1:32
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg took a jab at President Trump on Monday while delivering a speech in South Carolina, saying America’s past “was never as great as advertised.”
“So many of the solutions, I believe, are gonna come from our communities. Communities like the one where I grew up, which is an industrial mid-western city,” the former South Bend, Indiana mayor stated. “That is exactly the kind of place that our current president targeted with a message saying that we could find greatness by just stopping the clock and turning it back.”
“That past that he is promising to return us to was never as great as advertised, especially for marginalized Americans… and there’s no going back anyway.”
In April, Buttigieg called for abolishing the death penalty and called for reparations for the descendants of slaves.
“It is time to face the simple fact that capital punishment as seen in America has always been a discriminatory practice. We would be a fairer and safer country when we join the ranks of modern nations who have abolished the death penalty,” Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg previously said he considers reparation payments for slavery descendants to be an “important issue.”
“The country as a whole is effectively segregated by race and the resources are different. There is a direct connection between exclusion in the past and exclusion in the present,” Buttigieg explained.
“The country as a whole is
effectively segregated by race and the resources are different. There is a
direct connection between exclusion in the past and exclusion in the present,”
Buttigieg explained.
"We live in a moment that compels us each to act,” he said.
“The forces changing our country are tectonic — forces that help to explain
what made this current presidency even possible. That's why this time it's not
just about winning an election — it's about winning an era."
PETE BUTTIGIEG
At just
37, he is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He is a military veteran and a
deeply religious gay man who is married but also enjoys sandwiches from
(anti-same-sex marriage) Chick-fil-A. He is a Harvard-educated Rhodes scholar
who speaks eight languages. He is the first ever millennial candidate for
president and, so far, the only Democratic hopeful to appear on the "Fox
News Sunday" show.
The fact that he was born and bred in the
American Rust Belt is possibly his biggest asset.
"Scripture
tells us to look after the least among us, that it also counsels humility and
teaches us about what's bigger than ourselves," said Buttigieg, a devout
Episcopalian. "It points the way toward an inclusive and unselfish
politics that I strive to practice, whether I'm talking about my faith on the
stump or not."
Brzezinski
on Buttigieg: ‘He Exposed Hate with Love’
Brzezinski on Buttigieg: GOP 'Won't Be Able to Handle This Guy'
Volume 90%
TRENT BAKER
17 Apr 201965
1:26
Wednesday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”
gushed over 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg and his
handling of protesters at an Iowa rally the
night before.
Both host Mika Brzezinski and former
President George W. Bush aide Elise Jordan said Buttigieg has the “it” factor.
Brzezinski then said the openly gay
mayor of South Bend, IN, “exposed hate with love” with his response to the
protesters, adding much like former President Barack Obama,
Republicans “will not be able to handle” Buttigieg.
“What he did right there in front of
1,000 people, he exposed hate with love. He did it beautifully, pastorally. He
did it in a way that made you want to be there with him. I’m going to tell you,
as much as the Republicans completely misunderstood Barack Obama, and had no
idea how to handle an African-American Democratic nominee, they will not be
able to handle this guy. because he is truly working from a good center and has
the words and education and the articulation and the grounding to express it to
people who even don’t understand him. it’s called depth. it’s called moral
compass. it’s called faith. it’s called love for America. he is going to be
very hard to handle, if they try to take him on for something he is absolutely
not embarrassed about.
America
Created Just 20,000 Jobs in February...and those all went to foreign
born!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/03/mo-brooks-billionaires-want-america.html
Exclusive–Mo Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More
Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of Americans’
Consequently,
the pumping of ultra-cheap money into the financial system,
fueling speculation and parasitism, together with ever-widening
social inequality, is not a temporary measure but must be
made permanent.
The declining living standards of
the working class are feeding directly into the retail apocalypse and
mass layoffs of retail workers will only exacerbate the issue.
Workers’ wages have seen little to
no growth in the last four decades, and any economic growth
experienced since 2008 has gone to
“US household net worth sees
biggest fall since crisis”
“Trump Touts
Legal Immigration System for ‘Our Corporations’ at Expense
of
American Workers “– JOHN BINDER
Trump’s shift from a
wage-boosting legal immigration system to one that benefits corporations and
their shareholders coincides with recent big business lobby influence over his
White House, at the behest of advisers Jared Kushner and Brooke Rollins.
