AMERICA: One paycheck
and two illegals away from homelessness.
"The economists found that the pre-tax share of
national income received by the bottom half of the US population has been cut nearly
in half since 1980, from 20 percent to 12 percent, while the income share of the
top one percent has nearly doubled, from 12 percent to 20 percent."
TRUMPERNOMICS FOR THE SUPER RICH:
“In the US, the working class will confront a government unlike
any other in American history, which will continue and intensify a decades-long
social counterrevolution overseen by the Democrats and Republicans. The
incoming Trump administration is manned by billionaires, generals and arch
reactionaries. It is a government of, by and for the oligarchy, committed to
destroying every remaining gain won by workers over the past century.”
SOARING POVERTY IN AMERICA’S OPEN
BORDERS
TRUMPERNOMICS FOR THE SUPER RICH:
As new Congress is sworn in: Democrats signal readiness to work with Trump
By Patrick Martin
4 January 2017
As new Congress
is sworn in: Democrats signal readiness to work with Trump
By Patrick Martin
4 January 2017
In remarks delivered during the opening session
of the 115th US Congress, top Democrats emphasized their willingness to work
with the incoming Trump administration. Rather than warn the American
people—including the majority of voters who cast ballots for Trump’s opponents,
and mainly for Democrat Hillary Clinton—the Democrats signaled their desire to
collaborate with Trump and his cabinet of right-wing ideologues, billionaires
and retired generals.
BLOG: ONLY HILLARY CLINTON AND BARACK OBAMA
ARE MORE DEDICATED TO WALL STREET'S BIGGEST
CRIMINAL BANKSTERS THAN CHUCK SCHUMER!
The tone was set in the speech delivered by
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer after he was formally installed as top
Senate Democrat during the upper chamber’s opening session. With the
Republicans holding only a narrow 52-48 majority in the Senate, where most
actions require a 60-vote super-majority, Schumer will be the most powerful
Democrat in Washington after Obama leaves the White House.
Schumer has already signaled his desire to work
cooperatively with the new Trump administration, giving a series of interviews
in which he recalled his past friendly relations with the Manhattan
billionaire, who was a regular donor to Schumer’s congressional and US Senate
campaigns.
A profile published in Politico noted that Schumer has created a much
broader leadership structure for Senate Democrats than his predecessor Harry
Reid, incorporating figures on the right wing of the Democratic caucus,
including Mark Warner of Virginia, a telecommunications multimillionaire before
winning a Senate seat, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who was interviewed
several times by Trump for a potential cabinet appointment.
Joining Manchin and Warner are former
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts liberal Elizabeth
Warren, chosen to provide a “left” cover for any deals the Democrats make with
Trump on such issues as infrastructure or trade. Schumer himself has expressed
enthusiasm for an infrastructure deal, telling ABC News, “We think it should be
large. He’s mentioned a trillion dollars. I told him that sounded good to me.”
On a parallel track, the AFL-CIO and several
House Democrats said Tuesday they were urging Trump to go forward with his
pledge to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. AFL-CIO
President Richard Trumka called NAFTA “a political failure and a policy
disaster,” declaring, “We are ready to fix it.”
The union executive is urging American workers
to see workers in Canada and Mexico as their enemies, not the billionaire
capitalist who is about to enter the White House, and his coterie of
semi-fascists, fellow billionaires and ex-generals.
Schumer has ostentatiously distanced himself
from the Obama administration’s most recent policy initiative on Israel,
joining with Trump in denouncing the decision not to veto a UN Security Council
resolution critical of Israeli settlements on the West Bank, and blasting the
speech delivered by Secretary of State John Kerry in which he criticized
Israel’s policy on settlements.
In his speech Tuesday, Schumer combined rhetoric
about defending “the American people, the middle class and those struggling to
get there” with advice to Trump on how to explain and carry out his policies
more effectively. While he claimed that the Democrats would hold Trump
“accountable,” Schumer suggested that there was considerable “common ground”
for action, including infrastructure investments and protectionist trade
policies. He lent credence to Trump’s cynical campaign talk of protecting
Medicare and Social Security, offering to work with him on the issue.
The Democratic leader warned Trump against
adopting ready-made the policies of the congressional Republican right, saying
these were “pro-corporation, pro-elite policies diametrically opposed to the
many campaign themes that helped you win working class votes.” Schumer lectured
that if Trump were to do that—as though there was any question about it—“your
presidency will not succeed.”
