HE HAS WORKED HARD FOR HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS. HIS ADMINISTRATION
IS INFESTED WITH THEM. OBAMA HAS PROMISED THEM ENDLESS NO-STRING BAILOUTS,
MASSIVE BONUSES AS WELL AS NO PRISON TIME.
NOT ONE CRIMINAL BANKSTER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH A CRIME OR
EVER WILL. AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE OF WALL STREET’S WAVE OF CRIMES, THERE WILL BE
A FEW PALTRY FINES, AND THESE WILL BE PAID OUT OF BAILOUT MONEY.
NEXT TO BANKSTERS, OBAMA WORKS HARD FOR HIS LA RAZA PARTY
BASE of ILLEGALS. NEXT TO BANKSTERS, HIS ADMIN IS INFESTED WITH LA RAZA
SUPREMACIST.
CONGRESS AND OBAMA ARE NOW HANDING OVER OUR BORDERS TO OPEN
BORDERS ADVOCATE AND LA RAZA SUPREMACIST JANET NAPOLITANO. OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED
BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS OVER THERE, WHILE PUSHING
OUR BORDERS OPEN WIDER WITH NARCOMEX.
WIKILEAKS and ALIPAC HAVE EXPOSED OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS
AGENDA… IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED.
OBAMA’S UNAUTHORIZED PRE-ELECTION GRINGO-PAID DREAM ACT
HANDED MILLIONS OF JOBS OVER TO ILLEGALS, AND COST AMERICANS HALF BILLION
DOLLARS. MORE TO COME… MUCH MORE! WE ARE MEXICO’S WELFARE, JOBS, PRISONS, AND
COLONY FOR LOOTING!
MEXICO ISN’T AMERICA’S ONLY LOOTER! NOR ARE OBAMA’S CRIMINAL
BANKSTERS. OBAMA DONOR SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, BUSH’S WAR PROFITEER LIKES THE
SMELL OF MONEY WHERE EVER SHE CAN CUT HERSELF IN.
White House zeros in on Medicare
4 February 2013
Both President Obama and a top economic adviser have confirmed
that Medicare, the federal program that underwrites the cost of health care for
more than 50 million elderly and disabled people in the United States, is a
prime target in the budget-cutting negotiations now going on behind the scenes
in Washington.
While talks continue on social program cuts that will affect tens
of millions and ultimately the majority of the American people, public
attention is being diverted to a serious of secondary issues, such as
prospective gun legislation. There was, for example, enormous media attention given
to a photograph of Obama shooting skeet with a shotgun at Camp David, including
a protracted debate over when the photograph was taken and whether the
president could be said to be a hunter.
The real business of the Democrats and Republicans, however, is
laid out in the Saturday radio addresses by Obama and a spokeswoman for the
congressional Republicans, both of them calling for substantial cuts in
domestic social spending.
Obama’s address repeated his empty claims of an economic
recovery. He failed to note the radical divergence between the boom in business
profits, stock prices and corporate CEO pay and the disastrous state of the job
market, with workers’ wages and benefits continuing to decline.
Obama then turned to the question of the deficit, with his usual
mixture of doubletalk and demagogy, declaring, “We all agree that it’s critical
to cut unnecessary spending. But we can’t just cut our way to prosperity.”
In a passage from the brief address that was not quoted in media
accounts, Obama continued, “Already, Republicans and Democrats have worked
together to reduce our deficits by $2.5 trillion. That’s a good start. But to
get the rest of the way, we need a balanced set of reforms. For example, we
need to lower the cost of health care in programs like Medicare that are the
biggest drivers of our deficit, without just passing the burden off to
seniors.”
The last phrase is typical of Obama speechmaking, and of all the
declarations by big business politicians in Washington. First, you signal to
your corporate masters what you plan to do, i.e., make drastic cuts in
Medicare. Then you reassure the victims of this policy that they aren’t really
the target.
In truth, that is exactly what the White House and congressional
Democrats and Republicans are planning. They will impose the burden of the
fiscal deficit on the backs of the most vulnerable sections of the working
class: the elderly, the disabled, young people and the poor.
