Joe Biden: Nobody Should Have to Pay 30%+ of Their Income for Housing, ‘Including People on the Street’
Former Vice President Joe Biden told residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Thursday the cost of housing should not preclude anyone from having a roof over their head – be they employed or living jobless on the street.
The Biden plan would put $100 billion into an “Affordable Housing Fund,” the bulk of which ($65 billion) would provide incentives to develop and rehabilitate low-cost housing where there’s a shortage.
Just how the plan is to be initiated and/or funded remains to be seen, although it was touched on Thursday when Biden added the implausable notion people who could not afford a home and had to live on the street would magically be eligible for housing finance if he gained the White House:
He said “No one should have to pay more than 30 percent of their income to be able to live and have housing, including people on the street.”
Watch for yourself below:
.@JoeBiden: "No one should have to pay more than 30 percent of their income to be able to live and have housing, including people on the street." pic.twitter.com/s9GAoqjqGF
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 4, 2020
Biden spent Thursday in Wisconsin, two days after President Donald Trump traveled to Kenosha, as Breitbart News reported.
The community event he attended was called to address the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake.
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CALIFORNIA: THE ONCE GOLDEN STATE NOW IN MELTDOWN DUE TO
GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY POLICIES FAVORING ILLEGALS.
“The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other
state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in
California, Pew reported.”
California’s homeless population was estimated to be about
150,000 in 2019, a number widely believed to be a drastic underestimation. The
homeless population increased by 21,000 in 2019 and is expected to grow by
another 30,000 this year as a result of the mass unemployment and economic
devastation caused by the pandemic. The homeless, many of whom suffer from
preexisting medical conditions, are among the most vulnerable to infectious
disease.
With 154 billionaires and more wealth than all but the four
wealthiest countries in the world, California is at once the richest and the
poorest state in the country. According to the United States Census Bureau,
after adjusting for the cost of living, California has the highest poverty rate
in the nation, with an average of 18.2 percent of its 39.5 million residents
living in poverty over the last three years. While the median income in the
state is slightly above the national median, costs for housing, electric power and
essential goods are far higher than the national average.
California Governor Newsom continues murderous
policies as COVID-19 cases in state reach 700,000
31 August 2020
No less than in Republican-controlled states, the
Democratic Party administration of California Governor Gavin Newsom has, since
the beginning of the pandemic, acted to protect the interests of the
ultra-wealthy. It has long since abandoned any serious effort to contain the
spread of the virus.
On May 7, six weeks after California became the first state
to issue shelter-in-place orders, Newsom announced that the state faced a $54
billion revenue shortfall. One day later, with the state averaging over 1,700
new cases per day, the administration began planning a phased reopening.
On June 12, as the number of cases in the state passed
125,000, with more than 3,600 new cases per day, California moved to stage
three of the reopening, allowing indoor businesses such as restaurants, bars
and gyms to reopen. During this period, the infection rate exploded from about
1,700 new cases per day on May 8 to more than 5,300 on June 28.
After peaking at over 9,000 new cases per day in late July,
and following a renewed closure of bars, indoor dining and gyms, the infection
rate now stands at about 6,000 per day. But the push to reopen workplaces and
schools threatens to bring about yet another wave of cases.
The level of testing, at 85,000 per day, remains grossly
inadequate to monitor, let alone contain, the pandemic.
On August 13, the Los Angeles
Times published a timeline titled “How a
rush to reopen drove Los Angeles County into a health crisis.” It documented
the direct impact of the reopening policy on the number of infections and
deaths in Los Angeles. At the time of that exposé, in Los Angeles alone 5,000
had died from COVID-19. In the ensuing three weeks that number has increased by
15 percent.
Despite the alarming data, last Friday Newsom announced a
four-tier reopening process that kicks off today with the reopening of hair
salons, barber shops and retail stores to 25 percent capacity, to be
progressively extended. The measure is being touted as a return to pre-pandemic
“freedom”—a clear concession to right-wing complaints that necessary
science-based restrictions are a limitation on personal liberties. In reality,
the organized opposition to public health-based restrictions in the name of
“freedom” is being promoted by the corporate elite in line with its murderous
return-to-work policy.
The unfolding economic and fiscal disaster, which the state
government has seized upon to deepen its attacks on public education and social
infrastructure, threatens to plunge millions of Californians into destitution.
