Saturday, July 16, 2022

MASSIVE INVASION OF AMERICA - By Invitation of Nafta Joe Biden

 TUCKER COVERS THE INVASION AND THE STAGGERING AND FATAL COST TO WHAT WAS AMERICA

Tucker Carlson: Nothing like this has ever happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R6TDCFr9UY


VIDEO OF DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED SANTUARY CITY:

Lost Angeles: City of Homeless




Another line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as impoverished Americans wait

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/another_line_they_cut_into_illegals_get_free_public_housing_as_impoverished_americans_wait.html

 

For example, a DACA amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $26 billion, more than the border wall, and that does not include the money taxpayers would have to fork up to subsidize the legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens. 

"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed granting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."

JOE BIDEN AND THE NAFTA DEMOCRAT PARTY’S VISION OF NO BORDER WITH NARCOMEX AND NO LEGAL NEED APPLY

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/will-america-go-to-war-against-narcomex.html

Mexico’s president is reviving calls for a continental superstate that would combine North American employers and South American employees – and sideline tens of millions of middle-class Americans. NEIL MUNRO



HOW FAR AHEAD BEFORE THE GOV CANCELS SOCIAL SECURITY BECAUSE THE CHECKS WILL NOT CLEAR?!?!?!?

How Long Until the US Defaults On Its Debt?



LONG LINES AT FOOD BANKS

This is heartbreaking: Liz Peek




BIDEN PUTS AMERICA IN CHAINS.... BUT CHINA LOVES HIM!!!

Will food costs only increase under Biden?




Pittsburgh Food Shortages Information UPDATE / Empty Shelves at Walmart & Aldi





Blackburn: Inflation Raising the Possibility of Food Shortages

4:01

Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) explained how inflation, which she said was caused partly by the Biden administration’s embrace of the so-called Green New Deal, could lead to problems down the road.

Blackburn told “Hannity” fill-in host Sean Duffy that food shortages were possible because of farmers’ inability to plant as much because of the rising cost of fertilizer.

Transcript as follows:

DUFFY: Joining me now is Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn. Marsha, good to see you.

I got to tell you what. So listening to Congresswoman Escobar’s explanation of why we’re feeling this pain right now is that we didn’t actually transition to green energy early enough as opposed to we’re not drilling more in America, producing more American energy. What say you?

SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN (R-TN): I say that now they’re trying to make it the people’s fault, because we didn’t fall in line with that Green New Deal and that socialist agenda and do this decades ago. And if we had, then we wouldn’t be having this problem now.

It is just amazing to me. They cannot ever say that Joe Biden said, he was going to end the oil and gas industry. And on day one, he said about taking the steps to make that promise come true.

With the Keystone with taking ANWR offline with your offshore drilling being ended, stopping fracking. The list goes on and on. He’s had 42 regulations since he took office that are directed directly at making it more difficult for the oil and gas industry to drill, to explore, to produce, to refine here in the United States.

DUFFY: Senator, he did run on that, right? He indicated listen, I’m going to attack American oil and gas and energy. He did say that and some people might give him kudos for sticking to his promise.

But you and I both served in the House together. I mean, at one point when your policies don’t help people, but actually hurt people, are kicking more people into poverty, you would think a leader would pivot and go, You know what, no, no, this actually isn’t working. I want to make sure my people are ok, that they can afford groceries. They can put gas in their car to go to work, so they can make a living for their family.

BLACKBURN: That is right. And I’ve been in five Tennessee counties today. And, Sean, it is amazing. Every one of them are worried about their county budgets. They hope that the budgets hold to the end of the year.

One of the counties was telling me about how the price of energy and inflation affects everything, all these county budgets, they needed some eight-inch pipe for a water line, they had been paying $4 a foot for that pipe. You know what it is right now? $14.50 a foot.

So all of these products that come from derivatives of oil and gas, you’re seeing the price hikes there too. Inflation at 9.1 percent, your groceries going through the roof, your price at the pump through the roof. People just cannot afford this.

And you know what, Sean, the food shortages, the fear this is causing with people, the way they’re anticipating food shortages, because in rural America, they know that the farmers are not planting as much this year to go into that supply chain for our food that you’re going to see on the shelves next year. And the reason they’re not planning, the cost of fertilizer, the cost of diesel, they cannot afford to get the crop in the ground.

DUFFY: Which is now going to drive up the cost of food. This is a vicious cycle, Senator. I know you see it firsthand in Tennessee. I see it firsthand in Wisconsin. And you know what, we’re grateful we have people like you fighting for some common sense policies in the Senate.

So thank you for joining me tonight too. I always appreciate your common sense.

BLACKBURN: Good. Good to be with you.

Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor


Ted Cruz Finds Child-Sized Wristband at the Border, Unveils Nauseating Cartel Scheme Enabled by Biden

Colored wristbands seen on the arms of illegal migrants at our southern border may have a dark meaning that most outside of the cartels’ influence don’t know about.