There is, as Obama emphasizes, general agreement in ruling circles
that such cuts will be made. The only question—about which there is heated
debate—is what mechanism to use and how to disguise, as much as possible, the
real significance of the measures now being discussed behind closed doors in
the US capital.
Gene Sperling, head of the Obama’s National Economic Council,
underscored the centrality of Medicare cuts to the deficit-reduction process in
a speech Thursday to a health care group. Sperling began by declaring that the
administration was opposed to any cuts in Medicaid, the entitlement program
that underwrites health care for the poor and nursing home care for millions of
elderly people.
This is not out of any concern for the impact of such cuts on the
poorest Americans. Quite the opposite. Since extending Medicaid eligibility is
a central feature of the Obama health care overhaul, which goes into full
effect at the end of this year, it is necessary to keep Medicaid afloat at
least that long so as to sustain the fiction that health care “reform” is aimed
at expanding access to care and conceal its real purpose—to cut the overall
cost of health care for corporations and the government.
Moreover, most Medicaid cuts are implemented at the state level,
and state governments, led by Democratic as well as Republican governors, have
cut back on benefits and eligibility across the country.
“Medicaid cuts, from this president, from this administration, are
not on the table,” Sperling said. But since “we’ve made a tough choice” to rule
out Medicaid cuts, he continued, “It means we will have to look harder for
Medicare savings.”
Neither Sperling nor any other White House spokesman has spelled
out exactly what cuts in Medicare are envisioned. But the failed budget
agreement of 2011, reached by Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner,
gave a glimpse. It called for raising the age of eligibility for Medicare from
65 to 67, which would force millions of retiring workers to pay for private
health insurance for those additional years. It also called for increased means
testing, a step towards turning Medicare into a welfare program reserved for
the poor, like Medicaid, and undermining its universality.
The Washington consensus that entitlement program cuts are
unavoidable is justified on the grounds that, as countless big business
politicians declare, “There is no money.”
This is the mantra in the richest country on the planet from
representatives of a ruling elite that is gorging itself on speculation,
profit-gouging and outright swindling. The American financial aristocracy is
raking in trillions while begrudging every penny spent on retirement income or
health care for working people who have labored all their lives.
The claim that there is no money is a lie. The resources exist in
abundance, but the wealth produced by the labor of working people must be taken
out of the hands of the financial parasites and billionaires and the major
banks and corporations placed under democratic control and public ownership.
Patrick Martin
WALL STREET HEADS
FOR ANOTHER LOOTING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE… THE CONTRIVED BUBBLE IS ABOUT TO
BURST AGAIN… AMERICANS LEFT WITH THE PIECES AND BAILOUTS OF OBAMA’S CRONIES.
OBAMA PROMISED HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS NO PRISON TIME AND NO REAL REGULATION. DID HE DELIVER?
The JPMorgan scandal also throws into relief the government’s failure to prosecute those responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown. Despite overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing and criminality uncovered by two federal investigations last year, those responsible have been shielded from prosecution.
Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).
The settlement, reported to be worth $25 billion, was announced February 9 and hailed by President Obama as a serious rebuke to the banks and boon to distressed homeowners. (See: “Obama administration brokers pro-bank mortgage fraud settlement”).
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The social and
historical catastrophe confronting mankind is not simply the product of an
economic crisis in the abstract. This crisis is mediated by class interests,
and these class interests find expression in definite actions. Behind the central
banks and governments stand the interests of a financial elite whose
relationship to the rest of society is fundamentally parasitic.
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BUSH WAR PROFITEER AND MAJOR OBAMA DONOR, SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN
LOOTS MEDICARE. THERE’S NOT MUCH THAT HAPPENS IN WASHINGTON THAT FEINSTEIN
AND HER PIMP HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM DON’T PROFITEER FROM.
FEINSTEIN, ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN
HISTORY, HAS AMASSED A STAGGERING FORTUNE FROM DEALS HER HUSBAND COOKS UP AND
FEINSTEIN AND BARBARA BOXER PUSH IN THE SENATE.
