Wednesday, June 8, 2011

OBAMA IGNORES WORSENING JOBS CRISIS - Is Barack Too Busy Hispandering?

But Obama is NOT ignoring LA RAZA demands for jobs for illegals!

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Obama ignores worsening jobs crisis
By Jerry White
8 June 2011
President Obama dismissed concerns over last week’s disastrous jobs report and warnings of a possible double-dip recession during a joint White House press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday.
The president suggested the figures―which showed an increase in the national jobless rate rising 9.0 to 9.1 percent in May and the average length of unemployment reaching a record high of nearly 40 weeks―were an anomaly. “Economic data which in better times would go without comment now makes people wonder are we going to go back to a terrible crisis,” he complained.
“We are going to have some days when things aren’t going as well as we like,” he said, but claimed the country nonetheless was in a “recovery,” pointing to the creation of two million jobs by the private sector and the rebound of the US auto industry.
Looking at Merkel―whose government is currently demanding brutal austerity from Greek workers in return for a EU bailout―the president acknowledged, “People on both sides of the Atlantic are understandably frustrated with the ups and downs of the world economy. But we try not to look at the day-to-day markets and headlines. Our task is not to panic. Not to overreact.”
By “overreacting” the president means taking emergency measures to deal with the jobs crisis. The administration has rejected any further stimulus packages, let alone, direct government hiring of the unemployed, and has insisted that the private sector is the only genuine “job creator.” Far from hiring large numbers of workers, however, US corporations―which have a cash hoard of $2 trillion―are chiefly sitting on the sidelines until wages fall to a sufficiently low level.
During his comments Obama blamed the 2008 crash not on the rampant criminality of the Wall Street and the collusion of capitalist governments and credit rating agencies, but on a “whole set of challenges that had been left unaddressed over the previous decade.” He made it clear he was determined to resolve these challenges, by making American corporations “more competitive with the emerging economies” and “getting a handle on our debt and deficit.”
Both pledges are veiled references to the class war policies being pursued by the Obama administration on behalf of the financial and corporate elite. High unemployment is being deliberately maintained in order to drive down wages and close the gap between American workers and their brutally exploited counterparts in China, India and other low-wage countries.
In addition, the White House is engaged in ongoing talks with Republican leaders to gut long-standing entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid in order to pay for the Wall Street bailout and the extension of massive tax cuts to the rich.
The administration’s indifference to the plight of tens of millions of unemployed and underemployed workers is provoking widespread anger against the president. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday 59 percent of respondents gave Obama a negative rating for his handling of the economy. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say the economy is in bad shape; 57 percent say the recovery has not started and 66 percent say the US was seriously on the wrong track. Overall, the president only had a 47 percent approval rating.
Increasingly there are concerns voiced by fellow Democrats that the economic crisis is undermining the president’s electoral prospects. A new report from Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, cited in the Washington Post, warned that no incumbent president since Franklin Roosevelt had won reelection with greater than eight percent unemployment.
“Blaming former president George W. Bush for the mess is no longer effective. Even talking about successes doesn’t have much impact, Greenberg wrote, adding, “the ‘economy’ is not the recovery, but a set of powerful on-going realities: a middle class smashed and struggling, American jobs being lost, the country and people in debt, and the nexus of big money and power that leaves common people excluded.”
Beyond electoral considerations, however, some more astute sections of the political establishment are expressing worry that continuing mass unemployment, particularly among youth and young workers, will provoke social and political upheavals.
A column by liberal investigative reporter Dave Lindorff notes that in his speeches to the State Department and the G8 meeting in France, Obama drew “a direct connection between the unrest and demonstrations that brought down the dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and the joblessness and hopelessness felt by the young people in those two countries.”
“What about the US?” Lindorff asks, noting that the actual unemployment figures for young people in the US is at “staggering Egypt-like levels: 30% for all young people, 45% for young Latinos, and as high as 66% for black youth!”
Instead of providing economic support to boost employment, the president had “basically thrown in the towel on job creation efforts, and is just talking about cutting the deficit,” Lindorff writes.
While there were no mass upheavals in the US yet, the reporter notes, “once aroused, motivated and organized, young people in the US” would “face down police armed with tear gas and batons, just like their compatriots in Tunisia and Egypt…”
Lindorff notes that all of the traditional groups, which would have organized youth in the past, “the labor movement, civil rights organizations, and political groups on the left―have been somehow neutered. Their focus, such as it is, is now on elections, on recall campaigns, and on the coming 2012 presidential contest. It is not on organizing young people.”
Despite Obama’s protestations that his policies have improved the economy, the signs of a renewed slowdown have thrown the White House into crisis. On Monday, Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) announced his resignation, saying he would return to teach at the graduate school of business at the University of Chicago.
Just last week Goolsbee said last month’s job figures were a “bump in the road” of economic recovery. The departure of Goolsbee―a longtime associate of Obama―is designed to give the appearance that the administration is seeking advice from outside its inner circle. Whoever it chooses as Goolsbee’s replacement, however, is sure to be no less committed to the policies of austerity and deregulation.
Goolsbee took over after the resignation of Christina Romer who was forced out because she was critical of the administration’s policies and advocated further economic stimulus measures. Another economist associated with that position, Vice President Biden’s economic adviser Jared Bernstein, resigned last month.
In a sign of the administration's further turn to the right on economic policy, Obama selected the former CEO of utility giant Edison International as his nominee to lead the Commerce Department. John Bryson served as the head of the California-based electric power distributor and generator from 1990 to 2008, is currently a senior adviser to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and a member of the board of directors at Boeing and the Walt Disney Company.
Announcing the nomination Obama said, Bryson “understands what it takes for America to succeed in a 21st century global economy. John will be an important part of my economic team, working with the business community, fostering growth, and helping open up new markets abroad to promote jobs and opportunities here at home.”
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-accurately-detect-disingenuous.html

