NO ONE WORKED HARDER FOR NAFTA THAN JOE BIDEN! IT IS THE
BASIS OF THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY’S PLATFORM OR BILLIONAIRES AND BANKSTERS.
THAT IS THE REASON WE HAVE OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX.
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted and China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO), nearly five million American manufacturing jobs have been eliminated from the American economy — 3.4 million of which are due to U.S. free trade with China. The mass elimination of working- and middle-class jobs and depressed U.S. wages due to NAFTA and China’s entering the WTO have coincided with a 600 percent increase in trade deficits.
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted and China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO), nearly five million American manufacturing jobs have been eliminated from the American economy — 3.4 million of which are due to U.S. free trade with China. The mass elimination of working- and middle-class jobs and depressed U.S. wages due to NAFTA and China’s entering the WTO have coincided with a 600 percent increase in trade deficits.
Instead it is the sin of envy personified, and
the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store, so
I’ll take it and beat you senseless if
you object -- you privileged, rich, oppressive white.”
A Deliberately Bankrupted America
By Mark Jarrett
Why
are the cities burning? African Americans have been a part of our history since
our nation’s founding -- they fought for independence.
They are found on the Supreme Court, in military leadership,
as prominent mayors, Members of Congress, academics, authors, cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, police chiefs, surgeons, business owners, entertainers, athletes, astronauts, and CEOs. A 75% white
America even voted twice to choose an African American leader. If so much progress has
been made, why are the nation’s cities -- some led by African American mayors,
with a diverse police force often led by non-white police chiefs -- burning?
Could
this be the end result of choices made over time by some of our leaders to
bankrupt America and African-Americans economically, morally, educationally,
and spiritually?
The
Free Trade Agreements from ‘94 to ‘01, with NAFTA, and then with China,
bankrupted the nation economically. The ‘sucking sound’ of factories closing and
millions of jobs disappearing hit both sides of the border.
BLOG
EDITOR: FOR 8 YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN DID NADA FOR BLACK AMERICA AS
THEY SURRENDERED OUR BORDERS TO MEXICO!
Millions
of Mexican family farmers could not compete with American agribusiness, lost their farms .and
began the trek northward. Those men (in the words of the times) worked ‘twice as hard
as black men, for half the pay’. Systemic unemployment enabled by free trade
and open borders was made worse by floods of drugs brought by the Colombian and
Mexican Cartels, and synthetic drugs manufactured in Chinese factories.
Addicted men engaged in petty theft to support their habits or became part of
the predatory gangs profiting off the addicts. The explosion in crime, starting
with the crack wars of the late 80s, resulted in the imprisoning of many young
African American men. In 1990, one of every three African-American
men under 29 were in prison or on parole.
Already
stressed family bonds broke under this strain. Currently 77% percent of
African Americans are born into unmarried families. The family pictures of son,
father, and grandson is almost unknown in our poorest communities. The anger
and pain of sons abandoned by their fathers is a lifelong wound. The
consequences of numerous short-term disposable relationships is abusive stepparents and
the loss of positive male role models. When the patriarchy is smashed, there
are no fathers to guide boys to manhood, and the masculinity that remains is
too often toxic.
If the
family is a broken reed, what of the schools? In our poorest schools, the lowest
achieving students, mostly young men with attention and behavior
problems, leave elementary school without learning to read or mastering
arithmetic, only to fall behind further each year. In our nation’s capital, one-third of the
adults cannot read. Our lowest-performing students learn from school that no
matter how disruptively and disrespectfully you behave, no matter how little
you work or how low your test scores, you will pass on to the
next grade. When 2/3rds of students are not
at grade level, maintaining standards is
impossible without drastic reform.
Our
schools and our culture do not support societal stability. They are creating a
nation of moral and spiritual midgets. With the Biblical Ten Commandments
ridiculed for a generation, looters of every background across the nation defy
the unknown command “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Rather than heed Jesus’ example of
forgiveness, grievance is nurtured and encouraged. In expelling those old white
men, the Greek philosophers, from our humanities, we do not teach Aristotle’s
virtue of moderation in a democratic society. In schools today, the focus is
not on the virtues or genius of our founding generation. There is little talk of innovators, entrepreneurs, explorers, soldiers, scientists, pioneers, architects, or engineers. Instead, a cartoon version
of only protestors and oppressors becomes our national story. America is portrayed as a shameful, oppressive country, one that
deserves little loyalty or
protection from the mob. The social compact has been deliberately frayed.
For a
generation, the complaint has been of wealth inequality -- some people are too rich. An entire race has been
labeled with #Whiteprivilege. We
have become a nation singularly focused on the color of our skin, while blindly
ignoring the content of our individual character. Suddenly America is not the
place where an African immigrant genius can lead our national return to space, but an oppressive land where
the fabulously rich Elon Musk is just another rich white man benefiting from
his privilege. The nuance and truths behind the theories of income inequality
and white privilege are lost on the rioting mobs. Instead it is the sin of
envy personified, and the theory of socialism in street talk: “I need the iPad in your store, so
I’ll take it and beat you senseless if
you object -- you privileged, rich, oppressive white.” Or as Karl Marx so
eloquently put it: “From each according to his ability, to each according to
his need.”
