AMERICAN REALLY ON HAS TWO ENEMIES. THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA, WHICH NOW OCCUPIES LOS ANGELES AT OUR EXPENSE, AND WALL ST.
THERE IS A REASON WHY MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO THE MEXICAN SUPREMACIST MOVEMENT.
THERE IS A REASON WHY THE CORPORATE SUPREMACIST U.S. CHAMBER of COMMERCE WANTS AMNESTY, NO BORDERS, AND NO E-VERIFY! IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED WITH HORDES OF ILLEGALS!
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, THE MEX GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICAN, PAYS OUT $600 MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!
MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA IS A RACIST MEXICAN (M.E.Ch.A.) LA RAZA SUPREMACIST THAT THINKS HE HAS ENOUGH OF THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR!
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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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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/09/us-center-of-poverty-wage-manufacturing.html
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Occupy LA protests enter second week
By the WSWS reporting team
10 October 2011
The Occupy LA encampment at Los Angeles City Hall’s north lawn completed its first week Friday. Several hundred people were present as protesters lined the block with signs denouncing the “one percent” super-wealthy and calling for justice for the 99 percent.
Although not large by the standards of some of the other protests, the encampment encompassed a wide variety of people impacted by the economic crisis: students caught in the squeeze of tuition increases, heavily indebted graduates unable to find work in their fields, the underemployed and the unemployed, and other workers.
Local Democrats and union officials have begun to mouth support for the Occupy LA protests. The purpose of their presence is to make the protests innocuous to the financial oligarchy which the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party serves.
Last Thursday, the Alliance of Californians of Community Empowerment (ACCE) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) joined Occupy LA protesters in a march whose main slogan was “Make the Banks Pay!” Police arrested eleven protesters.
Both the ACCE and the SEIU supported Obama’s election and continue their unabated support for his policies, including his “American Jobs Act.”
A World Socialist Web Site reporting team talked to some of the protesters.
Nick, who has worked as a psychiatric nurse, came to LA from Riverside. He said, “I’m here to let people know we’re getting ripped off by the big banks and corporations, by politicians who aren’t on our side, who are rubbing elbows with the same people raking in the dough.
“What would make me happy is if this movement would bring forward the real issues that are affecting this country, that our media and everything you read in the papers don’t tell you. If they do mention it, it’s just a blip on the screen and it’s gone and you never hear about it again.”
The WSWS asked Nick what he thought the Occupy Wall Street actions had accomplished and what he believed the next step should be. “I think that it’s a victory if the people get the message loud enough that our political leaders have to answer to questions that we’re asking. I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know where this will lead because every day kind of turns and transforms and that’s what we are, trying to culminate an idea, a singular approach to get the world on our side.”
Antonio is a student at UC Davis who comes from a working class immigrant family. “I agree with most of it, what’s going on here, I mean against the whole elitist point of view,” he said. “I’m clearly against that, coming from a working family like most of us, and we have come here in a sense of solidarity.
“My parents are really hard workers. They came to this country with nothing really, as immigrants, and now they have two houses. My father only takes breaks on Sundays, that’s every other Sunday. He’s a truck driver. I guess I’m really mostly here for them. It’s a struggle in this society.
“The students right now can attest to it that they’re paying increased tuition every year. It’s gone by quarter now for ridiculous amounts. They started with 32 percent, now it’s heading up to 80 percent. It keeps growing exponentially.
“As of now, the Cal Grants system covers a lot of people, all working class individuals, but I see it in the future that Cal Grants is not going to be enough, and it’s going to come to the point where people won’t be going to college anymore, future workers’ sons and daughters. It’s intentional. It’s class warfare.”
The WSWS asked Antonio about the declarations of the “nonpolitical” nature of the Occupy Wall Street movement. “I think everything’s political,” he said. “Just not being political is political in itself… I don’t really agree with the whole consensus thing. I mean, all of the people are not being represented but rather tokenized in some respects.
“I like your web site; I heard about it at UC Davis. It is one of the web sites I consult.”
Antonio related an experience regarding the state of the unions. “The union heads are getting very comfortable with their positions,” he said. “I was at a [United Farm Workers] rally in Sacramento. Dolores Huerta went up on stage. She’s a fossil of the movement now. Her policy has become outdated. Even Cesar Chavez, I disagreed with him because he used to call on Immigration to go after undocumented workers.