How To Accurately Detect Disingenuous Politicians

"Just look for the ones talking about jobs, taxes, health care, education, and government budgets, without addressing the negative impact of illegal immigration." -- William Gheen, President of ALIPAC. May 27, 2011
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WHEN OBAMA TALKS ABOUT JOBS, HE MEANS JOBS FOR ILLEGALS! THAT’S HOW HE’S BUYING THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!!!

The Obama administration and the ruling class as a whole are seeking to spin the recent jobs figures to create the image of a strongly rebounding economy and an end to the jobs crisis. Under the cover of this phony recovery, both political parties will mount an escalating attack on the already inadequate benefits provided to jobless workers.
LA RAZA SOLIS
Despite such grim facts, the Obama administration seized on Friday’s report, including a decline in the official jobless rate from 8.9 percent to 8.8 percent, to proclaim a turnaround in the jobs market. Speaking at a UPS shipping facility in Washington DC, Obama said, "Our economy is showing signs of real strength."
Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis declared, “The bottom line: the policies and programs of this administration are working.”
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The danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues, is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent group of working poor.
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 “The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.”      Christian Science Monitor
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“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
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“Obama’s rejection of any serious jobs program is part of a conscious class war policy. Two years after the financial crisis and the multi-trillion dollar bailout of the banks, the administration is spearheading a campaign by corporations to sharply increase the exploitation of the working class, using the “new normal” of mass unemployment to force workers to accept lower wages, longer hours, and more brutal working conditions.” WSWS.ORG

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Sluggish US job growth points to continued mass unemployment
By Andre Damon and Barry Grey
2 April 2011
The Labor Department reported Friday that the US economy added 216,000 jobs in March, putting a small dent in the 7.2 million jobs that have been lost since the start of the recession in December of 2007.
Economists estimate that to return to the pre-recession jobless rate in three years, about twice as many jobs would have to be added every month. Other data in the Labor Department’s monthly employment report underscore the deepening social crisis resulting from long-term unemployment on a mass scale.
* The labor force participation rate held steady at 64.2 percent, the lowest level since 1984. The labor force (the number of people aged 16 or over working or actively looking for work) is smaller than it was a year ago (by more than a half-million workers), though the working-age population grew by 1.9 million.
* The share of the population with a job was 58.5 percent in March. Prior to the current slump, the last time it was lower was in 1983.
* The section of unemployed workers who have been without a job for more than six months increased in March, from 43.9 percent to 45.5 percent, approaching the all-time high of 45.6 percent last May. There remain 6.1 million workers who have been unemployed for longer than six months.
* The average duration of unemployment grew to 39 weeks in March, up from 37.1 weeks in February of this year and 31.7 in March of last year. The current average duration of unemployment is three times the historical average for the entire postwar period before 2007, and nearly twice the highest level of 21.2 weeks the figure had previously reached in records going back over sixty years.
* The underemployment rate, which includes those who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want a full-time job, was 15.7 percent. In March, a total of 24.5 million workers were either unemployed or underemployed, nearly double the level of 12.9 million in 2007.
Despite such grim facts, the Obama administration seized on Friday’s report, including a decline in the official jobless rate from 8.9 percent to 8.8 percent, to proclaim a turnaround in the jobs market. Speaking at a UPS shipping facility in Washington DC, Obama said, "Our economy is showing signs of real strength."
Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis declared, “The bottom line: the policies and programs of this administration are working.”
From the standpoint of big business, which is reporting record profits based largely on downsizing and wage cutting, Solis is correct. From the standpoint of the working class, she and the rest of the administration, as well as most of the media, are lying.
The Obama administration and the ruling class as a whole are seeking to spin the recent jobs figures to create the image of a strongly rebounding economy and an end to the jobs crisis. Under the cover of this phony recovery, both political parties will mount an escalating attack on the already inadequate benefits provided to jobless workers.
This new phase in the ruling class offensive against the working class has already begun, with Michigan slashing the duration of jobless benefits from 26 to 20 weeks, and Florida primed to enact its own cuts in unemployment benefits. In Missouri, state legislators this week blocked federal unemployment benefits for residents, meaning that 10,000 people will be cut off of assistance starting next week.
At the same time, the assault on public-sector jobs will continue. During Obama's tenure, 416,000 such jobs have been destroyed, with about 300,000 of those coming in the past year.
While the US economy has created jobs for six consecutive months, the rate of job creation is far lower than in the aftermath of previous recessions. (According to the government, the US recession officially ended in June of 2009). All of the jobs wiped out in the 1981 recession were replaced within 28 months of its end. Following the 1990 recession, it took 31 months. Forty weeks after the start of the 1981 recession, the US economy had created 4 million more jobs than existed at the start of the downturn.
In its analysis of the March jobs report, the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank, put the raw payroll numbers in perspective. It wrote:
“If the labor force participation rate had held steady over the last year, there would be roughly 1.7 million more workers in the labor force right now. Instead, those would-be workers are on the sidelines. If these workers were in the labor force and were unemployed, the unemployment rate would be 9.8 percent instead of 8.8 percent. In other words, the improvement in the unemployment rate over the last year (from 9.7 percent to 8.8 percent) is due to would-be workers deciding to sit out.”
Most of the new jobs that are being created are in low-wage service industry sectors. The share of the work force earning poverty level or near-poverty wages is increasing. A study published Friday by Wider Opportunities for Women reported: "Fewer than 13 percent of jobs... to be created by 2018 are likely to provide economic security to a single parent raising two or more children. A small majority of new jobs are expected to pay economic security wages for single workers without children, and approximately 43 percent of the new jobs will pay economic security wages for two workers raising two young children."
One of the most telling indicators of the real state of the economy is the ongoing decline in house sales and prices, which is closely linked to mass unemployment. Following disastrous reports last week showing record falls in the sale of existing and new homes, the S&P/Case Shiller home price index for January was released earlier this week. It showed that home prices fell a further 3.1 percent from January of 2010.
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Michelle Malkin