In a Friday video, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz made a midnight visit to the Rio Grande to review the ongoing migrant crisis left virtually unchecked by President Joe Biden and his administration.

While watching border security desperately try to stem the tide of people illegally entering the U.S., Cruz made a horrifying find by the river.

“Down by the river, in just a few minutes, these are the wristbands I found,” Cruz said while holding up a fistful of the tattered scraps.

“A white wristband, blue wristband, white, a pink and a yellow,” Cruz counted out before coming to a horrifying find.

“Look at the yellow wristband,” the senator continued, holding up a tiny band. “That obviously was around the arm of a child, a young child.”

Cruz explained that the colors of the bands are used by the different cartels to determine which of their human cargo is fully paid up and which still owes a debt to the narco-terrorists.

“This is not compassionate. This is not humane,” Cruz said. “This is barbaric.”



The permeable border enabled by Biden only encourages illicit business and the traffickers who exploit the chaos in our immigration system.

With oversight of this black market virtually nonexistent, human cargo caught in the network is often trafficked for sex or made to do mule work for the cartels.

These narcos use the money from their brutal underground economy to tighten the stranglehold they have on Mexico and Central America.

Former President Donald Trump once floated treating the cartels as enemy militants and bombarding their hideouts with American ordinance.

Cruz followed up his visit with a public meeting addressing the horrors running rampant at the border.

Related:
Biden's America: ICE Will Transport Illegal Immigrants, Detainees Across State Lines to Get Abortions, According to Report

Putting the blame on Democrats and their loose border security, Cruz highlighted that human lives are being lost while traffickers move their cargo through our country.

“Where are the Democrat senators? They’re not here because you can’t look at the dead bodies of the children being assaulted, at the chaos — you can’t look at it and defend it,” Cruz said.

“It is wrong, and it is immoral.”

Until this crisis is handled, color-coded human cargo is only the beginning of the horrors we will see.

The chaos at the border is unfair to Americans, cruel to immigrants and a boon for the cartels. How long will the Democrats let this continue?

Two-Front ‘Invasion’ – Biden’s Massive Illegal Migrant Surges in Florida and Texas

-

ANALYSIS – Thanks to Team Biden’s horrible immigration and border policies which essentially dismantled President Trump’s effective policies immediately upon Biden’s inauguration, the country is now facing two separate illegal migrant crises.

The first, better-known one is in Texas where hundreds of thousands of migrants are flooding regularly across the border, but now we are seeing a second wave of migrants surging toward the U.S. from the Caribbean into .

The  Examiner reports:

As record numbers of Cubans and Haitians attempt to cross the southern land border illegally, others are increasingly taking to the sea.  authorities with the Coast Guard told the Washington Examiner its personnel are interdicting more migrants at sea than ever before.

However, these illegal migrants are generally not counted in the numbers provided by the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the Washington-based American Immigration Council, wrote in a message to the Examiner:

Interdiction at sea is a Coast Guard function and individuals who are intercepted at sea do not get processed under immigration laws. Haitians … are taken back to Guantanamo Bay and processed at the Migrant Operations Center (MOC), then deported back to their home countries.

But Cubans and Haitians are also crossing by land. More than 170,000 people from Cuba and Haiti have attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border since last October — 10 times more than all of 2020 and the highest-ever number of Cubans and Haitians seeking asylum in the U.S.

The Cuban government has refused to take back its citizens under removal procedures. Thus, Cuban migrants who reach land largely avoid being deported.

“Just from Cuba alone, we already have more people in the last nine months than the entire Mariel boatlift. That’s just from one country — just from one country,” Sen. , R-Fla., said Wednesday, the Examiner reported.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is warning of the dangers of these sea crossings:

The Examiner adds:

Since the start of the federal government’s fiscal year last October, the Coast Guard crews deployed to the southeastern coast of Florida and waters around Haiti and Puerto Rico have intercepted more than 10,000 people attempting to enter the  illegally by boat. Just 2,000 of the 10,000 were off the coast of Cuba and Puerto Rico, while the remainder were around South Florida and the Florida Keys.

Roughly 3,400 were from Cuba and 6,100 were from Haiti — four times more Haitian migrants than the previous 12-month record.

As many Texas counties declare their border crises as an ‘invasion,’ we can now see that we have a two-front migrant invasion of the United States — one by land in Texas, another by sea in Florida. ALD

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

READ NEXT: Texas Counties Declare a Border ‘Invasion’ of Illegal Migrants – Governor Acts >>


Biden Admin Announces 192K Migrant Apprehensions in Late Friday Night Report

A large group of migrants apprehended near Eagle Pass, Texas, on June 15. (U.S. Border Patrol/Del Rio Sector)
U.S. Border Patrol/Del Rio Sector
2:44

The Biden administration reported that Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 192,000 migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border between ports of entry. Officials sneaked out the report late Friday evening.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials released the July Southwest Land Border Encounters Report indicating the apprehension of 191,898 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. This brought the total for the current fiscal year, which began October 1, 2021, to more than 1.6 million migrant apprehensions — more than 830,000 during the past four months. With only three months to go in the current fiscal year, apprehensions are only about 25,000 shy of last year’s record-shattering 1,659,206 apprehensions.

