IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT WE HAVE OPEN BORDERS AND NON-ENFORCEMENT!
IT IS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND PROFITS HIGHER FOR A FEW!
The cheap-labor economic strategy also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and wealth from the heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents and housing costs, shrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces. JOHN BINDER
“For example, it would take an individual
earning the median income 43 years to save up enough for a down payment in Los
Angeles—and that’s not a down payment for a McMansion, it’s for a median-priced
dwelling. In San Francisco, it would take that individual 40 years. In New York
City or Miami, it would take 36 years.”
Millennial homelessness and unaffordable
housing are some of the biggest problems facing America—but no one is willing
to speak frankly about it.
How Immigration Made 14
Million Millennials Homeless
Homeownership
rates only tell half the story.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/15/how-immigration-made-14-million-millennials-homeless/
Imagine
a homeless man. Does he have a long, frazzled beard and unkempt hair? What do
his clothes look like? Probably ratty and full of holes—moth nests in the
pockets. Maybe he has a shopping cart full of cans and a mangy dog named
“Rusty.”
Although
culturally ubiquitous, this characterization of the grizzled old hobo is
profoundly misleading. In reality, most of America’s homeless people are young
and healthy. Many attended college and work full-time jobs. They usually have
permanent mailing addresses. Who are these people? Millennials.
Estimates
suggest that 14 million Millennials still
reside in their childhood homes. Why? Some prefer to live at home while they
attend college. Others are lazy. But most cannot move
out because rents are too high and houses too expensive. They are literally
homeless—and millions would also be unsheltered were
it not for their parent’s generosity.
How did it
get to the point where an entire generation of Americans cannot afford to live
where they were born and raised? Where millions must choose between remaining
wards of their parents or leaving their friends and families behind in search
of affordable accommodation—effectively becoming refugees in their own land?
One word:
immigration.
Apples
to Apples
The
overwhelming majority (88 percent)
of Millennials say they want to buy a home. Yet, just 4 percent believe they
will be able to so in the coming year. Why? They cannot afford it: 72 percent
say they cannot afford a home mortgage, while 62 percent say that the down
payment is the biggest hurdle. This despair is reflected in generational
homeownership rates.
Currently, 32.2 percent of
Millennials own homes, compared to 60.4 percent of Gen-Xers and 75 percent of
Baby Boomers. This alone is unsurprising: Millennials are younger and thus have
had less time to save. But what’s interesting—and alarming—is that Millennial
homeownership rates are far lower even when correcting for age differences.
For
example, 45.4 percent of Gen-Xers owned homes when they were 25 to 34, as did
45 percent of Boomers.
Meanwhile,
the Millennial homeownership rate for this age group is just 37 percent. In
short, Millennials are 8 percent less likely to own a home than were their
parents and grandparents at the same age.
While this
may not sound like much, we must remember that Millennial homeownership rates
are buoyed by banks (at the government’s behest) who offer effectively negative
interest rates on mortgages—they literally pay Millennials to buy homes. If
Millennials needed to pay the 10 percent interest that Boomers “enjoyed,” I
suspect their homeownership rate would drop precipitously.
On top of
this, Millennials are also far less likely to rent than were previous
generations. As such, homeownership rates only tell half the story of
Millennial dispossession.
Boiling
the Frog
Although
Millennials clearly want to buy homes, they cannot. Why? Houses are too
expensive.
In 1973
the median household
income was $9,265, whereas the median sales
price of a new home in January, 1973, was $29,900—3.2 times the
median household income. In other words, if the median family saved up every
penny and put it towards a new home, it would take just over three years to buy
a brand-new house.
This is in
stark contrast to current prices. In January 2017, the median sales price for a
new home was $317,400. This is 5.6 times the median household income of
$56,516. In short, houses are 73 percent more expensive today (in real terms)
than they were in 1973. This is the primary reason why disposable income has
actually declined in America since the 1970s—not just for Millennials, but for
all Americans.
Furthermore,
it was easier for previous generations to save money for a down payment.
Consider that the rate of return on a 10-year Treasury Bill in 1973 was 6.46
percent. Today, the rate is just 1.72 percent. Lower interest rates,
combined with the fact that the price of shelter is increasing faster than
inflation, is impoverishing our people.