FEINSTEIN HAS LONG HIRED “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGALS AT HER S.F.
HOTEL, ONLY MILES FROM HER $16 MILLION DOLLAR WAR PROFITS WHORE MANSION.
Husband's investments entangle Feinstein
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LATEST FLAP OVER MEDICARE
PAYMENT DENIALS
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By David Whitney McClatchy
NewspapersSan Jose Mercury News
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WASHINGTON - California lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing
company in which San Francisco investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen.
Dianne Feinstein, has a major financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at
California rehabilitation hospitals in order to reap millions of dollars in
profits at the expense of patient care.
The company, PRG-Schultz
International, has a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, the overseer of the Medicare program, to check payments in
California for mistakes. Its only pay is a bounty of up to 30 percent on the
"overcharges" it identifies.
The California Hospital
Association first raised concerns in November that PRG-Schultz was targeting
rehabilitation hospitals that cared for Medicare patients after knee or hip
replacement surgery. The hospital association said PRG-Schultz has reviewed
thousands of cases dating as far back as 2002 and has rejected nearly all as
medically unnecessary. Melinda
Staveley, president of the 38-bed Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara,
said more than 100 such cases from her non-profit institution had been
rejected. The facility could face having to repay more than $2 million.
Elderly patients
As difficult as that would
be financially for a small hospital with a $12 million annual budget, she
said the bigger concern is future patient care. The frail and elderly surgery
patients with compound medical problems no longer will have access to rehabilitation
hospitals and will have to rely on home or outpatient services.
"This is
devastating," Staveley said of the audits.
Her husband's business
interests in PRG-Schultz have proved awkward for Feinstein, the state's
Democratic senior senator, as the hospital association turns to Congress for
relief.
This is not the first time
Blum's business interests have collided with his wife's job. Blum Capital
Partners is a major investor in Northwest Airlines, which in 1995 won the
first contract by an American air carrier to fly to Beijing. Feinstein had
been friends with a former Chinese political leader since she was mayor of
San Francisco.
More recently, concerns have
been raised in Republican circles about some of Blum's investments benefiting
from defense contracts at a time when the senator was serving on the Senate
military construction appropriations committee.
Feinstein's press aide,
Scott Gerber, said the senator played no role in the legislation creating the
auditing program and did not intervene with program administrators to help
PRG-Schultz get the three-year contract in 2005.
Serious concerns:
On Thursday, after questions
from McClatchy Newspapers, Feinstein sent a letter to the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services that called the hospital association's
concerns "potentially serious." She asked program administrators to
investigate, saying the concerns are spreading beyond its determinations on
rehabilitation hospitals to other aspects of Medicare-financed
hospitalizations for the elderly, including short-stay hospital admissions.
Feinstein made no mention of
her husband's interest in PRG-Schultz, which she lists in her annual
financial disclosure reports. According to PRG-Schultz, Blum's investment
companies own 10.5 percent of its outstanding common stock, 53 percent of its
outstanding preferred stock and 28 percent of its notes and securities.
California House members
soon will follow with a joint letter of their own asking for an
investigation.
Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa
Barbara, is taking the lead among Democrats. Her press aide, Emily Kryder,
said 15 members - more than a quarter of the state's congressional delegation
- have agreed to sign the letter so far.
"The review and
collection practices of PRG-Schultz threaten access to rehabilitation
services in California," the letter said. "We urge you to examine
the actions taken by PRG-Schultz International, Inc."
The auditing program was set
up as a demonstration project initially focusing on the three highest-cost
Medicare states - California, New York and Florida. Separate contractors are
used for each state. PRG-Schultz is the only for-profit contractor among
them, and Medicare administrators believe it has been the most controversial
because it alone has been zeroing in on rehabilitation hospitals.
Highly lucrative
On the brink of financial
collapse when it won the contract two years ago, PRG-Schultz has found the
job to be enormously lucrative. Government figures indicate that it had
rejected $105 million in California Medicare overcharges as of Sept. 30, the
end of the 2006 fiscal year.