The Friday night released report actually shows a slight decline in apprehensions between May and June. While the June report represents an increase of only 7.4 percent over the previous year’s report, it is the largest number of June apprehensions in Border Patrol reports dating back to the Clinton administration.

Of the 1.6 million migrants apprehended so far this fiscal year, single adults accounted for more than 70 percent of the total. Officials reported 23 percent as family units and nearly seven percent as unaccompanied minors.

The Friday-night report did not include an update of the report breaking down apprehensions by Border Patrol sectors. However, Border Patrol reports reviewed earlier this month by Breitbart Texas indicate the Del Rio Sector took over the number 1 position with the apprehension of more than 45,000 migrants.

The Rio Grande Valley Sector barely fell to second place as agents apprehended just under 45,000 migrants. The El Paso, Tucson, and Yuma Sectors each accounted for more than 20,000 apprehensions.

In addition, approximately 400,000 more migrants successfully sneaked into the U.S. interior without being apprehended. This brings the total known migrant crossings to more than 2 million with three months remaining in FY22.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

BIDENOMICS - Blackburn: Inflation Raising the Possibility of Food Shortages - AS BIDEN FLOODS AMERICA WITH MILLIONS OF UNSKILLED DEM VOTING ILLEGALS

HOW FAR AHEAD BEFORE THE GOV CANCELS SOCIAL SECURITY BECAUSE THE CHECKS WILL NOT CLEAR?!?!?!?

How Long Until the US Defaults On Its Debt?



LONG LINES AT FOOD BANKS

This is heartbreaking: Liz Peek




BIDEN PUTS AMERICA IN CHAINS.... BUT CHINA LOVES HIM!!!

Will food costs only increase under Biden?




Pittsburgh Food Shortages Information UPDATE / Empty Shelves at Walmart & Aldi





Blackburn: Inflation Raising the Possibility of Food Shortages

4:01

Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) explained how inflation, which she said was caused partly by the Biden administration’s embrace of the so-called Green New Deal, could lead to problems down the road.

Blackburn told “Hannity” fill-in host Sean Duffy that food shortages were possible because of farmers’ inability to plant as much because of the rising cost of fertilizer.

Transcript as follows:

DUFFY: Joining me now is Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn. Marsha, good to see you.

I got to tell you what. So listening to Congresswoman Escobar’s explanation of why we’re feeling this pain right now is that we didn’t actually transition to green energy early enough as opposed to we’re not drilling more in America, producing more American energy. What say you?

SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN (R-TN): I say that now they’re trying to make it the people’s fault, because we didn’t fall in line with that Green New Deal and that socialist agenda and do this decades ago. And if we had, then we wouldn’t be having this problem now.

It is just amazing to me. They cannot ever say that Joe Biden said, he was going to end the oil and gas industry. And on day one, he said about taking the steps to make that promise come true.

With the Keystone with taking ANWR offline with your offshore drilling being ended, stopping fracking. The list goes on and on. He’s had 42 regulations since he took office that are directed directly at making it more difficult for the oil and gas industry to drill, to explore, to produce, to refine here in the United States.

DUFFY: Senator, he did run on that, right? He indicated listen, I’m going to attack American oil and gas and energy. He did say that and some people might give him kudos for sticking to his promise.

But you and I both served in the House together. I mean, at one point when your policies don’t help people, but actually hurt people, are kicking more people into poverty, you would think a leader would pivot and go, You know what, no, no, this actually isn’t working. I want to make sure my people are ok, that they can afford groceries. They can put gas in their car to go to work, so they can make a living for their family.

BLACKBURN: That is right. And I’ve been in five Tennessee counties today. And, Sean, it is amazing. Every one of them are worried about their county budgets. They hope that the budgets hold to the end of the year.

One of the counties was telling me about how the price of energy and inflation affects everything, all these county budgets, they needed some eight-inch pipe for a water line, they had been paying $4 a foot for that pipe. You know what it is right now? $14.50 a foot.

So all of these products that come from derivatives of oil and gas, you’re seeing the price hikes there too. Inflation at 9.1 percent, your groceries going through the roof, your price at the pump through the roof. People just cannot afford this.

And you know what, Sean, the food shortages, the fear this is causing with people, the way they’re anticipating food shortages, because in rural America, they know that the farmers are not planting as much this year to go into that supply chain for our food that you’re going to see on the shelves next year. And the reason they’re not planning, the cost of fertilizer, the cost of diesel, they cannot afford to get the crop in the ground.

DUFFY: Which is now going to drive up the cost of food. This is a vicious cycle, Senator. I know you see it firsthand in Tennessee. I see it firsthand in Wisconsin. And you know what, we’re grateful we have people like you fighting for some common sense policies in the Senate.

