Friday, January 4, 2013

UNEMPLOYMENT BENFITS - AMERICANS (LEGALS) GET CUT IN CALIFORNIA AS THE LA RAZA DEMS HAND IT TO ILLEGALS!


DEMS ARE THE PARTY for ILLEGALS. THEY VOTE TO LAW ANYTHING LA RAZA DEMANDS. IT IS A SANCTUARY STATE WHICH FLIES THE MEXICAN FLAG, SPEAKS SPANISH FIRST AND NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!

 

WHILE LEGALS MAY LOSE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE of MEXIFORNIA IS PUSHING TO HAND ILLEGALS UNEMPLOYMENT INSTEAD OF DEPORTING THEM.

COME TO CA. LOOK AROUND YOU. COUNT HOW MANY NON-HISPANICS ARE IN AMERICAN JOBS!

More than 400,000 Californians could lose unemployment benefits

By Kevin Martinez and Norisa Diaz
28 December 2012

In the discussion on the so-called “fiscal cliff,” very little attention has been devoted by the political establishment and media to the imminent expiration of extended federal unemployment benefits. If these benefits are allowed to expire, some 2 million people throughout the US, including 400,000 in California, will be immediately cut off from this limited form of cash assistance.

Amidst the worst jobs crisis in the US since the Great Depression, the Democrats and Republicans have cited the official fall in unemployment rates as a justification for cutting the duration of benefits in many states. In fact, the drop in unemployment is due largely to the departure of millions of people from the labor force because they have given up hope of finding a job. The overall employment-population ratio remains close to the lows reached in 2009, and long-term unemployment remains near record highs.

California has already sent out letters to recipients informing them that their benefits are set to run out. The letters provided no formal recourse, except information on how to apply for food stamps and other services. The expiration of federal benefits will mean that many workers will lose their homes and be forced to live with relatives, if they can. For many of the unemployed, the benefits, up to $450 a week, are the only way they can pay for vital necessities like gas, food, and medicine.

According to California’s Employment Development Department (EDD), as of October, 35 percent of California’s 2 million unemployed were out of work for 52 weeks or more. In the same month, California’s jobless rate declined to 10.1 percent, compared to 11.5 percent a year earlier. Real unemployment, including those who have stopped looking for work, is much higher. California has the third highest rate of unemployment in the US, after Nevada and Rhode Island.

The end of payments for the unemployed is a deliberate policy of the ruling class to force workers to compete for poverty-level jobs with no benefits. The claim that there is no money to finance these programs is a lie. The estimated cost to extend benefits, $30 billion, is small change compared to the hundreds of billions the US government has spent on the last decade of neocolonial wars, bank bailouts, and tax cuts for the rich.

Whether or not the benefits are allowed to expire, the ruling class, led by the Obama administration, is committed to make the working class pay for the economic crisis.

The WSWS spoke with unemployed workers at a job center in Temecula, California. Temecula is part of an area called the “inland empire” which includes Riverside and San Bernardino counties. According to the EDD, more than 44,000 Californians in this area could see their benefits expire. The jobless rate in the region is more than 11.3 percent.

Two of the workers interviewed are from Hemet, a city that has a 16 percent official unemployment rate. The number of people living below the poverty level in Hemet is 19.4 percent, compared to 14.4 percent in the state as a whole. Hemet's median household income is $34,273, as compared to the state median of $61,632.

Mike, a construction worker for over 20 years, commented, “They're cutting off 400,000 from unemployment. There's going to be a lot of crime. People will use their survival skills to stay alive.”

He added, “I think it's wrong. How are people going to live? Everyone's depending on that money. If they cut it off it's going to cause a lot of chaos. There's money for other stuff, but when it comes to people living, they don't give a s__t. This is America, they should help us out.”

The WSWS pointed out the trillions expended to finance wars and the bank bailout. Mike noted, “That should go towards unemployment, we should be helping each other. Banks don't need bailing out. If they don't make it let them fail. [Utility company] Edison was going bankrupt, and now they've tripled the rates. Stabbing the lower and middle class in the back. They are taking from those who can't afford anything.”