Lastly,
housing prices have not increased uniformly across the nation. In fact, they
have actually decreased in those
vast swathes of America which have suffered globalization-driven economic
collapses. Thus, housing and rental prices have increased by much more than
73 percent in areas where Americans can actually find work.
For
example, it would take an individual earning the median income 43 years to save
up enough for a down payment in Los Angeles—and that’s not a down payment for a
McMansion, it’s for a median-priced dwelling. In San Francisco, it would take
that individual 40 years. In New York City or Miami, it would take 36 years.
Clearly,
the Millennial generation has been dispossessed by high housing and rental
prices.
The
Source of the Nile
Since
1965, more than 45 million
people have immigrated legally to America. During the same
period, at least 20 million
illegal migrants settled in America. Millions more arrive every
year.
The scale
of this mass migration is unprecedented in human history, and its consequences
are not fully understood. But one thing we do know is that migration drives-up
housing prices. How?
Migrants
provide virtually unlimited demand for housing. This basic problem is
compounded by two issues. First, the housing supply is relatively inelastic
because as it takes much longer to build a home than to inhabit one.
Second,
housing is a relatively scarce commodity since there is only a finite quantity
of desirable land. Consider that the vast majority of immigrants settle in a
select few metropolitan areas. Further, immigrants usually settle in areas
already populated by their diaspora—they self-segregate, and in doing so cluster
in relatively small areas which are not able to absorb or disperse their
economic impact.
For
example, California alone is home to more than 10 million immigrants.
This works out to 26 percent of the state’s population. Meanwhile, immigrants
comprise 22.9 percent of New York state. This explains why 17 of 25 of
America’s least affordable
housing markets are in California and six are in New York.
A number
of academic studies demonstrate that immigration indeed raises housing prices
and rents. Libertad
Gonzalez and Francesc Ortega in a 2013 study found that
immigration into Spain caused 52 percent of the overall increase in Spain’s
real estate market.
Another
paper published in 2012 by Canadian researchers Ather Akbari and
Yigit Aydede found that immigration raised housing and rent
prices in Vancouver, although the effect was not large. The authors postulated
that the unexpected minor impact may be due to native residents leaving
neighborhoods with high immigrant rates—“white flight.”
Abeba Mussa,
Uwaoma G. Nwaogub, and Susan Pozoc tested this theory in a 2017
paper. Their findings were startling: for every 1 percent that immigration
increased the population in a metropolitan statistical area (“MSA”), rents in
that area increased by 0.8 percent. Additionally, domestic out-migration caused
rents in neighboring MSAs to increase by 1.6 percent on average.
This
effect was magnified when looking at housing prices: housing prices increased
by 0.8 percent for every 1 percent immigrant-driven rise in population in the
destination MSA, but by a whopping 9.6
percent in surrounding MSAs. In this way, immigration not only raised
rents and house prices, it primarily raised them for native-born Americans!
Captive
in Babylon
Millennial
homelessness and unaffordable housing are some of the biggest problems facing
America—but no one is willing to speak frankly about it.
The Left
acknowledges that rents are “too damn high.” But because immigration is their
Golden Calf they are only willing to entertain cosmetic “solutions” like rent
control—solutions which have harmful iatrogenic
effects.
The Right
usually ignores the problem. If a solution is offered it invariably takes one
of two forms. First, Millennials are told to “pull themselves up by their
bootstraps.” This is obviously unhelpful advice: Millennials are drowning in
a sea of 65 million immigrants and their 30 million children. Further, a large
fraction of America’s blue-collar jobs has been shipped to China
and Mexico.
There was
a time in America when a high school graduate could get a job that paid enough
to allow him to buy a house and support a stay-at-home wife and three children.
This is impossible today. In fact, I know many young lawyers who
cannot even afford to buy an apartment—much less have children. In essence,
Millennials are all out of bootstraps.
The second
“solution” is for Millennials to move to cheaper locations—to leave the
dead-end town where they were born and seek prosperity in the wide world. This
is not only stupid, it’s immoral.
To begin
with, housing is cheap for a reason—usually, because the neighborhood is
infested with degenerates or the economy is toast. Who cares if you can afford
a home if you risk getting shivved in your driveway? Who cares if the rent is
cheap if you can’t find work?