So thank you for joining me tonight too. I always appreciate your common sense.

BLACKBURN: Good. Good to be with you.

Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor


Two-Front ‘Invasion’ – Biden’s Massive Illegal Migrant Surges in Florida and Texas

-

ANALYSIS – Thanks to Team Biden’s horrible immigration and border policies which essentially dismantled President Trump’s effective policies immediately upon Biden’s inauguration, the country is now facing two separate illegal migrant crises.

The first, better-known one is in Texas where hundreds of thousands of migrants are flooding regularly across the border, but now we are seeing a second wave of migrants surging toward the U.S. from the Caribbean into .

The  Examiner reports:

As record numbers of Cubans and Haitians attempt to cross the southern land border illegally, others are increasingly taking to the sea.  authorities with the Coast Guard told the Washington Examiner its personnel are interdicting more migrants at sea than ever before.

However, these illegal migrants are generally not counted in the numbers provided by the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the Washington-based American Immigration Council, wrote in a message to the Examiner:

Interdiction at sea is a Coast Guard function and individuals who are intercepted at sea do not get processed under immigration laws. Haitians … are taken back to Guantanamo Bay and processed at the Migrant Operations Center (MOC), then deported back to their home countries.

But Cubans and Haitians are also crossing by land. More than 170,000 people from Cuba and Haiti have attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border since last October — 10 times more than all of 2020 and the highest-ever number of Cubans and Haitians seeking asylum in the U.S.

The Cuban government has refused to take back its citizens under removal procedures. Thus, Cuban migrants who reach land largely avoid being deported.

“Just from Cuba alone, we already have more people in the last nine months than the entire Mariel boatlift. That’s just from one country — just from one country,” Sen. , R-Fla., said Wednesday, the Examiner reported.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is warning of the dangers of these sea crossings:

The Examiner adds:

Since the start of the federal government’s fiscal year last October, the Coast Guard crews deployed to the southeastern coast of Florida and waters around Haiti and Puerto Rico have intercepted more than 10,000 people attempting to enter the  illegally by boat. Just 2,000 of the 10,000 were off the coast of Cuba and Puerto Rico, while the remainder were around South Florida and the Florida Keys.

Roughly 3,400 were from Cuba and 6,100 were from Haiti — four times more Haitian migrants than the previous 12-month record.

As many Texas counties declare their border crises as an ‘invasion,’ we can now see that we have a two-front migrant invasion of the United States — one by land in Texas, another by sea in Florida. ALD

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

READ NEXT: Texas Counties Declare a Border ‘Invasion’ of Illegal Migrants – Governor Acts >>


Biden Admin Announces 192K Migrant Apprehensions in Late Friday Night Report

A large group of migrants apprehended near Eagle Pass, Texas, on June 15. (U.S. Border Patrol/Del Rio Sector)
U.S. Border Patrol/Del Rio Sector
2:44

The Biden administration reported that Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 192,000 migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border between ports of entry. Officials sneaked out the report late Friday evening.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials released the July Southwest Land Border Encounters Report indicating the apprehension of 191,898 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. This brought the total for the current fiscal year, which began October 1, 2021, to more than 1.6 million migrant apprehensions — more than 830,000 during the past four months. With only three months to go in the current fiscal year, apprehensions are only about 25,000 shy of last year’s record-shattering 1,659,206 apprehensions.

The Friday night released report actually shows a slight decline in apprehensions between May and June. While the June report represents an increase of only 7.4 percent over the previous year’s report, it is the largest number of June apprehensions in Border Patrol reports dating back to the Clinton administration.

Of the 1.6 million migrants apprehended so far this fiscal year, single adults accounted for more than 70 percent of the total. Officials reported 23 percent as family units and nearly seven percent as unaccompanied minors.

The Friday-night report did not include an update of the report breaking down apprehensions by Border Patrol sectors. However, Border Patrol reports reviewed earlier this month by Breitbart Texas indicate the Del Rio Sector took over the number 1 position with the apprehension of more than 45,000 migrants.

The Rio Grande Valley Sector barely fell to second place as agents apprehended just under 45,000 migrants. The El Paso, Tucson, and Yuma Sectors each accounted for more than 20,000 apprehensions.

In addition, approximately 400,000 more migrants successfully sneaked into the U.S. interior without being apprehended. This brings the total known migrant crossings to more than 2 million with three months remaining in FY22.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

Brooks: Progressives Want to Talk Guns, Abortion, ‘Entire Rest of the Country’ Cares about Economy

2:06

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that there is “a giant gap between what a lot of Democrats want to talk about and what the whole rest of the country wants to talk about.” Because while “Progressives want to talk about abortion and guns. The entire rest of the country…they want to talk about the economy.” And argued that the economy is why President Joe Biden’s approval numbers are doing so badly and why Hispanic voters are trending Republican.