Our
nation’s political class is deeply divided. Many Democrat politicians cannot
bring themselves to openly side with law and order against their allies and so
remain silent to the hijacking of legitimate
protests. To a socialist ‘you didn’t build that’ -- what the entrepreneur
spent a lifetime building up -- is actually the property of the voters, who
have decided to redistribute the wealth. Thus, hundreds of Minneapolis
police stood by, at the mayor’s command, while businesses were looted across the
street. They were defending the police precinct -- government property. And
even then, they were ordered to give that up to the mob. After all, the city
can just take your money in taxes to rebuild after it’s over. In Minneapolis,
under the leadership of Mayor Jacob Frey, the police are there to keep your
nonessential business shut down because of COVID-19, but not to protect your
life’s work from the anarchists. In Washington D.C., the mayor at first refused
to use city police to protect the White House and our nation’s monuments.
Arlington county withdrew its police from
D.C., when they saw their officers help the President cross the street during
the protests. To some, the real problem is the political opposition, not the
rioting. After all, if Trump succeeds in bringing back American
manufacturing, and if his actions raise American wages by lowering taxes and regulations while
decreasing illegal immigration,
then Democratic politicians might lose a few elections. Better to burn America
down, than to MAGA.
And
therein lies a clue to the problems of our deeply divided country. Our country
is deeply divided and hurting economically, educationally, morally, and
spiritually. But division is in the interests of some of our political leaders.
Why unify, when division makes your supporters more passionate? Why build, when
it is much easier to tear down? The key to our political paradox lies in the
virtues expounded by the world’s first democrats, the Greeks: wisdom, justice, moderation, and courage. May
we have the wisdom to sit in moderate dialogue with our fellow citizens, and
the courage to seek liberty and justice for all.
The left’s two big
albatrosses – Biden and Pelosi
One
has to wonder, do those on the left, including the media, actually think that
Joe Biden is a viable candidate for president? Do they not realize
that Nancy Pelosi is as senile as Joe? Like Joe, she often slurs her words,
suffers brain freezes mid-sentence and spews gibberish. Biden is life-long
corruptocrat, a known plagiarist, a pathological liar and a truly mean and evil
man. You can catch a glimpse of just how mean in the film about Clarence Thomas; it was Biden who
grilled him mercilessly during the hearings over Anita Hill’s phony
allegations. Biden is a racist as well. Pelosi is a life-long
power-mad lunatic. She has allowed her own district to dissolve into a homeless
camp with all the attendant problems – discarded needles, feces on the streets
and sidewalks, and an ever-escalating crime wave. Smash and grab car
burglaries occur by the minute in San Feancisco and there are no consequences
for the perpetrators if caught. Like Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, Pelosi and her husband are millionaires several times
over; they’ve become rich because both have been in Congress for so many
years. They all get rich on insider information. Joe
Biden goes further; we all know he used a billion dollars in U.S. aid as
leverage to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because he was investigating his
son. John Kerry was in on that bit of bribery. He is as
low a form of life as Biden.
And
yet, at the moment, Biden is their candidate and Pelosi is their Speaker who
embarrasses herself every time she opens her mouth, as does
Biden. Both of them belong in a long-term care facility for the
aged. That the Democrats consider either of these pols a credit to
their party is proof of their willful blindness. Why do they not see
what everyone outside of their party can see? That these two people
are way past their sell-by date. How is Joe going to debate
President Trump? He is unable to utter a coherent sentence or answer a simple
question. Pelosi submitted a $3 trillion spending bill that is
simply a joke. Biden has vowed to pick a “woman of color” as his
running mate. Woe be unto him if he doesn’t.
As
for the left’s “believe all women” mantra, that went out the window the moment
Tara Reade accused Biden of sexual assault. Reade’s allegations are
infinitely more credible than Christine Blasey-Ford’s fabricated accusations
against a high school-aged Brett Kavanaugh, but Democrats are so self-unaware,
they don’t recognize their own gross hypocrisy. This time Reade is
“making it up.” See Ami Horowitz’ recent video. Blasey-Ford
most likely never met Justice Kavanaugh. Reade did work in Biden’s
office, did report his behavior and tell others at the time. But the
Dems believed Blasey-Ford and don’t believe Reade. Go figure. Denial
is a dangerous and mystifying psychological defense mechanism and the Democrat
party is in denial about the mental capacity of its two most prominent
“leaders.”
Donald
Trump has warned our federal government about the dangers China represents to
the US since the 1980s. He was right and since he took office he has
tried to rectify the horrific trade imbalance. No one can refute the
fact that China purposely unleashed the covid virus upon the world but Nancy
Pelosi calls Trump’s focus on China “a diversion.” Is she really
that clueless? Probably not, but destroying Trump is far more
important to her than protecting America. Her comments about Trump’s
use of hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic are outrageous. It
is the most effective drug at the moment, used all over the
world. And Trump is not “morbidly obese” She however is morbidly
botoxed and has undergone so much plastic surgery she resembles a character from
the film Death Becomes
Her. She
is a ghoul in every sense of the word but the left seems not to realize
it. They celebrate how she wields her power. That is what
they admire; it’s the only thing they admire in anyone. They just
cannot abide it in a republican, especially when they were so certain Hillary
was going to win the 2016 election and they would all be in fat
city. They would have been all-powerful. They would have
had control of all the levers of power in this country. And being
the spoiled children they are, to this day they cannot accept that defeat,
especially to an outsider like Trump. They love to mock him, to call
him stupid but he has them all by the short hairs and runs rings around their
collective body of never-Trumpers.