Beyond
that, telling Millennials they need to move away from their place of birth is immoral.
People are
not merely individual consumers. They are part of something far greater. They
are members of a family, a community, and a nation. What does it profit America
to separate sons from their fathers and infants from their ancestors’ graves—to
uproot an entire generation—to steal from our youth their sense of home and
belonging, and replace it with restless anomie?
Immigration
is raising housing prices. The solution to this problem is not to further atomize America by
encouraging a mass exodus of Millennials from their hometowns in search of
cheaper rents. The solution is to cut the immigration rate and enforce
existing deportation laws.
The solution is to put
Americans—and America—first.
Every
American (Legal) is one paycheck and one thousand illegals away from being
homeless.
These
figures will get much worse when the Democrat Party hands amnesty to 40 million
illegals so they may legally bring up the rest of their family and vote
Democrat for more!
Democrats Promise to Welcome Illegal Migrants ‘Like One of
Our Own’ NEIL MUNRO
High cost of housing cuts into
food, utilities study says
More than a third of Americans scrimp on essentials to pay
for housing
Overall, 62 percent of renters and 47
percent of owners reported struggling to afford housing, according to a Freddie
Mac survey. (www.google.com/maps)
More than a third of Americans have been
forced to cut spending on essential items like food and utilities to afford
housing, according to a Freddie Mac study.
About 42 percent of renters and 33 percent
of homeowners have had to reduce the money spent on essentials to cover the
cost of housing during the prior two years, the report said. Overall, 62
percent of renters and 47 percent of owners reported struggling to afford
housing.
“Our research confirms much of what we see
in our business every day — affordability remains the essential factor when it
comes to determining whether to rent or purchase a home, and the cost of
housing is having a significant impact on households of every age, size and
location,” said David Brickman, president and incoming CEO of Freddie Mac, as Yahoo reports. “For millennials
and many Gen Xers, buying a home is no longer just a decision based on housing
and housing costs — increasing pressure from student loans and the rising cost
of child care are having a significant impact.”
Freddie Mac conducted the online survey
over a four-day period. The poll collected data from 4,040 respondents over the
age of 18, including 2,864 homeowners, 1,119 renters and 57 others.
“While we tend to focus primarily on wages
not keeping up with house prices and misperceptions of down payments, we should
also recognize that for many millennials and Gen Xers, the basic cost of living
has gone up,” says Brickman, as Yahoo cited. “Heavy burdens
from student loans and the rapidly rising cost of child care are clearly
affecting the housing decisions of these individuals.”
Student debt has more than doubled over
the past decade to more than $1.6 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve.
Of millennials who rent, 51 percent said they based their choice of housing on
their student loan payments.
The cost of child care has also risen over
the past 30 years, according to the report. About 31 percent of renters and 45
percent of homeowners reported choosing cheaper housing to afford daycare,
according to Freddie Mac.
About 35 percent of homeowners who
reported trouble affording housing in the last two years had to move to find a
more affordable place to live, an increase of nine percent since last August.
CAN YOU
NAME EVEN ONE DEM POL WHO IS NOT OUT THERE ENDLESSLY HISPANDERING AND PROMISING
THE ILLEGALS ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING?
AND YET
NOT ONE WORD ON THE HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISIS.
WHAT DO
YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN WHEN THEY HAND 40 MILLION ILLEGALS AMNESTY SO THEY CAN
LEGALLY BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILIES???
“Extensive research by economists like
George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota reveals that the country’s current
mass legal immigration system burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working and
middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth
every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants. Similarly, research
has revealed how Americans’ wages are crushed by the
country’s high immigration levels.” JOHN BINDER
"When we hear stories about the homelessness in
California and elsewhere, why don't we hear how illegal aliens contribute to
the problem? They take jobs and affordable housing, yet instead of
discouraging illegal aliens from breaking the law, politicians encourage them
to come by lavishing free stuff on them with confiscated dollars from this
and future generations." JACK HELLNER
This policy of inflating the labor
supply boosts economic
growth for investors because it
transfers wages to investors and ensures that employers do not have to compete
for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This policy of flooding the market
with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor also
shifts enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state and
local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
The cheap-labor economic strategy
also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and
wealth from the heartland to
the coastal cities, explodes rents
and housing costs, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating
low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
JOHN BINDER
America's housing
affordability crisis spreads to the heartland
Prashant Gopal, Reade Pickert and Noah Buhayar
Low mortgage rates and thriving employment should be the
recipe for a strong housing market. Instead, they’re deepening America’s affordability
crisis.
