It
has already become commonplace for workers to hold down two or three part-time
jobs in order to make ends meet and provide for their families.
To get a sense of the scale of the
economic crisis pre-pandemic, one should consider that in 2019 some 61 percent
of US workers were reporting that they did not have enough savings to cover a
$1,000 emergency room visit or car repair. One in five Millennials reported not
being able to afford routine health care expenses, and nearly half had nothing
saved. This situation is being dramatically worsened by the impact of the
pandemic.
In 2018, taking note of the
devastating toll the recession had taken on a whole generation of young
workers, the Wall Street Journal noted that Millennials were
at risk of becoming “America’s Lost Generation.” Similar warnings have already
begun to circulate in regard to the emerging generation, known as Gen Z.
However, as the Journal itself
nervously pointed out at the time, the Millennial generation in the US was also
the first generation to favor socialism over capitalism. The dire conditions
facing young people, which are more and more understood to be the consequence
of decaying social order, have created the objective basis for a vast
radicalization of young people and workers across the globe. The two years
prior to the onset of the pandemic were marked by the reemergence of the class
struggle internationally, in which young workers played leading roles.
Generation Z is now coming of age
under conditions that far outstrip those which the Millennials confronted in
the aftermath of 2008. The events of the day will not pass by this new
generation, or the older generations, for that matter, without leaving a
profound and revolutionary political impact.
The younger generation is coming of age
in a world of immense contradictions, with enormous developments in technology
and science occurring simultaneously with the deaths of hundreds of thousands
of workers internationally as a result of the criminal response of the ruling
class to the pandemic. Trillions of dollars are being poured into the coffers
of the global corporate elites while young people’s schools are defunded and
their jobs destroyed.
Instability and uncertainty are among
the defining features of everyday life. Under such conditions, there is no
doubt that the popularity of socialism among young people will continue to grow
at a rapid pace. Far from becoming the “Lost Generation” as predicted by
the Wall Street Journal , the emerging generation of young workers
carries within it an enormous revolutionary force.
HOW MANY MORE ILLEGALS BEFORE THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS
DESTROYED MIDDLE AMERICA ALL TOGETHER???
Study finds 90
percent of Americans would make 67 percent more without last four decades of
increasing income inequality HAVE YOU EVER WITNESSED A BANKSTER-OWNED
DEMOCRAT POL DOING SOMETHING FOR MIDDLE AMERICA???
Joe Biden
Promises Welcome for Venezuelan, Cuban Migrants ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images
Democratic candidate Joe Biden is offering a green light to
migrants who want to flee from Cuba and Venezuela.
“The Venezuelan people need our support to recover their
democracy and rebuild their country,” Biden told a political event in Florida
on October 7. “That’s why I would immediately grant Temporary Protected
Status (TPS) to Venezuelans” in the United States, he said.
The TPS status allows foreigners to live and work in the United
States, and to get welfare and access to K-12 schools. Since 2017, President
Donald Trump has blocked TPS for Venezuelans, amid campaigns by Florida business groups and
D.C.-based progressives. Trump has also worked to shrink TPS populations
created by prior presidents.
Biden continued:
There are almost 10,000 Cubans languishing in tent camps along
the Mexican border because of the administration’s anti-immigration agenda.
That’s the administration actively separating Cuban families by not processing
visas [and] through restrictions on family visits and remittances. I think we
have to reverse that.
If implemented, Biden’s welcome policy “will set off a new
exodus from those countries as people try to take advantage of the opportunity
to stay in the United States,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the
Center for Immigration Studies.
Biden’s plan would hurt Americans, she said. “What scholars
found specifically when they looked at the [1980] impact of Cubans in South
Florida is that the wages of American workers who were competing for unskilled
or less skilled jobs went down significantly … The usual suspects will benefit
— the employers who will have a labor surplus and will get away with paying low wages , [and]
the slumlords who can fill
up their substandard affordable housing.”
The impact of low wages and surplus labor on Floridians was
sketched in a June 2020 article in the Washington Post :
KISSIMMEE, FLA. — The pandemic had forced them from their home.
