Skilled Virginia Vet Looks for a Job in Trying Times
A 65-year-old Virginia veteran has been unable to find work since losing his job as a go-kart mechanic at the start of the pandemic.
John Whitehead is a man going through trying times. The skilled veteran has been out of a job since the start of the pandemic, though he has been searching for one far and wide, WAVY reports. He has not received unemployment benefits since the end of last year, though he has tried to reach the Virginia Employment Commission for over eight months.
“I tried for literally eight months. Eight months straight, every day, three, four, five times a day trying to call these people. Could never get ahold of anyone,” Whitehead told WAVY.
Whitehead lost his job as a go-kart mechanic at the beginning of the pandemic. “During this time, things in my life were falling apart. My mother died, my father died, of course, my wife has left me,” he said to WAVY.
To make matters worse, he lost his house and has been staying with a relative. According to WAVY, he keeps what belongings he has left in a storage container that he will soon be unable to afford.
“I’m not used to being like that. I’m used to being able to control what’s going on around me,” the veteran shared with WAVY.
Whitehead is continuing his job search and has a wide array of skills that should intrigue employers. “I’m a small engine mechanic; I’m very good at that,” Whitehead told WAVY. He served in the Navy as a boiler tech during the tail end of Vietnam, operated cranes in a shipyard for seven years, and has experience operating heavy-duty machinery. “Bulldozers, backhoes, front-end loaders, you name it, I can operate it,” he informed WAVY.
Anyone who has a job opportunity for the veteran should email WAVY at reportit@wavy.com.
Whitehead’s job search comes at a time when small businesses have a record number of openings. In September, a report came to light from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) that illustrated 50 percent of firms had jobs openings that needed to be filled in August. While job openings were at a record high in August, Biden’s disastrous economy created only 235,000 jobs in the month, which was below expert predictions.
According to Breitbart’s John Carney, materials released September 22 by the Federal Reserve illustrate downgrades in forecasts of economic growth compared to projections in June. In June, the median expectation of economic growth was seven percent compared to the 5.9 economic growth expectation released on September 22.
Moreover, forecasts for unemployment have risen. In June, the median expectation for the unemployment rate at year’s end was 4.5 percent compared to a forecast of 4.8 percent, which came to light on September 22.
Editor’s Note: At the time of publication, this article described John Whitehead as a Vietnam veteran. Whitehead served near the end of the Vietnam War. He did not see combat in Vietnam, but he served on vessels in the Atlantic ocean. The article has been updated to clarify this fact.
She conquered herself and then her times
Exclusive— Gov. Kristi Noem on ‘War’ at Border: Biden’s Crisis ‘Complete Failure of Leadership’
KEYSTONE, South Dakota — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told Breitbart News that she considers what is happening along the U.S. border with Mexico to be like a “war” and that is why she has deployed South Dakota National Guard troops to help border governors like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey control the situation.
“Our Guard was there for 60 days,” Noem said in an exclusive interview at Mount Rushmore in late September. “We deployed them down there. When the Texas governor and Arizona governor asked for help and resources, they asked for law enforcement. But as I evaluated what the needs were down there — first of all, we were having historic visitation to our state, so I didn’t want to shortchange my law enforcement agencies that enforce public safety throughout South Dakota. But also, looking at the mission that was there and the situations they would be in, the people that are trained specifically for that type of a mission is my National Guard. We have consistently, for years, had the best-rated, ranked, and awarded National Guard units in the country, and they are used to deploying, filling in, and working with other agencies, federal agencies, state agencies in cooperative levels, and they’re used to going into war. And what we’re seeing on the southern border, in many cases, is a war.”
Noem said the South Dakota National Guard members came home for a few days in September, but more are deploying back to the border in October.
“They’re facing very dangerous situations with illegal criminals many times that are crossing, human trafficking, drugs, and I wanted them to be trained for those situations and make sure that they all came home safe,” Noem said. “So they’ve been home now for a few days, and we will redeploy in October. And I brought another 125 National Guard members to go down there and again support the mission of making sure that that southern border can be as secure as we as states can do that.”
Noem also ripped President Joe Biden for a “complete failure of leadership” on the border and said the border crisis, combined with the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, “has shocked people to the core.”
“People who maybe didn’t pay that much attention to politics before, maybe didn’t pay that much attention to government and the fact that leaders, the decisions they make have real consequences — well, they’re awake now. They’re paying attention, and it’s up to us to really articulate the difference in what we did have under President Trump and conservative leadership and what we have today with the Biden White House — that a nation without laws isn’t a nation at all,” Noem said. “And we’re quickly getting there, in fact, faster than I thought we would, under this president.”
Noem’s comments came as part of a broader pair of interviews for the latest On The Hill video special in late September for which she spent two days with Breitbart News in South Dakota — one at Mount Rushmore for this interview, and then again the next day at Custer State Park at its annual Governor’s Buffalo Roundup for a second interview. In the interview, Noem also hammered Biden for “rationing” lifesaving coronavirus medicine, and for fighting a fireworks ceremony at Mount Rushmore for Independence Day. More from the series is forthcoming.
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Last week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told the media he did not know if “the Chamber’s an ally when they endorsed all the Democrats in the last election.”
Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are ScrewingAmerica's Best & Brightest
By Michelle Malkin and John Miano
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 H-1B visa workers imported by the top eight outsourcing firms are from India.
House Republican Leaders Boot Chamber of Commerce from Strategy Calls
House Republican leadership has booted officials with the United States Chamber of Commerce from their political strategy phone calls, a report reveals.
While House and Senate Democrats are demanding that a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package be passed through the legislature by tying it to the Senate-passed infrastructure bill, the Chamber has been opposing the reconciliation package while supporting the infrastructure bill.
On Monday, PunchBowl News reported that House GOP leadership had left officials with the Chamber off their strategy calls pertaining to the reconciliation package.
Last week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told the media he did not know if “the Chamber’s an ally when they endorsed all the Democrats in the last election.”
Five of the House Democrats who the Chamber endorsed in 2020 are now being targeted by the business group’s ads, demanding they oppose the reconciliation package but pass the infrastructure bill.
The decision came after the Chamber attacked House Republicans for their opposition to the infrastructure bill, as Roll Call reported:
Neil Bradley, executive vice president and chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told reporters Thursday during a conference call that some House Republicans privately admit they’d like to support the infrastructure measure, but don’t want to cross their leadership or conservative outside groups.
“I think there are some unfortunate things going on, and I’m being generous with the term unfortunate,” Bradley said, adding that there was “a lot of misinformation about the bill.”
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“At the end of the day, members are gonna vote, but we’re also, at the U.S. Chamber, going to remember the members who put in the hard work to get us to this point, and they deserve credit,” Bradley said. “And anyone who kind of stands in their way and blocks this bill, that’ll be remembered, as well.”
While the Chamber continues pushing for infrastructure passage in the House, members of the House Progressive Caucus have increasingly said they’ll oppose the infrastructure bill without a vote to approve a reconciliation package.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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