So long as Americans know that the Chinese will continue to settle this country by the thousands, while their relatives back in China supply Americans with essential goods.
So long as Americans know that the federal government and its corporate cronies do not intend to repatriate life-sustaining supply chains.
Stimulus Check Snafu Highlights Foreign
Student Worker Scheme
News about stimulus cash
“mistakenly” being dispensed to non-resident aliens is another black eye for a
shadowy foreign student work program that’s costing America billions of dollars
a year.
Politico reports that the Internal Revenue Service
improperly distributed payments to thousands of foreigners in April. The error
stems from a common tax-filing blunder by those on F-1 student and J-1 exchange
visas. These workers, studying at universities and working summer jobs, often
use TurboTax and other e-filing tools without knowing that the systems are
designed only for U.S. residents. In its haste to send checks out, the IRS just
waved them through.
Though
the IRS has not said how much money it incorrectly disbursed, a survey of more
than 500
schools last week found that 43 percent had
foreign students who believed they received a payment in error.
“[The students] don’t think they’ll
necessarily ever be caught or they don’t think there’s really that big a
problem,” Donna Kepley, president of the tax firm Arctic International Kepley,
told Politico.
A record
1.1 million foreign students were in the U.S. last year, according to the Institute of International Education. In addition, the
government granted nearly 400,000 J-1 visas.
Growing
right along with these numbers is the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program
for foreign students, some of whom use it to extend their stay in this country
after leaving school. Over the past 20 years, OPT has metastasized into the
largest guest worker program in the U.S., despite numerous findings of fraud, FAIR noted last month.
Not only is there no limit on how
many foreign students and ex-students can be hired through OPT, there is scant
oversight of the program and fewer worker protections than with H-1B work
visas.
OPT is particularly odious in how it
disadvantages American workers. Employers of OPT-enrolled aliens do not pay
payroll taxes for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds for those
workers. This saves those employers 8.25 percent on the wages to OPT
participants, while excusing the aliens from paying these deductions as well,
costing the two trust funds more than $2 billion a year.
This is an absurd inequity when more
than 30 million Americans are jobless, the highest level since the Great
Depression.
President Donald Trump recently stated: “It would
be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the [coronavirus]to be replaced
with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad. … We must first take care of the
American worker.”
Suspending the OPT program, reducing
the influx of foreign students and tightening accounts at the IRS are three
sensible steps to make good on that pledge.
Tom Cotton
Is Right About Restricting Chinese Student Visas
Protecting America against a bellicose, rapacious, and regressive Chinese Communist Party is neither self-defeating nor xenophobic, but eminently sensible.
By Ben Weingarten
The Federalist, May 5, 2020
. . .
https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/05/tom-cotton-is-right-about-restricting-chinese-student-visas/
Who
Invited The World To Infect America?
Hate the Chinese government if you wish, but
hold your own government responsible for hollowing America out like a husk.
By Ilana Mercer
American Greatness
https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/02/who-invited-the-world-to-infect-america/
GLOBALISM: THE RISE OF GLOBALIST CORPORATE FASCISM AND THE
CORPORATE WELFARE STATE AND THE DEATH OF AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
Why is it all billionaires are Democrats and all Democrat
politicians are globalist for wider open borders?
So long as Americans know that
the Chinese will continue to settle this country by the thousands, while their
relatives back in China supply Americans with essential goods.
So long as Americans know that
the federal government and its corporate cronies do not intend to repatriate
life-sustaining supply chains.
“And it’s not merely for profit. Tech superstars like Gates are
true believers in the borderless multicultural state. These arrogant CEOs and
their minions are social-justice warriors, first; giants of industry, second.”
Who Invited The World To Infect
America?
Hate the Chinese government if you wish, but hold your own government
responsible for hollowing America out like a husk.
On March 31, the number of Americans dead
from the Chinese coronavirus stood at 3,900! A
mere month on, at the time of writing, and 63,801 Americans have perished.
American deaths by COVID-19
account for a quarter of the world’s, including those in the undeveloped world.
To ignore this Third-World-like specter is to dismiss the dead and the dying. It’s
tantamount to cancel culture.
China sucks. But if the United
States must rely on the Chinese government to keep its citizens safe, then what
kind of a Mickey Mouse country are we?
If the American people can be
convinced by their government to saddle a foreign power
with the responsibility for their existential welfare—what kind of people are
we?
China didn’t force the traitors
of the American economy to shift crucial production lines to its country and
strand Americans without surgical and N-95 masks and medication; homegrown
turncoats made that decision, all by their lonesome.
Trade Goods, Not Places
Decades ago, the political,
corporate and industrial leaders of the West chose to enmesh the fate of their
pliable people with that of the vigorous, voracious Chinese.
Like the United States, another
hard-hit region—Northern Italy, so progressive and tony—had swung its toll
gates open. Italy outsourced whole production lines to China.
Free trade in goods is great.
But trade goods, not places. The toll gates were
swung open to human trade, or population replacement.
Since the Chinese had begun
settling in Northern Italy and buying up assets, I hazard that, much like youngsters of King County, in Washington State—local Italian girls and boys have had a hard time affording life
in their homeland.
And now, their grandparents and
parents are dying.