Then they had run out of money for a motel. That left the car, which is where
Sergine Lucien, Dave Marecheau and their two children were one recent night,
parked in a lot that was tucked behind a row of empty storefronts.
Even when the economy was booming, Dave and Sergine had lived in
a state of near homelessness, shuttling between seedy motels that had become a
shelter of last resort for thousands in the Orlando area. Last year, after six
years of the motel life, they had saved enough to finally make it out. They
bought an RV and rented a spot in a quiet and clean mobile home community.
Sergine promised the kids they would never go back.
Now all that was gone. In theory, they qualified for a $3,400
federal stimulus check, but they had no bank account or address to collect it.
In theory, Dave was entitled to unemployment, but as of May only about 43
percent of the state’s 1.1 million claims had been paid.
“I would immediately grant temporary
protected status to Venezuelans as President." 🇻
— @JoeBiden 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4vGTctYTLX
— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) October 7, 2020
“We have to be extremely prudent in offering any kind of
temporary humanitarian protection,” Vaughan told Breitbart News.
Politicians ignore the emotional incentive for migrants to get
into the United States, Vaughan said. “For the privileged, it might be a
dollars-and-cents calculation. But for others, it’s more than that — it’s an
opportunity to live freely with the opportunity to have a decent quality of
life [and] to put their children on a trajectory towards prosperity.”
TPS migrants are rewarded for being in the United States, she
said. “They are allowed to immediately access welfare programs, as happened
with the Cubans [in 1980 and 1994] and Haitians [in 2010] — unlike other asylum
seekers or green card admission – at an enormous cost.”
Even apparently small changes in border rules can precipitate
floods of migrants, she said. The Central American migration began as “a
trickle at first [in 2010], and quickly turned into a flood because the
smuggler started to take advantage and fed this idea of coming here with kids,
or sending your kids.”
The Central American migration was largely stopped in 2020 — but
only because President Donald Trump and his deputies fought numerous
high-profile battles with the agencies, various pro-migration groups, the
establishment media, and many judges to impose a set of migration curbs.
Trump’s 2020 plan offers broadly popular restrictions
on immigration and visa workers.
But Biden’s 2020 plan promises to let
companies import more visa
workers, to let mayors import temporary
workers, to accelerate the inflow of
chain-migration migrants, to suspend immigration enforcement against illegal
aliens, and to dramatically increase the inflow of poor refugees.
“The number of [foreign] people who could potentially benefit
[from Biden’s welcome] is limited only by the tolerance of our government,”
Vaughan said. But Biden had his progressive supporters “live insulated
from the effects of it, whether it is their schools, their job markets, or
their neighborhoods … they live in a bubble.”
Biden’s allies “disregard the effects of their actions on
regular Americans, which means it’s selfish elitism.” Like the characters in
the 1925 novel, The Great
Gatsby , she said, “they use working people for their own sexual and
emotional gratification and cast them aside, caring nothing for the effects on
people’s lives.”
Opposition to refugees is bigotry, sneers
WashPo columnist. @crampell stepped outside the country club,
she'd see cheap labor hurts Americans' income, society, productivity &
competitiveness. https://t.co/WdcYgwNU0R
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) October 7, 2
Study finds 90 percent of Americans would make 67 percent more
without last four decades of increasing income inequality 25 September
2020 A new study from the RAND Corporation, “Trends in Income From
1975 to 2018,” written by Carter Price and Kathryn Edwards, provides new
documentation of the profound restructuring of class relations in America over
the last 40 years.
The study , which looks at changes in
pre-tax family income from 1947 to 2018, divided into quintiles of the American
population, concludes that the bottom 90 percent of the population would, on
average, make 67 percent more in income—every year (!)—had shifts in income
inequality not occurred the last four decades.
In other words, any family that made less than $184,292 (the
90th percentile income bracket) in 2018 would be, on average, making 67 percent
more. This amounts to a total sum of $2.5 trillion of collective lost income
for the bottom 90 percent, just in 2018.