Brooks said, “Now, abortion rights defenders, they should pursue their cause with the passion that they’re bringing to it. And so, I don’t want — nothing I say should dissuade anybody from pursuing that cause. But there is just a giant gap between what a lot of Democrats want to talk about and what the whole rest of the country wants to talk about. And if you ask people, what [are] the most important issues? Progressives want to talk about abortion and guns. The entire rest of the country, independents, conservatives, unaffiliated people, they want to talk about the economy. And, for them, the economy is way up here. Jobs are number one. Inflation’s number two. And so, why is Joe Biden at 33% approval in the latest Times poll? It’s the economy. Why, in the same poll, do half of Hispanics support the Republicans now? The economy.”

He added, “I think that’s probably a little outlier. But we’ve had a whole series of polls showing a lot of Hispanic movement moving over to the Republican Party and turning it into really a multiracial, working-class party. And so if people — they should pursue their passions, and they should pursue these issues. But if Democrats — if they’re not talking about economic policy every day, then they’re just not talking about the policy that is clearly ranking number one with a vast majority of voters.”


Exclusive — Ship of Fools: 62 Percent of Biden Officials Who Handle Economic Policy Have Zero Years Business Experience Per Report



GOLDMAN SACHS RUNS AMERICA.... INTO THE GROUND!

Chris Hedges | America's Next Financial Collapse



THE LOOTING OF AMERICA

KAMALA HARRIS AND HER GOLDMAN SACHS BANKSTER STEVEN MNUCHIN

A tidy corrupt partnership

https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-looting-of-america-kamala-harris.html

She also declined to prosecute OneWest, run by now-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin from 2009-2015, after her own prosecutors said they discovered over a thousand violations of foreclosure law committed by the bank. (OneWest donated $6,500 to Harris' attorney general campaign in 2011, and Mnuchin himself donated $2,000 to her Senatecampaign in 2016.)

Boots on the Ground...July 15th...Shortages not getting better.





Bidenflation: More than 1 in 5 Americans forced to use food banks or skip meals -TIPP

Less than a year ago, Joe Biden dismissed inflation with "I don't know anybody" who is "worried about inflation." He declared that "no serious economist" is, dismissing the warnings of heavyweight monetary expertstrade organizations, and even establishment Democrat economists.

“There’s nobody suggesting there’s unchecked inflation is on the way. No serious economist,” President Joe Biden said on Monday, in a Breitbart News story dated July 19, 2021.

Inflation, which clocked in at 9.1% this past Friday in the CPI, in fact, has been building for months, following a series of five gargantuan Democrat-led congressional stimulus bills premised on COVID relief mostly. The last of these passed in March 2021 as Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan Act, pumping $1.9 trillion into the economy. When the Federal Reserve prints up cash to pay for these ventures, the money doesn't have enough actual economy to absorb the newly minted dollar bills, which is what turns that cash into inflation. It's comparable to the way the human body converts excess carbs and calories it can't use into fat. And sure enough, we have a fathead president who's still denying everything he sees on the economic scale, claiming that Big Meat, greedy gas station owners and Vladimir Putin did it.

But it's no joke to Americans who are now going hungry as a result of this Bidenflation. As in hungry, thin, starving...

One out of five are reduced to using food banks for sustanance now, according to a new report. Another one out of five are skipping meals in this land of plenty to keep food costs down.

A huge new survey from the respected pollster TIPP Insights conducted between July 6 and July 9 has found the shocking reality as to what Americans are going through as Joe lets the money roll in and out:

American families are spending 15% more than last year on food expenses. How are they coping with the cost increases?

The shocking finding is from the latest the Golden/TIPP Poll of 1,643 Americans completed past Friday.

The poll asked Americans how they were dealing with the higher food costs. While 88% of the survey respondents replied they were making changes, 10% said they had not made changes to their food budgets.

Given an option to choose all that applied, the survey found -

  • 50% Buying store brands more often
  • 47% Cutting down on high-ticket items (i.e., meats)
  • 36% Shopping at bargain stores
  • 34% Eating less (portion sizes)
  • 23% Skipping meals
  • 21% Go to food banks to supplement groceries
  • 20% Applied and got federal or state assistance such as SNAP/WIC
  • 17% Growing my vegetables
  • 2% Other

It's quite incredible that in the Land of Plenty, we are now going the way of the third world as a result of Joe Biden's Argentina-like government spending impulses. A lot more than 21% of Americans are cutting back as a result of Bidenflation -- including reducing their portion sizes, cutting meat, buying cheaper brands, seeking federal handouts, anything to escape at least some of the effects of the ongoing miasma of inflation that hits everything priced in dollars. A whopping 17% of Americans are growing their own vegetables, in a labor-intensive victory-garden wish for something better. 

Things like food inflation hit every American where it hurts, and it's no surprise that other pollsters, such as Rasmussen, have found that inflation is the number one issue preoccupying voters, something the press is failing to cover. 