“Trump Abandons
‘America First’ Reforms: ‘We Need’ More Immigration to
Grow Business Profits” JOHN BINDER
Additionally, Koch spokespeople at the donors’ conference said the
network has its sights set on pushing amnesty for millions of illegal aliens this
year.
THE
BANKSTER BOYS WHO SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN WORKERS AND BORDERS TO FLOOD AMERICA
WITH “CHEAP” LABOR MEXICANS
Joe Biden Refers to ‘Buddy’ Barack Obama
Seven Times in 1/2 Hour Speech
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/06/jjoe-biden-refers-to-buddy-barack-obama-seven-times-in-1-2-hour-speech/
Former Vice President Joe
Biden leaned heavily on the legacy of his old running mate, President Barack
Obama, during a campaign appearance on Saturday.
Prior to the rally, the campaign aired a video of Obama praising Biden in 2017 and awarding his
own vice president a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“I heard you playing the tape
of my buddy,” Biden said, speaking to the audience in Columbia, South Carolina,
and apologized, “My buddy… I shouldn’t be so casual — President of the United
States Barack Obama!”
During his campaign speech, Biden recalled the 2015
racist church shooting in South Carolina, when Obama attended the funeral and
sang “Amazing Grace” to the congregation.
“I watched my buddy Barack
stand up there, I watched him talk, and he talked about we have to find that
Amazing Grace,” Biden said,
Biden also referred to Obama’s Charleston eulogy for
the slain, as he spoke about employment discrimination.
“As Barack says, when two
equally qualified people, one Jamal and one John, they both apply for a job,
and John gets the job?” he said. “That’s the reality in America.”
Biden reminded supporters that
he and President Obama were the ones who passed Obamacare, as he talked about
the continuing struggle for affordable health care.
“How can you maintain your
dignity when you look over at your child and he needs health care and he has a
preexisting condition?” he asked. “You couldn’t afford it before Barack and I
wrote … Barack passed the Affordable Care Act.”
Biden also reminded the audience that he complimented Obama for
passing Obamacare in 2010, alluding to the moment that he was caught on a hot mic
calling it a “big f-ing deal.”
“I know I complimented the
president when I, when we passed the Affordable Care Act, I said this is a big
deal or something to that effect,” he said as the crowd laughed.
Biden also spoke about cutting short his plans to run for
president in 2016, despite the difficulty of watching his son Beau die
of cancer.
“Only person I could confide in
was my friend – and he is my friend – Barack Obama, I told him about everything
that was going on, because I knew I could trust him completely,” he said.
At another point in his speech,
Biden interrupted his campaign message with more praise for Obama.
“By the way, he’s a hell of a
guy, I worked with him for eight years, I watched him, he has enormous
integrity, and nobody I’ve ever worked with was smarter, and he is a decent,
decent, decent man,” Biden said. “And folks, I think he was one of the best
presidents we’ve ever, ever had.”
CRONY CAPITALISM
Barack Obama created more debt for
the middle class than any president in US
history, and also had the only huge QE
programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the
wealth created went to the top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
“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
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR BARACK OBAMA MOCKS TRUMP
Obama orchestrated the
greatest transfer of wealth to the rich in U.S. history!
THE WALL STREET BOUGHT AND OWNED DEMOCRAT PARTY
SERVING BANKSTERS, BILLIONAIRES and INVADING ILLEGALS
THE CRONY CLASS:
Income inequality grows FOUR TIMES FASTER under
Obama than Bush.
“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election
in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with
the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare
programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW
MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black
capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three
strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population in the
world.”
INCOME PLUMMETS UNDER OBAMA AND
HIS WALL STREET CRONIES
HIS WALL STREET CRONIES
SOROS RUNS OBAMA'S BID FOR A
THIRD
TERM FOR LIFE).
American
Workers Wouldn’t Stand A Chance With Bygone Joe Biden
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2019/05/04/american-workers-wouldnt-stand-a-chance-with-bygone-joe-biden-n2545848
Source: (Christopher
DeVargas/Las Vegas Sun via AP)
When
President Trump promised to bring back American manufacturing, he wasn’t just
talking about union workers. He was describing an economic agenda that benefits
all workers.
