OBAMA’S AMERICA: Open & Undefended Borders!
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OBAMA HAS FILLED HIS
ADMINSTRATION WITH PRIMARILY LA RAZA PARTY MEMBERS.
Here’s his Sec. Labor, HILDA
SOLIS:
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:
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Michelle Malkin
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.
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Obama Administration Challenges Arizona E-Verify Law
The
Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a 2007 Arizona law that punishes employers who
hire illegal aliens, a law enacted by then-Governor Janet Napolitano. (Solicitor General's Amicus
Curiae Brief).
Called the “Legal Arizona Workers Act,” the law requires all employers in Arizona
to use E-Verify and provides that the business licenses of those who hire
illegal workers shall be repealed. From the date of enactment, the
Chamber of Commerce and other special interest groups have been trying to undo
it, attacking it through a failed ballot initiative and also through a lawsuit.
Now the Chamber is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear the case (Chamber
of Commerce v. Candelaria), and the Obama Administration is weighing in
against the law.
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/07/obamas-pledge-to-wall-st-rich-will-get.html
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WHY NOT FIX THE CAR COMPANIES LIKE WE DO THE FAST FOOD, HOSPITALITY, CONSTRUCTION AND MEXICAND DRUG CARTEL OPERATIONS IN OUR BORDERS BY SIMPLY FILLING THE JOBS WITH OBAMA'S LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS?
Obama offers nothing to states,
cities devastated by GM plant closures
By Tom Eley
3 June 2009
3 June 2009
Plant
closings resulting from Monday’s forced bankruptcy of General Motors will cause
spiraling unemployment and deep cuts in social services in many cities and
states across the country. The Obama administration, whose Auto Task Force
dictated the terms of the bankruptcy, has offered no serious aid to the
affected workers and their communities.
GM
is carrying out at least 21,000 job cuts and the closure of 14 plants and
warehouses in eight states. In addition, the company has announced its
intention to dump franchise agreements with 2,300 dealerships by the end of
next year. Many of these will be forced to close, eliminating as many as
100,000 jobs in all 50 states.
The
gutting of GM, once the most powerful corporation in the world and a symbol of
US industrial might, will send shock waves through the economy, cascading into
more layoffs at parts suppliers and financial ruin for thousands of small
businesses.
The
bankruptcy will immediately result in state and local cuts in social services,
health care and education, with city and state workers targeted for layoffs,
wages cuts and other concessions. It will accelerate the foreclosure crisis and
further drive down home prices, as tens of thousands of workers are no longer
able to meet their mortgage payments.
The
Obama administration is using the concessions and layoffs, agreed to by the
United Auto Workers, to attack the wages and benefits of the entire working
class. Corporations will take the concessions imposed on auto workers as a
signal for similar measures against their own workers.
The
state of Michigan, which already has the highest unemployment rate in the
nation at 12.9 percent, will bear the brunt of the closures, with 42 percent of
all national GM layoffs taking place there. Nearly 9,000 jobs will be lost in
Michigan from Monday’s announced plant closures. The shutdowns are concentrated
in southeast Michigan. They will be carried out in Flint, Livonia, Orion
Township, Pontiac and Ypsilanti Township. On Friday, 700 workers were laid off
when GM shuttered a stamping plant in Grand Rapids, in southwest Michigan.
It
is estimated that since 2000, Michigan has lost 17 percent of its jobs—about
three quarters of a million in all—as a direct result of the crisis in the auto
industry. Now the state anticipates 520,000 job losses this year and next.
The
consequences for the state’s limited social welfare system will be disastrous.
According to one estimate, Michigan could lose an additional $18.3 billion in
income. It already faces a $3 billion two-year budget shortfall, and officials
recently revised downward their revenue estimate for the 2010 fiscal year by
$1.7 billion, calling for an across-the-board spending cut of 8 percent.
“It’s
clearly going to impact the safety net,” Governor Jennifer Granholm warned. “People,
who are hurting, need services more, and we have fewer dollars.” Michigan has
already carried out $300 million in budget cuts for the current fiscal year.
