“Currently, the U.S. admits more
than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants every year, with more than 70
percent coming to the country through the process known as “chain migration”
whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign
relatives to the U.S. In the next 20 years, the current U.S. legal immigration
system is on track to import roughly 15 million new foreign-born voters.
Between seven and eight million
of those foreign-born voters will arrive in the
U.S. through chain
migration.” JOHN BINDER
As mass
immigration has continued, with border surges of illegal
immigration occurring over the past few months, wages for American workers
have continued to be nearly flat, growing by less than o.5 percent this month. John
Binder
AS
WALL STREET PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s
Export of “cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
MASSIVE TRANSFER OF
WEALTH TO THE RICH: YOUR DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK…. for Wall Street, Banksters,
Billionaires and LA RAZA.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-democrat-party-for-billionaires.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail.
It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL
GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
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The oligarchy rules: Amazon
and corporations veto Seattle homelessness tax
By
Will Morrow
13 June 2018
It took just four weeks for the Democratic Party-controlled
Seattle City Council to completely capitulate to a campaign by Amazon and other
corporate giants demanding the city overturn a minuscule business tax law
passed last month. The council voted to abolish the tax yesterday, after having
voted unanimously to introduce it on May 14.
The measure would have taxed large corporations with an annual
revenue of more than $20 million beginning in 2019 at a rate of $0.14 for every
hour worked by each employee in the city, or roughly $275 annually per
full-time worker. Had it ever been implemented, the measure would have raised
approximately $47 million per year, revenue that was to be allocated to
building low-income housing and other critical services for a small fraction of
the more than 6,000 people who are homeless every night in the city.
On Monday, Democratic mayor Jenny Durkan released a statement
signed by seven Democratic members of the council, responding to a coordinated
campaign against the tax waged by Amazon and other corporations. The statement
declared that “it is clear that the ordinance will lead to a prolonged,
expensive political fight over the next five months that will do nothing to
tackle our urgent housing and homelessness crisis.” Pleading to the giant
corporations which are the real constituency of both the Democrats and
Republicans, the letter states, “We heard you.”
Democratic councilmember Mike O’Brien told the KUOW radio station,
“There’s no doubt that business pressure has shifted my view.” O’Brien claimed
he was concerned that the tax would become an issue for Democrats’ re-election
campaigns.
This pathetic and degraded spectacle is another demonstration of
the real state of economic and political relations in the United States and internationally.
A tiny financial oligarchy controls both political parties at every level of
government, from city councils to the president of the US, and accepts no
impingement upon its profit and wealth, no matter how small, to meet even the
most essential needs of society.
Amazon, which has its headquarters based in Seattle and employs
approximately 45,000 workers there, stood to pay approximately $10 million per
year towards the tax. This is approximately 0.007 percent of Amazon CEO Jeff
Bezos’ personal wealth of $138 billion. It equals what Bezos makes in about an
hour. This wealth has been obtained through the brutal exploitation of Amazon
workers in the US and internationally. Bezos could write a personal check for
the $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States and would still be the
richest man in the world.
After the tax was voted in, Amazon, Starbucks, Vulcan—the
investment firm owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—and Washington state’s
food industry and grocers’ associations provided tens of thousands of dollars
toward a ballot campaign, entitled “No tax on jobs,” that would have asked
voters to decide on whether to repeal the tax in the November 2018 elections.
This followed a weeks-long campaign of economic blackmail against
the city by Amazon, which halted construction on a new building in Seattle
pending the decision on the tax. As a result, the tax bill as passed was itself
watered down from an original version that would have raised almost twice as
much in revenue. Even if it had been introduced, it would have been totally
inadequate to address the homelessness crisis in Seattle, among the highest in
the US.
The rescinding of the tax exposes the bankruptcy of the
perspective of Seattle city council member and Socialist Alternative leader
Kshama Sawant. Sawant hailed the tax bill’s passage in May—itself the outcome
of a backroom deal aimed at appeasing Amazon by reducing the tax’s impact—as a
“huge victory.”