The New York Post reported last weekend that Trump had
told Schumer he liked him better than the Republican Senate majority leader,
Mitch McConnell, or Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. Asked about this
report, Schumer told CNN that Trump said “something close to it.”
Most notable about Schumer’s first speech as
Democratic leader was the fact that he criticized Trump mainly on a relatively
minor question—his obsessive use of Twitter—not on the substance of his
policies. He denounced “government by Twitter,” but not the most right-wing
government in American history, pledged to destroy social programs, slash taxes
for the wealthy, attack democratic rights and build up the military-police
apparatus.
Schumer seemed most concerned that Trump’s
occasional Twitter outbursts in the early morning hours could destabilize world
financial markets, something the New York senator’s Wall Street backers find
unsettling. Schumer has collected more campaign contributions from the
financial industry than any nonpresidential candidate in modern history.
Senate Republicans have clearly taken Schumer’s
measure, suggesting he will be a far more cooperative figure than Reid.
McConnell, speaking with reporters after the November 8 election, said, “I
think what the American people are looking for is results. And to get results
in the Senate, as all of you know, it requires some Democratic participation
and cooperation.”
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi was equally
conciliatory in her briefer and less publicized remarks, delivered in the form
of a salute to House Speaker Paul Ryan after the right-wing Republican defeated
her by a margin of 239 to 190 in the contest for the leadership of the House of
Representatives.
Pelosi hailed Ryan’s supposed intellectual
abilities (he is a long-time devotee of ultra-right writer Ayn Rand) and his
long service in the House, as an intern, employee and congressional aide before
winning a seat at the age of 28. The simpering tone of her tribute reflected
the fundamental unity of the two capitalist parties, whose conflicts represent,
in President Obama’s words, an “intramural scrimmage” between teams that are on
the same side: the side of the financial oligarchy.
Pelosi herself is married to a real estate mogul
and venture capitalist, Paul Pelosi, worth more than $50 million. Whatever
happens in Washington, no matter how devastating for the working class, Madame
Pelosi will go unscathed, and her husband will likely profit.
Pelosi and Ryan, though of different
generations, have spent a combined 46 years in the House of Representatives
without ever facing a significant challenge at the polls. The stagnant and
inbred character of this body is shown by the fact that in 2016, despite the
political upheavals in the presidential campaign, 380 of the 393 House
incumbents won reelection, a victory rate of nearly 97 percent.
Like Schumer, Pelosi declared that House
Democrats would seek common ground with Trump “wherever they can,” based on the
incoming president’s demagogic pledges to help American workers. She vowed to
“stand our ground” on Medicare, Social Security, Obamacare, the environment and
civil rights—an empty pledge that she and her fellow Democrats are preparing to
break in the coming weeks and months. Significantly missing from her litany was
Medicaid, the government health program for the poor, which is believed to be
the first major target for budget cutting by the Trump administration and the
Republican majority in Congress.
The sole concrete action of the first day of the
115th Congress was an incident that could be indicative of the future. The
House Republican caucus sparked a media firestorm by voting Monday night to
effectively dismantle the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent
agency set up in 2008 to investigate charges against sitting congressmen,
referring them for action, if necessary, to the House Ethics Committee.
Even the limited powers of this body were too
much for the now-ascendant Republicans, who voted by 119-74 in a closed-door
meeting to gut the OCE’s investigative authority. Congressional Democrats
immediately denounced the action as a “betrayal” of Trump’s pledge to “drain
the swamp” in Washington, a piece of demagogy employed at the candidate’s
rallies during the final month of the presidential campaign. Trump himself
joined the attack, deploring the House Republican action in two Twitter posts.
By Tuesday afternoon, the House Republicans had unanimously reversed
themselves.
While the episode had a somewhat farcical
character, it showed the potential for future collaboration between the
Democrats and the Trump White House on issues of much greater importance.
Another clear signal of the Democrats’ readiness
to collaborate with the ultra-right Trump administration was the announcement
Tuesday that Bill and Hillary Clinton would attend Trump’s inauguration.
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:
Build the La Raza Democrat Party base with open borders, no ID to vote Democrat, no E-VERIFY and NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED TO APPLY.
Keeping wages DEPRESSED with endless hordes of looting Mexicans invading keeps these corrupt politicians’ paymasters on Wall Street generous$.
"Republicans should call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment. But more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN JOBS HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS ALONG WITH BILLIONS IN WELFARE.... AND THE PARTY HAS JUST BEGUN!
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY PLATFORM:
NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED APPLY!
VIVA LA RAZA FASCISM? THEN VOTE DEM!
"Republicans should call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment. But more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
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