Oakland
County in suburban Detroit will lose three factories and 6,600 jobs, the most
of any county. Oakland County was already in difficult financial straits due to
declining property tax revenue, a result of layoffs and the foreclosure crisis.
The loss of GM-related tax revenue will result in layoffs for county workers
and sharp cuts in social programs, said Bob Daddow, Oakland County’s deputy
executive. “I will be going to war,” Daddow told the Detroit News. “We
will need to make cuts in all departments. We have been doing these cuts all
along...but the worst is yet to come on governmental revenues.”
The
closure of the GM Truck and Bus plant will deepen the social crisis in
impoverished Pontiac, Michigan. About 1,100 workers will lose their jobs, and
the city will lose 20 percent of its current tax base, or $10 million, said
Fred Leeb, the city’s emergency financial manager. Leeb made clear that
Pontiac’s working class would pay the price for the shutdown. “We fear that we
are going to have to cut even more deeply,” he told the Detroit News.
“And there will be concessions to ask from the (city) unions.”
Flint,
Michigan has lost about 50,000 GM jobs in 30 years. One thousand more were
added to the grim tally when GM said Monday it would close its Powertrain Flint
North plant. Monday night, the Flint City Council met to enact a series of
measures to bridge a $13 million budget deficit, including the layoff of about
90 firefighters and police and the shuttering of a fire station.
The
city of Livonia, an inner-ring suburb of Detroit, will lose its GM engine
plant, and with it $474,000 in annual tax revenue, about 1 percent of its
total. City workers have already been asked to accept pay cuts. The
Detroit-Livonia-Warren area had an unemployment rate of 14 percent as of May.
Ypsilanti’s
Willow Run transmission plant laid off 600 workers on Monday, and 500 more jobs
will be shed by December 2010. The township will lose 4.4 percent of its tax
revenue, and Washtenaw County will see a loss of $3.8 million in tax receipts.
The Ypsilanti Public Schools confront a $1.4 million deficit, which will be met
primarily through teacher layoffs. The city faces a budget deficit of almost a
half million dollars.
In
Livingston County, Michigan, the GM bankruptcy may lead to a number of parts
suppliers shutting down. Already hundreds of auto parts workers have lost their
jobs in recent months, according to the county’s Economic Development Council
director, Fred Dillingham. Metaldyne, which employs 100 workers in the county,
last week filed for bankruptcy protection. “We have a number of companies with
as much as 90 percent of their business from GM. We have an awful lot of
trickle-down effect from GM,” Dillingham told Livingston Community News.
The
closure of GM Mansfield in Ontario, Ohio is likely to result in the elimination
of city jobs and pay cuts for municipal employees. With revenues already down a
quarter million dollars, the city is bracing for disaster.
Spring
Hill, Tennessee, which has seen its Saturn plant idled, most likely to be
closed permanently, was a single-industry town. When GM opened the plant in
1990, fewer than 1,500 people lived there. Now it has 24,000 inhabitants.
The
collapse of the Big Three has brought with it a sharp decline in funding for
the arts and culture. The General Motors Foundation, which contributed $31.4
million to the arts in 2007, has told many art and cultural organizations,
“mostly in Detroit,” not to count on any contributions this year, the Financial
Times reported last week. Toledo, Ohio, recently announced that its
three-day jazz festival, the Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Festival, would be
cancelled this year after Chrysler said it would no longer provide $100,000 in
annual funding.
In the face of this mounting
social crisis, President Barack Obama has offered little more than rhetorical
palliatives, telling workers that their “sacrifices” will ensure the future for
coming generations. But for the auto workers’ children, the future foretells
poverty amidst a crumbling social safety net.
On Tuesday, Obama sent Edward
Montgomery, his director of recovery for auto communities and workers, along
with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, to tour a Romulus, Michigan GM plant that
thus far has not been slated for closure. This was followed by Solis’
appearance at a “worker round table” at Eastern Michigan University in
Ypsilanti, the ostensible purpose of which was to discuss the retraining of
workers for new jobs in the “green economy.”
