THERE IS NO GREATER DANGER TO AMERICAN THAN ANOTHER FUCKING LAWYER IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
Levin Slams 'Wrecking Ball' Biden for Pretending to Be 'for the Little Guy'
“Joe Biden is a liar” and everything he and Barack Obama touch “turns into crap,” conservative pundit Mark Levin claimed on Wednesday's "The Mark Levin Show."
Levin criticized Biden for his spending and taxation plan, as well as the border crisis.
"Biden is a wrecking ball, as I say over and over again, that's what he is. He’s a wrecking ball and he stands up there and he pretends he's for the little guy," he said. "Can you name one area of the economy which he was handed by Obama that he 'properly managed?' Can't even manage his family with his son."
Below is a full transcript of the segment:
Mark Levin: They are going to so undermine our economic system, they're going to so undermine our financial system, they're going to drive us into such deep debt that we won't even be able to pay the interest on the debt at some point here. And I want you to look at your children and grandchildren, as I always tell you, and I want you to think about their future. I want you to think about their future with the racism and division that Biden and his party are promoting; I want you to think about their future about how they're destroying their education with Biden and the Democrat Party's teachers unions, I want you to think about the surge on the southern border, where millions of illegal aliens are going to enter this country during the Biden presidency and how that will impact this society. I want you to think about what are in these bills, hidden away where the media doesn't report them, where Joe Biden keeps them secret, how they're going to affect the workers of this country, how they're going to affect putting bread on the table.
And then the lies. Joe Biden is a liar. His $400,000 limit, he says, where anybody under $400,000 won't be taxed, it's a sleight of hand. Any family that earns $400,000, any husband and wife -- may I use those terms? I think I will -- any husband and wife, any small business, you're going to have the the hell taxed out of you and the idea that you can attack one sector of the economy with massive tax increases and it won't affect the other is just outrageously stupid. This economy is interconnected. When you attack our energy sector, you drive up the cost of everything in this country, for everyone in this country. When you tax successful businesses that are creating jobs and creating wealth and creating opportunities, well they don't create much wealth opportunities once you're ripping them off to the extent you are and all this money going to the politicians and the bureaucrats, like they know what to do with it.
How do you feel about the teachers unions and what's been done to you? How do you feel about how the government's handled immigration? How do you feel about the virtual destruction of our health care system by Obama and Biden? Everything they touch turns into crap. Biden is a wrecking ball, as I say over and over again, that's what he is. He’s a wrecking ball and he stands up there and he pretends he's for the little guy. Can you name one policy as a senator or vice president that he instituted for the little guy? Can you name one area of the economy which he was handed by Obama that he "properly managed?" Can't even manage his family with his son.
Biden: 'I'm a Union Guy...It's about Time They Start to Get a Piece of the Action'
(CNSNews.com) - "I'm a union guy," President Joe Biden told a gathering in Pittsburgh on Wednesday as he prepared to announce phase one of his $2.5-trillion infrastructure plan, part of which would weaken right-to-work laws in 27 states. Those laws bar compulsory membership in labor unions.
"I support unions. Unions built the middle class. It's about time they start to get a piece of the action," Biden said.
Biden said his proposals will create millions of jobs -- "good-paying jobs."
He said it will "ensure free and fair choice" for workers to organize and bargain collectively," provisions found in the Democrats' "Protecting the Right to Organize Act," or PRO Act, which the House has passed and is now included in Biden's Jobs plan.
Biden's plan to rebuild the middle class goes beyond roads, bridges and ports. It includes expanding home-based care, retrofitting buildings, replacing all lead pipes, and scrapping "exclusionary" state and local zoning laws. Yet Biden compared it to the building of the interstate highway system in the 1950s:
It's not a plan the tinkers around the edges. It's a once in a generation investment in America, unlike anything we've seen or done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago. In fact, it's the largest American jobs investment since World War II. Create millions of jobs, good-paying jobs that'll grow the economy, make us more competitive around the world, promote our national security interests, and put us in a position to win the global competition with China in the upcoming years.
It's big, yes. It's bold, yes. And we can get it done. It has two parts, the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan. Both are essential to our economic future. In a few weeks, I'll talk about the American's Family Plan [sic], but today I want to talk about the American's Jobs Plan [sic]. I'll begin with the heart of the plan. It modernizes transportation infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, airports.