To
be sure, Biden and Pelosi have their devoted fans who are so blinded by their
hatred of Trump and their thoroughly unwarranted hero worship of Biden and
Pelosi that they mistakenly think they are normal and healthy but both are
seriously in need of an intervention. Why Jill Biden allows Joe’s
candidacy to continue is a cruelty, a form of elder abuse. As for
Pelosi, where are her five kids telling her it is time to retire? Of
course the lady of iron will would refuse but how much longer can her
infirmities be on public display? Only time will tell but it
seems pretty likely Trump has the election in the bag. Biden
is the weakest candidate the democrat party has run since George McGovern and
McGovern was a decent man; Biden is not. As for Pelosi, her
district is so damaged, so depressed, they will likely re-elect her and keep
her in office until she is 100% wax-ready for Madame Tussaud’s.
Photo illustration by Monica
Showalter with use of images by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0, and USFWS // public domain
"While America’s working and middle class
have been
subjected to compete for jobs against a constant flow of
cheaper foreign workers — where more than 1.2 million
mostly low-skilled immigrants are admitted to the country
annually — the billionaire class has experienced historic
salary gains." Sen. Josh Hawley
Analysis conducted
last year reveal that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the
San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born
tech workers.
"This is how they will destroy
America from within. The leftist billionaires who
orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing
us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of
millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt
for those of us who must endure the consequences of our
communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and
human traffickers. These people have no intention
of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have
contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“Behind the ostensible government sits
enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no
responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul
the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first
task of the statesmanship of today.” THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
Joe Biden Faces Backlash Over NAFTA Support Ahead of Michigan
Primary
9 Mar 2020175
4:53
Former Vice President Joe Biden is
facing backlash over his decades-long support for the North America Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) as he campaigns across Michigan ahead of the state’s Democrat
primary.
Biden,
who often touts his support from organized labor on the campaign trail, was met
by protesters on Monday at rally in Detroit. As the former vice president was
speaking, a number of individuals unfurled two giant banners, one of
which read ‘NAFTA killed our jobs.’ The individuals, some of whom identified as
union members, began chanting “Biden killed jobs,” forcing the former vice
president to pause and address the disruption.
“That’s
alright, let them go,” Biden said, as supporters and security attempted to
pressure the protesters to stand down. “Let them go, this is not a Trump rally.
The ‘Bernie Bros’ are here, let them go.”
When
the crowd subsided and the protesters were escorted out, Biden used the
opportunity to take a shot at both President Donald Trump and his rival for the
Democrat nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
“I’m
not worried about it, it’s just a reflection of what’s wrong with American
politics today,” the former vice president said. “This is one of the things
that Donald Trump has generated, this is not who we are … as a party … or as a
people. We have a lot of crazy folks around.”
C-SPAN
Volume
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The
altercation in Detroit comes as Biden’s long-standing support for free trade
takes center stage as the primary contest heads into Michigan. Sanders, who is
hoping that a win in the state can restart his flailing presidential campaign,
is hammering hard on the issue. In tv ads and on
the stump, the Vermont septuagenerian has lambasted Biden for his support
of NAFTA and
the other free
trade agreements, claiming that if Democrats were to nominate someone with such
a record, it would essentially mean surrendering the industrial Midwest to Republicans.
“Does
anybody think that Joe can go to Michigan or Wisconsin or Indiana or Minnesota
and say, ‘Vote for me. I voted for those terrible trade deals,” Sanders said
during a recent rally.
The
strategy is one that has worked in the past for the senator. During his 2016
bid for the Democrat presidential nomination, Sanders was able to score upset
victories over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by emphasizing
his opposition to free trade, specifically then-President Barack Obama’s Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
Sanders’
message was particularly potent in Michigan, where the burden of free trade has
been most pronounced. Since NAFTA was first implemented in 1994, Michigan lost
more than 168,000 manufacturing
jobs to countries overseas, most notably Mexico. The impact was felt most
heavily by white working-class voters, many of whom lack a college degree.
In
2016, such voters overwhelmingly backed Sanders in Michigan’s Democrat primary,
handing the senator a narrow victory over Clinton. The results were surprising,
not only because Sanders was coming off devastating losses in South Carolina
and Super Tuesday, but also because most polls heading into the contest had
shown the former secretary of state winning heavily. Sanders ‘victory in
Michigan, along with further wins in Wisconsin and Minnesota, foreshadowed the
difficulty Clinton would have in keeping such states in the Democrat column in November
2016.
Biden,
for his part, seems to understand that history and the detriment posed by his
support for free trade. Even before the 2020 Democratic field winnowed to a
head-to-head matchup with Sanders, the former vice president had already begun
distancing himself from his prior stance on the topic. During a Democrat
presidential debate in July 2019, Biden admitted that he would not rejoin TPP if
elected president. The move was surprising given that the former vice president
had once touted the deal’s ability to forge a “new world
order” where open markets would force even countries such as China to
reform and prosper. Biden built from that reversal at a another debate in
August, when he further promised to oppose a “new
NAFTA” agreement after being badgered on the issue by rivals.
Monday’s
protests in Detroit, though, indicate that Biden’s prior championing of free
trade is unlikely to be forgotten, especially by supporters of Sanders.
Complicating matters for the former vice president is that Trump, himself,
appears poised to continue hammering away on the issue if Biden were to become
the Democrat nominee.
“Joe
Biden made a deal, NAFTA,” the president said last
week during a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “He approved it, he was
pushing it. It’s the worst trade deal ever made.
Flashback–Biden:
U.S. Needs More H-1B Foreign Workers for Corporations
17 Jun
2019162
3:44
In 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden advocated for
bringing more H-1B foreign visa workers to the United States to compete against
American graduates and professionals in high-paying science, technology, and
engineering jobs.