LA RAZA HILDA SOLIS  - The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor

President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open–borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."
That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws –– or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
While in Congress, she opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien benefits (including driver's licenses and in–state tuition discounts), embraced sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security officials to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass amnesty. Solis was steeped in the pro–illegal alien worker organizing movement in Southern California and was buoyed by amnesty–supporting Big Labor groups led by the Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol Hill firestorm over her new taxpayer–funded advertising and outreach campaign to illegal aliens regarding fair wages:
"I'm here to tell you that your president, your secretary of labor and this department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay –– especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often dangerous hours," Solis says in the video pitch. "We can help, and we will help. If you work in this country, you are protected by our laws. And you can count on the U.S. Department of Labor to see to it that those protections work for you."
To be sure, no one should be scammed out of "fair wages." Employers that hire and exploit illegal immigrant workers deserve full sanctions and punishment. But it's the timing, tone–deafness and underlying blanket amnesty agenda of Solis' illegal alien outreach that has so many American workers and their representatives on Capitol Hill rightly upset.

With double–digit unemployment and a growing nationwide revolt over Washington's border security failures, why has Solis chosen now to hire 250 new government field investigators to bolster her illegal alien workers' rights campaign? (Hint: Leftists unhappy with Obama's lack of progress on "comprehensive immigration reform" need appeasing. This is a quick bone to distract them.)
Unfortunately, the federal government is not alone in lavishing attention and resources on workers who shouldn't be here in the first place. As of 2008, California, Florida, Nevada, New York, Texas and Utah all expressly included illegal aliens in their state workers' compensation plans –– and more than a dozen other states implicitly cover them.
Solis' public service announcement comes on the heels of little–noticed but far more troubling comments encouraging illegal alien workers in the Gulf Coast. Earlier this month, in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, according to Spanish language publication El Diario La Prensa, Solis signaled that her department was going out of its way to shield illegal immigrant laborers involved in cleanup efforts. "My purpose is to assist the workers with respect to safety and protection," she said. "We're protecting all workers regardless of migration status because that's the federal law." She told reporters that her department was in talks with local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials who had visited coastal worksites to try to verify that workers were legal.
No word yet on whether she gave ICE her "we are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not" lecture. But it's a safe bet.
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Go to http://www.MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com and read articles and comments from other Americans on what they’ve witnessed in their communities around the country. While most of the population of California is now ILLEGAL, the problems, costs, assault to our culture by Mexico is EVERYWHERE. copy and pass it to your friends.

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THESE FIGURES ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE DATED. IT NOT EXCEEDS $600 MILLION PER YEAR!!! (source: Los Angeles County & JUDICIAL WATCH)
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