The
meeting was little more than a media stunt organized by the Democratic Party
and UAW executives to present the Obama administration as a defender of jobs
and divert working class anger along nationalist lines.
In her remarks, Solis
outlined a series of “job training” programs that will supposedly equip workers
for new high-tech and environmentally-friendly industries. But as Solis and
Obama well know, these token programs cannot possibly provide decent employment
for the vast majority of the workers who are losing their jobs as a result of
the administration’s auto industry policy.
In
what is shaping up as the worst job market since the Great Depression, even
college graduates—many with degrees in engineering, computer science, robotics
and management—face the highest rate of unemployment for those with a four-year
degree in decades.
Among
the Obama administration initiatives Solis outlined was $49 million in
assistance to Michigan workers who have lost jobs due to “international trade,”
federal assistance for the weatherization of homes, and summer youth programs.
These are already existing programs. She could not announce any new programs to
deal with the social crisis created by the bankruptcy of GM because the Obama
administration has no plans for such programs.
After
Solis spoke, the panel discussion was turned over to a number of local
Democratic Party politicians and union officials. Don Skidmore, the Willow Run
UAW local president, set the “America first” tone, declaring, “We’ve got to
stop the bleeding of American jobs south of the border!” Another speaker
demanded to know why Toledo, Ohio was able to keep its GM engine plant open.
UAW
official Donnie Enersen denounced immigrant workers. “They’re coming into
America, not paying taxes, not paying into Social Security,” he said.
The
union officials are seeking to divide workers along national and even regional
lines, in order to deflect attention from their real enemies—the Obama
administration and the Wall Street financiers who are behind the carve-up of GM.
The
World Socialist Web Site spoke with a small number of workers, most of
whom were recently retired, who came to the meeting to demonstrate against the
closure of the Willow Run plant. Corky, a GM worker with 12 years, said, “We
thought we were going to stay open until 2010. On Friday when we walked out of
work we thought we would be coming back in mid-July. I got a call from a fellow
worker that night saying we were no longer going to work there.
“It’s
unfair. We’ve made enough sacrifices. I’m tired of it. This was my seventh GM
plant. For two-and-a-half years I was driving down to Toledo, Ohio to work,
even when gas was $4 a gallon. I’ve made sacrifices. My dad is a retired GM
worker and his benefits are being cut. I put my blood and sweat into every transmission
that comes off the line.
“Yesterday
when they announced the bankruptcy and plant closing I was all tears and
emotions. Now I’m angry.”
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Wsws.org
Underlying the rise of the
financial aristocracy—which exercises control over the entire political
system—is the failure of the world capitalist system as a whole. In amassing
its wealth, this tiny layer of the population, concentrated above all in the
United States, has overseen a vast destruction of industry and social
infrastructure. The ruling classes of every country now openly proclaim that
the maintenance of their system depends upon an unprecedented destruction in
the living conditions of the broad masses of the population.
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Obama’s budget and the rot of
American capitalism
15 February 2011
On Monday, the Obama
administration released its proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2012. After
committing trillions in federal bailouts to the banks and billionaires, the
White House is demanding cuts that will devastate the working class, and
particularly its poorest and most vulnerable sections.
The
$1.1 trillion in cuts for the next decade proposed by the White House is to be
only the starting point for further cuts, as spokesmen for both big business
parties acknowledge. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, a Democrat, declared,
“We’ve got to do substantially more than $1 trillion worth of deficit reduction
in the next decade.” Republican House Speaker John Boehner said, “There’s no
limit to the amount we’re willing to cut.”
Democrats
and Republicans agree on gargantuan military spending, an uninterrupted flow of
funds to the financial aristocracy, and continued tax breaks for corporate
America and the wealthy. As a top White House official told the press at a
background briefing on the budget, “The debate in Washington is not whether to
cut or to spend. We both agree we should cut. The question is how we cut and
what we cut.”
The
Obama budget projects that the ten-year cumulative deficit will reach a
staggering $10.4 trillion. By attempting to wring such vast sums from the hides
of the population, the ruling elite is trying to set American society back to
conditions not seen for generations.