What began on the coasts, in areas like New York and San
Francisco, is now radiating into the nation’s heartland, as well as to cities
from Las Vegas to Charleston, South Carolina. Entry-level buyers are scrambling
to purchase homes that are in short supply, sending values soaring.
Expectations that the Federal Reserve will reduce interest
rates this week will do little to change the sober reality: For many, prices
have risen much faster than incomes, pushing homeownership out of reach for a
new generation of hopeful buyers. That’s cooling the market, with the 2019
spring season shaping up as the slowest for sales in five years, according to
CoreLogic Inc.
“All signs point to a housing market that should be doing
really well and it’s not,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist for Realtor.com.
“The No. 1 constraint, despite low mortgage rates, is that people can’t find
housing that they feel is affordable.”
Many buyers in expensive West Coast cities have already
retreated after a surge in prices squeezed them out. But in other areas, demand
is still robust, fueled by a strong economy and this year’s rapid decline in
borrowing costs. There’s just too little to buy, and too much competition.
Dean Rusch, a 29-year-old chemical-plant worker, has been
trying to buy a starter home for less than $200,000 in Louisville, Kentucky,
since April. On three occasions, houses he planned to tour were snapped up
before he could get there. He was outbid on another. He finally had an
above-asking offer accepted Sunday on a house listed for about $199,000, but
only after his agent locked the door during a showing, keeping another buyer
out. For much of his hunt, it was slim pickings.
“I’ve looked at some crappy ones,” Rusch said. “I used to
be in the fire department, and smelled some crazy stuff. But one smelled so
horrible that it gave me a headache.”
Recent months have shown a growing divergence between the
high and low ends of the U.S. market. Prices in the bottom third jumped about
9% in June from a year earlier, compared with 1.1% growth for the top third,
data from Redfin show. Meanwhile, sales for lower-priced homes plunged almost
20% as buyers struggled to find properties in their range, according to Zillow.
“We have a lot more buyers pre-approved for mortgages than
people closing on homes,” said Jeff Davis, Rusch’s agent. “What that means is
the struggle is not in the financing. The struggle is in the inventory.”
That makes for a particularly bleak outlook for first-time
buyers. The number of new homeowners created in the second quarter was the
lowest since 2006, and just a third as many as a year earlier, the Census
Bureau reported last week. Black homeownership fell to the lowest level since
at least 1970.
Unequal Recovery
The housing recovery that began in 2012 has been unequal
from the start. About 6 million Americans lost homes in last decade’s crash and
needed time to rebuild their credit. Private equity firms such as Blackstone
Group Inc. swept in to buy foreclosed properties at deep discounts and rented
them back to many of those displaced former homeowners.
Now those people are back in the market, along with the
bulging population of millennials eager for their first crack at homeownership.
But many of the properties they want have already been picked over. Builders
have focused on wealthier buyers willing to pay bigger price tags, and now some
areas have too many expensive homes, and not enough where they’re needed.
Affordable homes disappeared first in technology and financial
hubs like Silicon Valley and New York, where buyers with big paychecks pushed
up prices. Now values are flattening after many would-be homeowners have been
forced to the sidelines. In some areas, demand has also been hit by a pullback
in foreign buyers and new federal limits on property-tax deductions -- as well
as fears that a recession may be around the corner.
But even in traditionally affordable parts of the country,
renters worry that if they don’t act, their piece of the American Dream will go
to the higher bidder.
“People do at this point in the cycle start getting a
little panicked that they need to get into the market,” said Jenny Schuetz, a
fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. And,
with lower mortgage rates, “a lot of people who were on the fence between
renting and owning, may look at owning.”