According
to the latest
figures from
the Labor Department, the manufacturing sector just posted its biggest wage
gains in over a decade — a clear sign that the President’s economic policies
are making a real difference for working families.
The
employment cost index, which measures employee wages and benefits, rose by 0.9 percent for the
manufacturing sector in the first quarter of 2019, with salaries and wages
increasing by a full percentage point — even faster than the value of
job-related benefits.
The last
time manufacturing wages rose so much in a single quarter was in 2008, when
wages also rose 1.0 percent between January and March.
Those
wage gains are impressive, but they’re not surprising. Over the past two years,
America has experienced an historic economic boom marked by the lowest
unemployment rate in half a century, fueled by a pro-growth agenda that
includes major middle-class tax cuts, deregulation, and targeted
counter-tariffs to protect American workers against unfair trade practices by
foreign competitors.
As a
direct result of this effective economic strategy, labor productivity is also increasing at a faster
rate than it has in almost 10 years.
Between
the surging value of American workers and the fact that there are now more job
openings than job seekers, last quarter’s wage gains were practically
inevitable.
As
remarkable as our recent economic progress has been, however, the Democrats want
to eliminate President Trump’s policies and replace them with a radical agenda
that would return us to the lethargic economy of the Obama years.
Democrat
presidential frontrunner Joe Biden, for instance, is reviving decades-old liberal appeals to
labor unions, declaring that his economic agenda will champion big labor.
“I make
no apologies: I am a union man, period,” Biden told members of the Teamsters
union, arguing that “the American middle class was built … by unions.”
While
it’s true that unions played a key role in America’s economic development a
century ago, circumstances have changed dramatically since Franklin Roosevelt’s
day. Industries that used to be dominated by unions, such as manufacturing and
construction, are increasingly dependent on non-union labor, necessitating a
more comprehensive approach to economic policy that looks out for the interests
of all workers.
President
Trump adopted just such an approach, focusing his efforts on unleashing the
potential of American workers and businesses by removing government-imposed
impediments such as high tax rates and unnecessary regulations, rather than
trying to use the federal government to pick winners and losers.
As a result, wages are growing significantly faster for nonunion workers
in goods-producing industries — in the manufacturing sector, for instance, wages
increased 1.1 percent for nonunion workers last quarter, but only 0.4 percent
for unionized employees.
While Trump’s innovative economic agenda is designed to improve the lives
of all American workers by sparking private sector growth, Biden and his fellow
Democrats are stuck in an outdated way of thinking that views certain kinds of
workers as more important than others. That’s exactly why the 2020 election is
about more than just determining who wins the presidency — it’s about defending
our newfound prosperity from those who seek to take it away.
Across the board, American workers are winning thanks to President Trump’s
economic policies. Biden’s pro-union agenda is just an outdated relic of a
bygone era. Workers wouldn’t stand a chance with bygone Joe Biden.
1993
Joe Biden Said NAFTA
Would Help U.S. Chrysler
Workers – Years Later They
Were
Laid Off
JOHN BINDER
3 May 2019976
3:19
Former Vice President and Senator Joe Biden (D) was one of the earliest
cheerleaders for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which helped
to eliminate nearly five million U.S. manufacturing jobs.
During
a Senate floor speech in
November 1993, Biden said that NAFTA would, specifically, increase jobs and
production for American workers employed at Chrysler’s Newark, Delaware plant
by opening up the Mexican market.
“Chrysler
expects to sell 5,000 more cars to Mexico from their Newark, DE, plant by the
end of the decade,” Biden said. “Without NAFTA, Chrysler will have to
manufacture more cars in Mexico to meet the requirements of pre-NAFTA laws.”
Years
later, in 2007, those American workers at the Newark Chrysler plant were laid off as the
plant closed down. At the it’s height, about 5,700 American workers were
employed there. When the plant closed, around 700 to 1,100 Americans were left
without jobs.
Many
of the U.S. workers blamed the unfair foreign competition that they had been
subjected to because of free trade and multilateral agreements like NAFTA,
which made it easier for corporations to readily outsource American jobs to
Mexico.