Medicare managers said they
could not release figures for how much PRG-Schultz was claiming as
commissions for finding the alleged overcharges, saying the information was
proprietary. But based on bounties of 28 percent that were used in
establishing the program, PRG-Schultz's entitlement could be as much as $29
million.
The California Hospital
Association said in a letter to Medicare administrators in November that
PRG-Schultz should be suspended for improperly applying Medicare rules and
using unqualified personnel.
PRG-Schultz declined to
comment. But officials of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
steadfastly defended PRG-Schultz, saying it's applying rules on medically
necessary admissions that probably have been ignored in California for years.
PRG-Schultz "coming to
town is probably the first real look at these hospitals in many, many
years," said Melanie Combs, senior technical adviser for the federal
program.
"These rules have been
on the books since 1985," Combs said. "Maybe it's possible some
have been overlooking them. Maybe there have been consultants out there
helping hospitals to, quote, maximize reimbursements. And maybe perhaps some
of that has entailed looking the other way."
A call to Blum Capital
Partners - of which Blum is board chairman - asking for comment was not
returned.
PRG-Schultz reported a
first-quarter profit this year of $1.5 million, compared to a $10 million
loss for the same period in 2006.
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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.”
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UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS OF JOBS GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF
ILLEGALS!
"We have a situation
where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal immigration
relatively high without even a national debate," he said. "As a
consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to immigrants."
Mr. Obama did take action
this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years of age a tentative
legal status that prevents them from being deported and authorizes them to work
in the United States.
Some Republicans in Congress
have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates his powers and will mean
more competition for scarce jobs.
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Guess LA
RAZA his happy with OBAMA’S endless hispandering! THEY SHOULD BE!
There are only eight states with a larger
population than LOS ANGELES COUNTY, where 47% of those with a job are ILLEGALS
USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! This same mex gang infested county puts
out $600 million in welfare to illegals!
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“The
inspections have determined that hundreds of companies throughout the U.S. have
significant numbers of illegal
immigrants on their payroll
yet none have been punished, according to a Houston newspaper that obtained
internal ICE records through the Freedom of Information Act. At least 430 audit
cases listed as “closed” by the agency had high percentages of workers with
“questionable” documents yet they faced no consequences.”
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 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'S AMERICA: Open
& Undefended Borders!
"What we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans."
"What we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans."
WALL STREET-OWNED BARACK OBAMA PROMISES EVEN BETTER LOOTING
IN HIS SECOND TERM.
“WE CONNED THEM ONCE, AND I DID IT AGAIN…. LET US BLEED THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR WHATEVER IS LEFT.” Barack Obama
OBAMA CUTS AMERICANS WHILE BUILDING THE LA RAZA MEXICAN
WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
TAUBE: Predicting Obama’s legacy
On track to rank
among worst presidents of all time
By
Michael Taube
Tuesday,
November 13, 2012
On Nov. 6, Americans chose President Obama over GOP presidential
candidate Mitt Romney. If Mr. Obama's second term turns out to be anything like
his first, the voters will quickly come to regret that decision.
Mr. Obama is a lame-duck president. He is in his final term and
won't be able to run for this particular political office ever again. That
being said, each step he takes will have significant implications for his
fellow Democrats in 2014 (the midterm elections) and 2016 (the presidential
election).
Mr. Obama is in the early stages of building his so-called
political legacy. Long before his presidential memoirs are written, his
speaking tour is arranged and the groundbreaking ceremony for his presidential
library is set, the president's leadership needs to be evaluated historically
in some way, shape or form.
Unless things
change dramatically in the next four years, Mr. Obama's legacy is on pace to
rank him among the worst U.S. presidents of all time.
The president's first term was an unmitigated disaster from an
economic standpoint. The eye-popping $833 billion stimulus bill of small tax
cuts and wild spending measures passed in February 2009 without a single
Republican vote of support. The grotesque auto bailout plan -- initiated by
President George W. Bush in 2008, with a more extensive contribution from Mr.