Furthermore, the study concludes, that had more equitable growth
continued after 1975 (a date they use as a shifting point), the bottom 90
percent of American households would have earned a total of $47 trillion more
in income.
Given that there were about 115 million households in the bottom
90 percent of the US in 2018 population (out of a total of 127.59 million in
2018), that would mean that each of these households would, on average, be
$408,696 richer today with this lost income.
To reach these conclusions, the authors break down historical
real, pre-tax, income into different quintiles of the population (bottom fifth,
second fifth, third fifth, fourth fifth, highest fifth). Looking at the period
between 1947 and 2018, they divide the years based on business cycles (booms
and busts of the economy).
Growth in Annualized Real Family Pre-tax, Pre-Transfer Income by
Quantile from RAND, “Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018,” by C. Price and K.
Edwards.
Their data quantitatively expresses the restructuring of class
relations that began at the end of the post-WWII boom. Facing intensified
economic crisis, automation, and global competition, the US ruling class
undertook an aggressive campaign of deindustrialization, slashing wages and
clawing back benefits won in the previous period by explosive struggles of the
working class, while simultaneously funneling money to financial markets,
expanding the wealth and income of both the upper and upper-middle class.
As the data shows, while the bottom 40 percent of American
households made significant percentile increases to their income, relative to
the top 5 percent, for the 20 years between 1947 and 1968, in the 40 years from
1980 to the present, this trend was reversed. In 1980-2000, the bottom 40
percent of the population experienced a net income gain significantly below
that of the top 5 percent. It must be noted that because these are percentile
increases, the absolute differences between the gains of the rich versus the
poor is far larger.
Furthermore, not included in this data is wealth. In the last 40
years, and especially the last 10 to 20 years, the stock market has become the
principal means through which the top 10 percent of the population has piled up
historic levels of wealth.
Significantly, the data from 2001 to 2018 shows a sharp slowdown
in income gains for all sections of American society as per capita GDP growth
slowed and US capitalism experienced a historic decline. However, while
the income of
the top 5 percent of the population may have only grown by about 2 percent
between 2008 and 2018, the wealth of
the top percentiles of the population exploded. For example, according to data
from the Federal Reserve of St. Louis, the wealth of the top 1 percent of the
population increased from almost $20 trillion in the first quarter of 2008,
just before the worst of the financial crisis, to almost $33 trillion at the
beginning of 2018.
By using the data, the authors come up with a set of
counterfactual incomes based on what would be the different income brackets in
2018 without a shift in income distribution. The top 1 percent, instead of
making on average $1,384,000 would make $630,000. The 25th percentile, instead
of making $33,000 would make $61,000.
Data source: RAND; Graphics by Marry Traverse for Civic
Ventures; as published in TIME Magazine
The authors of the study also make several other important
observations by breaking down their data on the basis of location, education,
and race.
Kamala Paints Picture
of a ‘Harris Administration … with Joe Biden’ for Latino Voters Joe
Biden/Instagram
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) may only be the vice presidential
nominee on the Democrat ticket, but she is already promising that a “Harris
administration with Joe Biden” will be a boon to voters.
The California lawmaker, whom the former vice president said he
chose as his running mate last month because of her readiness “ to lead on day one ,” told a group of Latino small business owners from Arizona on
Saturday that it was vital they made the right choice this November.
“As part of our Build Back Better agenda, we will need to make
sure you have a president in the White House who actually sees you, who
understands your needs, who understands the dignity of your work, and who has
your back,” Harris said in a five-minute virtual address to the group, according
to the Arizona Republic .
“A Harris administration together with Joe Biden as the
president of the United States, the Biden-Haris administration will provide
access to 100 billion dollars in low-interest loans and investments for
minority-business owners,” she added:
Harris’ remarks come as some Democrat strategists continue to
express concerns over Biden’s fitness and stamina for the presidency. Since
jumping into the 2020 race, the former vice president has flummoxed many with
his frequent gaffes and misstatements on the campaign trail.