“Everybody
here is mad, upset, the whole gamut of emotions,” a 15-year employee told the
Associated Press at the time. “People feel like they got the carpet yanked from
underneath them. They feel like there’s really nothing out there for them after
this. The economy is really bad, so it’s a hard thing.”
“Half
of Congress is buying foreign cars,” another longtime Chrysler worker said.
“They should be mandated to buy American cars. If they don’t, how patriotic is
that?”
Offshoring
production to Mexico has proven cheaper for corporate executives. Where
American workers earn $30 an hour, Mexican workers earn about $3 an hour in
comparison — a 90 percent cut to wages that has expanded the profit margins of
hundreds of former American manufacturers.
Though
Biden has routinely
claimed that NAFTA created jobs in Delaware and the
U.S., NAFTA helped to eliminate nearly
17,000 American jobs due to soaring trade deficits and China’s entering the
World Trade Organization (WTO) in his home state. NAFTA, alone, eliminated
about 1,200 American jobs in Delaware due to the U.S.-Mexico trade deficit.
Biden in 2007 defended NAFTA, which helped
eliminate nearly 5M American manufacturing jobs since 1994:"NAFTA wasn’t
the problem." https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/30/flashback-joe-biden-in-2007-job-killing-nafta-not-the-problem/ …
Flashback--Joe
Biden in 2007: Job-Killing NAFTA 'Not the Problem'
As
Breitbart News has
chronicled, decades-long free trade deals, NAFTA, and China’s entering the
WTO eliminated nearly five million manufacturing jobs across the country since
1994. Free trade advocates, like Biden, claimed at the time that NAFTA would
create a million U.S. manufacturing jobs in the first five years.
Instead,
nearly a million American jobs have been certified by the federal government as
being lost directly due to NAFTA, according to data gathered by Public Citizen.
These are only the U.S. jobs that the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
program recognizes as being lost to free trade and does not indicate the actual
number of jobs lost.
This
week, Biden defended his support, once again, of NAFTA, job-killing free trade
negotiations, and his opposition to tariffs on cheap foreign imports.
Flashback–Joe Biden in 2007:
Job-Killing NAFTA ‘Not the
Problem’
JOHN BINDER
30 Apr 2019189
4:46
In 2007, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) defended the job-killing,
pro-outsourcing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) years after voting
in support of the free trade deal that ultimately helped lead to the
elimination of nearly five million U.S. manufacturing jobs.
During
a December 2007 interview with SentinelSource.com,
Biden defended his support for NAFTA by claiming that the free trade deal
“probably created” more U.S. jobs than those that were lost and said the deal
“wasn’t the problem.”
Biden
said:
My
problem is … I voted for NAFTA. NAFTA in my state created more jobs
than it lost jobs coming out of my state. And you can argue that, on
balance, it probably created more American jobs than it lost.
[Emphasis added]
…
There
was dislocation. Some jobs got lost. Some jobs got created. But, again,
NAFTA wasn’t the problem. The problem became when you go beyond what these
guys are going, [the Bush administration] and it’s attitude — it’s attitude
about … and it’s an intellectually indefensible attitude. [Emphasis added]
In
Biden’s home state of Delaware, though, NAFTA helped to eliminate nearly
17,000 American jobs due to soaring trade deficits and China’s entering the
World Trade Organization (WTO). NAFTA, alone, eliminated about 1,200 American
jobs in Delaware due to the U.S.-Mexico trade deficit.
Biden
said, in the same interview, that the U.S. must be engaged in “open trade”
while calling himself a “fair trader.”
“This
isn’t about saying you can’t … we should not be investing in other parts of the
world, this is not saying we should not have open trade,” Biden said. “It just
says we should have free and fair trade. I mean, literally, fair trade. And
that means you get held to the same standard.”
As
Breitbart News has
chronicled, decades-long free trade deals, NAFTA, and China’s entering the
WTO eliminated nearly five million manufacturing jobs across the country since
1994. Free trade advocates, like Biden, claimed at the time that NAFTA would
create a million U.S. manufacturing jobs in the first five years.
Instead,
nearly a million American jobs have been certified by the federal government as
being lost directly due to NAFTA, according to data gathered by Public Citizen.
These are only the U.S. jobs that the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
program recognizes as being lost to free trade and does not indicate the actual
number of jobs lost.
