usual these whores lie through their teeth to us so often on behalf of their self-enrichment, corporate paymasters and LA RAZA, that they probably believe this to be the case. IN FACT, THE DEMPSTERS HAVE ADDED TO THE OBAMA HEALTHCARE PACKAGE PROVISIONS THAT NO ILLEGAL MAY BE ASKED THEIR LEGAL STATUS. TRANSLATE FROM ENGLISH TO MEXICAN: ILLEGALS GET FREE HEALTH CARE! In fact, under the LA RAZA DEMPSTERS’ plan, all Americas would be required to feed the BIG INSURANCE MONSTERS and have insurance, but ILLEGALS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO. THEREFORE, when the illegal shows up for “free” medical, and can’t be asked if they’re an American that simply can’t speak English, has no INSURANCE CARD, will he get insurance? Just go to Los Angeles which now pays out $50 million per month in welfare to illegals.
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Meanwhile, our LA RAZA DEMPSTERS, FEINSTEIN, BOXER and PELOSI have all three used their elected offices to get filthy rich themselves.
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AND CALIFORNIA INCREASING LOOKS LIKE A THIRD-WORLD COUNTRY WHERE YOU DON’T HEAR ENGLISH SPOKEN ANYWHERE, AND SIGNS ARE POSTED ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST RETAIL CHAINS LIKE:
TARGET
ROSS STORES
RALPHS
MACY’S
WALGREENS
WE DON’T HIRE LEGALS HERE! WE PAY ONLY MISERABLE WAGES TO ILLEGALS ONLY! NO GRINGO NEED APPLY!
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SO WHERE’S ICE? THE CA DEMPSTERS HAVE RENOUNCED ICE’S CRACKDOWN ON EMPLOYERS ILLEGALLY HIRING ILLEGALS.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN HAS LONG ILLEGALLY HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL
NANCY PELOSI HAS LONG ILLEGALLY HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER ST. HELENA, NAPA WINERY. SHE IS ALSO A BIG INVESTOR IN SUNKIST WHICH HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS!
47% OF THOSE EMPLOYED IN MEXICAN GANGLAND OF LOS ANGELES ARE ILLEGALS!
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California, LA County jobless rates hit record 11.9%
By Daily News
Updated: 08/21/2009 09:44:10 AM PDT
Nearly 36,000 Californians lost their jobs in July, pushing the state's unemployment rate to 11.9 percent -- a rate matched in Los Angeles County, officials said today.
California is now tied with Oregon for the fourth-highest unemployment rate in the nation, behind Michigan, Rhode Island and Nevada.
The nation's jobless rate edged down last month, from 9.5 to 9.4 percent, the first decline since April 2008.
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20 years of CORPORATE RAPE AND PILLAGE BY BUSH, HILLARY, BILLARY, BUSH and now WALL STREET’S OBAMA.
You thought the global meltdown was an act of nature? What the banksters have done to us only follows the same paradigms of all preceding corporate rapes.
CORPORATE BRIBES, BOUGHT WORTHLESS POLITICIANS, DEREGULATE, NO WHITE COLLAR CRIME ENFORCEMENT, OUT SOURCE OUR JOBS, IN-SOURCE CHINESE AND INDIANS TO TAKE OUR JOBS, AND KEEP THE FLOODS OF “CHEAP” LABOR MEXICANS POURING OVER OUR BORDERS AND BREEDING FAST FOR GENERATIONS OF “CHEAP” LABOR MEXICAN FLAG WAVERS.
On August 20, 2009, Obama had a large group of special interests in the “transparent” White House to hammer out the LA RAZA DEMS’ next bit by bit by bit amnesty for 38 million illegals. The press was NOT invited. La Raza, the virulently racist Mexican political party for Mexican supremacy WAS!
Anyone have the latest figures on foreclosures? Banksters are making big money on this like they did in their mortgage scams.
And then has anyone heard a word from the politicians, like Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi that took big money to bailout big banksters, but not a word comes out of their big mouths about foreclosure or unemployment??? Actually these politicians do have a word on unemployment, that word is AMNESTY!
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NEW YORK TIMES
August 21, 2009
Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall
By DAVID LEONHARDT and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
The rich have been getting richer for so long that the trend has come to seem almost permanent.
They began to pull away from everyone else in the 1970s. By 2006, income was more concentrated at the top than it had been since the late 1920s. The recent news about resurgent Wall Street pay has seemed to suggest that not even the Great Recession could reverse the rise in income inequality.
Other economists say the recent explosion of incomes at the top did hurt everyone else, by concentrating economic and political power among a relatively small group.