The issue came to a head last week when a one-time White House
stenographer, who worked exclusively with Biden during the Obama
administration, told the Washington Free Beacon that the former vice president
had deteriorated since leaving office.
“It is a complete difference from what he was in 2017,” the
stenographer said. “He’s lost a step and he doesn’t seem to have the same
mental acuity as he did four years ago.”
“He doesn’t have the energy, he doesn’t have the pace of his
speaking,” they added. “He’s a different guy.
Joe Biden Promises to
Let Mayors Import Foreign Workers Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
NEIL MUNRO 10 Sep 2020280
10:20
If Joe Biden is elected president, mayors and county executives
will get a pipeline of foreign workers for local CEOs who say they cannot
recruit Americans for the jobs, says Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign platform.
“It is the Democratic version of [President] George W. Bush’s
[2004] ‘ Willing worker, willing employer’ proposal,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for
Immigration Studies. The Bush proposal, he said, would have allowed:
Any employer to import any number of workers from anywhere in
the world to do any job at any wage above minimum wage. What Biden wants to do
… is to give city and county governments the ability to import people and then
give them to the employers.
In exchange, Krikorian said, “the [employers] would express
their gratitude with donations and consulting contracts for the [politicians’]
cocaine-addicted sons.”
Biden’s local migration plan is described in his immigration platform titled,
“The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants”:
As president, Biden will support a program to allow any county
or municipal executive of a large or midsize county or city to petition for
additional immigrant visas to support the region’s economic development
strategy, provided employers in those regions certify there are available jobs,
and that there are no workers to fill them. Holders of these visas would be
required to work and reside in the city or county that petitioned for them.
The imported workers would not be legal immigrants, according to
the plan. They would be visa workers who likely could eventually apply for
green cards, presumably if they have earned the approval or CEOs or mayors.
Even without approval from Congress, the plan is doable because
it builds on the existing pipelines of foreign workers.
For example, both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama
cited section 1324a of the 1965
immigration law to create and expand the Practical Training pipeline, which
provided work permits to roughly 500,000 foreign graduates of U.S. colleges in
2019. In contrast, President Donald Trump has trimmed the program.
Obama used the same 1324a claim to bypass Congress, as he
provided work permits to at least 800,000 younger illegal immigrants under the
so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
For more than a decade, lower courts have ping-ponged two
lawsuits by the Immigration Reform Law Institute challenging the 1324a claim.
The Supreme Court declined to address the legality of the 1324a claim when it
rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to cancel the program.
Also, Congress has declined to block the work permit programs,
and in 2019, apparently affirmed a “ Parole in Place ” presidential authority that could be cited in presidential
amnesties.
Moreover, there is no annual limit on the number of foreign
temporary workers who can be nominated for green cards. This means that Fortune
500 CEOs can import short-term workers and then extend their stay by nominating
them for green cards. Many CEOs prefer indentured workers because they are
unable to leave their employers until they get their green cards, perhaps after
a decade of compliant work.
The Biden program is pitched as a stimulus for interior states
who have been left behind as Congress’s immigration programs deliver millions
of new workers and trillions of dollars in new wealth to coastal investors,
states, regions, and counties.
Biden’s plan says the new pipeline would:
…allow cities and counties to petition for higher levels of
immigrants to support their growth. The disparity in economic growth between
U.S. cities, and between rural communities and urban areas, is one of the great
imbalances of today’s economy. Some cities and many rural communities struggle
with shrinking populations, an erosion of economic opportunity, and local
businesses that face unique challenges. Others simply struggle to attract a
productive workforce and innovative entrepreneurs.
The language in Biden’s plan echoes the pitch by the
investor-created Economic Innovation
Group , which is lobbying legislators to
back a new immigration program dubbed the “Heartland Visa.” The group’s pitch
says that “A place-based visa program would allow mutually-advantageous matches
to be made between skilled immigrants and places wishing to attract more human
capital.”
