America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Friday, December 11, 2020
STAGGERING JOB LOSS - JOE BIDEN'S BLANKET AMNESTIES WILL HARDLY FIX THIS CRISIS BUT WILL KEEP HIS WALL STREET CRONIES HAPPY AND GENEROUS
THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS BEEN AT WAR WITH THE AMERICAN WORKERS SINCE THE DAYS OF IMPEACHED AND DISBARRED LAWYER BILLARY CLINTON!
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S
BILLIONAIRES’ GLOBALIST EMPIRE requires someone as ruthlessly dishonest as
Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to be puppet dictators.
1.Globalism: Google
VP Kent Walker insists that despite its repeated rejection by electorates
around the world, “globalization” is an “incredible force for good.”
2.Hillary Clinton’s Democratic
party: An executive nearly broke down crying because of the candidate’s loss. Not
a single executive expressed anything but dismay at her defeat.
3.Immigration: Maintaining
liberal immigration in the U.S is the policy that Google’s executives discussed the
most.
HILLARY
CLINTON’S GLOBALIST VISION:
SURRENDER OF
OUR BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX AND SUCKING IN GLOBAL BRIBES FOR THE PHONY
CLINTON FOUNDATION
Even though it has gone virtually unreported by corporate media, BreitbartNews has
extensively documented the Clintons’ longstanding support for “open borders.”
Interestingly, s the LosAngelesTimes observed
in 2007, the Clinton’s praise for globalization and open borders frequently comes
when they are speaking before a wealthy foreign audiences and
donors.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is reportedly attempting to slip the giveaway into an end-of-the-year omnibus spending bill. The giveaway could pass the House and be sent back to the Senate for passage if Republican lawmakers do not object.
US jobless claims spike to 853,000 while Congress stalls further aid
Historic job losses continued in the US with the latest initial unemployment claims from the Department of Labor revealing 853,000 first-time claims for the week ending Dec. 5, a week-to-week increase of 137,000 from last week’s revised total of 716,000.
In addition to state claims, 427,609 initial claims were filed for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, once again bringing the total claims between state and federal programs to nearly 1.3 million. Since March 21, combined state and federal claims have exceeded 1 million every week.
Overall, 70 million claims have been filed since mid-March, nearly seven times all the claims filed in 2019, a staggering figure that has no historical equivalent since the Labor Department began tracking initial unemployment claims in January 1967. The 853,000 claims this week exceeded bourgeois economists’ expectations and are the highest since the week of Sept. 18, disabusing delusional assertions of a “recovering” job market.
A significant data point in the report was the increase in continuing claims, which measures people collecting state unemployment benefits. The increase, which brought the total above 5.76 million, was the first since August.
Speaking to the Associated Press, Ann Elizabeth Konkel, an economist for the job listing website Indeed, indicated that the increase in continuing claims is a sign that hiring is slowing, portending more layoffs. “Today’s report is the first overt signal of a backward slide,” Konkel said. “It’s evident that the labor market is still in crisis.”
The economic and social crisis shows no signs of abating with over 19 million people claiming some form of unemployment benefit according to the report, a decrease of 1.12 million from the previous week. In addition to the 8.55 million claiming PUA benefits, another 4.53 million are claiming Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits. Without congressional action, both CARES Act programs will expire on Dec. 26, leaving some 13 million people with nothing.
Along with the expiration of state unemployment benefits and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eviction moratorium at the end of the month, previously allocated funds through the CARES Act to supplement food banks and farmers have also expired. The $4.5 billion Farmers to Families Food Box program, launched in May, ran out of funds this month, leaving food banks across the country to scramble for food, or outright cancel their weekly food drives.
“The needs are beyond what we can comprehend,” Lawdia Kennedy, founder of the Queen Material Community Center in Buford, Georgia, told the Washington Post. “We had three truckloads scheduled for Saturday and they just vanished. Six states are right now being told there will be no food, right before Christmas. It’s hard to put into words what this means for the families I serve.”