Amazon and the other corporate opponents of the tax were joined in
their campaign by the trade unions. Iron Workers Local 86 demonstrated at a
press conference called by Sawant at the beginning of May to oppose the tax.
Chris McClain, the financial and business secretary of the union, declared that
Amazon was a “responsible developer that pays living wages and provides
living-wage jobs for the construction industry.”
While Sawant voted to oppose the rescinding of the bill, Amazon’s
victory shows Sawant’s strategy of pressuring the Democratic Party through
local government maneuvers only leads to defeat and disillusionment. Socialist
Alternative’s strategy has been to call on workers to support their “coalition”
with so-called “progressive” Democrats to pressure the “corporate” Democrats to
adopt left-wing policies. In the 2015 Seattle City Council elections, for
example, Socialist Alternative called on workers and young people to vote for
so-called “progressive” Democrats, including Lisa Herbold, who voted yesterday
for rescinding the Amazon tax. Although this strategy collapsed when the
Democrats caved with near unanimity to Amazon’s blackmail, Sawant has responded
to the debacle by doubling down. She now claims the lesson of the tax
revocation is the need to elect more Socialist Alternative members to the city
council to continue to channel working class opposition to inequality into
coalition building with the pro-corporate Democratic Party.
Socialist Alternative is opposed above all to the building of a
revolutionary movement of the working class in complete opposition to both corporate
controlled parties and the pro-corporate and anti-working class trade unions.
That’s because Socialist Alternative functions as a faction of the Democratic
Party.
The stranglehold over every aspect of social life wielded by the
giant corporations, however, shows that the guaranteeing of the most elementary
needs of the working class requires the expropriation of the banks and
corporations and their transformation into public utilities, controlled by the
working class, and the socialist reorganization of society.
The author also recommends:
Socialist Alternative proposes electoral alliance with
Seattle Democrats
[31 October 2015]
[31 October 2015]
TRUMP’S SECRET
AMNESTY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
"During the same month that
Schlafly had backed Trump for his “America First”
agenda, Nielsen’s committee
released an ideologically-globalist report, promoting
the European migrant crisis
as a win for big business who would profit greatly
from a never-ending stream
of cheap, foreign
migrants."
AMERICA: ONE PAYCHECK AND TWELVE
ILLEGALS AWAY FROM HOMELESSNESS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/rick-moran-los-angeles-mexicos-second.html
A dashcam video of downtown Los Angeles on
Christmas day reveals a stunning sight: hundreds of tents and lean-tos on the
sidewalks that serve as shelter for the homeless. The scene is reminiscent of a
third-world country. RICK MORAN / AMERICANTHINKER
com
HOMELESS CRISIS IN LOS ANGELES,
MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST
CITY, WORSENS BY THE DAY…. Approximates the great depression
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/homeless-crisis-in-mexicos-second.html
93% of the murders in Los Angeles are by
Mexicans
HOMELESS AMERICA’S HOUSING CRISIS as 40
million illegals have climbed U.S. open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/homeless-in-america-hundreds-of.html
EVERY AMERICAN (Legal) only one paycheck and
two illegals away from living in their cars.
ASSAULT ON THE
AMERICAN WORKER…. Amazon’s JEFF BEZOS PLAN FOR A NEW AMERICAN SLAVERY
"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail.
It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL
GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
MODERN SLAVER JEFF
BEZOS
AMAZON’S ASSAULT ON
AMERICA CONTINUES
Amazon, the multinational online retail conglomerate, is
importing more foreign workers to the United States to take coveted tech
industry jobs than Facebook and Google combined. JOHN BINDER
"Amazon is a
massive wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the economy
and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG
"Today, each of the top 5 billionaires
owns as much as 750 million people, more than the total population of
Latin America and double the population of the US."
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO AMERICA'S HOUSING CRISIS IF 40
MILLION LOOTING MEXICANS WERE SHIPPED BACK OVER THE
BORDER THEY INVADED?
We would also be
ending the TRILLION DOLLAR LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY WELFARE STATE!
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