Since 1980, tax rates on the affluent have fallen more than rates on any other group; this year, the top marginal rate is 35 percent.
GOLDMAN SACHS IS A MAJOR DONOR TO BARACK OBAMA, AND HE HAS TAKEN GOOD CARE OF THEM SINCE. MASSIVE WELFARE, BIG BONUSES, NO REAL REGULATION, AND NO ONE AT GOLDMAN GOES TO PRISON. OWNING A PIECE OF THE WHITE HOUSE IS ALWAYS A GOOD INVESTMENT!
Some companies — like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, which face less competition now and have been helped by the government’s attempts to prop up credit markets — will still hand out enormous paychecks.
In 2007, the top one ten-thousandth of households took home 6 percent of the nation’s income, up from 0.9 percent in 1977. It was the highest such level since at least 1913, the first year for which the I.R.S. has data.
The top 1 percent of earners took home 23.5 percent of income, up from 9 percent three decades earlier.
BARACK OBAMA TOOK TRUCK LOADS OF GOLDMAN SACHS BRIBES WHILE RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY. GOLDMAN’S INVESTMENT HAS PAID THE HIGHEST PROFITS THAN ANY WHITE COLLAR CRIME GOLDMAN SACHS PERPETRATED!
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Wsws.org…. GET ON THEIR FREE EMAIL NEWS
One in nine Americans uses food stamps
By Tom Eley
20 August 2009
One in nine Americans relied on food stamps in May, the highest proportion ever, according to recently released data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). In all, 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a federal program that provides assistance to low-income people, an increase of more than 2 percent from the previous month, and a staggering increase of 6 million over the past year.
May’s increase was the sixth consecutive month that set a new record in food stamp use. Government food assistance increased in every state, with Florida registering the sharpest gain at 4.2 percent.
The year-over-year percentage increase in food stamp use is more striking, with 13 states, representing every region of the country, registering a spike of more than 25 percent. These were Utah (45.5 percent), Nevada (39 percent), Idaho (36.3 percent), Washington (34.5 percent), Florida (34.2 percent), Vermont (33.6 percent), Wisconsin (31.3 percent), Arizona (29.7 percent), Colorado (28.9 percent), Georgia (28.3 percent), Maryland (27.2 percent), Massachusetts (25.3 percent), and Oregon (25 percent).
“Food stamp enrollment is rising because the economy is having a devastating impact on low-income families and they need this program to eat,” said Stacy Dean of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said. “Every single state has been affected.”
The food stamp program is largely funded by the federal government and administered by the states. Historically, recipients could redeem stamps or coupons for food assistance at grocery stores, but in recent years paper stamps have been phased out in favor of a debit card system called Electronic Benefit Transfer.
The program aims to assist the desperately poor. According to the USDA, the average gross monthly income of food stamp-receiving households was $640, with nearly 80 percent of all benefits going to households with children.
The program provides an average of $133 monthly per person requesting food assistance. By way of comparison, according to the USDA’s own estimates, a “low-cost” monthly nutritional scheme for a single teenage boy requires a minimum of $220 spending on food per month.
Federal food assistance for the poor was a Great Society measure created during the the Lyndon Johnson administration (1963-1969). Since the late 1970s, it has weathered round after round of cuts at the hands of both Democratic and Republican administrations and congresses, who claimed to be creating a “culture of responsibility” among the poor.
The most savage of these cuts came in 1996, through Bill Clinton’s “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act,” which eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants (these restrictions have since been only slightly relaxed), limited stamp use for “able bodied” adults without dependents to three months during a 36-month period, and substantially reduced maximum food benefits.
The result is a food stamp program that, even in more favorable economic conditions, fails to meet basic nutritional needs and shuts out the vast majority of the working class from any assistance whatsoever. The economic crisis has laid bare the woefully inadequate character of the program and the “social safety net” as a whole.
In Texas, demand is such that in July the state was delinquent in processing nearly 40 percent of new requests. Rachel Cavazos, who has four children, is jobless, and is in the midst of a divorce, applied for food stamps in April and has not yet heard back on her request. “It’s very hurtful, especially when somebody doesn’t give you the benefit of the doubt,” the 32-year-old Houston native recently told the Houston and Texas News. “The help is not for me. It’s for my babies. I don’t want my children to suffer.”
Recently at a Dallas, Texas, food stamp office, a line of the desperate and hungry formed before 5 a.m. “I got a four, a five and a 15-year-old. And right now I got $2.27. So we’re going to have some Ramen noodles tonight,” Kenyadda Momanyi told a local news station. A class action lawsuit has been filed against the state of Texas to force it to process applications more swiftly.