Mollie Hemingway has an important observation about the political implications of this, featured on RealClearPolitics:

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: This isn't a Joe Biden Problem, this is a problem shared by every voting member of the Democratic Party. The policies that made inflation so bad include spending packages supported by 100% of the Democrats in Congress. It's not really Biden economy as much as it is a Democrat economy.

It is almost a third term of the modern Democrat Party economy ushered in by Barack Obama.

The political issue is it is really in contrast with the Trump economy. Pre-Covid you had real wage growth, real wage gains for middle-class families and working-class families, and that does speak to why these people are moving to the Republican Party and away from the Democratic Party as the Democrats get more focused on pleasing their wealthy interests.

As rightly it should be a focus.

Democrats are not only out to a very expensive lunch as to what causes inflation -- which is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, as Milton Friedman put it -- they are still gobbling at the trough while one in five Americans is literally going hungry and reduced to begging for help.

The inflation picture isn't actually going to go down, even with a small drop in oil prices, which Joe Biden cited a day ago as reason to be hopeful. The Federal Reserve, which is now contemplating hiking rates by 100 basis points, sure doesn't think the falling energy prices will fix things as Joe claims. Inflation in fact is all over and affects every good priced in dollars, and it hits particularly hard in low-margin food prices which have seen double-digit spikes in many products. That 21% now going to food banks can easily become 40% or more, given the impact on inflation in a nation that has never experienced it this way.

TIPP notes that Biden's claim that Putin did it isn't selling with the people it polled. 

The problem is Biden, and his spendthrift Democrats. Every missed meal and absent chicken in the pot reminds the voters of that ugly reality.

Image: TIPP Insights, by permission




Chris Hedges | America's Devastation





Boots on the Ground...July 14th...Housing market starting to slow down in some areas.





America’s Summer Exodus: Thousands Flee The Cities Every Day Because They Don’t Feel Safe




Chris Hedges | American Parasites




THE INFLATION RATES MUCH, MUCH, MUCH HIGHER THAN LIAR LAWYER BIDEN ADMITS.

The Fed is terrified: Kevin Hassett


“The cost of living is tearing us apart”—Inflation rate in US hits 9.1 percent

The rate of inflation in the United States hit 9.1 percent in June, with consumer prices rising at the fastest pace since November 1981, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Wednesday. Across-the-board hikes in fuel, food, housing, medical care, clothing and other living expenses are squeezing household budgets. Everything is going up except workers’ paychecks.  

The increase in the Consumer Price Index, which rose from an already four-decade high of 8.6 percent in May, continued to be driven chiefly by surging energy and food costs. Energy prices shot up 7.5 percent last month and are up 41.6 percent over the last 12 months. Gasoline rose 11.2 percent in June and is up 59.9 percent over the last year. 

The current national average for a gallon of gas was $4.63 yesterday, according to the American Automobile Association, with prices in California at $6.02 a gallon. This means it takes $60 to fill up an average passenger car or $120 for a pickup truck or SUV. With an average manufacturing wage of $24.95 an hour before taxes, a factory worker now must labor anywhere from three to six hours just to pay for gas to go back and forth to work. Many now carpool to work, while lower-paid and part-time workers find it increasingly unaffordable to drive at all. 

Chicken on display in a market in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. [AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar]

With electricity costs rising another 1.7 percent in June and 13.7 percent year-over-year, working class families and seniors on fixed incomes are shutting off lights and air conditioners despite the summer time heat wave. Natural gas rose 8.2 percent last month and 38.4 percent over the last year, leaving many wondering how they will heat their homes come the fall and winter.  

Food costs also continued to jump, with prices rising 1.3 percent between May and June and 10.5 percent over the last year, the highest increase since 1981. Many common food items have risen even higher over the last year, with eggs and margarine up 36 percent, chicken parts up 23 percent and whole milk prices up 18.8 percent.

The anti-hunger Feeding America program reported in March that 65 percent of its 200 food pantries had seen increased demand compared to previous months. One of its affiliates, the Killeen Food Care Center in central Texas, reported that it served a record 8,830 people in June, including 1,600 seniors. “We have fed the highest amount of people in our 35-year history,” Raymond Cockrell, the center’s executive director, told the Killeen Daily Herald.

Housing costs continued to rise last month too, up 0.6 percent in June and 5.6 percent over the year, the largest rise since 1991. The average price of a home in June was $350,000, up from $318,000 in June 2019. Financial speculators have exploited and exacerbated the situation, with corporate investors buying a record 18.4 percent of the homes sold in the US in the final quarter of 2021, according to real estate brokerage firm Redfin. 

Inflated housing prices, in addition to higher mortgage rates, have not only led adult children to postpone leaving their parents’ homes but also forced older adults to double and triple up to share costs.  