Biden told attendees of
the Export-Import Bank’s 2013 Annual Conference that not only did the U.S.
need to bring more H-1B foreign visa workers to the country for corporations,
but that foreign students graduating from American universities should
“literally” be given green cards to permanently stay in the U.S.
Biden said:
We also think its essential
to reform the immigration system. Every year … our university system
generates roughly 40,000 people with PhDs and master degrees in areas of
science and technology that we need and we make sure that they’re promptly
escorted back to their country. At the very same time, we’re spending
hundreds of millions of dollars on STEM education. It makes no sense in
my humble opinion. [Emphasis added]
Sending them back to their country denies them a visa even when they have a job waiting for
them. Instead of sending them home, we should be a stamping a green
card on their diploma as they walk across the stage. Literally, I mean this
literally, not figuratively, literally. If they have a job here, they
should be able to stay here. We should want them here. [Emphasis added]
Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve
also proposed adding additional H-1B visas so that American employers can hire
the best and the brightest no matter where they come from if they
can’t be found here. [Emphasis added]
Every
year, more than 100,000 foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B
visa and are allowed to stay for up to six years. There are about 650,000
H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given
moment. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their
foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News. Nearly 70 percent of all H-1B visas are rewarded to Indian
nationals.
More than
85,000 Americans annually potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through
the H-1B visa program. Oftentimes, importing a foreign worker on the H-1B
visa is the first step in a multinational corporations’ effort to outsource the
American job, as the foreign worker arrives in the U.S., is trained in the job,
and then is eventually sent back overseas with the job.
While
Biden advocated for more labor market competition against America’s
professionals and graduates, foreign workers have already crowded out Americans
in the tech hub of Silicon Valley, California.
“We have no voice in Washington,” said one American
mother and STEM worker who was replaced by an H-1B. “There are 500 lobbyists
for Big Tech, for cheap labor via the H-1B, L-1, OPT, and H4 EAD programs. Who
wants to hear from us?”https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/05/americans-replaced-by-foreign-h-1bs-theres-no-shortage-of-u-s-workers/ … via @JxhnBinder
Americans Replaced by H-1B Visas: 'There's No
Shortage' of U.S. Workers
Analysis
conducted last year reveal that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley
are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and
Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.
Last year,
U.S. businesses and corporations attempted to outsource nearly 420,000 American jobs to foreigners
through the H-1B visa program — a number that outpaces the population of Tampa,
Florida.
As
Breitbart News previously reported, more than 2.7 million H-1B foreign workers have
been approved to come to the U.S. to take American jobs between 2007 and 2017.
During that same period, businesses tried to outsource almost 3.5 million
American jobs to foreign workers instead of hiring Americans.
About four
million young Americans enter the workforce each year, many looking for
white-collar jobs in the STEM fields. Those Americans’ prospects of finding
work are crippled by the country’s legal immigration process, which admits
more than 1.5 million immigrants and hundreds of thousands of foreign visa
workers annually.
Watch–Josh Hawley Rips ‘Aristocratic Elite’ for
Engineering U.S. Economy Against American Middle Class
16 May 2019184
6:00
Sen.
Josh Hawley (R-MO) ripped what he called the country’s “new aristocratic elite”
for engineering the United States economy against the American middle class.
For his first major speech
on the Senate floor, Hawley slammed the “big banks, big tech, big
multi-national corporations, along with their allies in the academy and the
media,” whom he said have created an economic structure in which they, the
well-connected, benefit while the American working and middle class
increasingly struggle to get ahead.
Hawley said:
The chattering class often
tells us that all of this—the jobs, the despair, the loss of standing—is the
result of forces beyond anyone’s control. As if that’s an excuse to do nothing. But
in fact, it’s not true. [Emphasis added]
Today’s society benefits
those who shaped it, and it has been shaped not by working men and women, but
by the new aristocratic elite. Big banks, big tech, big multi-national
corporations, along with their allies in the academy and the media—these are
the aristocrats of our age. They live in the United States, but they
consider themselves citizens of the world. [Emphasis added]
They operate businesses or
run universities here, but their primary loyalty is to their own agenda
for a more unified, progressive—and profitable—global order. These modern
aristocrats often claim to be a meritocracy. And many of them truly believe
they are. What they don’t see, or won’t acknowledge, is that the society they
have built works mainly for themselves. They’ve effectively run this
country for decades. And their legacy is national division and national decline.
[Emphasis added]
Defending the needs of the
American middle class against a growingly powerful “aristocratic elite” is the
“crisis of our time,” Hawley asserted.
“After years of sacrifice,
the great American middle is being pushed aside by a new, arrogant aristocracy,”
Hawley said. “The new aristocrats seek to remake society in their own image: to
engineer an economy that works for the elite but few else, to fashion a culture
that is dominated by their own preferences.”
“This town has embraced a
politics of elite values and elite ambition rather than building opportunities
to thrive in the great and broad American middle. This has left middle
America—the great American middle class—under siege: battling the loss of
respect and work, the decline of home and family, an epidemic of loneliness and
despair,” Hawley continued. “This is the crisis of our time.”
Specifically, Hawley
blasted multinational corporations for outsourcing American middle class jobs
overseas — wreaking economic, cultural, and social havoc on rural and small
town American communities in the process — and both political establishments
for treating American citizens as mere consumers.