Mickey Warren, food directer of Christian Life Food Pantry in Knox County, Kentucky, recently went before the local Chamber of Commerce in a desperate bid for charitable contributions. “It’s toward the end of the month and people are starting to look for more and more food, because by now the ones that draw food stamps, they’re gone, the kids are hungry,” he said.
“Warren recalled [recently watching] a small girl rip open a whole pound cake package in the pantry parking lot, grasping it with both hands and eating it like a candy bar, because she had been hungry,” the local TimesTribune.com reported.
In Wichita, Kansas, a grandmother summed up her plight in a word. “The most simple word would be we’re hungry,” Kathi Boggs told a local news station, as she sat with her 6-year-old grandson, Alex, at a soup kitchen. “At the end of the day there’s not enough for food.”
“People are desperate,” said Gary Madden, a charity worker who assists people in gaining access to food stamps in San Bernardino County, California. “People calling now are saying things like ‘I’ve never asked for help in my life. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ve lost my job and I’m about to lose my home.’ More men are calling. Families are doubling up in homes.”
“Callers are saying, ‘bank bailouts, auto company bailouts, where’s my bailout?’,” Madden told BlackVoiceNews.com.
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MORTGAGE DEFAULTS SOAR! THAT’S GOOD NEWS FOR THE BANKSTERS THAT CAUSED THE FORECLOSURES! THERE’S GOOD MONEY IN BANKSTERS FUCKING US OVER COMING AND GOING!
latimes.com
CAN YOU FIND A SINGLE WORD FEINSTEIN, BOXER, PELOSI, LOFGREN, WAXMAN HAS EVER SAID ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE MELTDOWN? DIANNE FEINSTEIN HAS LONG TAKEN BIG BANKSTERS’ BRIBES FROM WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA (OPENSECRETS.org)
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Mortgage defaults soar to record 13%
In the second quarter, the number of homeowners behind on payments or in foreclosure rose along with the jobless rate, with California among states leading the way.
By E. Scott Reckard and Ronald D. White
August 21, 2009
Widespread joblessness is causing more Americans to fall behind on their house payments, triggering a new round of foreclosures that some analysts fear could delay the nation's economic recovery.
A mortgage trade group reported Thursday that more than 13% of the nation's mortgage holders were delinquent on their mortgages or in the process of having their homes repossessed during the second quarter of this year. That's the highest figure since tracking began in 1972. California's rate, 15.2%, was among the highest of all states.
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Wsws.org
A rising tide of social misery
By David Walsh
16 July 2009
Contrary to Obama administration and media claims about the recession “easing,” millions of working people in America are losing their jobs, earnings and health care benefits at an accelerating pace.
While executives at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and other financial giants prepare to pay themselves billions of dollars this year in salaries and bonuses, life has continued to become more and more difficult for a broad layer of the population.
The New York Times pointed out on Wednesday that in California and a number of other states, “one out of every five people who would like to be working full time is not now doing so.”
The official jobless rate of 9.5 percent excludes both those who have stopped looking for jobs because local conditions are so bleak and those obliged to accept part-time employment.
If these unemployed and underemployed were included, the real jobless rate in the country’s most populous state, California, for example, would be 20.3 percent, according to the Times. In Oregon it would be 23.5 percent, in Michigan and Rhode Island, 21.5 percent, and in South Carolina, 20.5 percent. The figure would be just below 20 percent in Tennessee, Nevada and a number of “states that have relied heavily on manufacturing and housing.”
Given that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national jobless rate is skewed, for political reasons, to minimize the actual conditions, various analysts step in and attempt to come up with a “real unemployment” number.
The Center for Labor Market Studies at Boston’s Northeastern University places the current jobless rate at 18.2 percent, higher than the official figure on the eve of World War II. John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics puts the “Alternative Unemployment” rate at 20.6 percent. Other analysts calculate an “Effective Unemployment” figure of 18.7 percent. Whatever the precise number, the army of unemployed is large and swelling. A great many lives have already been devastated.
The figures on job losses in the current slump are staggering. Since the start of the recession in December 2007 the US economy has lost a total of 6.5 million jobs. In fact, the economy presently has fewer jobs than it did in May 2000. The Economic Policy Institute points out that “the entire growth in jobs over the last nine years has been wiped out,” while the labor force has actually expanded by 12.5 million workers.
According to economist Rosenberg, “We have lost a record 9 million full-time jobs this [business] cycle, more than triple what is normal in the context of a post-WWII recession, with over 2 million pushed onto part-time work.” He notes that three-quarters of those laid off over the past year were let go on a permanent, not a temporary basis, and that a record 53 percent of those currently out of work were displaced for good.