Italy constructed gleaming
tarmacs to accommodate the many direct flights to and from Wuhan. More than 100,000 Chinese
citizens moved to Italy. As the Chinese accrued wealth over the past two
decades, still more took up residence in Northern Italy, and bought up Italian
firms.
See if you can spot the trend.
New York City, by Wikipedia’s telling, is home to far and away “the
highest Chinese-American population of any city proper.”
Courtesy of an Italian strain
of COVID-19, the New York metropolitan area has been as badly struck as Italy.
In early April, it was said that “coronavirus was
killing a person roughly every four minutes in New York state, and about every
six minutes in New York City.”
In my state of Washington, the
overwhelming majority of Chinese reside in King County and Snohomish County, where the infection was seeded and from where it spread.
The West’s political and
corporate leaders, not China’s, had opened their borders to the world’s flotsam
and jetsam. Agreements to exchange goods and people reflected the choices of
these gilded global elites, not those of their people.
Economic Elephantiasis
The sphinxly Bill Gates, we are
told, foresaw the pandemic. Gates also pioneered the outsourcing of American lives to China
(and India). I say “lives,” because, as it has become abundantly clear, in the
wake of COVID, the very stuff of life has been outsourced to
China. Not mere jobs; but careers,
not just some products, but entire production lines;
not one or two manufacturing plants, but the entire means
of production.
Engineers who can think hate
Gates. America’s best and brightest have done time supervising and titivating
squalid, sub-par Chinese factories, when they knew full well that, instead of
cheap, nasty, and disposable, their colleagues back at home could have
delivered classy, attractive, durable and sustainable products and production
capability, around which real communities would have coalesced.
Instead, Gates’ vision has
given us transient labor that flits between Wuhan and Washington, for, these
“global beasts with their vast balance-sheets” aren’t interested in the kind of
economic growth around which authentic, organic, enduring communities
congregate.
The attitude of American
business toward economic growth is rooted not in healthy, community-based
practices (stateside and abroad), but in some aberrant economic gigantism; in
an economic elephantiasis undergirded by hubris and greed.
Bill Gates, the point man,
the pinhead who pontificates about pandemic best practices, was among the powerbrokers
who decided, with his benefactors in D.C., that the “new economy” would hum not
in America, but in China and India.
And it’s not merely for profit. Tech
superstars like Gates are true believers in the borderless multicultural state.
These arrogant CEOs and their minions are social-justice warriors, first;
giants of industry, second. They are cosmopolitans who
believe consumption alone makes the world go round. Community? That’s when you
press flesh with George and Amal Clooney at the World Economic Forum in Davos!
No Multiculturalists in China
To the gilded globalists,
America is not a country to be bound by strictly controlled borders and to be
patrolled and policed against viruses and villains. Rather, Bill Gates’ America
is a territory for trade, not a nation.
A “shopping mall with nukes,”
as a reader put it.
Whereas China has positioned
its cohesive people for success, the American ruling class, Democrat and
Republican, have long since sold their countrymen out. It is American leaders,
left and right, who’ve convinced their population that Americans are nothing
unless strangers are streaming into their country at a rate of 2 million a
year, speaking in tongues and inaugurating wet-markets in New York City. This is who we are, they tell us.
No such thing did the Chinese government
perpetrate on its people. It doesn’t welcome immigrants; the Chinese don’t want
immigrants. Several [Chinese] “women vow to leap off the Great Wall rather
than marry a foreigner,” reports The Economist with consternation.
Indeed, the Chinese people have no qualms or fear about expressing Han racial
superiority, this, as the West embraces a multicultural mess of pottage that is
now killing it and consigning us to years of penury.
Stupidity is not a virtue.
Ironically, and although almost
all reinfection in China involves Chinese nationals, “curbs on foreigners are tightening,” and the “border has been shut to most of them.” Conversely, the
American travel ban—I hope you know—was nothing more than a rerouting of the
Chinese influx to allotted U.S. airports, where thermometers were pointed at
foreheads, and tens of thousands of Chinese were sent on their merry way,
entrusted to go home and self-quarantine.
The outcome of future pandemics
hinges on the American people’s ability to strike fear into the hearts of their
leaders, irrespective of party affiliation—a fear that will make it
impossible for these shiftless characters to shift blame for their failings.
Where Accountability Goes to Die
The U.S. government and its
proxies would like to gull Americans into blaming China alone for
the litany of suffering Americans are enduring.
A free people takes
responsibility for its own welfare. Federalism dictates that this ostensibly
free people delegate certain responsibilities to the state, national, and local
levels. This is what the U.S. Constitution compelled. Defined duties have been
delegated to our governments. Repelling invaders is one of them.
Thus, the same free people must
saddle their own leaders, in D.C. and the Centers for Disease
Control, with mass deaths ongoing.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
has ordered that China be
investigated for concealing “information early on about the novel coronavirus.”
Fine. I’m not here saying there
is no merit in the allegation or the investigation. Just so long as Americans
understand that government committees are where accountability goes to
die.
Governments create committees
to conceal their own culpability.
So long as Americans know that
the Chinese will continue to settle this country by the thousands, while their
relatives back in China supply Americans with essential goods.
So long as Americans know that
the federal government and its corporate cronies do not intend to repatriate
life-sustaining supply chains.
Hate the Chinese government if
you wish, but hold your own government responsible for hollowing America out
like a husk by inviting the word to invade it and infect it.
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