When asked about how the cut-off of benefits will affect him, Mike said, “I'm not going to be able to pay my rent if I can't find a job soon enough. It's going to be a bad thing. Right now I'm struggling. I've got a car that's falling apart. I'm trying to get another car so I have a dependable car to get to work. Every little bit I have is going to have to go to surviving, rather than finding a dependable car. It's going to make it hard to try and find work.

“I've been calling unemployment for the past two weeks and haven't been able to get a hold of anyone. After fifteen minutes of punching numbers and menus, you're told ‘We are receiving too many calls. Go online or call back later.’”

Wendy, a waitress for three years at a restaurant in Hemet that closed down, told the WSWS about the city, “Hemet is a hard place for restaurants to stay open. There isn't enough business.”

When asked what she felt about benefits being cut off, she replied, “They're already so hard to get. My benefits were cut off because I missed my phone interview. My phone was lost or stolen, and when I did get a new phone, I couldn't get through to anyone. I kept calling and it would say ‘We are receiving a high volume of calls, call back later.’”

Paula is a single mother and former administrative worker in Thousand Oaks who has been unemployed for 13 months. She said, “I moved to Thousand Oaks for this job. Because of the economy they started letting people go. I was one of the newer ones, so I was let go. I lost my apartment because I couldn't keep up with my rent, and then I lost my car because I couldn't keep up with the payments.

“They told me that if I started school, they would cut off my benefits. That's the thing that I don't understand, why we can't go to school and collect unemployment? How am I supposed to get a better job?

“My son is 4 years old and is going to start school next year. I want him to have everything he needs. I want to be on my feet before then.”

Arnaldo has been working and living in the US for 25 years. His green card just expired, and he cannot renew it because he has no proof of employment. He can be deported at any moment. “It's impossible to find work,” he said. “I've been unemployed since August of 2011 and have been looking all over for a job. I'm in Perris, but I'll go anywhere there's work—Riverside, Temecula, wherever.”

“The unemployment benefits aren't enough for daily life,” he added. “You get 50 percent, 60 percent of what you were making in benefits and you find yourself borrowing money, taking loans or else just not able to pay for your car or your bills.”

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ILLEGALS NOW CONTROL THE CA STATE LEGISLATURE WHERE ALL AGENDAS ARE FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY!

NOW ILLEGALS WILL BE GETTING UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE JOBS THEY STOLE FROM LEGALS!

 

Undocumented immigrants could get jobless benefits

By Jim Sanders
jsanders@sacbee.com The Sacramento Bee

By Jim Sanders

Last modified: 2012-12-12T19:20:24Z

Published: Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 4A

Last Modified: Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 - 11:20 am


Legislation introduced Tuesday would give about 400,000 undocumented immigrants in California the same rights as citizens to unemployment benefits and various other government services.

Assembly Bill 35 targets a select group of undocumented immigrants, participants in President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, who came to the United States as youths and have lived generally productive lives for numerous years.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation, effective Jan. 1, that enables participants in the federal program to obtain California driver's licenses. AB 35 would provide them with rights to a state ID card, unemployment benefits and state-administered medical services.

AB 35 was proposed by Assemblyman Roger Hernández, a West Covina Democrat who was named chairman of the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee this month.

"California embodies the greatest diversity in the world," Hernández said in a written statement. "We recognize we will need the collective skills and talents of these young immigrants to aid out state in reaching our true potential."

As labor committee chairman, Hernández said, "I am ready to carry my part in making sure their integration into our workforce, economy and society becomes a reality."


Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/12/5048195/undocumented-immigrants-could.html#storylink=cpy

 

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The Obama administration has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal workers.

 

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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."

 

VIVA LA RAZA! THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION IS NOW EXPANDING TO ALL OTHER 49 STATES!

 

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Illegal labor pool and its impact on unemployment rates


http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2012/12/20/illegal-labor-pool-and-its-impact-on-unemployment-rates

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WHY THE JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS:


“What employers really want in many cases by hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.”