For
example, free trade with Mexico, alone, has eliminated at least 700,000
American jobs, and states in the Rust Belt have been hit the hardest. Those states
and the number of American workers impacted include:
- 14,500 American workers displaced in Wisconsin
- 43,600 American workers displaced in Michigan
- 2,600 American workers displaced in West Virginia
- 26,300 American workers displaced in Pennsylvania
- 34,900 American workers displaced in Ohio
- 34,300 American workers displaced in New York
- 6,500 American workers displaced in Iowa
- 24,400 American workers displaced in Indiana
- 34,700 American workers displaced in Illinois
Most
famously, the state of West Virginia has been enormously crippled by free trade
and multilateral trade deals like NAFTA. One former steel town in West
Virginia lost 94
percent of its steel jobs because of NAFTA, with nearly 10,000 workers in
the town being displaced from the steel industry.
“They
talk about creating all these jobs,” an American worker told The Independent of NAFTA.
“But they’re just retail jobs that pay minimum wage, or just above.”
This
week, Biden defended his support, once again, of NAFTA, job-killing free trade
negotiations, and his opposition to tariffs on cheap foreign imports.
Despite
declaring himself a defender of American union workers, Biden’s first
fundraiser for his 2020 presidential primary campaign was hosted by a slew of
wealthy donors, including attorney Steve Cozen, whose law firm specializes in
helping corporations bust up labor unions, as Breitbart News’s Matt Boyle reported.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
WALL
STREET, GLOBALIST, BILLIONAIRES and the OPEN BORDERS ADVOCATES FINISH OFF
MIDDLE-AMERICA.
Ryan asked
how much longer will the working-class not matter “because it’s becoming
impossible for them to keep their nose above water.”
“Where’s the social compact that we used to have
between corporations and their workers? Where’s the social contract between the
government and our workers?”
asked Ryan. “I mean, it’s like the worker — there’s always an excuse that the
worker is going to get hammered, that they’re going to lose their pensions,
they’re going to lose their jobs, they’re going to have to move. Meanwhile,
corporations, in this instance, General Motors got $157 million in tax cut just
last year. I mean how much longer are we going to do this to where the worker
doesn’t matter? And I hope this is a real wake-up call for us to say, workers,
white, brown, black, gay, straight, working-class people have got to come
together because it’s becoming impossible for them to keep their nose above
water anymore.” REP. TIM RYAN
GENERAL
MOTORS DUMPS THOUSANDS OF WORKERS AND CLOSES PLANTS -
Stockholders celebrate!
"It
identifies socialism with proposals for mild social reform such as
“Medicare for all,” raised and increasingly abandoned by a section of the
Democratic Party. It cites Milton Friedman and Margaret Thatcher to
promote the virtues of “economic freedom,” i.e., the unrestrained
operation of the capitalist market, and to denounce all social reforms,
business regulations, tax increases or anything else that impinges on
the oligarchy’s self-enrichment."
“The
yearly income of a typical US household dropped by a massive 12 percent,
or $6,400, in the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is just one of the
findings of the 2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances released
Thursday, which documentsa sharp decline in working class living standards and
a further concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich and the
super-rich.”
"The American phenomenon of record
stock values fueling an ever greater concentration of wealth at the very
top of society, while the economy is starved of productive investment, the social
infrastructure crumbles, and working class living standards are driven
down by entrenched unemployment, wage-cutting and government austerity
policies, is part of a broader global process."
"A
defining expression of this crisis is the dominance of financial speculation
and parasitism, to the point where a narrow international financial aristocracy
plunders society’s resources in order to further enrich itself."
Flashback–Biden Cozied Up
to General Motors CEO Mary
Barra: ‘GM is Alive!’
JOHN BINDER
26 Apr 2019387
4:42
Following former
President Obama’s billion-dollar American taxpayer bailout of multinational
automaker General Motors (GM), then-Vice President Joe Biden (D) cozied up to
CEO Mary Barra, who has since laid off thousands of American
workers and outsourced their jobs to Mexico and China.
Throughout
the 2012 presidential election cycle, Biden routinely claimed that “General
Motors is alive” following the Obama administration’s $11 billion taxpayer
bailout of the company in 2009.