The rising price of private homes is also driving up the cost of rentals, which increased 0.8 percent in June, the largest monthly jump since 1986. The ending of eviction moratoriums and the drying up of government subsidies is leading to an explosion in evictions. Evictions in the greater Phoenix area have returned to pre-pandemic levels. Landlords in Phoenix filed 5,792 evictions in June, compared with 5,669 in June 2019, before the pandemic began. On Tuesday night, the Democratic-controlled Tucson City Council said it would end a moratorium on evictions in city-owned housing by August 1. Biden’s Department of Housing and Urban Development is pressing public housing authorities across the nation to collect more rents to keep HUD subsidies, the city council members said.

After the release of the inflation figures, Biden and other White House officials feigned concern, continued to blame Russia for spiking prices and claimed the situation was improving. On his way to visit the blood-soaked Saudi king to request the release of more oil, Biden said at a press conference in Israel that the Consumer Price Index report was “out-of-date” because it did not include the recent decline in gas prices. 

The chief concern of Biden is not the devastating social impact of inflation but the growing demands of workers for wage hikes to keep up with the surging cost of living. The White House is fully behind the moves by the US Federal Reserve, which is expected to raise interest rates by three-quarters of point at its next meeting on July 26-27, to drive up unemployment and even trigger a recession to beat back what Fed Chief Jerome Powell complained are the “highest wage increases in decades.” In reality, real income for workers, adjusted for inflation, fell another 1 percent in June and is down 3.6 percent from a year ago. 

“The cost of living is tearing us apart,” a young worker in Detroit who works for General Motors subsidiary, GM Subsystems, told the World Socialist Web Site on Tuesday. “Gas, food and everything else is high, but we’re not making any money. I can barely cover my bills.” The new two-year contract just signed by the United Auto Workers raises starting wages from $15 an hour to $18.50 but leaves them earning half the pay for doing the same work previously done by GM workers. 

“I’m still going to be bringing home around $700 a week. I’m a single parent. It takes two weeks for me to save enough to pay my $700 a month in rent. What is it like for people paying $1,200 a month or more for rent?” The worker said her grandparents worked at GM and Ford and that she was making less in real terms than they did 40 years ago. “It’s like everything else, we’re not moving forward,” she said.

“Inflation is hurting our bottom line all the time,” a worker at the Stellantis (Chrysler) Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Detroit said. “Food, gas and everything else is up. The oil companies are price-gouging, and I don’t understand why Biden isn’t stopping them. I guess it’s because government answers to big business, not us.”

He continued, “The stock market keeps going up, and the shareholders are making lots of profits. This is only widening the distance between us and the top 1 percent, who are making money hand over fist. A little more than 10 years ago, the government bailed out the banks. They did it again when the pandemic hit. Where did all that money go? It went for the big bonuses of the executives and shareholders. Biden is also finding billions for war. They could have bailed us out, but they didn’t.” 

There were 153 strikes involving approximately 73,500 workers between January and May, compared to 78 strikes involving around 22,500 workers over the same time period in 2021. Over the last two weeks alone, tens of thousands of workers have voted to walk out or have struck chiefly over wage demands. This includes railroad workers, Michigan nursing home workers, St. Louis public transit workers, defense industry workers at a General Dynamics plant, AT&T telecom workers in Alaska and concessions workers at Dodgers Stadium ahead of next week’s All-Star game in Los Angeles. 

The trade unions are working with the corporations and the Biden administration to keep a lid on this movement, which is part of a global upsurge of the working class against inflation, the profits-before-lives pandemic policy, and the efforts to force workers to pay the massive cost of the US-NATO proxy war against Russia. The high point of this movement is the revolutionary upheaval in Sri Lanka, where mass protests by workers and young people have forced the resignation of the president and prime minister. 

Over the last several weeks, the AFL-CIO unions have blocked strikes by 115,000 railroad workers, 24,000 West Coast dockworkers, tens of thousands of nurses and other health care workers in Michigan, Minnesota, New York and California, and auto parts workers at Ventra and GM Subsystems.

But anger is reaching a breaking point, and workers are increasingly striving to break the stranglehold of the corporatist unions and fight to defend their living standards. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) was formed last year to unify workers across national boundaries to mount a counter-offensive against inequality, austerity and war. 

Workers should form rank-and-file committees in every workplace to demand inflation-busting wage increases, cost-of-living protection, fully paid health care and pension benefits, a ban on evictions and home foreclosures and the immediate cancellation of exorbitant credit card, student loan, car payment and household debts. 

Exclusive — Ship of Fools: 62 Percent of Biden Officials Who Handle Economic Policy Have Zero Years Business Experience Per Report

joe biden returns
Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty
8:35

An explosive new analysis published by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity reveals that Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has very few business-oriented officials in the administration and that the vast majority of people handling economic policy for the United States government under Biden have no business experience whatsoever.

The 15-page report, authored by economist Steve Moore and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity‘s executive director Jon Decker, was provided to Breitbart News exclusively ahead of its public release. The headline of the report is: “Not Ready for Prime Time Players: Majority of Biden Appointees have Zero Years of Business Experience.” The report analyzes the backgrounds of the “top 68 officials in the Biden administration, starting with the president himself, and including cabinet members, regulatory officials, and White House advisers.”