 

 

HERE’S HOW NO E-VERIFY BREAKS DOWN:

 

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Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal

 

CA MAKES E-VERIFY ILLEGAL! COURTESY THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA!

 

Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal

Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California...


You have 2 families..."Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.

 

"Joe Legal" works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted...."Jose Illegal" also works in construction, has "NO" Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

 

Joe Legal...$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year
Now take 30% away for state and federal tax


Joe Legal now has $31,231.00

Jose Illegal...$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year
Jose Illegal pays no taxes...

 

Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage
$1000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal now has $19,231.00

Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare
Joe Legal pays for food
$1,000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00

Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays rent of
$1,000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal is now in the hole... minus (-) $4,769.00

Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy
Jose Illegal pays rent
$500.00 per month
$6,000.00 per year
Jose Illegal still has $25,200.00

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.

Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Don't vote/support any politician that supports illegal aliens...
Its WAY PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!



 

LA RAZA "THE RACE" lies - MEX FASCISM (VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? obama does!)

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/01/heather-mac-donald-la-raza-fascist.html

MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

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.

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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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

From the above blog, email articles to those concerned about Obama’s endless push for amnesty.

FAIRUS.org

JUDICIAL WATCH.org

ALIPAC.us

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WE ARE MEXICO’S WELFARE and PRISON SYSTEMS!

“Mexico’s government has provided its nationals with valuable tools to help them cross the border safely but Dominguez is the first American resident, with a salary provided by U.S. taxpayers, to openly promote such a gadget. A few years ago Mexican officials published a 32-page booklet (Guia Del Migrante Mexicano) with safety tips for border crossers and distributed hand-held satellite devices to ensure the violators complete their journey safely.”

Untold Story of American Workers Vs. Illegal Immigration

By William Gheen


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Across America a terrible story unfolds trapping honest and hard working Americans between the proverbial rock and a hard space. It is a story that I have gleaned from conversations with those directly impacted. It is a story I have learned from reading between the lines in the print media.

Many of America's print media publications are now facing well deserved financial extinction due to their penchant for bias, censorship, and promotions of unpopular political positions, rather than reporting facts. No issue illustrates their heavy bias more than illegal immigration.

American readers are bombarded on a daily basis with the latest illegal alien sob stories about how illegal aliens are getting laid off, being profiled, discriminated against, or finding it harder to get licenses and government benefits from mean and hateful Americans, while the most important part of the story is conspicuously absent!

The Americans who are falling down in historic numbers are not in these articles or publications!

The propagandists at the newspapers should take heed, when I remind them of two important things. One, people read the news to learn the facts and not the asserted political positions of the paper. Two, readers look for characters in articles, as well as in movies and books, who they can identify with.

Americans are losing their wages, jobs, homes, health, and sanity in numbers unprecedented since the Great Depression, yet you will not hear their trials and troubles in your elitist newspapers. And if you do get a glimpse of the horror of your neighbors and fellow countrymen, you will most certainly never hear of what I will speak of next.

You will not hear about how illegal immigration is trapping Americans in a vise which is leading to the destruction of their lives.

I hope no one in America needs a lecture on how horrible losing your job can be when there are no other jobs available and that not being able to provide health insurance or even food for your children is a life threatening situation. Marching your belongings and loved ones out of your house in front of a Sheriff's deputy is a story Americans are living out in larger numbers daily.

Many studies tell us that American workers work harder, longer, and more productively than many others on the planet. We are known for getting the job done and done well. Before the recent political invention of "jobs Americans won't do" we got the houses built, the landscapes tended, the chickens plucked, and the bathrooms cleaned without 15 million illegal aliens in the country.

Here is the scenario and perspective you will not find in your newspaper that must be told to the nation.

It has long been a tradition in America for wage earners to take a menial job or an extra job, when times got tough for their individual families, a region, or during a national economic downturn.

If your husband was injured, the wife would take on an extra job waiting tables or as a cashier. If you lost your job, you would seek another one no matter what it was, as long as it would help you keep food on the table and a roof over you and your family's head.