The Newsom administration estimates that the 2020-2021 fiscal year will see a
24.5 percent unemployment rate, a nine percent drop in personal income, and a
21 percent decline in new housing permits. These projections are optimistic in
light of social reality.
In Los Angeles County, unemployment has only slightly
declined—from 20 percent in April to 17.5 percent in July, which means a
million people are without employment. A 2020 study by UCLA’s Institute on
Inequality and Democracy estimates that almost a half million people living in
rental housing in Los Angeles County have no income and are at a high risk of
homelessness.
California’s homeless population was estimated to be about
150,000 in 2019, a number widely believed to be a drastic underestimation. The
homeless population increased by 21,000 in 2019 and is expected to grow by
another 30,000 this year as a result of the mass unemployment and economic
devastation caused by the pandemic. The homeless, many of whom suffer from
preexisting medical conditions, are among the most vulnerable to infectious
disease.
With 154 billionaires and more wealth than all but the four
wealthiest countries in the world, California is at once the richest and the
poorest state in the country. According to the United States Census Bureau,
after adjusting for the cost of living, California has the highest poverty rate
in the nation, with an average of 18.2 percent of its 39.5 million residents
living in poverty over the last three years. While the median income in the
state is slightly above the national median, costs for housing, electric power
and essential goods are far higher than the national average.
In a recent report, the Public Policy
Institute of California found that more than 35 percent of the state, almost 14
million people, live in poverty or “near-poverty.” This section of the
population, subjected to poor housing, inadequate medical care and unsafe
working conditions, confronts both higher infection and fatality rates than the
general population. In July, more than 300 workers—three quarters of the
workforce—were infected at a downtown Los
Angeles sweatshop owned by Los Angeles Apparel.
The pandemic has swept through California’s notoriously
overcrowded prison system, infecting more than 9,300 inmates and 2,200 staff
members. Close confinement, poor medical care and limited access to personal
protective equipment have led to an infection rate almost five times higher
among state prisoners than in the general population. California’s prison
population stood at about 117,000 in April 2020, with 32 out of 35 prisons
holding incarcerated populations above their design capacities.
A particularly deadly outbreak at the California
Institution for Men has resulted in over 1,000 infections and 20 deaths. The
transfer of 121 inmates from this prison to San Quentin State Prison resulted
in an even deadlier outbreak. More than 2,100 prisoners at San Quentin, half its
population at the start of the outbreak, have so far been infected.
BLOG EDITOR: EVEN AS THE STATE CUTS, THE LA
RAZA WELFARE STATE EXPANDS.
After decades of stagnant wages and cuts to health care and
social services, working people have been made to bear the brunt of the recent
$54 billion cut in the state budget, which includes a 10 percent pay cut for
state employees, delayed payments to public schools, a $1.7 billion cut in
funding for public colleges and universities, and a $248 million cut from
housing programs. Newsom, who pledged in mid-May to take a salary cut in
solidarity with state workers, has continued to receive his full monthly salary
of $17,479.
At an August news conference, Newsom had the audacity to
claim that “there is no money sitting in the piggy bank” to pay unemployment
benefits. But between March and June, the same period during which the virus
was spiking throughout the state, California’s 154 billionaires saw their net
wealth increase by about $170 billion, more than triple the budget shortfall.
The trade unions have in every instance acceded to the
state’s demands, including a 9.23 percent cut in state workers’ salaries and a
suspension of state contributions to retirees’ health care, agreed to by the
state’s largest public employees union, Service Employees International Union
(SEIU) Local 1,000. Cal Fire Local 2881 has agreed to a 7.5 percent pay cut.
The trade unions have likewise supported
plans to resume in-person instruction in the public school system. While the
Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the nation, has
opened the school year with fully online instruction, the United Teachers Los Angeles
(UTLA), which sold out last year’s
teachers strike and paved the way for more budget cuts and school
privatizations, is collaborating in school reopening plans.
In a July report, the UTLA proposed a list of
half-measures, including keeping students in small “pods,” reducing class
sizes, and requiring masks for students and staff. The call for “pods” is
practically identical to the Newsom administration’s guidelines, which call for
children to be grouped into learning “cohorts” of no more than 14 children and
no more than two supervising adults.