Programs
to be cut include not only those targeted by Obama and the Republicans in the
current budget debate—home heating assistance, Pell Grants, WIC, Head Start,
etc.—but the much larger entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare,
which will face cuts later in the budget process.
The
social impact will be incalculable. As hundreds of thousands of people face the
bitter cold of winter without heat and gas, Obama is proposing halving the
grossly inadequate federal assistance that is available. As students graduate
with record debt and no job prospects, the administration is proposing
significant cuts in government aid. Such gross indifference to social distress
is repeated in every sphere.
Significant
cuts to Social Security and Medicare—which amount to denying America’s elderly
their right to pensions and health care—would have an even broader impact.
Behind
the “debate” in Washington and the media over the budget is a massive lie—the
claim that the budget deficits are a product of excessive social spending.
Obama’s budget director Jacob Lew summed up this grotesque falsification an
op-ed column published in the New York Times February 6, under the
headline, “The Easy Cuts Are Behind Us.” Lew claimed that the causes of the
projected budget deficits were “decisions to make two large tax cuts without
offsetting them and to create a Medicare prescription drug benefit without
paying for it, combined with the effects of the recession…”
This
list is notable for what it leaves out: the cost of two wars, in Afghanistan
and Iraq, which runs into the trillions; and the bank bailouts, where more
trillions in public funds were placed at the disposal of the financial
aristocracy, with no questions asked. The military budget by itself accounts
for the lion’s share of the ten-year deficit: more than $7 trillion of the
projected $10 trillion.
Lew’s
more fundamental omission, however, is the grotesque class inequality that
pervades American society. The top one percent of the US population owns over
one third of the country’s wealth. The greatest wealth, however, is
concentrated in an even smaller layer. Indeed, the $1.1 trillion in proposed
cuts—which will have a terrible impact on the lives of millions of people—is
somewhat less than the combined wealth of only the 400 richest Americans.
The
arguments presented by the ruling elite for the cuts are staggeringly
hypocritical. As they drown in floods of cash, they insist that no money is
available for workers’ most basic needs.
Workers
must reject this argument out of hand. They are not responsible for the orgy of
swindling and profiteering that produced the 2008 Wall Street crash and pushed
the world economy into the deepest slump since the Great Depression. On the
contrary, an essential feature of the speculative binge was that the share of
national income received by workers has shrunk to the lowest level in nearly a
century.
Underlying the rise of the
financial aristocracy—which exercises control over the entire political
system—is the failure of the world capitalist system as a whole. In amassing
its wealth, this tiny layer of the population, concentrated above all in the
United States, has overseen a vast destruction of industry and social
infrastructure. The ruling classes of every country now openly proclaim that
the maintenance of their system depends upon an unprecedented destruction in
the living conditions of the broad masses of the population.
These
measures will provoke mass opposition. The revolutionary struggles in Egypt—in
which protests and strikes of millions of workers and youth forced the
resignation of a US-backed dictator that ruled the country for more than 30
years—point to the forms of struggle that will spread worldwide in the coming
period. Mass unemployment, record inequality, and the corruption of the
political system are common to Egypt and the United States, and are in fact
universal. At the foundation of this system is the principle that economic life
must be subordinated to private profit and the maintenance of the wealth of
those who control the giant banks and corporations.
The
working class can secure its interests only through the overturn of the
capitalist system as a whole—that is, the reorganization of economic life to
meet social need. In every aspect of its policies and of its social being, the
ruling class itself makes the case for socialist revolution.
Patrick
Martin
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Obama’s Economic Advisers: International Socialists, Union Thugs, NBC
Execs, Soros Scholars, Subprime Lenders, Amnesty Shills, and Campaign CroniesPosted on February 24, 2011 by Ben Johnson
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Obama’s Economic Advisers: International Socialists, Union
Thugs, NBC Execs, Soros Scholars, Subprime Lenders, Amnesty Shills, and
Campaign Cronies
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