In 2009, when you go to look for a new job of any kind you will find that many jobs are not even listed in the Want Ads because those jobs are filled with illegal aliens and a surplus of legal immigrants. The employers have no desire to spend money on newspaper ads, if they have an opening they just tell the foreman, ask their existing workers, or in some cases call up the drug and human importing cartels in Mexico to order a new shipment of illegal aliens workers, as was the case with Tyson Foods here in North Carolina.

So American workers are not even finding notices for many jobs in construction, landscaping, hospitality and food industries, agriculture, meat processing, textiles, raw materials production, etc...

And even if you do approach one of these employers, you may find yourself in the position that many ALIPAC supporters have reported.

The employers of illegal aliens and H2B visa immigrants do not want Americans in the mix. There is rampant discrimination against America workers because they do not speak Spanish, are more concerned about worker health and safety laws, and might contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement to report illegal workers and visa fraud.

Even if you did go out on your own to find the non-advertised menial jobs, and you made it past the discrimination factors, you still have two major hurdles.

One, multiple studies have documented the common sense knowledge that illegal immigration greatly depreciates wages for American workers and legal immigrants. As far back as 1968, the renowned labor leader Cesar Chavez patrolled the border and ordered his union to call Federal authorities to try and stop illegal immigration. Wages have been significantly depressed due to the intentional hyper inflation of the labor markets.

If you are a full tax paying and debt carrying American, many of these jobs now offer wages that are insufficient for you to even make ends meet!

But illegal aliens are not just in the menial jobs or unskilled labor sector of our economy. We have seen countless news reports over the last few years documenting illegal aliens working on commercial jet engines, or in nuclear power plants, or the technical fields?

With the almost minimal enforcement levels of our existing immigration laws, illegal aliens are working in jobs across the spectrum!

Anyone seeking a job in a call center or the Information Technology fields will find many of those jobs have been sent offshore to India. As for the jobs which remain here at home with Google, IBM, Microsoft, and many others, the positions are taken and being filled with H1B visa holders from India and China.

According to our unenforced existing immigration laws, an H1B visa worker can only be used, if an American worker cannot be found for the position and if the immigrant will be paid the same as an American worker would.

But, since nobody is enforcing those laws, many Global companies are intentionally throwing out their American workers and replacing them with foreign labor that will work for much less!

And if you go out in search of an American small business that plays by the rules and respects our laws, you will find fewer and fewer of them. Honest employers who hire Americans and legal immigrants have found themselves unable to compete with the low bids of less scrupulous competitors who hire illegal aliens. You won't hear their voices in this barage of biased articles either!

Only through the valiant efforts of talk radio show hosts and brave men and women like Glen Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Michelle Malkin will you hear these voices represented in the media. And each of them faces the same threat of smears and lies from the ideology fascists for speaking out for the innocent American workers and millions of victims of illegal immigration, corporate greed, and political corruption in our nation.

So American workers are facing what I call "The Great American Replacement Act" where Americans are being replaced in jobs, homes, schools, colleges, and at the ballot box through rampant illegal immigration combined with historically high levels of new worker visas being issued.

To ad further insult to injury, the illegal alien Amnesty supporting groups and politicians are now trying to claim that even though 11 Million Americans are out of work, we need Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty right away for the approximately 7 million illegal aliens, which are currently holding jobs that our existing laws mandate are illegal for them to have in the first place!

How can so many politicians and people in the media ignore and neglect innocent Americans who are suffering and having their lives ruined? The dire consequences for Americans due to the bad economy combined with rampant illegal immigration are horrific. The fact that their stories are not told and their voices are censored by the print media is even more horrifying.

For things to improve for Americans, we need our existing immigration laws, and all workplace and financial regulatory laws fully enforced. Those left in the media with a soul need to illuminate these problems and side with the American public before it is too late.

We need to know how much the influence the billions of dollars in perks, contributions, and payoffs coming into Washington, DC (See Bill and Hillary Clinton) from Global corporations and countries hostile to the United States like Saudi Arabia and China are responsible for these dastardly, illegal, and unconstitutional policies.