Obama -- has exceeded $80 billion. The multibillion-dollar bailout of
once-powerful financial companies such as AIG, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs
added to the country's economic woes. Moreover, monthly unemployment numbers
hit record highs, never falling below 7.8 percent and climbing to a staggering
10 percent in October 2009.
With respect to foreign policy, Mr. Obama's record has been abysmal.
Osama bin Laden, the vicious terrorist leader of al Qaeda, was killed under his
administration's watch -- and that's a good thing. Yet, early on in his
presidency, Mr. Obama supported the philosophy that "strong countries and
strong presidents talk to their adversaries." This political greenhorn was
therefore open to building relationships with the same tyrants and despots who
hated -- and in certain cases, wanted to obliterate -- the United States.
Meanwhile, the important communications term "war on terrorism"
was replaced by the Obama White House with an ivory-tower-inspired travesty:
"overseas contingency operation." The president's soft-on-terrorism
stance, often seen in his lukewarm reactions to Middle Eastern conflicts and
the growing threat of radical Islam in Europe, turned off many Americans.
Do not be surprised if the U.S. economy gets even worse during Mr.
Obama's second term. For one thing, the president, who claims to be "open
to compromise" in negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff, cannot resist
the left-wing impulse to soak the rich with higher income taxes. Social
spending measures on everything from education to the environment are likely to
skyrocket. Obamacare will become a reality, and the total cost of running a
public health care program -- which reportedly could reach $1 trillion --
likely will be a financial mess for generations to come. Trade liberalization
also will be a mixed bag because this particular liberal president has minimal
respect for free trade and private enterprise.
Foreign policy also will continue to decline. The United States
eventually will be out of Afghanistan, meaning that war-torn country's ultimate
fate will be a huge question mark. There's a possibility the detention center
at Guantanamo Bay will be closed down, causing some dangerous terrorists to be
returned to their countries of origin. Israel already has started fighting with
Syria and could have to go on its own against Iran because of Mr. Obama's
dithering. The war on terrorism will barely be discussed in public. Threats
posed by North Korea and other dangerous regimes will largely be ignored.
Finally, more emphasis on the bungling mess known as the United Nations will
become a priority.
In 1947, Sir Winston
Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all
those other forms that have been tried from time to time." In the face of
Mr. Obama's terrible first-term economic and foreign-policy records, it's
astonishing that more than 50 percent of Americans re-elected him. Yet the democracy
Americans would defend with their dying breath gave this president a second
term. Elections work in mysterious ways.
Michael Taube is a former speechwriter for
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Read more: TAUBE: Predicting Obama's legacy - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/13/predicting-obamas-legacy/print/#ixzz2CCrjFseU
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POVERTY IN AMERICA AS
MEXICO LOOTS!
Obama’s
first term was devoted to protecting and expanding the wealth of the
financial-corporate oligarchy at the expense of the vast majority of the
population. His second term will be focused on carrying through a historic
retrogression, in which all of the gains won by the working class over a
century of struggle are to be reversed.
The
multitrillion-dollar bailout of the banks on the one side, and the attack on
wages, pensions, health care and working conditions on the other—inaugurated by
Obama’s wage-cutting restructuring of the auto industry—are to be intensified
and combined with an assault on what remains of social welfare programs.
Poverty and the American two-party system
17 November 2012
Nearly 50 million people are living in poverty in the United States. This was the dire news delivered eight days after the presidential election in a report from the US Census Bureau.
The new report’s findings—which factor in expenses and government-provided benefits, providing a more accurate picture of US poverty—are a damning indictment of American capitalism. Based on data from 2011, three full years into Obama’s first term, the report is also a commentary on the reactionary character of the administration and its response to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
The shocking news that nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty prompted virtually no comment on network or cable news broadcasts. It was met with silence in Washington, where Democratic and Republican politicians are conspiring to implement draconian cuts to social programs that will throw millions more into the ranks of the poor.
Barack Obama has made a practice of all but excluding the word “poverty” from his political vocabulary, and his first post-election press conference, held the same day as the release of the Census report, was no exception. He felt no need to note the dire growth of poverty as he set the stage for negotiations with the Republicans over a multitrillion-dollar austerity package that will savage basic social entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
The sharp growth of poverty, homelessness and hunger in America over the past four years is the result not simply of purely economic forces. It is above all the result of a calculated drive to utilize the crisis to lay siege to the living standards and democratic rights of the working class.