“I’ve been telling people that [the food drive] is postponed and might happen next weekend, but that hope is turning a lie,” she said.
Leaders from both big businesses parties showed little interest in alleviating the suffering of millions of people. On Thursday, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi voiced her support for the bipartisan $908 billion relief proposal, which at this point is not an actual bill, but a six-page summary that doesn’t include specific language on a proposed business liability shield or aid to state and local governments, two alleged points of contention between the parties.
It has been nearly six months since extended unemployment benefits expired, eliminating the $600 weekly federal supplement, leading to widespread hunger, evictions and mounting debt and death among the working class. But at her Thursday press conference, Pelosi thanked her colleagues for the “great progress” made on negotiations up to this point. She hailed the framework, which doesn’t include $1,200 stimulus checks and offers only $300 a week, half the previous federal supplemental jobess benefit, as something that reflects bipartisan “values and priorities” and “what we need to do right away.”
As has been the case throughout the pandemic, the fact that unemployment benefits theoretically exist doesn’t mean workers get them or can keep the money if they do. In Iowa, 84-year-old bladder, breast, skin and colon cancer survivor Audrey Birdsell has been ordered by Iowa Workforce Development to repay $3,530 she received through the PUA program earlier this year.
“I don’t think it’s quite right,” Birdsell told the Des Moines Register. Birdsell, at the behest of her family, took a leave of absence from her job at the Kwik Star convenience store when the pandemic emerged. “I really feel bad,” Birdsell continued. “I wouldn’t mind giving some back. But I wish I could have some, at least. I made an effort to stay home from work. And then they’re going to take it away when they promised they wouldn’t.”
A sample of 525 cases from late July reviewed by the newspaper found that more than 100 workers have been ordered to repay previously received funds, with an average of $6,713 to be recouped.
As has been the case throughout the entire pandemic, Wall Street brushed aside the dismal report, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallying above 30,000 before a brief dip at the market’s closing bell ended the trading day at 29,996.26. The stock market was buoyed by promises of unlimited “quantitative easing” via the Federal Reserve and assurances from President-elect Joe Biden that he would reopen the majority of schools within the first 100 days of his administration—a key to forcing workers back to their jobs.
The artificial inflation of the stock market has boosted the wealth of US billionaires by over $1 trillion since the pandemic began, according to a Dec. 9 report from the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness. The report notes that the “total net worth of the nation’s 651 billionaires rose from $2.95 trillion March 18… to $4.01 trillion on December 7, a leap of 36 percent…”
Topping the list is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, whose wealth grew by 63.2 percent over that time, from $113 billion to $184 billion. Tesla CEO Elon Musk saw the largest percentage growth, a monstrous 481.7 percent, from $24.6 billion in March to $143 billion in December, for an increase of $118 billion.
The report notes that the $1 trillion hoarded by 651 people in the last nine months would be more than enough to send stimulus checks of $3,000 to all 330 million people in America, adults and children alike, providing a family of four with $12,000.
Contrasted to the euphoria of the markets and their “pandemic profiteers” is the unchecked spread of the coronavirus throughout workplaces and schools, leading to a record 3,124 deaths on Wednesday, per John Hopkins University.
In comments made during a virtual event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield warned that “for the next 60 to 90 days we’re going to have more deaths per day than we had at 9/11 or we had at Pearl Harbor.”
Asked why the US had a world-leading case and death total, Redfield didn’t acknowledge the abandonment of lockdowns and the implementation of a de facto “herd immunity” policy that has been enacted by Democratic and Republican politicians alike at the behest of their oligarchic benefactors. Nor did he explain that millions of workers have been blackmailed into working in virus-ridden factories and schools, leading to unchecked community spread.
He made no mention of debilitating supply chain issues, a result of the anarchy of capitalist production and the lack of scientifically coordinated global planning, which to this day has crippled US testing capacity, rendering contact tracing meaningless, and left doctors and nurses to fend for themselves in regards to personal protective equipment.