The American public is no longer in control of our national destiny. We are no longer self governed or secure. We are not being asked for our support, we are being told we will suffer in silence or face aggressive ridicule. We are being dictated to by politicians who's pockets are lined with the gold of powerful bankers and foreign nations.

We are now entering an even more dangerous phase where many Americans are losing all faith in the political process. There is dangerous talk in private conversations, and many are saying "America has already been conquered without a shot fired."

Perhaps America's most powerful enemies have discovered how to take us with a Trojan horse? No adversary would want to take us on militarily or do anything to awaken the ire of the American populace. Our own politicians, bureaucrats, and Wall Street leaders have already deeply wounded this nation more than Osama Bin Laden's attacks on 9/11.

Perhaps they have moved on America's Achilles heal of greed and corruption to incrementally reduce the American populace to such a desperate level surrounded by financially empowered subservient foreign workers that we cannot defend ourselves.

If this is the case and if these atrocities are not corrected soon by political means, may God help us endure, survive, or prevail against whatever evil our conquerors have planned for us next.

http://newsblaze.com/story/20090113140640zzzz.nb/topstory.html

 

OBAMA, AND THE LA RAZA DEMS HAVE SABOTAGED E-VERIFY NATIONWIDE TO ASSURE THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS DEPRESSED WAGES WITH HORDES OF ILLEGALS.

IN LA RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA, THE LA RAZA (DEMS ELECTED BY  ILLEGALS) CONTROLLED STATE LEGISLATURE HAS PASSED A LAW QUICKLY SIGNED BY LA RAZA JERRY BROWN, MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY!

HOW MANY AMERICANS PUT OUT OF JOBS?

THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) STATES WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN MEX-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES COUNTY, WHERE NEARLY 90% OF ALL SERVICE SECTOR JOBS, AND 95% OF ALL CONSTRUCTION JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS!

THIS SAME COUNTY ALSO PUTS OUT$600 MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, THE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY PROGRAM: MEXICO EXPORTS PREGNANT WOMEN FOR “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING= 18 YEARS OF WELFARE. THIS CHILD BORN OF ILLEGALS IN OUR BORDERS IS STILL A CITIZEN OF MEXICO! NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED TO PAY FOR MEXICO’S WELFARE SYSTEM  IN OUR BORDERS. EVERY DEM IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE OR D.C. ARE SHOVING DREAM ACTS of WELFARE DOWN OUR THROATS TO INDUCE MORE ILLEGALS TO VOTE FOR THEM, AND FILL OUR  JOBS WITH STAGGERINGLY EXPENSIVE “CHEAP” MEX LABOR!

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Obama and the jobs crisis

12 November 2009

In the face of a record rise in joblessness, the Obama administration continues to demonstrate its callous indifference to the plight of millions of unemployed workers and their families.

The official unemployment rate shot up to 10.2 percent in October, the highest level since 1983. Nearly 16 million people are jobless, an increase of 7 million since the recession began. If workers who have given up looking for work and those forced to work part-time are added, the real unemployment rate is 17.5 percent—or more than one out of every six workers in the US—the highest rate since the Great Depression.

The White House responded to the job figures by repeating its mantra that employment is a “lagging indicator” in an otherwise recovering economy. While acknowledging 10 percent was a “sobering number,” the president said, “History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth.” The president added complacently, “Although it will take time and it will take patience, I am confident that we are moving in the right direction.”

The suggestion that the unemployment trend will soon reverse itself is a lie. Most economists now predict that double-digit unemployment will last for years. Nevertheless, the administration has rejected any government-funded public works program to hire the unemployed. The Washington Post recently noted that White House officials reject the idea because it “does not produce long-term value”; that is to say, it does not produce profits for big business.

The issue of employment has long been at the center of economic and political life in America. The last century saw New Deal public works projects, and “Full Employment” programs, which, while woefully inadequate, were presented as an effort to battle the scourge of mass unemployment. In the Obama administration the question has become a non-issue.

This inaction and indifference has produced a series of warnings from Obama’s liberal supporters concerned over the explosive social and political consequences of a worsening jobs crisis.