“In places like the one
where I grew up, in middle Missouri, good-paying jobs that you can raise a
family on are going away,” Hawley said. “The jobs go overseas or south of the
border or to cities on the coasts. And once-vibrant towns decline, taking with
them the network of schools and neighborhoods and churches that make up middle
class life.”
Hawley continued:
Rural America has been
particularly hard hit. Rural Americans’ life expectancy has not just
leveled off, its actually dropped, and for women without a high school degree,
that drop has been staggering. In some rural places, residents struggle
with outright deprivation. [Emphasis added]
My home state contains
some of the poorest counties in America, all in rural places that once boasted
thriving small towns.
As those communities struggle, want sets in. But the crisis reaches well beyond
economics. [Emphasis added]
The message that
Washington has sent our whole society is loud and clear: our elites are the
people who matter—and
those who aspire to join them. Everyone else is unimportant or
backwards. And millions of Americans are left with the sense that
the people who run this country view them with nothing but contempt and value
them as nothing but consumers. [Emphasis added]
Indeed, working and middle
class Americans have been hit the hardest from decades-long political consensus
between the Republican establishment and Democrats.
Recent research revealed that while coastal, elite metropolis cities have flourished in the last decade, small town and rural American communities have suffered depopulation, mass job loss, and continued economic strain since the Great Recession.
For instance, by
2016, elite zip codes had a surplus of 3.6 million jobs, which is more than the
combined bottom 80 percent of American zip codes. While it only took about five
years for wealthy cities to replace the jobs lost by the recession, it took “at
risk” regions of the country a decade to recover, and “distressed” U.S.
communities are “unlikely ever to recover on current trendlines,” the report
predicts.
Economic growth among the
country’s middle-class counties and middle-class zip codes has considerably
trailed national economic growth. For example, between 2012 and 2016, there
were 4.4 percent more business establishments in the country as a whole. That
growth was less than two percent in the median zip code and there was close to
no growth in the median county.
While America’s working
and middle class have been subjected to compete for jobs against a constant
flow of cheaper foreign workers — where more than 1.2 million mostly
low-skilled immigrants are admitted to the country annually — the billionaire
class has experienced historic salary gains.
A study by the Economic
Policy Institute found that the country’s top 0.01 percent have enjoyed more
than 15 times as much wage growth as the bottom 90 percent of wage earners.
Between 1979 and 2017, working and middle class Americans’ wages grew by only
22 percent. On the other hand, the plutocrat class saw their salaries grow by
more than 155 percent over the same period.
Likewise, free trade deals
like NAFTA — supported by Republicans and Democrats — as well as China’s
entering the World Trade Organization (WTO) has eliminated nearly five million American
manufacturing jobs across the country, devastating steel towns and U.S.
autoworkers. 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.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
JAMES WALSH
THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY’S HISPANICAZATION of
AMERICA… first ease millions of illegals over our borders and into our voting
booths!
How the Democrat party surrendered America to Mexico:
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch
discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close
coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence
and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
"This is country belongs to
Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that
the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican
kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational program funded by
American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in
March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by
Attorney General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the
transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made
140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so
much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to
a 2014 letter by
two pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger
than the Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000
younger illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA”
amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy
Institute.”
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM
VOTING ILLEGALS
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch
discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close
coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence
and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of
LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"This is country belongs to Mexico"
is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is
really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in
Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American
Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of
2009!
Previous generations of immigrants did not
believe they were racially superior to Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former
education minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book,
republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA,
students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are
ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise.
The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and
all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
*
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA AND NANCY PELOSI’S
CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA FLOODED WITH DEM
VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY (BIDEN IS NOT NOTED
AS HE SPENT 8 YEARS DURING THE OBOMB FOR BANKSTERS REGIME SUCKING OFF BRIBES
AND NO ONE REALLY SAW HIM)
“One of the most disgusting things to come out of the
Obama administration was "Operation Fast and Furious," where members
of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed
illegal gun sales to go through – commonly referred to as "gun
walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers they believed were
connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were
eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico. Two of them were used
to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
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
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
AP Images
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’
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.
Flashback–Biden
Cozied Up to General Motors CEO Mary Barra: ‘GM is Alive!’
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.
Flashback–Biden:
U.S. Needs More H-1B Foreign Workers for Corporations
17 Jun 2019162
3:44
In 2013, then-Vice President
Joe Biden advocated for bringing more H-1B foreign visa workers to the United
States to compete against American graduates and professionals in high-paying
science, technology, and engineering jobs.
Biden told attendees of the Export-Import Bank’s 2013 Annual
Conference that not only did the U.S. need to bring more H-1B foreign visa
workers to the country for corporations, but that foreign students graduating
from American universities should “literally” be given green cards to
permanently stay in the U.S.
Biden said:
We also think its essential to reform the immigration system. Every
year … our university system generates roughly 40,000 people with PhDs
and master degrees in areas of science and technology that we need and we make
sure that they’re promptly escorted back to their country. At the very same
time, we’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on STEM education. It
makes no sense in my humble opinion. [Emphasis added]
Sending them back to their country denies them a visa even
when they have a job waiting for them. Instead of sending them home, we
should be a stamping a green card on their diploma as they walk across the
stage. Literally, I mean this literally, not figuratively, literally. If
they have a job here, they should be able to stay here. We should want them
here. [Emphasis added]
Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve also proposed adding additional
H-1B visas so that American employers can hire the best and the brightest no
matter where they come from if they can’t be found here. [Emphasis
added]
Every year, more than 100,000 foreign
workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to stay for up
to six years. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment.
Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign
replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News. Nearly 70
percent of all H-1B visas are
rewarded to Indian nationals.
More than 85,000 Americans annually
potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through the H-1B visa
program. Oftentimes, importing a foreign worker on the H-1B visa is the
first step in a multinational corporations’ effort to outsource the American
job, as the foreign worker arrives in the U.S., is trained in the job, and then
is eventually sent back overseas with the job.
While Biden advocated for more labor
market competition against America’s professionals and graduates, foreign
workers have already crowded out Americans in the tech hub of Silicon Valley,
California.
“We have no voice in Washington,” said one American
mother and STEM worker who was replaced by an H-1B. “There are 500 lobbyists
for Big Tech, for cheap labor via the H-1B, L-1, OPT, and H4 EAD programs. Who
wants to hear from us?”https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/05/americans-replaced-by-foreign-h-1bs-theres-no-shortage-of-u-s-workers/ … via @JxhnBinder
Americans Replaced by H-1B Visas: 'There's No
Shortage' of U.S. Workers
Analysis conducted last year reveal
that 71
percent of tech workers in
Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco,
Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.
Last year, U.S.
businesses and corporations attempted to outsource nearly 420,000 American jobs to foreigners
through the H-1B visa program — a number that outpaces the population of Tampa,
Florida.
As Breitbart
News previously reported, more than 2.7 million H-1B foreign workers have been
approved to come to the U.S. to take American jobs between 2007 and 2017.
During that same period, businesses tried to outsource almost 3.5 million
American jobs to foreign workers instead of hiring Americans.
About four million young Americans
enter the workforce each year, many looking for white-collar jobs in the STEM
fields. Those Americans’ prospects of finding work are crippled by the
country’s legal immigration process, which admits more than 1.5 million
immigrants and hundreds of thousands of foreign visa workers annually.
Josh
Hawley: Bush’s Globalist ‘New World Order’ Has Made the Elites Rich, Eroded
‘Middle Class Way of Life’
MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images
JOHN BINDER
1 Nov 2019500
3:22
President George H.W. Bush’s
plan for a “New World Order” with global integration of the United States’
economy has made the ruling class richer while eroding “the middle class way of
life” in America, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
In an interview on The Realignment podcast, Hawley described how the long-held push by both political
establishments to massively globalize the American economy has been at the
expense of U.S. workers while the ruling class and their allies in the donor
class have profited.
Hawley said:
If I have to give you a sense of the
kind of vision that I think voters rejected, President Bush … gave a
speech to Congress in 1990 where he talked about a ‘New World Order,’ and
he was saying this of the situation in the context with Iraq, but he
talked broadly about a ‘New global liberal order’ that of course America would
lead, that it would involve America making the world much more like America and
the rest of the world kind of blending in with America … and
there wouldn’t be the need for hard borders any longer, and we’d have free
trade, and we’d have great multinational cooperation, and we’d have
these multinational corporations that can do business in any country, and it
would be a whole new era. [Emphasis added]
Well, as it turns out — first
of all, China and Russia didn’t get the memo on that — secondly, as it turns
out, that ‘New World Order’ wasn’t good for American workers. And as it
turned out, it didn’t protect American middle class values. As it
turned out, it undermined the middle class way of life. [Emphasis
added]
Hawley said the ruling class is
primarily a “small group of people” from a “fairly narrow band of colleges and
graduate schools” who largely agree on the most challenging issues facing the
nation and oppose the traditionalism of middle American communities.
“They also tend to be the winners of
this global integration. George Bush’s ‘New World Order,’ the people who have
been in charge of the parties who run the media, who hold commanding heights in
our culture; they win from that agreement,” Hawley said of the ruling class.
“They’re doing great; they are the wealthy in our society. They are the ones
who are globally integrated and global facing.”
Hawley continued:
They also tend to be skeptical of
places like Missouri and of things like home and community. So they say that
they value those things, but you listen to somebody … and somebody says, “I’m
not going to move from this small town even though I’m having trouble finding a
job because my family is here and because this is where we’ve lived for
generations and this is where my friends are and I want to make a life here.” A
lot of D.C. elites in both parties listen to that and they’re like, “That’s
crazy.”
As Breitbart News has chronicled, free trade has helped gut working and middle class
American jobs and stripped whole middle American towns of their industries
and livelihoods.
Since the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) was signed and China was allowed to enter the World Trade
Organization (WTO), five
million American manufacturing
jobs and more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities have been eliminated from
the U.S. economy. This mass elimination of jobs due to free trade has
coincided with an almost 600 percent increase in trade deficits.
In recent years, the economic recovery
from the Great Recession disproportionately benefitted elite zip codes. For example, by 2016,
elite zip codes had a surplus of 3.6 million jobs, which is more than the
combined bottom 80 percent of American zip codes. While populations have grown
in major cities where the wealthiest of Americans live, rural communities have
continued to shrink.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him
on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Amy
Klobuchar Hides Her Support for Exporting College Graduate Jobs to India
NEIL MUNRO
14 Feb 20201
9:36
Democrat Sen. Amy
Klobuchar is touting her support for amnesty and easy migration of blue-collar
workers — but she is hiding her support for laws that allow employers to hire
foreign graduates for the white-collar jobs needed by Klobuchar’s college
graduate progressive voters.