Biden highlighted the following elements of his plan, as noted in his own words:
-- "The American Jobs Plan will modernize 20,000 miles of highways and roads and main streets that are in difficult, difficult shape right now. It'll fix the nation's 10 most economically significant bridges in America that require replacement...We'll also repair 10,000 bridges, desperately needed upgrades to unclog traffic, keep people safe, and connect our cities, towns, and tribes across the country."
-- "The American Jobs Plan will build new railcars and transit lines, easing congestion, cutting pollution, slashing commute time, and opening up investment in communities that be--can connect it to the cities and cities to the outskirts where a lot of jobs are these days. It will reduce the bottlenecks of commerce at our ports and our airports.
-- "The American Jobs Plan will lead to a transformational progress in our effort to tackle climate change...building a nation-eyed-- wide network of 500,000 charging stations, creating good-paying jobs by leading the world in the manufacturing and export of clean electric cars and trucks. We're going to provide tax incentives and point-of-sale rebates--rebates to help all American families afford clean vehicles of the future."
-- "When we make all of these investments, we're going to make sure ... that we buy American.
-- "The American Jobs Plan will put plumbers and pipefitters to work replacing 100 percent of the nation's lead pipes and service lines so every American, every child can turn on a faucet or a fountain and drink clean water." (Biden said up to 10 million homes in the U.S. and more than 400,000 schools/childcare centers have lead pipes.)
-- "American jobs will make sure every single -- every single -- American has access to high-quality, affordable, high-speed Internet for businesses, for schools. And when I say affordable, I mean it. Americans pay too much for Internet service. We're going to drive down the price for families who have service now and make it easier for families who don't have affordable service to be able to get it now."
-- "My American Jobs Plan will put hundreds of thousands of people to work...line workers, electricians, and laborers laying thousands of miles of transmission line, building a modern, resilient, and fully clean grid, and capping hundreds of thousands of literally orphan oil and gas wells that need to be cleaned up because they're abandoned, paying the same exact rate that a union man or woman would get having done that well in the first place.
-- "We'll build, upgrade, and weatherize affordable energy efficient housing and commercial buildings for millions of Americans.
-- "American Jobs Plan's gonna help in big ways. It's gonna extend access to quality, affordable home and community-based care. ...For too long, caregivers who are disproportionately women and women of color and immigrants have been unseen, underpaid, and undervalued. This plan along with the American Families Plan changes that, with better wages, benefits, and opportunities for millions of people who'll be able to get to work in an economy that works for them."
-- "American Jobs Plan is the biggest increase in our federal non-defense research and development spending on record. It's gonna boost America's innovative edge in markets where global leadership is up for grabs. Markets like battery technology, biotechnology, computer chips, clean energy, the competition with China in particular."
(Biden did not mention this, but a White House fact sheet notes that his plan would "Eliminate exclusionary zoning and harmful land use policies." According to the fact sheet: "For decades, exclusionary zoning laws – like minimum lot sizes, mandatory parking requirements, and prohibitions on multifamily housing – have inflated housing and construction costs and locked families out of areas with more opportunities. President Biden is calling on Congress to enact an innovative, new competitive grant program that awards flexible and attractive funding to jurisdictions that take concrete steps to eliminate such needless barriers to producing affordable housing.")
Biden urged Americans "think about" what his physical and social infrastructure plan means to "you and your loved ones." "We just have to imagine again," he said.
"Imagine what we can do, what's within our reach if we modernize those highways. You can your family could travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas onboard a high-speed train. We can connect high-speed, affordable, reliable Internet wherever you live. Imagine knowing that you are handing your children and grandchildren a country that will lead the world in producing clean energy technology..."
Biden put the price of his American Jobs Plan at "roughly two trillion dollars...spread largely over eight years."
"So how do we pay for it?" Biden asked. He wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, up from the current 21 percent. "Just doing that one thing will generate one trillion dollars in additional revenue over 15 years," Biden said.
"We're going to also eliminate deductions by corporations for offshoring jobs and shifting assets overseas. You do that, you pay a penalty...And use the savings from that to give companies tax credits to locate manufacturing here and manufacturing and production here in the United States. And we'll significantly ramp up the IRS enforcement against corporations who either failed to report their incomes or under report. It's estimated that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars.
"All this adds up to more than what I proposed to spend in just 15 years."
Biden repeated his promise not to raise taxes on "people making less than $400,000."