Instead, Redfield covered up for the ruling class and blamed the American people for the current wave of mass death. Redfield cited high rates of comorbidities such as obesity and diabetes as well as the “culture.”
“Different cultures have embraced public health recommendations with different degrees of rigor,” he said. Redfield didn’t elaborate if this “culture” included President-elect Biden falsely claiming that schools can be reopened safely so parents can be forced back to work, or Trump instructing the population to inject bleach and avoid masks.
Report: China’s Elite to ‘See the Most Benefit’ from Green Card Giveaway
China’s elite seeking EB-5 visas are set to “see the most benefit” from Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) green card giveaway for Big Tech which passed the Senate this month with no objections from Republicans or Democrats.
Last week, Lee passed the giveaway — known as H.R. 1044 or S.386 — through unanimous consent. The giveaway ensures India can monopolize the United States’ employment-based green cards and allows multinational corporations to effectively privatize the green card line.
The giveaway solidifies that employment-based visas only go to temporary foreign visa workers, mostly on H-1B visas, who have been imported to the U.S. by corporations to replace American workers, thus rewarding companies who outsource American white-collar jobs.
The State Department will offer at least 100,000 extra green cards to Indian and Chinese visa workers who took U.S. jobs from U.S. graduates. https://t.co/PuWzHisXFQ
Slipped in the giveaway are provisions that permanently change the scandal-plagued EB-5 visa program which rewards 10,000 wealthy foreign nationals annually with green cards so long as they claim to invest at least $900,000 in U.S. development projects. The program virtually lets the world’s elite buy American citizenship.
Analysis by the industry EB-5 Daily site notes that some of the giveaway’s biggest beneficiaries will the rich Chinese investors who have jammed up the program with applications for green cards:
Currently, there’s a 7% per-country cap limit on EB-5 visas, meaning no one country can receive more than 7% of the visas, unless there are left over visas, in which case these are allocated to the longest waiting applicants regardless of country of origin. [Emphasis added]
If passed, this bill may be a game-changer for EB-5, whose per-country caps have placed investors from high-demand countries in lengthy visa backlogs. Investors from China would see the most benefit, as they have been waiting the longest for visas. Other backlogged countries, such as Vietnam and India could also benefit. [Emphasis added]
Such changes to the EB-5 visa program would come as scandals have continued. This week, a federal judge slapped sanctions on a man accused of using the EB-5 visa program to defraud more than 50 wealthy Chinese and Iranian investors of more than $25 million by promising them green cards in exchange for investments in a Palm Beach, Florida hotel development project.
U.S. Tech Workers Executive Director Kevin Lynn, a group lobbying against the giveaway, told Breitbart News it is Senate Republicans who helping China buy up more of the American economy. Lynn said:
Republicans like to pride themselves in going after China for allegedly creating COVID-19, stealing our intellectual property, and unfair trade practices. Yet, these same Senate Republicans would like to reward rich Chinese investors with EB-5 visas, and to gain a monopoly on available EB-5 visas by passing this HR1044/S386 legislation.
“At the end of the day, Republicans have no one to blame but themselves for allowing China to eat our lunch,” Lynn continued.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is reportedly attempting to slip the giveaway into an end-of-the-year omnibus spending bill. The giveaway could pass the House and be sent back to the Senate for passage if Republican lawmakers do not object.
In 2018, the U.S. rewarded nearly 8,000 wealthy foreign investors and their family members with green cards. Between 2014 and 2018, the federal government gave EB-5 visas to about 43,130 wealthy foreign investors and their family members who can secure American citizenship after five years of living in the U.S.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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Biden administration will wreak havoc among low-wage workers
The Heritage Foundation has issued a
detailed study comparing President Trump's immigration policies with the
policies that Joe Biden has promised to put in place. Briefly, Biden
will turn back the clock on immigration in every way imaginable, inviting more
immigrants (and illegal aliens), ending security protections, and showering immigrants
and illegal aliens with taxpayer money. The people who will be hurt
most will be America's low-wage workers, who have benefited in the last four
years from not having to compete with people who can be paid exploitative
wages.