The group sold its idea to the New York Times , Pete Buttigieg , and others. Buttigieg’s 2020 vision , titled,
“Investing in an American asset: Unleashing the Potential of Rural America,”
said:
Pete will create a new, place-based Community Renewal visa to
provide opportunities for people who want to move to America and help build our
economy where they are needed most and where they will do well. These visas
will be targeted toward counties that have lost prime-working-age population
over the last 10 years, and smaller cities that are struggling to keep pace
economically with larger cities.
The EIG is run by wealthy investors who would gain from any increased inflow of cheap workers,
consumers, renters, and home-buyers — especially if the immigrants needed
federal aid. The group is particularly interested in raising real estate
prices, saying , “The
relationship between population growth and housing demand is clear. More people
means more demand for housing, and fewer people means less demand.”
The EIG group did not respond to emails from Breitbart News.
Immigration shifts wealth from wages to
stocks, from young to old, from central states to the coasts, from the many to
the few. #H1B https://t.co/PVA75K3v9T
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 21, 2020
The EIG plan would flood local labor markets and make it
difficult for American workers — especially marginalized workers — to argue for good jobs and decent wages.
Biden’s plan is a “terrible idea for a whole bunch of reasons,”
said Krikorian.
The program would create a local laborforce of indentured
migrant workers, who would be stuck in the district until they eventually get
green cards, said Krikorian. “The indentured side of it is appalling …
Are they going to send ‘immigrant chasers’ after them as they move to the next
town?”
The plan would encourage corrupt deals with employers, he said.
“When politicians have authority over importing visas, businesses have a
real interest in currying favor with those guys — the certainty of
corruption will be the subject of news stories as long as this kind of
thing lasts,” he said.
The plan is bad for local government because the easy
alternative of cheap foreign workers will make it difficult for local officials,
citizens, and executives to make difficult resource decisions about education
and infrastructure spending, said Krikorian:
Businesses and local governments would no longer have an
incentive to make the hard choices about investing in community college,
training programs … they won’t have to. They’ll just call up their Congressman,
and order up a bunch of foreign workers.
EIG’s “place-based visa plan” won’t help the places that hope
for foreign redemption, said John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigraiton Reform
Law Institute. “It will never work — people will just move to where they want
to go,” which is usually close to similar people, usually in coastal states, he
said. But that movement would be no problem for the EIG investors who have ties
to many companies around the nation, he said.
By allowing politicians to deliver short-term workers to
cooperative CEOs, the Biden plan would dramatically increase government power
over the CEOs, Krikorian said. But that is not a problem for business advocates
of immigration, he said:
Their goal is maximizing immigration regardless of how it
happens. Yes, they would prefer it happened in a libertarian-ish fashion the
way George W Bush offered, where the government was not involved, but they’ll
settle for Biden’s version. It increases the number of people moving here
because that is the goal.
The better alternative to more visa-worker migration would be to
reduce the distorting impact of the federal government’s cheap-labor
immigration policy, say reformers.
For example, CEOs will move their coastal jobs to cheaper
U.S. locations if they have to pay fair-market pay rates, Miano said. “If you
cut off H-1B visas, there will be a rush of coastal jobs to Kansas, Montana,
and those kinds of places,” he said.
Trump’s 2020 platform promises to end cheap labor replacement of American employees.
“The solution has always been to tighten up the labor
market,” said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers. “We’ve seen it in the
[Trump-enforced] exit of J-1s [visa
workers] — when all of a sudden, job opportunities are created for college
students.”
“It is a virtuous circle when you tighten the labor market,” he
said.
The inflow of immigrants and visa workers has changed the
nation’s workplaces, economy, and labor force.
For example, the H-1B visa pipeline delivers roughly 100,000
foreign graduates to CEOs each year. Most of those H-1B workers are hoping to
get green cards from their CEOs, so they are willing to work long hours,
without complaint, for lower salaries, for many years, in the so-called Green
Card Economy.
The H-1B program is just one of several programs that provide
CEOs with a workforce of at least 1 million indentured foreign
graduates who have few legal rights to demand higher wages, to complain to a
federal agency, or to testify in court.