The California Teachers Association has likewise called, in
the vaguest terms possible, for hand washing, face coverings, social distancing
inside classrooms, and “mental health counseling.” Even if these inadequate
measures were enforced, they would do little to make classrooms safe for
students and educators.
Statewide, counties are allowed to reopen schools if they
are off the state’s COVID-19 watch list for two weeks. Orange County and San
Diego County, two of the largest counties in the state, are both already off
the list. On Monday, the Orange County Board of Education voted to allow
schools to resume in-person instruction next month, without masks or social
distancing. A group of teachers and parents protested outside the meeting and
gathered 26,000 signatures urging the board to reconsider.
According to Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara
Ferrer, the Newsom administration is giving local health officials the ability
to grant waivers to school districts that permit schools to reopen for students
in grades K-6 once case rates fall under 200 per 100,000 people. This
threshold—twenty times what the Centers for Disease Control defines as low
incidence—has been chosen not out of consideration for the safety of students
and educators, but in order to provide a justification for reopening. On
Tuesday, the case rate in Los Angeles County was 196 per 100,000 residents,
just under the threshold.
Claims that children transmit the virus
less frequently than adults have been shown to be fraudulent. A paper published
in the Journal of the American Medical Association found
that children under the age of five carry higher amounts of the virus in their
nasal passages than older children and adults, while an extensive contact
tracing study conducted in Italy found that children younger than 15 years old
transmit the virus most efficiently.
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
Trump Campaign: Democrats Give Housing
to Illegal Migrants, Penalizing Black Americans
President
Donald Trump’s campaign used the issue of illegal immigration on Thursday to
seek votes from working-class blacks.
A short video released by the Trump campaign Twitter account
highlighted the president’s record on improving public housing in New York and
other cities.
“My name is Judy Smith,” said one black woman, who continued:
I live in New York City public housing. I’m grateful for
the spotlight that President Trump is putting on New York City public housing.
I think it’s wrong that the Democrats put illegal immigrants before black
Americans. How is it that we have people waiting on the waiting lists for New
York City public housing for 10 years or more, but yet we have illegal
immigrants living here? Something is wrong with that picture.
President Trump is bringing real solutions
to real problems.#RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/3Q7s2ZEchE
— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 28, 2020
The comments were likely aimed at working-class blacks in many
swing states, including several Midwest states.
“Working-class African Americans are significantly more
supportive of policies that seek to: decrease the number of immigrants coming
to the United States, increase the federal role in verifying the employment
status of immigrants, and attempts to amend the Constitution’s citizenship
provisions,” said a 2013 peer-reviewed study by Tatishe Nteta, a professor
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The study continued:
For African Americans who lost a job to an immigrant,
working-class membership resulted in a 13 percentage point increase in the
probability of support for an increased federal role in workplace oversight
[against employment of illegal immigrants] when compared to middle-class
African Americans who experienced a similar loss.
Numerous polls show
that blacks — like all other groups — say they wish to welcome migrants, but
strongly prefer that
Americans get jobs before companies import more migrants.
Nationwide, the expanded supply of new migrants also cuts
Americans’ disposable wages by inflating their housing costs. That
reality is recognized by investor groups who are urging more immigration. For example, the Economic
Innovation Group says, “The
relationship between population growth and housing demand is clear. More people
means more demand for housing, and fewer people means less demand.”
Mike Bloomberg’s pro-migration advocacy group, New American Economy, pushed
the same argument:
The research shows that an increase in the absolute number of
immigrants in a particular county from 2000–2010 results in corresponding
economic gains—increased demand for locally produced goods and services, a
corresponding inflow of U.S.-born individuals—that are reflected in the housing
market.
The video also included comments from other blacks in New York:
My name is Manuel Martinez … Under the Trump administration, New
York City Housing Authority has received an influx of cash that it has not seen
since 1997.
My name is Claudia Perez I’m the resident council
president of Washington Houses, which is in Spanish Harlem. [New York Mayor]
Bill de Blasio and the way he has dealt with public housing residents is
disgraceful. President Trump administration has opened their ears and has
listened … [and] is bringing real solutions to real problems.
The video ends with the claim, “More Funding: Better Housing:
Promise Made: Promise Kept.”
Donald Trump's labor & immigration
promises for a 2nd term are vague but useful.