The Democrats have always framed illegal
immigration from the viewpoint of the illegal alien. Even though
Democrats manifestly despise America (too white, too capitalist, too
systemically racist, too burdened with an outdated Constitution), they have
insisted that impoverished and illiterate people should be allowed to benefit
from America's wealth and freedom by sneaking over the
border. America is cruel, too, when it refuses to invite economic
refugees from countries that slaughter Jews and Christians, execute homosexuals,
and subordinate women.
Donald Trump saw things
differently. He saw America's low-wage workers — many of whom are
minorities — suffering terrible economic harm as their jobs were shipped
overseas, and the jobs remaining went to illegal aliens who could be paid
substandard wages. The doctors, lawyers, and social workers weeping
over illegal aliens never shed a tear for those Americans, both minorities and
whites, who couldn't find jobs and found solace in
opioids. Democrats had disdain for marginalized whites and
conveniently ignored the plight of marginalized minorities.
During the past four years, Trump's
policies have hugely benefited low-wage workers. Most of the focus
has been on the lower taxes and fewer regulations (both of which Biden promises
to reverse) that have allowed businesses to flourish and hire new
workers. Likewise, Trump's trade deals have slowed the way other
countries (especially China) took both America's money and
jobs. However, there's been little emphasis on how Trump has decreased
both legal and illegal immigration in America.
Among other things, during his first term,
Trump partnered with Mexico to stop the caravans of illegal aliens trying to
storm America's border, blocked travel from countries that exported terrorism,
cracked down on immigration fraud, and decreased the number of refugees allowed
in the country (most of whom were economic refugees). Trump would
undoubtedly have done more if he hadn't had to battle NeverTrumps and RINOs in
Congress and leftist federal judges during his first two years, only to find
himself stuck with a Democrat-run House during his second two years.
Trump's efforts meant fewer immigrant
claims on taxpayer dollars and less immigrant competition with low-wage
workers. That's how you end up with this moving video from Gary
Lamb, explaining how Trump's policies finally allowed him to get ahead:
The Heritage Foundation report examines Trump's and Biden's
immigration policies. It concludes that a Biden administration will
undo everything Trump has done on immigration and revert to the Obama-era
policies. Here are just a few of the many examples backing up that
conclusion.
Biden has stated that he intends to stop
all work on the wall and focus only on entry ports. He intends to
reinstate enrollment in the illegal DACA program, protecting young illegal
aliens from being deported, and make all "DREAMers" (estimated at 3.6
million illegal aliens under 18) eligible for federal student aid and free
community college. He will also reinstate "DAPA," which is
essentially an amnesty program for the 3.6 million illegal aliens who are
parents of the DACA youths. All of these illegal aliens compete with
native-born Americans for jobs and education.
While Trump has indicated (despite his
base's opposition) that he is willing to negotiate an amnesty in exchange for
other immigration laws that will benefit Americans, Biden doesn't want a quid pro
quo. He intends to give citizenship to nearly 11 million illegal
aliens. That's a lot of jobs that won't go to Americans.
Since Day One, Trump has tried to protect
Americans from immigrants coming from terrorist regions. (The
teacher in France whom a Chechen Muslim beheaded would be alive today if France
had made the same efforts.) Although the leftist courts tried to
block Trump's actions, he has made headway. Biden, however, would
remove all limitations on travelers from terrorist exporting countries. Presumably,
a Biden administration would raise the risk that Americans are beheaded in the
future.
Trump has fought back against sanctuary
cities that protect illegal aliens from ICE. Biden says he will not
deport anyone who is here illegally but has not committed violent
crimes. In other words, Americans have to suffer before illegal
aliens can be removed.
There are many more points of comparison
between Trump's actions and Biden's plans to reverse them. Suffice
it to say that if you believe that America is safer and you are thriving
economically thanks to Trump's immigration policies, you would be a fool to
vote for Biden.