On Tuesday, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert worried that “more and more Americans are questioning [Obama’s] priorities, including millions that went to the mat for him in last year’s election.” “The lack of jobs,” he continued, “is fueling the nervousness, anxiety and full-blown anger that are becoming increasing evident in the public at large.”

In a Washington Post article, entitled, “Why won’t Obama give you a job?,” staff writer Alec MacGillis complained that the administration has “studiously avoided paying people to go to work” like the government did in the 1930s and 1970s. “Engaging in more forthright job creation could invite some political pitfalls (such as those constant accusations of socialism), but is double-digit unemployment any less a political risk?”

Such appeals fall on deaf ears. Obama’s disinterest is not a tactical mistake but the result of the social and class interests the president and both political parties defend.

While doing nothing to relieve working people, the administration has spared no expense and wasted no time in augmenting the wealth and power of the financial oligarchy that rules America. It has handed trillions to Wall Street, driven GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy to slash the wages of auto workers, and pushed the restructuring of the health care system to gut Medicare and reduce medical costs for big business. In foreign policy, the administration has squandered hundreds of billions and the lives of thousands of soldiers in two colonial wars to control the energy rich regions of world.

The continued high level of joblessness and economic insecurity is a deliberate aim of the administration. The threat of job losses is being used to break the resistance of American workers to a permanent reduction in their living standards and working conditions.

In the July-September quarter, productivity grew at a 9.5 percent annual rate, according to a government report. Even though working hours fell by a 5 percent annual rate, output increased at a 4 percent rate. “So people working shorter hours had to do the same amount of work as before, or more,” BusinessWeek noted. “People who kept their jobs had to pick up the work of ex-colleagues” or simply put in extra hours that weren’t counted in the statistics. As a result, unit labor costs fell 3.6 percent over the past year, the largest decrease since records were first kept in 1948.

This increase in exploitation is central to the administration’s plans to restructure American capitalism on behalf of the most powerful sections of the financial elite. The ruling class is seeking to lift itself out of the ruins of its own economic crisis by transforming the US into a cheap labor platform to increase exports, and by carrying out a policy of austerity at home to make the working class pay for the bailout of Wall Street.

If the working class is to oppose this assault it must assert it own class interests and develop a programmatic response to the economic crisis.

The Socialist Equality Party insists that employment and decent living standards must be guaranteed to all. The guiding principle of jobs policy must be to protect the working population from destitution, and provide employment for the purpose of raising the material and cultural level of the people, not profits for the capitalists.

The SEP calls for the sharing of available work among all workers with no loss of pay. Every worker should be guaranteed 30 hours of work at 40 hours of pay, with quality health and retirement benefits.

A multi-trillion public works program must be launched to hire the unemployed and put them to work to address pressing social needs. Projects must be launched to build affordable housing, guarantee high quality health care and education, expand public transportation and carry out other improvements in the physical and social infrastructure.

To secure the necessary resources, the grip of the financial aristocracy must be broken by nationalizing the banks under public ownership and confiscating the ill-gotten gains of the rich and super-rich. Capitalism is incapable of meeting the social needs produced by its own calamity. It must be replaced with a social system that does, socialism.

In place of the anarchy and socially destructive “free market” system, the economy must be reorganized on the basis of a democratic plan to meet the needs of society as a whole, not private profit. The socialist transformation of the US economy must be part of a globally planned economy, in which working people control the wealth that they produce.

The fight for this requires the building of a new political party of the working class to oppose the twin parties of big business and fight for political power. Such a party must be based on the fight for its political independence, internationalism and the socialist transformation of society. This is aim of the Socialist Equality Party.

Jerry White


 

 

“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

 

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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MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO LA RAZA – THE MEXICAN FASCIST POLITICAL PARTY. THESE FIGURES ARE DATED. CNN CALCULATES THAT WAGES ARE DEPRESSED $300 - $400 BILLION PER YEAR!

“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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OBAMA HANDS MASSIVE WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, ALONG WITH OUR JOBS TO BUY THE ILLEGALS' ILLEGAL VOTES!

 


 

 


 

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