This huge population of foreign graduates reduces nationwide
pressure for pay raises, reduces gateway jobs for young American graduates,
reduce the workplace status of American professionals, reduces turnover and
innovation in the tech sector, and reduces the creation of new companies that
threaten the tech CEOs’ control over their technology.
Biden’s 2020 plan includes several other
proposals to expand the inflow fo workers and consumers into the United States.
He promises to let companies import more visa workers , to accelerate the inflow of chain-migration migrants , to suspend immigration enforcement against illegals, and to
dramatically increase the inflow of poor refugees.
Donald Trump's labor & immigration
promises for a 2nd term are vague but useful. https://t.co/OmE4tRPf4T
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 26, 2020
Joe
Biden’s Immigration Plan to Accelerate Chain Migration Inflow
NEIL MUNRO Democrat Joe
Biden’s immigration plan contains hard-to-see policy changes that would
dramatically accelerate the inflow of roughly four million chain migrants.
Biden’s
promise is included in his 6,600
immigration platform , titled, “The Biden Plan for Securing Our
Values as a Nation of Immigrants.” The document says:
As
president, Biden will support family-based immigration by preserving family
unification as a foundation of our immigration system; by allowing any approved
applicant to receive a temporary non-immigrant visa until the permanent visa is
processed;
“This is the
equivalent to issuing temporary driver’s licenses to anyone who sends in an
application,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director for the Center for
Immigration Studies. “They can have the temporary license until they come back
for the road test,’ she said.
If Biden’
plan is adopted, “the sky would be the limit … and besides blowing up the
numerical limits on annual immigration [it] would be an enormous boost to the fake-document
and fake-marriage industry,” she said, adding:
We don’t (or
at least we try not to) let people come live here before they have completed
the entire [immigration] application and vetting process … Under the
Biden-Harris system, people would simply create fake relationships to get the
[initial immigration] petition approved, and then get their temporary visa to
come here and just [quit] the application, knowing there is very little
interior enforcement to make them go home later, when or if the fraud is
discovered.
Each year,
roughly four million Americans turn 18 and begin using their skills and
diligence to earn wages and salaries.
But the
federal government slashes their ability to earn wages and buy homes by
delivering roughly one million legal immigrants — including about 600,000
workers — to employers around the United States.
The federal
government also allows companies to import and keep roughly 1.3 million foreign
contract workers in myriad white collar jobs. Those jobs, including many well
paying Silicon Valley jobs, are needed by U.S. graduates to advance in their
careers.
Congress and
the White House also allows companies to keep roughly 600,000 foreign workers
in blue collar seasonal jobs. This inflow allows companies to avoid building a
recruitment business to help young people find a variety of decent jobs around
the United States.
Congress
also does little to deport illegals — or even to deter companies from employing
roughly eight million illegal migrant workers.
These
federal economic policies help companies and investors by inflating the labor
supply, so raising the price of housing, and spiking government spending.
Yet at
least 150 million more foreigners want
to migrate into the United States.
The federal
government does not set any limits on the annual inflow of legal immigrants’
minor children and elderly parents.
But there
are limits — and so, waiting lines — for other categories of immigrants, such
as adult children, married children, and siblings.
Overall, roughly 3.6 million would-be migrants are
waiting in multiple lines, according to a November 2019 report by the
Department of State.
For example,
more than two million additional people are waiting in the “Fourth Preference”
— or F4 line — for the adult siblings of U.S. citizens, but only 65,000 are
given green cards each year.
Similarly,
the federal government awards 23,400 green cars for the married sons and
daughters of green card and citizen immigrants. This “Third Preference,” or
“F3,” waiting list includes 647,236 foreign sons and daughters — many of
whom will also try to bring in their children and relatives once they are
admitted into the United States.
Also, the
government provides green cards to 23,400 adult children of new legal green
card immigrants, who are not yet citizens. But federal data in November 2019
showed that this F2B waiting list of 282,551 adult sons and daughters of
green-card holders.
Donald Trump's labor & immigration promises for a 2nd
term are vague but useful. https://t.co/OmE4tRPf4T
— Neil Munro
(@NeilMunroDC) August 26, 2020
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