“We know that immigrants don’t
diminish America, they are America,” she told a February 13 event in
Nevada organized by the League of United Latin American Citizens. She
continued:
We
also know that we need workers in our fields, in our factories, to start more
small businesses, in our nursing homes, working as doctors, and [in] our
hospitals and [as] nurses. So I think that economic case … is the case I’ve
been making in every state. …. In nearly every town hall meeting, I would bring
up immigration, because I just think it’s so important for people, even in
states that don’t have big Hispanic communities, to start thinking of it as an
economic imperative.
Klobuchar
has a long history of support for white-collar migration, despite the impact on
college voters in her home state.
In 2015, for example, Klobuchar backed
a bill by then GOP Utah Sen. Orin Hatch that would allow universities and
companies to cooperatively import an unlimited number of foreign graduates for
the jobs sought by American graduates. ComputerWorld reported:
Technically,
the bill is a reintroduction of the earlier “I-Square” bill, but it includes
enough revisions to be considered new. It increases the H-1B visa cap to
195,000 (instead of an earlier 300,000 cap), and eliminates the cap on people
who earn an advanced degree in a STEM (science, technology, education and math)
field.
Hatch,
who is the No. 2 ranking senator in the GOP-controlled chamber, was joined by
co-sponsors Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chris Coons
(D-Del.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in backing the
legislation.
…
“This
bill is basically a wish list for the tech industry,” said [EPI’s Daniel]
Costa.
In 2020, Klobuchar is also sponsoring the
updated version of the Hatch bill. The bill, titled S.386, is being championed
by Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee. His bill would not change the overall number of
green cards for foreign employees, but it would roughly quintuple the award of
green cards to the unlimited number of temporary status Indians graduates who
can take jobs from American graduates via the Optional Practical Training,
L-1, and the H-1B programs.
The #S386 green-card giveaway bill pushed by #SenMikeLee is
driven by Utah's unified estb., which wants to build a new Silicon Valley:
"Silicon Slopes"
Romney's impeachment dump on Trump taints the push by Lee & Utah for a GOP OK of Utah's business plan.http://bit.ly/38aHMnw
Romney's impeachment dump on Trump taints the push by Lee & Utah for a GOP OK of Utah's business plan.http://bit.ly/38aHMnw
Mitt Romney's Impeachment Vote Backfires on
Utah's Push for S.386 Green Card Giveaway
The resident population of roughly one
million Indian graduates has created a U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy
throughout the U.S economy, which pushes many American graduates out of
good jobs. The outsourcing economy has imposed Indian-style workplace rules on Americans’ professional workplaces, despite U.S. laws against
discrimination, favoritism, and kickbacks.
Klobuchar’s
support for middle class outsourcing is a fundamental economic threat to her
own voting base of white-collar college graduates.
She came in third in the New Hampshire
primary race partly because she won the biggest share of college voters,
according to the exit polls. She
won 25 percent of the votes from college grad Democrats, narrowly beating the
shares won by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. But she only won 14
percent of blue-collar votes, far behind Sanders’ share of 31 percent and
Buttigieg’s share of 24 percent.
But
the victims of this Indian outsourcing include many young, mid-career and older
graduates in her home state of Minnesota.
Numerous Indian-run, Indian-staffed
outsourcing firms have set up satellite offices in Minnesota. They
include Infosys, Cognizant, Tata, Larsen & Toubro Wipro, IBM India,
and IBM, which recently appointed an Indian CEO to
run the firm.
The federal data showing the H-1B job
losses are presented MyVisaJObs.com. The site shows the number of H-1B visa workers
requested by Minnesota employers to take jobs that would otherwise go to
Americans.
In 2019, Minnesota-based Best Buy asked for visas to import 59 foreign graduates,
at expected annual pay of $113,000. Minnesota-based Target sought 288
visas for jobs paying an average of $124,000. Cargill Inc. asked for
23 visa workers for jobs paying $117,000, the University of Minnesota asked
for 245 graduates at an average pay of $80,000 and Medtronic asked
for 263 graduates at an average pay of $99,000.
SAITJ.org
displays the same data from 2017, and it shows that half of the requested
workers would earn less than $70,000 a year, while 14 percent would earn
more than $100,000.
The outsourcing economy also hits
older workers. In 2007, for example, Minnesota’s Best Buy retail company
settled a lawsuit by American workers who were replaced by H-1B workers from
the Accenture consulting company, according to ComputerWorld’s report:
Best Buy Co. this month quietly
settled an age discrimination lawsuit filed in 2004 by 44 former IT [Information Technology] workers
who had been laid off, most of them after the electronics retailer outsourced
its IT operations to Accenture Ltd. earlier that year.
“The
matter has been resolved on a mutual basis,” said Stephen Snyder, a Minneapolis
attorney who represented the former Best Buy employees. Neither Snyder nor
officials at the retailer would comment on the details of the settlement deal
approved by a U.S. District Court judge in Minnesota.
When
the outsourcing deal was announced, Best Buy told its 820 IT workers that only
about 40 of them would remain with the retailer. About 650 others were expected
to be shifted to Accenture and continue working at Best Buy’s offices, while
the remaining 130 or so workers were told their jobs would be eliminated.
Mid-career
professionals also lose out.
“She’s
the ‘Minnesota nice’ version of [Democrat Rep.] Zoe Lofgren … [who is] the
congresswoman from Silicon who is a complete foreign-labor dumping shill,” said
a Minnesota-born software professional who has lost jobs to Indian outsourcing.