Obama’s first term was devoted to protecting and expanding the wealth of the financial-corporate oligarchy at the expense of the vast majority of the population. His second term will be focused on carrying through a historic retrogression, in which all of the gains won by the working class over a century of struggle are to be reversed.
The multitrillion-dollar bailout of the banks on the one side, and the attack on wages, pensions, health care and working conditions on the other—inaugurated by Obama’s wage-cutting restructuring of the auto industry—are to be intensified and combined with an assault on what remains of social welfare programs.
The most significant finding of the Census report is the sharp growth in the ranks of the working poor. The report takes as its starting point the 144 million people who worked full- or part-time year-round in 2011. Some 9.4 percent of these workers—an estimated 13.6 million people—were living in poverty according to the official poverty threshold (which is absurdly low and dramatically underestimates the real number).
Of the 97 million workers working full-time, 5.1 percent—or about 5 million people—lived in poverty. The poverty rate among the estimated 46.7 million part-time workers was a staggering 18.5 percent—or about 8.6 million people.
According to the Census Bureau, more than a quarter of those living in poverty had a job. But they earned so little—either due to low wages, scant work hours or a combination of both—that even if they were able to qualify for some sort of government benefits, they still subsisted below the poverty line.
For those without jobs, the situation was even grimmer. Of these, fully a third were living in poverty. And with the agreement of Obama and Congress, federally funded extended unemployment benefits are set to expire in January, depriving 2 million jobless workers of cash assistance and plunging even more households into poverty.
The Obama administration has implemented no policies to provide jobs for the unemployed or alleviate the suffering of millions of workers, young people and seniors that is brought into focus by the Census report. No measures have been implemented in the wake of the Wall Street crash and economic slump to provide relief to those who have lost jobs, gone into foreclosure or struggled under the weight of medical bills or massive college debt.
Meanwhile, the rich have grown richer and social inequality has soared.
The new poverty statistics should serve as a stark warning. The mythical “American dream” has become a social nightmare. And this is only the beginning. It is not a temporary change. This—poverty wages and brutal exploitation—is the “new normal” under the profit system and the political domination of two parties controlled by the financial aristocracy.
Decent jobs and living standards are incompatible with the “free market” system routinely eulogized by Obama and defended by both parties. The fight for jobs, decent wages, education, health care and housing is a fight against the capitalist system and all of its political defenders. The urgent issue facing working people and youth is the building of an independent mass socialist movement to fight for a workers’ government and the socialist reorganization of economic life.
Kate Randall
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to
the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot." ---Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico
LOOK AT MEXIFORNIA!
(THE ABOVE QUOTE IS DATED. THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE HAS SPREAD TO ALL 50 STATES)
"Remember
187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to
non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California."
---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party
non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California."
---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party
Richard
Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take
over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We
will take them over. . We are here to stay."
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
FOR
MORE THAN A DECADE, EVEN BEFORE THE CONCLUSION OF WALL STREET’S LAST RAPE of
AMERICA, THERE WERE 1.5 MILLION ILLEGALS CLIMBING OUR BORDERS TO LOOT, AND 1.5
MILLION AMERICANS FALL INTO POVERTY.
THE
OBAMA ADMIN IS INFESTED WITH LA RAZA SUPREMACIST. HIS SEC. of (ILLEGAL) LABOR
IS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS.
LA
RAZA IS FUNDED BY OBAMA WITH AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS and NOW OPERATES OUT OF THE
OBAMA WHITE HOUSE UNDER CECILIA MUNOZ.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY is now the
PARTY for ILLEGALS… It’s not that DEM POLITICIANS give a fuck about Mexico’s
biggest export next to DRUGS… THEIR POOR, it’s that hordes and hordes and
hordes… NOW NEARLY 50 MILLION ILLEGALS keep wages depressed hundreds of
BILLIONS PER YEAR! This keeps the paymasters of these politicians happy and
generous!