“She was saying, ‘The Democrats will bring us justice,’ and they actually booed her off the stage!”
Samantha recently graduated with a degree in art. She has been getting by on freelance work. “I think everyone’s been affected, even people who ignore what’s going on have been affected some way and being aware of that is an important part of being a citizen of this country.
“I think that in a country where 99 percent of it is controlled by 1 percent, it’s obviously some kind of pyramid scheme and any country where that happens there’s something wrong.”
The WSWS asked Samantha about what impact the protests would have. “I think that demonstrations make people aware that a change definitely needs to be in order. I think if people just get out and try to change the system from the inside, just participating in politics, representing their city, it’s a start in the right direction.”
Regarding the two-party system, she added, “It’s not a two-party system! With all the lobbyists and stuff like that, it’s one party--different names, but it’s all one. I really would like to see the breakup of the system, but the change that needs to come about, offhand, I just don’t know. I just know to go in a certain direction and see what we can get from there. I think we need to change this from a plutocracy back to a democracy.
“I don’t believe anything you do is nonpolitical. Everybody here is trying to get a change and the only change we’ll be able to do is politically. I think that people don’t want to associate that with politics because politics is a very, very bad reference.”
Justin came to the protest for the first time on Saturday, mostly to observe. However, he has several years of experience in political activism. “This is my first day here. I live in Long Beach. I’m a student, I’m going back to school. I’ve been unemployed for about seven years, just kind of earning money teaching languages and tutoring people, trying to make ends meet. I moved back in with my family for the first time in ten years.
“We need real leaders, we need real ideology, we need real policy in order to get ourselves to a solution to focus around. I hope we get a real mass consensus, that 60 percent of the population that doesn’t participate in the electoral process, really activate the lower 80 percent, get them involved and get them in on this discussion. I think truth will prevail, I think people will understand as we implement more and more solutions and address more of the crisis.”
The WSWS asked about Justin’s view of Obama and the Democrats. “I think it’s just the other head of the same beast,” he said. “I’ve been involved with the Democratic Party very actively for the past 6-7 years, on the left of the Democratic Party, mostly to investigate what kind of potential is there to move, and I’ve determined that it’s pretty pathetic and I don’t waste my time anymore with them.”
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JOE LEGAL AMERICAN vs LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL: Joe Legal Still Gets the Tax Bills To Pay For the LA RAZA Welfare State!
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-american-legal-vs-la-raza-jose.html
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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
“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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THE ONLY OBJECTIVE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TO PUT AN ILLGAL IN EVERY JOB, AND EVERY VOTING BOOTH.
HAVEN'T THEY DONE THAT?
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WATCH THE LA RAZA DEMS FIGHT HARD AGAINST E-VERIFY ON BEHALF OF THEIR LA RAZA PARTY BASE! VIVA LA RAZA LOOTING? THE DEMS DO IT EVERY DAY!
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/09/e-verify-la-raza-democrats-war-on.html
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Impeach Obama Petition and Protests Website
http://www.AgainstAmnesty.com
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FROM JUDICIAL WATCH
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/jun/nclr-funding-skyrockets-after-obama-hires-its-vp
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US becomes a center of poverty-wage manufacturing
29 September 2011
Earlier this month, the World Socialist Web Site reported that production workers are now being hired at $12 an hour at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee plant, and that BMW has opened a new assembly line in Spartanburg, South Carolina that employs mostly contract workers earning $15 per hour.
These wages, among the lowest for autoworkers anywhere in the developed world, are the result of the unrelenting assault on living standards of American workers over the last three decades. This has reached new heights since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008.
With the full backing of the Obama administration, US and foreign-based corporations are exploiting levels of mass unemployment and poverty not seen since the Great Depression in order to transform the US into a cheap labor platform in direct competition with Mexico, China and other low-wage countries.
Tennessee, like nearly half of all US states, has an unemployment rate hovering around 10 percent, and its real jobless rate is probably double. When Volkswagen began taking applications for 1,700 jobs in Chattanooga, it received over 65,000 responses in the first three weeks. On the basis of cutting labor costs by at least a third at its US factory, Volkswagen is able to sell cars for $7,000 less than comparable models made in Germany.