He also said he's "open to other ideas, so long as they do not impose any tax increase on people making less than $400,000."
Biden ended with a plea for bipartisanship:
"Let me close with this. Historically, infrastructure had been a bipartisan undertaking, many times led by Republicans. It was Abraham Lincoln who built the Transcontinental Railroad. Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, Interstate Highway System. I could go on. And I don't think you'll find a Republican today in the House or Senate, maybe I'm wrong, gentlemen, who doesn't think we have to improve our infrastructure?
"They know China and other countries have eaten our lunch. So there's no reason why it can't be bipartisan again. The divisions of the moment shouldn't stop us from doing the right thing for the future. I'm going to bring Republicans into the Oval Office, listen to them, what they have to say, and be open to other ideas. We'll have a good faith negotiation with any Republican wants to help get this done. But we have to get it done," Biden insisted.
Joe Biden Restarts Visa Programs for Companies to Outsource U.S. Jobs While 17M Americans Remain Jobless
President Joe Biden has restarted a number of visa programs, allowing United States companies to more readily outsource jobs, even as about 17 million Americans remain jobless.
In June 2020, Trump signed an executive order halting H-1B visas, H-4 visas, H-2B visas, L visas, and J-1 visas while tens of millions of Americans were jobless or underemployed due to economic lockdowns as a result of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
At the end of 2020, Trump renewed the order to continue prioritizing Americans for U.S. jobs, though corporate interests continuously sued and lobbied for an end to the order.
On Thursday, Biden let the order expire, announcing via the State Department:
Presidential Proclamation 10052, which temporarily suspended the entry of certain H-1B, H-2B, J (for certain categories within the Exchange Visitor Program), and L nonimmigrants, expired on March 31, 2021. [Emphasis added]
Visa applicants who have not yet been interviewed or scheduled for an interview will have their applications prioritized and processed in accordance with existing phased resumption of visa services guidance. Visa applicants who were previously refused visas due to the restrictions of Presidential Proclamation 10052 may reapply by submitting a new application including a new fee. [Emphasis added]
Biden’s allowing the order to expire will mean that companies can more readily outsource U.S. jobs as they were before the coronavirus crisis hit the nation in early 2020. The move comes as about 17 million Americans remain jobless and another 6.1 million are underemployed, but all want full-time jobs with competitive wages and good benefits.
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) had urged Biden not to flood the labor market with more foreign competition.
Kevin Lynn, the founder of U.S. Tech Workers, which represents American STEM workers and those who have had their jobs outsourced, told Breitbart News that Biden’s decision “is a kick in the teeth to workers for three reasons,” saying:
First, with 18 million people who are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work, it informs us this economy has not recovered from our response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Second, the majority (roughly ¾) of the visas go to people from India, a country that is experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases.
Lastly, according to a recently published paper by the Economic Policy Institute, the majority of the companies that employ H-1B visa holders are companies that have an outsourcing business model that displaces skilled American workers. This along with either blocking and/or delaying several of Trump’s reforms such as the Wage Level Increase Rule and H-1B Lottery Wage Selection Rule, signals it is open season on American workers their employers deem to be expensive, undeserving and expendable.
Similarly, organizers with the White-Collar Workers of America told Breitbart News that “the cheap labor lobby is way too powerful,” referencing the industry’s lobbying efforts over the last several months to restart the visa programs to more easily outsource.
Despite Biden’s decision, the latest survey from Rasmussen Reports finds that 66 percent of likely U.S. voters say it is better for businesses to raise wages and provide better benefits to recruit Americans rather than importing foreign workers — 73 percent of Republicans, 63 percent of Democrats, and 62 percent of swing voters.
Likewise, 65 percent of voters said the nation’s labor market “already has enough talented people to train and recruit for most of those jobs” and does not need more while 75 percent of voters said they want to reduce overall legal immigration levels.
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. More than 85,000 Americans annually potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through the H-1B visa program.
Analysis conducted in 2018 discovered that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley, California, 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. Up to 99 percent of foreign H-1B visa workers imported by the top eight outsourcing firms arrive from India.
Current immigration levels put downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
Peer-reviewed research by economist Christoph Albert acknowledges that “as immigrants accept lower wages, they are preferably chosen by firms and therefore have higher job finding rates than natives, consistent with evidence found in U.S. data.” Albert’s research also finds that immigration “raises competition” for native-born Americans in the labor market.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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