An
example of that is SENS. DIANNE FEINSTEIN and BARBARA BOXER, both have gotten
filthy rich off elected office.
THREE
TIMES THESE CORRUPT POLITICIANS HAVE PUSHED ON BEHALF OF THEIR BIG AG BIZ
DONOR$$$$ A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5 MILLION “CHEAP” LABOR MEXICAN ILLEGALS…
DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF THESE EXPLOITED LABORERS END UP ON WELFARE!
CA
NOW PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS WITH COUNTIES
PAYING OUT EVEN MORE. MEX-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR
IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR
BABY BREEDERS.
SEN.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN, A LA RAZA DEM, HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL,
ONLY MILES FROM HER $16 MILLION WAR PROFITEER’S MANSION.
FEINSTEIN’S
LA RAZA SISTER NANCY PELOSI HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER ST. HELENA, NAPA
WINERY.
….IT’S
ALL BOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND FORCING AMERICANS (LEGALS) TO SUBSIDIZE
THE ACTUAL STAGGERING COST OF ALL THIS “CHEAP” LABOR!
“The
ranks of the unemployed in the United States rose last year to 49.7 million,
based on a new measure that provides a fuller picture of poverty than that
previously reported by U.S. Census Bureau data.”
THERE ARE NOW NEARLY 50 MILLION HEAVY BREEDING MEXICANS IN
OUR BORDERS, JOBS, WELFARE LINES and JAILS & PRISONS.
MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS ARE DRUGS, CRIMINALS, POVERTY,
VIOLENCE, RACISM, AND ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS.
OBAMA SPENT HIS ENTIRE FIRST TERM HISPANDERING TO ILLEGALS
AND EASING THEM INTO OUR JOBS BY SUING AMERICAN STATES TO BLOCK E-VERIFY AND
DROPPING WORKFORCE ENFORCEMENT ON LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT of ILLEGALS
BY 70%.
OBAMA, AND THE DEMS, NOW PARTY for ILLEGALS, HAND THEM
OBAMACARE, DREAM ACTS, OPEN and UNDEFENDED BORDERS and LA RAZA SUPREMACY.
Nearly 50 million living in poverty
in US
By Kate Randall
16 November 2012
16 November 2012
The ranks of the unemployed
in the United States rose last year to 49.7 million, based on a new measure
that provides a fuller picture of poverty than that previously reported by U.S.
Census Bureau data.
The revised poverty rate of 16.1 percent is up more than a percentage point
from the 15 percent figure reported by the government in September.
Coming
a little more than a week after the 2012 elections, the news that nearly one in
six Americans is living in poverty received little attention in the media or
from the Obama administration. Neither big-business party has any policies to
alleviate growing poverty, which is exacerbated by entrenched unemployment and
a sluggish economy.
The
Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), devised a year ago, factors in expenses for
food, clothing, shelter, utilities, health care and other essentials beyond
what the previous official formula took into account. It includes in its income
measure such government-provided benefits as Social Security, unemployment
benefits and nutrition assistance.
The
SPM figures released by the Census Bureau on Thursday show that while some
households may have incomes above the poverty line, factors such as medical
expenses are pushing increasing numbers into poverty. The new figures also
indicate that the tepid job growth in the more than four years since the
financial crisis has come mostly in the form of low-wage jobs that in many
cases are not able to lift families out of poverty.
More
than 15 percent of working-age adults, aged 18-64, lived in poverty in 2011.
Among those with some form of employment, 9.4 percent fell below the poverty
line. Those working less than full-time, year-round, saw an 18.5 percent
poverty rate. A third of those working less than one week in the course of the
year—16.2 million, or 33.5 percent—lived in poverty last year.
Based
on the SPM, the poverty rates were dramatically higher for several segments of
the population. The share of people 65 years and older living in poverty was
15.1 percent, nearly double the 8.7 percent figure according to the official
measure. This rise came despite including Medicare and Social Security benefits
in income. The single biggest economic burden on seniors is medical expenses
that must be paid out of pocket.