Aided by the plummeting dollar, the wage gap between American workers and their brutally exploited counter-parts in Mexico and Asia is increasingly being narrowed. Asked by a New York Times columnist why Siemens chose to build a new plant in Charlotte, North Carolina instead of China, a spokesman said that for highly skilled work, the labor cost differential wasn’t very big. “For this kind of manufacturing,” he said, “the US can compete with China.”
The lowering of wages is a key part of Obama administration’s goal of doubling US exports by 2015. While doing nothing to alleviate the jobs crisis, the administration spearheaded the drive to cut wages during the forced bankruptcies and restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009.
Using the threat of liquidation, the White House demanded the expansion of near poverty wages throughout the industry, stripped workers of the right to strike and demanded labor costs be kept in line with the Asian and European manufacturers operating non-union factories in the South. This has resulted in booming profits for the US-based automakers, which have, in turn, refused to provide any wage increases to workers while shoveling out tens of millions in executive bonuses.
Far from defending the interests of workers, the United Auto Workers has facilitated the systematic lowering of wages. The recent agreement signed by the UAW will increase hourly labor costs for GM by only 1 percent annually, the smallest amount in the past four decades. This includes plans to sharply expand the number of low-paid tier-two workers whose current $15 an hour wage brings them on par with workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant.
For decades, the UAW and other unions screamed about workers in low-wage countries “taking American jobs.” Now UAW President Bob King is boasting that GM has shifted production from Mexican plants back to UAW-represented factories in Michigan and other states.
The low-wage benchmark set by the UAW has unleashed a competitive struggle to lower wages throughout the global auto industry. European workers are now being told they must accept American-style wage concessions and “labor flexibility” or their plants will be closed. As the WSWS noted earlier this month, the same year BMW announced it would move production of its X3 sports-utility vehicle to Spartanburg, South Carolina, it announced 5,000 layoffs in Germany.
The severe decline in living standards for the auto workers is particularly striking because they have historically been the highest paid industrial workers in the US, making so-called “middle class wages.” But the experience of plummeting pay and casual labor conditions is common to every section of the working class in what has become the “new normal” in America.
Since the start of the economic downturn, wages have been in free fall, and there is no prospect for any recovery of the jobs market. According to a census report released earlier this month, real median household income fell 2.3 percent ($1,154) last year and 7.1 percent below the rate reached a decade ago. Young workers have been particularly hard hit, with more than a third of all households headed by a parent under thirty living in poverty in 2010.
The explosion of poverty over the last three years—along with home foreclosures, homelessness, hunger and the growing number of uninsured—takes place alongside the accumulation of fantastic levels of wealth by the financial aristocracy that controls the economy and political system.
These intolerable conditions can only be stopped through the collective resistance of the working class. New organizations of struggle, independent of the UAW and other anti-labor organizations, must be built to spearhead an industrial and political struggle by every section of the working class—union and non-union, manufacturing and service, at US and foreign-owned companies. In every factory, office, and store, workers should set up committees to plan and organize collective resistance to wage cuts and layoffs.
Such a fight requires an entirely new political perspective. The national chauvinism and race to the bottom promoted by the trade unions and the big business parties must be rejected so that US workers can consciously unite their struggles with workers in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
It is necessary to understand that this is a battle not simply against this or that employer but the entire capitalist system, which is impoverishing the majority of the world’s population in order to enrich the wealthy few. In every country, the political parties and trade unions defend the profit system and are complicit in the looting of society by the corporate and financial aristocracy.
In the US, the Obama administration has demonstrated that the Democratic Party, no less than the Republican, is a tool of Wall Street and the corporations, determined to gut living standards and slash vitally necessary social programs.
The working class must build a mass political party to fight to take power in its own hands. The economic dictatorship of the banks and big corporations must be broken and economic life reorganized to meet the interests of the masses of working people who create society’s wealth.
The Socialist Equality Party calls for the transformation of the major financial and industrial concerns, including the auto industry, into publicly owned utilities. Capitalism must be replaced with a planned and rational system based on social need, not the profits of billionaires. Only then can the right to a job and a decent wage be secured for all people.
Andre Damon
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