Years
after the bailout, Biden and officials with the Obama administration not only
touted Barra’s leadership at GM but invited her to
the State of the Union Address in 2014 and took
photo-ops with the executive.
Today,
Barra is overseeing the layoff of thousands of American workers as GM shifts
and increases production in Mexico and China. Barra’s mass layoff effort is
stopping production at four of its U.S. plants,
including Detroit-Hamtramck and Warren Transmission in Michigan, Lordstown
Assembly in Ohio, and Baltimore Operations in Maryland.
While
GM was bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, the Obama-Biden scheme came with no
commitments for the corporation to stop outsourcing Americans’ jobs overseas.
In
2011, Hoover Institution at Stanford University research fellow Paul
Gregory noted that
despite the Obama-Biden bailout for GM, the company continued outsourcing
American jobs abroad. A 2011 report detailed GM had less than 75,000 jobs left
in the U.S. while employing more than 122,000 foreign workers overseas. At the
time, nearly two-thirds of GM’s workforce was located abroad.
Rather
than stopping GM’s outsourcing, the Obama-Biden scheme focused
much of their attention on subsidizing and promoting electric,
plug-in cars like the Chevy Volt. Last year, Barra announced that production
for the Volt, as well as the Chevy Cruze, would end.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra
talks about the company’s Corvette Stingray with Vice President Joe Biden
during a tour of the North American International Auto in Detroit, Thursday,
Jan. 16, 2014. Biden said the U.S. auto industry’s resurgence since the 2009
federal bailout provides a strong basis for a Motor City recovery. (AP
Photo/Carlos Osorio)
General Motors CEO Mary Barra
talks with Vice President Joe Biden during a tour of the North American
International Auto in Detroit, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Biden said the U.S.
auto industry’s resurgence since the 2009 federal bailout provides a strong
basis for a Motor City recovery. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Last
month, Barra closed the Lordstown plant, a decision expected to result in the
layoff of more than
8,000 American workers in the area, and allegedly blamed the
United Auto Workers (UAW) for the plant’s closure. Closing the Lordstown plant
resulted in the immediate layoff of about 1,600 American workers and since
2017, GM has laid off about 4,500 American workers in Ohio. Another 900
American workers in supporting industries have been put of out work as well.
After
all four plant closures, GM’s Barra is expected to have laid off 14,700 of its
workers in the U.S. and Canada.
As
Breitbart News has
chronicled, American workers and UAW officials have debunked Barra’s claim
that the union is at fault for the Lordstown plant closure. Details emerged
this month revealing that the UAW accepted nearly $120 million a year in
concessions to keep the Lordstown plant open. When workers and UAW officials
heard of Barra’s announcement last year, they say they were stunned.
“We
did everything they want,” longtime GM worker Sonja Smith told Bloomberg News. “This is their
payback.”
Simultaneously,
UAW officials have voiced
support for Trump in his effort to reopen the Lordstown plant and
keep open GM’s other three plants slated for closure by Barra.
Experts
have called on Trump to implement a 25 percent auto tariff to protect
American auto worker jobs and the U.S. auto industry from Chinese domination.
Likewise, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), vying for the Democrat nomination for
president, has told Trump to immediately
ban GM from receiving federal contracts for their outsourcing,
offshoring, and mass layoff scheme.
While
GM lays off thousands of American workers this year, its production in Mexico
and China is ramping up.
Specifically, GM is looking to manufacture an electric Cadillac in
China and continue manufacturing its Envision compact vehicle
in China.
The
made-in-Mexico Chevrolet Blazer will soon arrive in
U.S. markets. Last year, GM became the largest automaker in Mexico as it has
cut jobs in America and increased production in Mexico.
Offshoring
production to Mexico has proven cheaper for GM executives because American
workers earn about $30 an hour while Mexican workers earn about $3 an hour, a
90 percent cut to wages that widens the corporation’s profit margins.
Meanwhile, Barra continues to earn a salary of about $22 million.
Biden’s
first fundraiser for his 2020 presidential primary campaign was hosted by a
slew of wealthy donors, including attorney Steve Cozen whose law firm
specializes in helping corporations bust up labor unions, as Breitbart News’
Matt Boyle reported.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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