In Louisville, fewer than one-fifth of listings were
affordable to buyers in the bottom 30% of incomes in April, according to
Realtor.com. That’s down from 23% a year earlier and 38% in 2015. The trends
are similar in other low-cost cities from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to
Charleston, where only 6% of listings meet that affordability threshold.
Clogged Up
Las Vegas, which was hit hard by the last crash and then
sharply rebounded, now is seeing a rapid decline in sales because there’s
little on the low end worth buying. Many single-family houses were purchased by
investors, and now are rentals. The result is there aren’t enough owners of
entry-level homes to move up to the next rung of the ladder, said Thomas
Blanchard, president elect of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
“Our inventory is clogged up, causing a backup of people
that want to buy,” Blanchard said. “It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy -- nobody
is willing to move anywhere because they’re afraid they won’t find a house to
buy.”
Mike Manesiotis, a 28-year-old who works in software sales
in Charleston, says his friends in Seattle and the Bay Area would say home
prices where he lives are a steal. But the salaries are also much lower, he
said.
Manesiotis wants to live in or near downtown, within a
short walk or Uber ride to bars and restaurants, and pay less than $350,000 --
near the median price for a single-family home in the city. But he hasn’t found
anything he likes. The return of low mortgage rates hasn’t helped.
“It’s not the interest rate; it’s the sheer cost,” he said.
“You’re spending $300,000 on a home that’s 1,000 square feet. You get two
bedrooms, one bath and it needs a lot of work.”
More bad news
for renters in SF's already insane market, report says
Anna Marie
Erwert
Has San Francisco's rent finally convinced you that renting
a one-bedroom alone isn't economically feasible? According to a new report,
sharing a two-bedroom might not be cheaper for long.
Overall, San Francisco's rent didn't grow dramatically this
year: In June rents were up 1.2 percent, according to ApartmentList.com. This
is less than the national inflation of 1.6 percent. But what is dramatic is the
steady creeping upward of two-bedroom rents. Apartment List found that over the
past six years, the median rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in San Francisco has
increased by 10.7 percent.
In 2014, the median rent for a two-bedroom in San Francisco
was $2,804 ... Today, median rents in San Francisco stand at $3,100 for a
two-bedroom.
Apartment List isn't the only online rental site to notice
this trend. Rental site Zumper's most recent National Rent Report showed that
"one bedroom rent have another flat month, staying at $3,700. Two bedrooms,
on the other hand, jumped 4.9 percent to settle at $4,720."
Why the disparity?
The disparity in median rent price reports is down to
methodology. Every rental site collects data differently, and their findings
reflect calculations based on their particular methodology. Zumper says it
aggregates data from "over one million active listings [and] includes new
constructions but excludes listings that are no longer available or are
currently occupied."
Apartment List, on the other hand, takes a different
approach. "Data from private listing sites, including our own, tends to
skew toward luxury apartments, which introduces sample bias when estimates are
calculated directly from these listings," says the site's methodology
section. To address this issue, Apartment List uses median rent statistics from
the Census Bureau, then "extrapolate them forward to the current month
using a growth rate calculated from our listing data."
Whichever method we think more accurate, what is not in
dispute is that renting a two-bedroom is getting more expensive in San
Francisco.
And if the past six years are an indicator, it looks poised
to get even more so.
Why? Because, frankly, one bedrooms are already pushing
maximum affordability, while previously two bedrooms were more affordable if
shared. The relatively less expensive unit has the most room to grow in price,
and growing it is.
Moving may not be the answer
Lest you hope that moving south or east of the city will
make life easier, you should know that this June, San Jose is the fourth-most
expensive city for renters looking to share, with two-bedrooms hovering around
$3,000 a month by Zumper's figures and $2,670 by Apartment List's.
Oakland comes in sixth, with two-bedrooms at around $2,800
according to Zumper and $2,200 according to Apartment List.
What can you rent for SF's new median 2-BR rent?
If we average Zumper and ApartmentList data, we come up
with $3,910. That means $46,920 per year on rent alone, sharing a two-bedroom
in San Francisco.
The gallery above shows you what you get for your money, as
well as data used to make these projections.
Overall, it seems if you want to spend less by renting a
two-bedroom, you better do it soon. Renting these units is getting more
expensive by the day.