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program is set to expire at the end of the month. The program was designed to provide food to charities and food banks by contracting companies to purchase food from farms and deliver it to local charitable organizations.
This is the fourth round of budget allocations for the program, running from November 1 to December 31. In total, the program has been allocated $4.5 billion since it began in May of this year. The first three two-month rounds had budgets of over $1 billion.
This current two-month round of funding, however, was drastically cut to just $500 million.
Volunteers pack boxes of food outside Second Harvest Food Bank in Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, in Irvine, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
With the amount of funding cut by more than half, food banks around the country are already reporting that contractors have already used up their funding, leading some contractors to cease their scheduled deliveries earlier than expected.
The USDA claims the drop in funding was the result of many charities choosing to receive more boxes earlier in the year with an understanding that it would deplete resources by the end of the year. However, charities interviewed by the Washington Post stated that they were not informed of the potential lack of resources for this round.
The food box program was part of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which was enacted with up to $19 billion in funding to support farmers who had suffered financial losses during the pandemic. The second iteration of this program, approved by the USDA after the end of the first round on September 11, allowed for up to $14 billion in funding.
With $14 billion allocated to the same program that funded the food box initiative, there is no reason that more money could not have been provided for food aid. This is especially true with a record number of people turning to food banks this year.
The need for more food aid has risen considerably during the pandemic. In 2019, an estimated 34 million people suffered from food insecurity. That number is expected to rise to 54 million by the end of the year, according to Feeding America, the largest food bank network in the United States.
With such a drastic increase in the need for food aid, the stress upon food banks and charities to meet the demand has been immense. Miles-long car lineups have been seen at food banks across the country, with many reporting that it is their first time seeking assistance. Food banks across the country are reporting upwards of a 100 percent increase in demand, making the aid from programs like Farmers to Families so important.
Amid the crisis triggered by the pandemic, the food boxes that the USDA has provided have been critical for many communities, but the USDA has not done enough to address the needs of the working class.
Feeding America estimates that between June 2020 and June 2021 the nationwide demand for food aid will total 17 billion pounds of food, three times last year’s distribution.
So far, the USDA has provided 126.1 million boxes of food. While the USDA has changed the size of the boxes over the course of the program, an average box was likely around 25 pounds of food. This means that the USDA has provided around 3.15 billion pounds, about half of what Feeding America alone expects to be able to distribute next year.
This is a significant amount of food, but it does not meet the need and the program has been plagued with chronic issues, from delivery to quality.
Since food boxes are packaged by contractors, they are all different in their composition and quality. Some recipients have reported high-quality produce from one vendor but low-quality processed meats and moldy produce from another.
A lack of oversight and standard quality requirements has made the program a mess. Some contractors failed to provide the number of boxes promised, while others failed to deliver the boxes to the actual distribution location, ultimately costing the food bank extra money to store and move it.
No program of uniformity regarding what food items would be provided was enforced either. Recipients could only hope that the food they received was of good quality and quantity. In the early stages, many boxes were only filled with one item, forcing the USDA to require that all boxes be composed of produce, meat and dairy products.
But even still, the boxes remained a mystery to those who received them, and the inability of people to choose their items often led to waste as people discarded poor-quality items or allergens.
The USDA is allowing the program to expire as the pandemic breaks records every week. Tens of millions of people are in dire need of food. The food crisis has become so acute that instances of people shoplifting food items from stores have increased considerably. Millions of people cannot afford to pay for rent and utilities, lines for food banks are miles long and tens of millions of people still cannot afford decent health care during an international health crisis.
Considering how little the United States government has done, in both the Republican and Democratic parties, it is inconceivable that the Trump administration will provide more aid between now and the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Nor is it likely that a future Democratic-run government would compensate for Trump’s failures, given Biden’s refusal to commit to saving lives during the pandemic and the unwillingness of the Democratic Party to demand that adequate social resources be provided.
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