Monday, February 25, 2019

SANCTUARY STATES ILLINOIS AND NEW JERSEY RAISE MINIMUM WAGE TO SHIT $15 - BILLIONAIRES DEMAND HORDES MORE ILLEGALS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED

Why do all global billionaires want wider open borders, amnesty and no E-VERIFY?
AMERICA: THE ECONOMY IS RIGGED BY COGRESS SO THE RICH BECOME SUPER RICH.
The American middle class gets the tax bills for Wall Street’s crimes and bottomeless bailouts!

Wealth concentration increases in US.


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The latest research on wealth inequality by University of California economics professor Gabriel Zucman underscores one of the key social and economic trends since the global financial crisis of 2008. Those at the very top of society, who benefited directly from the orgy of speculation that led to the crash, have seen their wealth accumulate at an even faster rate, while the mass of the population has suffered a major decline.
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The past 40 years have seen the consolidation of a plutocratic elite, which has subordinated every aspect of American society to a single goal: amassing ever more colossal amounts of personal wealth. The top one percent have captured all of the increase in national income over the past two decades, and all of the increase in national wealth since the 2008 crash.
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER

STARING IN THE FACE of AMERICA’S UNRAVELING and the ROAD TO REVOLUTION
It will more likely come on the heels of economic dislocation and dwindling wealth to redistribute.”
 “Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” -- Karen McQuillan  THEAMERICAN THINKER.com

"The kind of people needed for violent change these days are living in off-the-grid rural compounds, or the “gangster paradise” where the businesses of drugs, guns, and prostitution are much more lucrative than “transforming” America along Cuban lines." BRUCE THORNTON
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There can be no resolution to any social problem confronting the population in the United States and internationally outside of a frontal assault on the wealth of the financial elite. 
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 The political system is controlled by this social layer, which uses a portion of its economic plunder to bribe politicians and government officials, whether Democratic or Republican.