He continued:
In
2004, I’m in Chicago, on the near-north side, near one of the restaurant
districts, and this Indian guy comes up to me and asks me for directions. It
turns out I end up talking to him for two hours or so, him and his sister. He
told me he is working at the Best Buy headquarters in Richview, Minneapolis …
He explained how he was told by a manager to lie to an American programmer,
tell him there was no more work — but to [secretly] shift work overseas [to
India]. The American looked at him and said, ‘What am I supposed to do? I have
a mortgage and I have a baby on the way.”
If
[the Indan] did not play ball, he was going to be on the first plane back to
India.
“Klobuchar
knows about this [outsourcing[… she is complicit,’ he said.
The
Indian outsourcing has accelerated in the last decade, partly because Klobuchar
and other politicians protect the business — and even used the 2013 “Gang of
Eight” amnesty bill to expand the flow of visa workers and foreign graduates.
Klobuchar reiterated her support of the 2013 bill at the Nevada event:
I
have been a long supporter of comprehensive immigration reform. I think that is
the best answer and in 2013, we did, and as I mentioned, when President [George
W.] Bush was in and he really wanted to get it done. And we got close, but we
had a lot of pushback actually from right-wing talk radio and other things.
Then
it got to President [Barack] Obama’s time, and he wanted to get it done too.
And in 2013, we put together a bill that was supported both by the Chamber of
Commerce and the AFL CIO, by the migrant groups as well as the Farm Bureau and
the farmers union. And we got that through [the Senate] with bipartisan
support. I was on the judiciary committee, am on that committee and worked on
that bill hard, and then it died somewhere over in the House, next to the
frozen peas in [House Speaker] John Boehner’s freezer, I don’t know. It never got
through, and it was a very sad thing because we had such bipartisan support.
Klobuchar’s
opponent, Sen. Sanders, opposed the 2013 bill:
In 2013, @SenSanders gave a powerful speech condemning the Gang of Eight bill written by
corporate lobbyists. He then he voted for the bill despite being on record
acknowledging that it would hurt American workers. https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1228310760582873088 …
Klobuchar promises to push for a similar bill
if she is elected President:
I am convinced that we can get
this done. I think a lot of the Republicans do not want to cross Donald Trump
right now. But there are a lot of them that know that we need to get it done. I
am committed to getting it done in my first year. I’m not gonna wait because
that would have a path to citizenship, as well as do something of course with
the ‘dreamers’ and give them citizenship, as well as dealing with temporary status
workers.
New Infosys lawsuit helps explain how the
huge H-1B/OPT outsourcing economy pressures & rewards Indian managers to discriminate
against American graduates, including Indian legal immigrants.
Follow the money, all the way to India.
And to Utah's #S386http://bit.ly/31qzs0g
Follow the money, all the way to India.
And to Utah's #S386http://bit.ly/31qzs0g
Lawsuit Alleges Anti-American Bias by Indian
Managers in U.S.
Peter
Navarro: U.S. Is ‘Dangerously Over-Dependent’ on Foreign Imports
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White House trade adviser Peter
Navarro says the Chinese coronavirus crisis is vindicating President Trump’s
economic nationalist agenda, underscoring how “dangerously over-dependent” the
nation is on global supply chains overseas.
In a press briefing on Thursday,
Navarro said the coronavirus crisis is exposing decades of free trade policy
that has readily enabled U.S. corporations to outsource and offshore their
supply chains while gutting America’s industrial base. Navarro said:
One of the things that this crisis
has taught us … is that we are dangerously over-dependent on a global supply
chain for our medicines like penicillin, our medical supplies like masks, and
our medical equipment like ventilators. We have right now, as we speak, over 50
countries that have already imposed some form of export restrictions in their
country against the rest of the world.
“What we’re learning from that is
that no matter [what] treaties you have, no matter how many alliances, no
matter how many phone calls, when push comes to shove, you run the risk as a
nation of not having what you need,” Navarro said.
Navarro also detailed the Trump
administration’s upcoming “Buy American” executive order, which he said will be
implemented only after the coronavirus crisis has concluded to ensure existing
supply chains are not further disrupted:
And if there’s any
vindication, it’s the president’s Buy American, secure borders, and a strong
manufacturing base philosophy, strategy, and belief it is this crisis
because it underscores everything that we see there. [Emphasis added]
So the Buy American order,
which is going through process, would do a couple of things. It would — not
during this crisis because we don’t want to disrupt anything, I want to be very
clear about that — but going forward, after this is over, the VA, DOD,
HHS, and this government buys American for essential medicines, our medical
countermeasures, and the medical supplies and equipment we need. At the
same time, it will deregulate so we can get the FDA and EPA to
facilitate domestic manufacturing and innovate. [Emphasis added]
The key here … is having advanced
manufacturing on U.S. soil that can leapfrog other countries so we don’t have
to worry about competing against cheap sweatshop labor, lax environmental regulations, different tax regimes, and the
massive subsidies of foreign governments who are actually directly attacking
our industrial base. [Emphasis added]
Navarro said “never again” should
the U.S. “have to depend on the rest of the world for essential medicines and
countermeasures.”
The results of U.S. free trade with
China have meant the U.S. currently depends on China to produce an
estimated 97 percent of all
antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients that are
needed to manufacture drugs in the U.S.
Since the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted and China entered the World Trade Organization
(WTO), nearly five million American manufacturing jobs have
been eliminated from the American economy — 3.4
million of which are due to U.S. free
trade with China. The mass elimination of working- and middle-class jobs
and depressed U.S. wages due to NAFTA and China’s entering the WTO have
coincided with a 600 percent increase in trade deficits.
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