Anna Marie Erwert writes from both the renter and new buyer
perspective, having (finally) achieved both statuses. She focuses on national
real estate trends, specializing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific
Northwest. Follow Anna on Twitter: @AnnaMarieErwert.
Homeless
Surge Hits Oakland, Silicon Valley, San Francisco Suburbs
JOEL B. POLLAK
San Francisco saw its homeless population rise by 17% in
the last two years, but the rise in many surrounding counties has been worse.
A report Monday by Curbed San Francisco summarizing the
figures noted: “Five out of nine Bay Area Counties—i.e., all of those not
located in the North Bay—saw their homeless counts spike during the same
period, with each other county showing worse homelessness surges than SF.”
As Breitbart News has noted, homelessness has been rising
rapidly in urban areas throughout the state. San Francisco’s rise in
homelessness has been accompanied by a spike in Los Angeles that some say has
brought the city to the brink of an outbreak of deadly disease — perhaps
bubonic plague. San Diego recently suffered an outbreak of hepatitis A among
the homeless, partly due to a plastic bag ban making it harder for homeless
people living on the streets to dispose of excrement.
Now the problem is leaving downtown areas and hitting the
suburbs. Curbed reports:
• San Mateo
County: rise of more than 20% in two years
• Santa Clara
County: rise of more than 31% in two years
• Alameda County:
rise of more than 42.5% in two years
• Contra Costa
County: rise of 42.8% in two years
In addition, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday
that homelessness in the City of Oakland alone rose 47% over the past two
years.
The Curbed report adds some “good news”: ‘While the rest of
the Bay Area saw the levees break, homelessness actually declined significantly
all over the North Bay during the same period.”
President Donald Trump has warned that federal intervention
may be necessary to deal with the problem — a suggestion that has met with
protest from the state’s Democratic leaders.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News.
He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy
from Harvard. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni
Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside St
ory of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery.
Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Exclusive–Michael
Savage Backs Trump on San Francisco: ‘Junkies Shoot Up in Front of Children’
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JOSHUA CAPLAN
29 Jul 20191,416
4:16
Talk radio legend and New York Times bestselling
author Michael Savage is once again sounding the alarm on the
deterioration of San Francisco, California, in the wake of President Donald
Trump criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over the conditions in her
“failing” district.
On Sunday, President Trump shifted his
fierce critiques from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) over Baltimore to Pelosi,
warning San Francisco will soon decline beyond repair unless immediate
action is taken. “Speaking of failing badly, has anyone seen what is
happening to Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco.” the president wrote on
Twitter Sunday. “It is not even recognizable lately. Something must be done
before it is too late.”
In a statement to Breitbart News, Savage,
a longtime resident of the Bay area, joined President Trump in eviscerating
California’s Democrat leadership by highlighting San Francisco’s worsening
crime and crumbling infrastructure:
Where has all the Federal and State
highway funding gone? The streets are worse than some African nations! Even the
roadway going on to the iconic Golden gate bridge is a disgrace! The streets
are littered, bums rule the sidewalks. Junkies shoot up in front of children.
People are afraid to go out at night. Assaults by bums are swept under the
radar by the non-newspaper. Over 30,000 cars are broken into each year! Police
do nothing because the psycho-lib ‘judges’ dismiss those few cases
that are prosecuted. Need I mention the well-known epidemic of human feces on
the sidewalks? Have you ever eaten dinner and seen a filthy human being drop
his pants and crap outside the restaurant as you are attempting to eat? Where
are Pelosi, Feinstein and the other oh-so compassionate rulers?
The conservative media star’s
condemnation of Pelosi comes as Democrats are expressing outrage over President
Trump spotlighting the worsening state of long-run Democrat cities. On
Saturday, the president blasted Cummings for shouting at Acting Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan during a recent congressional
hearing and said Baltimore, the Maryland Democrat’s district, has “far worse”
conditions than immigration detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal
bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol
about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district
is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the
USA,” he tweeted. “As proven
last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient &
well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent
infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up
this very dangerous & filthy place.”
Without skipping a beat, Democrats raced
to denounce the president’s comments, calling them racist and bigoted.
“Rep Cummings is a champion in the
Congress and the country for civil rights and economic justice, a beloved
leader in Baltimore, and deeply valued colleague,” Pelosi replied in a
tweet. “We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast
leadership.”