Illinois and New Jersey governors sign $15 minimum wage into law

Last Tuesday, the Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, signed into law a bill that will raise the minimum wage in the state to $15 an hour by 2025. The first increase from the current minimum wage of $8.25—a hike to $9.25—is set to take place January 1, 2020, followed by another one-dollar raise in July of 2020.
Pritzker, a former venture capitalist whose estimated net worth is $3.5 billion, became the richest governor is US history following his election in November 2018. A worker making $15 an hour, or $31,200 a year on the basis of 52 weeks of work at 40 hours per week, would have to work for over 112,000 years to accumulate Pritzker’s fortune.
While Illinois became the first Midwest state to enact a $15 minimum wage, last month New Jersey became the fourth state to enact similar legislation, following New York, California and Massachusetts. New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy, also a Democrat, signed legislation that would guarantee a wage of $15 an hour by 2024. The current minimum wage is $8.85.
The New Jersey legislation incorporates multiple exemptions from the 2024 time frame. For example, a stipulation was included that firms employing seasonal workers and small businesses that employ five or fewer workers will not have to comply until 2026. Hyper-exploited farm workers are also excluded under the current legislation. Instead of $15 an hour, their minimum wage will increase to $12.50 by January 1, 2024. A “special committee” will then be convened to determine if the minimum wage will be increased any further for farm workers.
The Illinois legislation, which Governor Pritzker hailed as “a victory for the cause of economic justice,” includes a two-tier approach that will exclude young workers under age 18 who work less than 650 hours a year. Instead, their wages will max out at $13 an hour by 2025. For workers employed in the service industry, who are heavily dependent on tips, the minimum wage will increase only to $9 an hour.
At a signing ceremony, Pritzker was awarded a “Fight for $15” tee shirt. The campaign has led the charge to institutionalize poverty wages for millions of workers throughout the United States under the guise of fighting to improve living conditions. “Fight for $15” is heavily promoted by pseudo-left organizations such as the International Socialist Organization and Socialist Alternative, in concert with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Democratic Party.
The SEIU has stressed that $15 an hour is only “part of the solution.” The other part involves forcing workers to join trade unions such as the SEIU, which will collect dues and eat into the meager wage increase, while serving the employers as labor contractors and industrial police to enforce low pay and exploitation and suppress workers’ resistance.
In a speech to the legislature, Governor Pritzker spoke of the struggle that over a million current minimum wage Illinois workers are forced to conduct to survive on $8.25 an hour. Citing the precarious nature of low-income employment, Pritzker feigned concern, acknowledging that “you can’t afford a single health care emergency… or flat tire, or worn car battery.” He likened this economic anxiety to a “house on fire” and boasted that by signing the legislation he was not “waiting for the rain” to put it out.
The claim that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour—over four or five years and with many exemptions—will provide a “living wage” is a fraud. The average rent for an apartment in Chicago is $1,893 in 2019, according to rentcafe.com, a 5 percent increase from 2018. This means a worker is paying nearly $23,000 a year just in rent. That sum equals 74 percent of the annual income of a full-time worker receiving $15 an hour.
In addition to skyrocketing rent, consumer prices, according to the government, have increased by nearly 2 percent a year for the past four years. If this rate continues, the real value of the increase in the minimum wage will be rapidly eroded.
The signing of minimum wage legislation is a part of a concerted effort by the ruling class and its functionaries in the Democratic Party and the trade unions to try to contain the growth of working class militancy and anti-capitalist sentiment while standardizing the lowering of wages overall.
Strikes last year by hotel workers, including workers at the Pritzker-controlled Hyatt Regency, were isolated and strangled by the UNITE HERE union, which worked to stymie workers’ efforts to broaden their struggle to other hotel chains and workplaces.
The specter of workers rebelling against the unions and organizing strikes and mass protests in defiance of them—as in US teachers’ strikes last year and the mass wildcat strike by maquiladora workers in Matamoros, Mexico, this year—has accelerated plans by Democratic governors throughout the US to enact similar minimum wage legislation, in the hopes of driving workers back into the dead end of the Democratic Party. Presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders have cynically equated the “Fight for $15” with the fight against social inequality.
Sanders has also proposed appealing to 
major corporations such as Amazon and 
McDonald’s to voluntarily increase their 
minimum wage to $15, absent legislation. 
After Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest
multi-billionaire, agreed to Sanders’ request 
last year, the senator praised the man who 
has made a mega-fortune by brutally 
exploiting workers at poverty-level wages, 
saying he did “exactly the right thing.” 
Amazon has since cut benefits and increased 
speedup to compensate for the wage 
increase and satisfy voracious stockholders.



THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!

"GOP estb. is using the $5 billion border-wall fight to hide up to four blue/white-

collar cheap-labor programs in lame-duck DHS budget. Donors are worried that

salaries are too damn high, & estb. media does not want to know." 

 

TOP EVIL CORPORATIONS LOOTING AMERICA

Goldman Sachs TRUMP CRONIES – CLINTON CRONIES
JPMorgan Chase OBAMA CRONIES
ExxonMobil
Halliburton BUSH CRIME FAMILY CRONIES
British American Tobacco
Dow Chemical
DuPont
Bayer
Microsoft
Google CLINTON CRONIES
Facebook OBAMA CRONIES
Amazon
Walmart

 

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"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG

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."

“A comprehensive new report released Sunday by the New York-based labor rights watchdog China Labor Watch (CLW) has shed new light on the barbaric and illegal practices that Amazon employs to boost its profits by driving down production costs on the backs of factory workers at the company’s electronics assembly plants in China.”
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“A comprehensive new report released Sunday by the New York-based labor rights watchdog China Labor Watch (CLW) has shed new light on the barbaric and illegal practices that Amazon employs to boost its profits by driving down production costs on the backs of factory workers at the company’s electronics assembly plants in China.”
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
       
AMAZON’S JEFF BEZOS IS THE FACE OF MODERN SLAVERY!


The gains for employees are a novel pain for the investors and employers who have been able to hold down wages for decades because the federal government is trying to grow the economy via cheap-labor legal immigration.

“INVESTORS” HAVE AND WILL DESTROY THIS NATION IF IT WOULD IMPACT THE NEXT QUARTER’S EARNINGS!

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
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