Job openings in the US have dropped by 42 percent since the end of 2007, so that in June 2009 there were some six unemployed looking for every job. As a result, the percentage of the jobless out of work for more than six months increased by nearly 70 percent from June 2008 to June 2009 (17.1 to 29 percent).
Since employers, who can afford to pick and choose, are generally taking experience over youth, and workers over 55 are holding on to their jobs for dear life, the official unemployment rate for young people has jumped to 15.2 percent for 20-24 year olds (a 49 percent increase in 12 months!) and 24 percent for 16-19 year olds. For African-Americans 16 to 19, the jobless rate is currently 38 percent.
As serious as they are, the jobless figures are only part of the story. Public and private employers across the country are taking advantage of the recession to cut wages, hours (through “unpaid leave,” “furloughs” and other means) and benefits, impoverishing many of those still employed.
The average work week fell to 33 hours in June, the lowest since data was collected in 1964, and 48 minutes shorter than when the recession began. The combined decline in jobs and hours in June was the equivalent of a loss of some 800,000 jobs.
Business Week notes that “Cuts in pay and hours are rippling throughout the economy in businesses large and small and industries from mining to retail.” A survey commissioned by the Economist in June found 5 percent of respondents had already taken a furlough in 2009 and 13 percent had taken a pay cut.
Mortimer Zuckerman in the July 14 Wall Street Journal commented: “Full-time workers are being downgraded to part time as businesses slash labor costs to remain above water, and factories are operating at only 65% of capacity.” Average weekly earnings fell to $611.49 in June, from $613.34 in May.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that real average weekly earnings fell by 1.2 percent from May to June after seasonal adjustment. The drop resulted from a 0.3 percent decrease in average weekly hours and a 0.9 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index, driven by a sharp jump in gasoline prices.
Also on Wednesday, reports showed that industrial production declined in the US, for the eighth straight month. The industrial sector operated at 68 percent of its capacity in June, down from 68.2 percent in May, a new low in the 42 years since the data have been collected.
Meanwhile, eleven of the 17 Federal Reserve governors and regional bank presidents are predicting that unemployment will be 10 percent or higher in the final three months of 2009, and they expect the downturn, according to the Washington Post, “to be long-lasting.”
American workers are not only losing jobs and homes, they are also losing health care “at an alarming rate,” says a new report from Families USA. While the latest data from the Census Bureau indicated that 45.7 million Americans lacked health coverage in 2007, “economists believe the situation has only worsened in the intervening months as the economic downturn has taken its toll.” Experts predict an additional 6.9 million people in the US—a 15 percent increase—will lose their health coverage by the end of 2010.
Behind this health care disaster are the combined effects of rising costs, businesses slashing or eliminating coverage, and unemployment.
Noting that the rapid increase in joblessness means that the various states will probably “experience even greater losses ... than can be captured by our Key Findings,” Families USA estimates that between January 2008 and December 2010, 995,200 people in California, for example, will lose health coverage—or 6,380 per week. In Texas, which has the highest percentage of uninsured, some 866,000 residents will lose coverage by the end of next year.
In Florida, more than 3,500 people a week are losing coverage; in New York, nearly 2,500 people; in both Illinois and Georgia some 1,600 people; in New Jersey, 1,200, and in Michigan, a little more than 1,000 people each week.
In the US as a whole, the group estimates that 44,000 people are losing their health care every week.
On July 7 the American Bankers Association reported delinquencies on consumer debt rose to record levels, as customers had difficulty paying for everything from credit cards to automobiles. The percentage of borrowers at least 30 days late paying a balance is the highest since the association began keeping records in 1974.
ABA Chief Economist James Chessen stated bluntly, “The number one driver of delinquencies is job loss. When people lose their jobs, they can’t pay their bills. Delinquencies won’t improve until companies start hiring again.”
Public outrage at the present situation is growing. It is not uncommon to hear the rich, the “filthy” bankers, being denounced in work places and neighborhoods. Many workers—abandoned by the unions to their fate, lied to and cheated by the Democrats—have been stunned by the rapidity of the crisis. The Economist, a little nervously, refers to “The quiet Americans,” who are “proving stoical in the face of pay cuts and compulsory unpaid leave.” Later the magazine adds, “for the moment.”
Whatever the initial problems and hesitations of the population, the raging economic crisis will destabilize American political and social life, and radicalize vast numbers of people. It is inevitably creating the conditions for a showdown between working people, the vast majority, and the corporate aristocracy. Building an independent political movement of the working class based on a socialist and internationalist program to offer a progressive way out of the crisis is the most pressing task.
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