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
Monday, December 6, 2021
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Report: Surging Fuel Prices Hurt Poorer Americans the Most
The surge in fuel prices across the U.S. over the past year has hit poorer Americans the most, a report published Thursday details.
The Financial Timessets out price rises have hit the country’s gig economy drivers as much as everyday motorists, forcing many to overhaul the way they work or ditch their jobs entirely.
Uber and Lyft, the two biggest ride-hailing apps, are trying to ease the burden by encouraging a switch to electric vehicles, but the FT maintains many drivers are frustrated as the prices are weighing particularly on the bottom end of the income scale.
“Drivers seem to be driving less,” said Melissa Berry, editor at The Rideshare Guy, an industry blog.
This change in the way the gig economy works in response to fuel prices “has no doubt exacerbated the driver shortage Uber and Lyft have been periodically finding themselves in.”
Petrol prices, posted at corner stations, have been among the most visible indicators of accelerating inflation in the U.S., as Breitbart News reported.
A retreat in oil markets over the past week may bring down retail petrol prices, but so far drivers have yet to see this passed on at the pump.
The FT argues the reason for the oil market reversal — fears that the Omicron coronavirus variant could clamp down on mobility — will hardly cheer drivers on ride-hailing apps.
An Electric Vehicle charging station in Los Angeles, California. The Biden administration continues the push for alternative forms of transportation and energy, making the case for his $174 billion electric-vehicle proposal, urging automakers not to build zero-emission vehicles abroad for U.S. consumers and touting electric vehicles as America’s future. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty)
To cover extra fuel costs, many gig drivers have adapted with changes including rejecting more customers who are far away. Others are quitting.
“Some drivers have been decreasing the amount of hours that they do. Some drivers have gone looking for other jobs,” said Beth Griffith, a former Uber and Lyft driver who heads the Boston Independent Drivers Guild.
An online poll conducted this week by The Rideshare Guy found some 91 percent of rideshare drivers worry about petrol prices, and about half of drivers were driving less. Twelve percent affirmed they stopped driving entirely as a result of high prices.
The future for prices at the pump might be remaining steady at the moment, however others have argued the high price of gasoline is part of Democrats’ plan to make driving unaffordable for most Americans.
Washington Times opinion editor and Breitbart News columnist Charles Hurt said back in April the Biden administration’s push to get Americans from burning fossil fuel in their cars and into electric vehicles is real. He argued:
They make no secret about the fact that they … want [gas] at six dollars a gallon.
They want it at eight dollars a gallon. This is not a secret to them. The Green New Deal, the whole thing — all these people — their intent is to raise the price of gas so that it is so expensive that nobody can drive anywhere. They’re not kidding around about this.
This is not a joke to them, and they’re not embarrassed by it. […] They want gas to be at $20 a gallon. They want it to be like Europe because they want no one to be able to afford to drive anywhere. That’s their goal.
Ultimately higher prices on gas — either through increased taxation or government-driven restriction of supply — amount to a “regressive” tax more harmful to lower income and self-employed Americans, he argued.
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Naïve American people had no idea what they were getting with Biden: A senile, corrupt, debauched old man with a son who was a conduit for his dirty dealings and who has a personal life so disgusting it’s hard to write about it. That’s what the American media and the tech tyrants have done to America. ANDREA WIDBURG
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Democrats are openly arguing that more wage-cutting migrants should be imported to shrink the inflation that is threatening President Joe Biden’s political future.
The pro-migration LatinoRebels.com website reported the migrants-reduce-inflation claims on December 2:
Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) understands inflation at the immigrant community level. The three-term Congressman from Los Angeles has a diverse immigrant constituency from Koreatown to Eagle Rock, Boyle Heights to Downtown.
“If you have more people that are allowed to work in this country, then there’s gonna be less of a tight labor market,” said Gomez on Thursday, echoing Warren.
The Democrats’ top advocate for amnesty and migration, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), also backed the argument, according to Bloomberg: “Asked if immigration parole proposal in [the pending Build Back Better bill] would decrease inflation, Durbin says ‘Oh most certainly … If there are more workers filling those jobs, it’s deflationary.'”
“Not enough people are seeking jobs. … As a consequence, that drives up the cost of doing business and the cost to the consumers. If there are more workers doing their jobs, it’s deflationary,” Durbin said, according to Latinorebels.com.
A “help wanted” sign hangs on a window of a restaurant in Lower Manhattan, May 4, 2018, in New York City. U.S. unemployment fell to a near-historic low of 3.9 percent and hiring remained strong in April (Drew Angerer/Getty Images).
The Democrats’ support for using migrants to cut Americans’ wages comes after a host of media and advocates argued that inflation should be curbed by immigration.
“A tight labor market is the way less-skilled workers increase their wages,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, responded. He continued, “Why would a Democrat — of all people — favor lowering or holding down the wages of working people through immigration? The answer is immigration is more important [to them] than anything, including the wages of working people.”
The Democrats “are saying the quiet part out loud,” Krikorian said.
However, the LatinoRebels.com site noted that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) dodged the question: “‘I reject the false notion that the only way to keep consumer prices low is to rely on low-wage, unregulated labor,’ said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). ‘More stable and reliable work is the key to future supply chain resiliency.’”
Most GOP legislators also dodge the link between wages and migration and are eager to blame inflation on government spending.
Most legislators “dance around the issue and refuse to address it — even refuse to think about it. … Some of these guys are just maintaining cognitive balance by duping themselves,” Krikorian said. For example, Sen. Brown, he said, has “been voting for lowering wages [via migration] for his entire tenure in Congress. The [pending] amnesty he could maybe justify because they’re already here, but only if you’re also calling for reductions in future immigration … [and he’s] not.”
Media reporters also ignore the harmful economic impact of cheap labor, Krikorian added:
They’re part of the the apparatus. … Some don’t even think about it, so there’s no issue there. Or they figure they’ve got a mortgage and kids, and they’ve been doing this too long and they can’t risk the Red Guards coming in throwing them out of their job. So they do what the party tells them to do.
Migration hurts U.S. journalists — and their college-graduate peers — by flooding the nation’s labor market with roughly one million imported white-collar visa workers. That imported labor force lowers white-collar salaries across many careers and pushes U.S. technology grads out of tech careers and into journalism, further reducing market-rate salaries for journalists.
Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty
Many U.S. companies also use the visa programs to import replacements for U.S. journalists. [Note: this reporter is a former immigrant.]
On a related note, Yahoo News reported on December 2:
BuzzFeed [managers] told employees of BuzzFeed News who staged a walkout Thursday — protesting what their union claims is the media company’s refusal to negotiate on key contract terms — that their pay would be docked by one day, unless they retroactively applied for paid time off.
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