In the executive summary, the authors detail some key findings in the report. First and foremost, 62 percent of Biden’s top political appointees and staffers “who deal with economic policy, regulation, commerce, energy and finance have virtually no business experience.”

What’s more, only one out of eight Biden officials has what the authors deem “extensive business experience,” and the average level of business experience across the Biden administration is about 2.4 years. The median years of business experience among Biden’s top appointees is zero, since so few have any experience in the private sector, and the “vast majority of the Biden economic/commerce team members are professional politicians, lawyers, community organizers, lobbyists, or government employees.”

The appendix of the report lists out each of the 68 officials analyzed, starting with both President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Both of them each have zero years of business experience. Attorney General Merrick Garland also has zero years of business experience, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has zero years as well. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge, Ambassador for Climate Change John Kerry, Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young, Secretary of Eduction Miguel Cardona, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, and many, many more have zero years of business experience.

In Biden’s Cabinet and innermost circle, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain with 16 years, Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland with 11 years, and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo with 11 years, have the most business experience close to the president. Isabel Guzman, the administrator of the Small Business Administration, has the most business experience of those analyzed with 20 years experience.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has just four years of business experience. The report authors note his business experience has not much to do with his Department as “he has virtually no experience in transportation or logistics.”

As compared with former President Donald Trump’s cabinet during his last year in office, the lack of private sector business experience in the Biden administration is stark. Trump’s team, per the authors, had an average of 13 years of business experience with a median years of experience of eight.

This report comes as inflation numbers announced earlier on Wednesday hit their highest levels in 40 years, with an annual rate rise of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) much higher than expected at 9.1 percent per the Department of Labor.

“As the United States battles the highest inflation rate in four decades; a stock market sell-off that has liquidated some $10 trillion of wealth and retirement savings; and fast-declining consumer, small business, and investor confidence; and there is widespread concern that America is in a recession or teetering on the verge of recession. For the first half of 2022, the economic growth rate has been negative, according to the latest forecast from the Atlanta Federal Reserve Board,” the study says. “Americans are deeply divided on the Biden administration’s progressive economic policy priorities: the focus on redistribution of income, higher tax rates on the rich, more social welfare programs, pro-union policies, a heavier hand of regulation of business, government-directed investment, and climate change remedies aimed at a dramatic altering of America’s energy mix. But putting ideology and partisan leanings aside, a new concern of voters has emerged: Do the top decision makers in Congress and the Biden administration have the basic skill sets and business/ management experience and acumen to oversee a $6 trillion federal government and to regulate our multi-trillion dollar industries? Polls show Americans are generally unhappy with the economic direction of the country today.”

The report also notes that many of the officials who do have some business experience in some respect—like Buttigieg—are not working in a field they are familiar with.

“The list of Biden administration officials that we compile in this report starts at the top with the resumes of the President and the Vice President,” the report authors write. “We also examine 68 of the top political appointees of the Biden administration, including his cabinet officers (who deal with domestic policy issues), the commissioners of the major influential regulatory agencies, and other high-ranking White House policy-making personnel.”

On a key findings page, several more statistics are revealed. Across all 68 top Biden officials in total there are just 161 years of business experience, and 42 of them have “virtually no business experience whatsoever.”

What’s more, the primary field of most of these Biden officials is one of the following three categories: politics and government, law, or academia and policy. Twenty-one of the 68 come from politics and government, 20 of them come from law, and 12 of them come from academia. Three come from a category called “consulting/public relations,” five from “venture capital/investments,” four from “education/health,” two from “miscellaneous business,” and one from “labor.”

“What is the takeaway from these findings? Surely we want our political class to have a diversity of backgrounds,” the authors write. “We want lawyers, grassroots activists, those with political and policy experience, scientists, health experts, and academics with required specialties. But we also want people who have experience running large operations with hundreds and thousands of employees and who understand logistics. We want people who know how to cut costs, manage logistics, increase productivity, meet payroll, and make a profit (or in the case of the government, avoid large losses). We need people at the top rungs of government who have experience dealing with large-scale crises (as we experienced during COVID), and also at least some familiarity with the everyday struggles that businesses have with the government.”

But it seems, the report authors note, that Biden’s focus on making “diversity” a major hiring “goal of its administration,” the U.S. government is now falling short when it comes to actually having people who know what they are doing with the economy in charge of economic policy. The authors note that “the one area that is sorely missing in this diversity goal is in attracting talented and experienced men and women from the field of small business, commerce, and finance.”

“When it comes to the government: Ignorance is not bliss,” the authors write. “These skills are sorely lacking in the Biden administration. The cascade of policy and management mistakes that are piling up in the Biden government are at least in part a consequence of this lack of basic skills and competency. Biden should fix the problem by replacing those chosen for their ideology, not the skills and talents our government needs and taxpayers rightly demand.”

220712_CTUP_NoExperienceNec… by Breitbart News