President Trump shot back at the
criticism, saying his comments directed at Cummings were in no way racist.
“[T]here is nothing wrong with bringing
out the very obvious fact that Congressman Elijah Cummings has done a very poor
job for his district and the City of Baltimore.” he tweeted. “Just take a
look, the facts speak far louder than words!”
The president then said Democrats were
playing the race card in an attempt to discredit his argument.
“The Democrats always play the Race
Card, when in fact they have done so little for our Nation’s great African
American people,” he stated. “The Dems
should stop wasting time on the Witch Hunt Hoax and start focusing on our
Country!”
Through 2015-2018, Baltimore homicides
topped 300 each year and are on track to pass such figure in 2019, making it
the fifth consecutive year to occur. As President Trump pointed out, the city
does indeed suffer from a rodent problem, which was detailed in the documentary
film Rat Film, which aired on PBS in 2018. The Baltimore
Sun even published an opinion-editorial in
November 2016 — Trump’s right: Declare Baltimore a ‘disaster’ and
rebuild it — in which Sean Kennedy, a visiting fellow at the
Maryland Public Policy Institute, called for the city to be
official label a “disaster” and undergo extensive rebuilding effort.
Aaron Klein, Breitbart News’ Jerusalem bureau chief
and senior investigative reporter, contributed to this report.
Democrats Promise to Welcome
Illegal Migrants ‘Like One of Our Own’
30 Jul 201978
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Democrats in the July 30 CNN Democrat debate
promised to welcome foreign migrants, and none mentioned migrants’ economic
damage to blue-collar Americans’ wages and rents.
“Immigrants don’t diminish America, they
are America,” said Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who told Fox News in February
2019 that “we need workers”
because unemployment was too low for business groups. “We have people all over
the country who simply want to work and obey the law,” she said about the
nation’s population of illegal immigrants.
“We need to expand legal
immigration,” said Sen. Liz Warren. “We need to create a path for
citizenship, not just for ‘dreamers’ but for grandmas, and for people who have
worked in the farms and students who have overstayed their visas.”
She reaffirmed her promise to end
decriminalization of illegal migration: “We cannot make it a crime when
someone comes here.”
Migrants are Americans and should not be
criminalized, argued Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. “You don’t have to
decriminalize everything [but] what you have to do is have a president in there
with the judgment and decency to treat someone who comes to the border like one
of our own,” he said.
“If [migrants] are seeking asylum,
of course, we want to welcome them. We’re a strong enough country to be able to
welcome them,” said Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan.
“Americans wants comprehensive
immigration reform … [with] protections for ‘Dreamers,’ [and] making sure
we have a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented,” claimed Pete
Buttigieg, using the establishment’s code phrase for mass amnesty.
Buttigieg also reaffirmed his promise to
decriminalize illegal migration, saying: “If fraud is involved, that is
suitable for the criminal statute — if not, then it should be handled under
civil law.”
His White House would stop “criminally
prosecuting families and children for seeking asylum and refuge,” promised Beto
O’Rourke. “Asylum” is a legal term, complete with legal tests and deportation
rules, but the term “refuge” suggests O’Rourke is making an open-ended promise
of welcome.
O’Rourke also promised to decriminalize
illegal migration: “I expect people who come here to follow our laws, and
we reserve the right to prosecute them if they do not.”
“If a mother and a child walk thousands
of miles on a dangerous path, in my view, they are not criminals,” said
Sen. Bernie Sanders. “They are people fleeing violence.”
Immigration Numbers:
Each year, roughly four million
young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high
school or university. This total includes roughly 800,000 Americans who
graduate with skilled degrees in business or health care, engineering or
science, software or statistics.
But the federal government then imports
about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population
of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including approximately
one million H-1B workers and spouses — plus roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa
workers.
The government also prints out more than
one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal
workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands
of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas
each year.
This policy of inflating the labor
supply boosts economic
growth for investors because it
transfers wages to investors and ensures that employers do not have to compete
for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This policy of flooding the market
with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor also
shifts enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state and
local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
The cheap-labor economic strategy
also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and
wealth from the heartland to
the coastal cities, explodes rents
and housing costs, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating
low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
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