"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
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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.”
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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
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/17/flashback-biden-u-s-needs-more-h-1b-foreign-workers-for-corporations/
JOHN BINDER
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.
Center for
Immigration Studies @CIS_org
“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
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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.
John Binder is a reporter for
Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Watch–Josh Hawley Rips ‘Aristocratic
Elite’ for Engineering U.S. Economy Against American Middle Class
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/16/watch-josh-hawley-rips-aristocratic-elite-for-engineering-u-s-economy-against-american-middle-class/
JOHN BINDER
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:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/james-walsh-hispanicazation-of-america.html
“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)
Article
Link:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240045
WIKILEAKS
EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-exposed-obamas-la-raza-open.html
“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.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/11/23/omalley-obama-devastated-democratic-party-like-bad-forest-fire/
"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
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/12/nancy-pelosi-and-obama-soros-globalist.html
"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
Ken Blackwell
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
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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.
John
Binder @JxhnBinder
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/ …
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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.
“I’m proud of my record,” Biden told local
media in Iowa.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News.
Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Flashback–Joe Biden in
2007: Job-Killing NAFTA ‘Not the Problem’
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JOHN BINDER
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.
“I’m proud of my record,” Biden told local
media in Iowa.
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!’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/26/flashback-biden-cozied-up-to-general-motors-ceo-mary-barra-gm-is-alive/
JOHN BINDER
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
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/17/flashback-biden-u-s-needs-more-h-1b-foreign-workers-for-corporations/
JOHN BINDER
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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.
Center for Immigration Studies @CIS_org
“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
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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.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Josh Hawley: Bush’s
Globalist ‘New World Order’ Has Made the Elites Rich, Eroded ‘Middle Class Way
of Life’
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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
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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.
Neil Munro
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has created a political problem for the Utah establishment's S.386 green card
giveaway bill.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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outsourcing firm for allegedly violating U.S. workplace laws and
anti-discrimination laws.
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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.
ews. Follow him on Twitter
at @JxhnBinder .