They are also better for ordinary Americans than Joe Biden's business-backed,
open-ended inflow of wage-cutting & rent-raising blue-collar workers &
college-graduates. https://t.co/OmE4tRPf4T
— Neil Munro
(@NeilMunroDC) August
26, 2020
Another
line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as impoverished Americans
wait
Want some
perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so many homeless
encampments hovering around?
Try the
reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the
U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely
unemployable. Those are the criteria, and now
importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly, this comes as
millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that housing that
the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the
tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in
blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San
Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum,
it's worth looking at.
The Trump
administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development is finally trying
to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals prepare to enter the U.S. this
year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do it yesterday.
According
to a report in the Washington
Times:
The plan would scrap Clinton-era regulations that allowed illegal
immigrants to sign up for assistance without having to disclose their status.
Under the new Trump rules, not only would the leaseholder using public housing
have to be an eligible U.S. person, but the government would verify all
applicants through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
database, a federal system that’s used to weed illegal immigrants out of other
welfare programs.
Those already getting HUD assistance would have to go through a new verification,
though it would be over a period of time and wouldn’t all come at once.
“We’ve got our own people to house and need to take care of our
citizens,” an administration official told The Washington Times. “Because of
past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public
housing desperately needed by so many of our own citizens. As illegal aliens
attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off
of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”
The Times
notes that the rules are confusingly contradictary, and some illegal immigrant
families are getting full rides based on just one member being born in the
U.S. The pregnant caravaner who calculatingly slipped across the U.S.
in San Diego late last year, only to have her baby the next day, now, along
with her entire family, gets that free ride on government housing. Plus lots
of cheesy news coverage about how
heartwarming it all is. That's a lot cheaper than any housing she's going to
find back in Tegucigalpa.
Migrants
would be almost fools not to take the offering.
The problem
of course is that Americans who paid into these programs, and the subset who
find themselves in dire circumstances, are in fact being shut out.
The
fill-the-pews Catholic archbishops may love to tout the virtues of illegal
immigrants and wave signs about getting 'justice" for them, but the
hard fact here is that these foreign nationals are stealing from
others as they take this housing benefit under legal technicalities.
That's not a good thing under anyone's theological law. But hypocrisy is
comfortable ground for the entire open borders lobby as they shamelessly
celebrate lawbreaking at the border, leaving the impoverished of the U.S.
out cold.
The Trump
administration is trying to have this outrage fixed by summer. But don't
imagine it won't be without the open-borders lawsuits, the media sob stories,
the leftist judges, and the scolding clerics.
Los
Angeles County Pays Over a Billion in Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
BY MASOOMA HAQ
In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid
nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That
figure amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy
population, according to Fox News.
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state
in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California,
Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants
reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with
children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los
Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food
stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9
billion in 2016.
The data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than
60,000 families received a total of $181 million.
Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in
2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.
Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior
fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration, told Fox the costs represent “the tip of
the iceberg.”
“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can
cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things
like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed a resolution
making it a sanctuary city. The resolution did not provide any new legal
protections to their immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.
In October 2017, former California governor
Jerry Brown signed SB 54 into law. This bill made
California, in Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary state.” The Justice
Department filed a lawsuit against the State of California over the law. A
federal judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took effect on Jan.
1, 2018.
According to Center for Immigration Studies, “The new law does many things: It forbids
all localities from cooperating with ICE detainer notices, it bars any law
enforcement officer from participating in the popular 287(g) program, and it
prevents state and local police from inquiring about individuals’ immigration
status.”
Some counties in California have protested its implementation and joined
the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the state.
California’s campaign to provide public services to illegal immigrants
did not end with the exit of Jerry Brown. His successor, Gavin Newsom, is
just as focused as Brown in funding programs for illegal residents at the
expense of California taxpayers.
California’s budget earmarks millions of dollars annually to the One
California program, which provides free legal assistance to all aliens,
including those facing deportation, and makes California’s public universities
easier for illegal-alien students to attend.
According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal
Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report, for the estimated 12.5 million illegal
immigrants living in the country, the resulting cost is a $116
billion burden on the national economy and taxpayers each year, after
deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by some of those illegal immigrants.
BLOG: MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF
ILLEGALS IN THE U.S. AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY,
THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY
LEAVING MEXICO DESERTED.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 22 million
non-citizens now live in the United States.
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