The
poverty rate among Hispanics stood at 28 percent in 2001 using the SPM,
significantly higher than the 25.4 percent rate using the older measure. This
difference is attributed to limited access by immigrants to government
programs, as well as the concentration of Hispanics in regions of the country
that have seen big cutbacks to government programs.
(ASK
WHAT OBAMA HAS DONE FOR BLACK AMERICA COMPARED WITH WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR
MEXICANS!)
According
to the new measurement, more than a quarter of all African-American households
were living in poverty in 2011. Poverty in households headed by a single female
stood at 30 percent. Among households renting their homes, 29.3 percent were
poor.
Also
hard-hit are people living in urban areas where living expenses are higher and
assistance from government programs has not kept pace with growing need. Under
the newly devised standard, California saw the highest poverty rate of any
state. A staggering 8.8 million people—23.5 percent—of Californians are living
in poverty, a figure largely driven by the state’s high cost of living and
sharp budget cuts to social programs.
Following
closely behind California is the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., where 23.2
percent lived in poverty last year according to the SPM. The next most
impoverished state was Florida, at 19.5 percent.
Use
of the new census measurement also showed a significant shift in poverty among
the various regions of the country. In the West, 20 percent of households were
living in poverty in 2011, compared to 16 percent in the South, the region of
the country historically more impoverished. This is undoubtedly largely
influenced by factors such as the assault on social programs in California and
the collapse of the housing market in Nevada.
The
new Census measurement also reveals that Social Security is by far the most
important program contributing to a reduction in poverty. According to the SPM,
when calculating the effects of benefits and expenses on overall poverty rates
in the American population, poverty was reduced by more than 8 percent due to Social
Security benefits, while medical expenses increased poverty by about 3.5
percent.
The
SNAP food stamp program and unemployment insurance benefits also provide
significant protection against poverty. But it is precisely these
programs—along with Medicare and Medicaid—that are being targeted for cuts as
part of the bipartisan assault on social programs being prepared in the wake of
the 2012 elections under the cynical pretext of averting a looming “fiscal
cliff.”
Coming
just more than a week after the presidential election, the new poverty figures
put the lie to claims by the Obama administration that significant gains have
been made on the way to recovery. Also on Thursday, the Labor Department
released initial claims for state unemployment benefits, which rose 78,000 last
week to a seasonally adjusted 439,000.
This
was the biggest one-week jump since the spike in claims caused by Hurricane
Katrina in September 2005. The number has been significantly impacted by last
month’s Hurricane Sandy, which left millions of homes and businesses without
power, paralyzed transportation and caused widespread damage in the Northeast
US.
But
the rise points to a more general trend of slow job growth. Economists polled
by Reuters before Thursday’s jobless claims were released said they expected
the pace of job growth to slow to an average 144,000 jobs per month in the
fourth quarter, down from 174,000 in the third quarter.
Long-term
unemployment remains entrenched. According to the new Census report, about 16.4
million Americans of working age worked less than one week in all of 2011. Of
these, fully a third are living in poverty, according to the new SPM
measurement. Federally funded extended unemployment benefits are set to expire
in January, threatening to deprive more than 2 million jobless workers of cash
assistance and plunging more American households into poverty.
*
Over 70% of the
United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida,
and New York) results from immigration.
*
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Why the new
jobs go to immigrants
By David R. Francis
Wall Street
cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last
Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in
February.
But it
wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of
the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3
percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the
brief recession that began in March 2001
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
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
*
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.
*
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!*
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
*
HERE’S HOW NO E-VERIFY BREAKS DOWN:
*
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
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:
*
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:
(UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS NOT
DEPT. OF LABOR PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN JOBS STOLEN BY ILLEGALS. IN FACT, OBAMA’S
ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS IS DOWN 70% DURING
IS FIRST TERM, AND EXPECTED TO BE NON-EXISTENT DURING HIS SECOND. AFTER ALL,
ILLEGALS REELECTED OBAMA AS THANKS FOR SABOTAGING E-VERIFY!)
"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.
*
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
*
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.”
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