DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED CITIES IN MELTDOWN - A LOOK AT SANCTUARY CITY CHICAGO - THE BLACK ON BLACK MURDER CAPITAL OF AMERICA
BIG BUSINESSES FLEE CHICAGO, CITIES WILL BE DEATH CAMPS, HOMELESSNESS, DANGEROUS RESTAURANTS
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‘Look What They’ve Turned Your Nation’s Capital Into’: Reporter Shows Video of Tent City Across the Street from the WH
By Craig Bannister | October 5, 2022 | 3:10pm EDT
“You should know what a decrepit ***-hole has been created of your Nation’s Capital by this ruling regime,” a reporter tweeted Tuesday in a video report showing images of a squalid “tent city” – standing one block away from Pres. Joe Biden’s White House.
“Across the street from the White House is a tent city. Check it out. It’s a literal tent city. I’m going to show you. This is a single block from the White House grounds,” Newsmax journalist Benny Johnson says in a video posted to his Twitter page.
“Look what they’ve turned your Nation’s Capital into: squalor, squalor,” Johnson says, standing with the tent city in the background near McPherson Square in Washington, D.C.
“Have you seen this on the news? Anybody shown you this? Huh?” Johnson asks.
“Those are seven-figure apartments right there. And, then, look: this is what you get to look out at. Right there,” Johnson says, displaying a view of apartments across the street overlooking the tent city.
“This is what Joe Biden’s created of this nation. It’s a sunken place, baby. A sunken place. Total and complete decay,” Johnson says.
“Leftism creates decay,” he concludes.
The Collectivist War on the Middle Class
Despite posturing as if they care about the American middle class, behind closed doors our political elites, alongside their media servants and the guardians of academia who do the bidding of the collectivist elite, despise them. The war against the American middle class is intentional, for it is only the American middle class that has power to stop global collectivism and the new feudalism emerging across the world. To prevent this from happening, our elites and their allies divide the American middle class to weaken and subdue it, thus enabling their collectivist agenda to continue apace, even as they speak platitudes to their middle-class victims.
There are two middle classes in America: the servile middle class and the independent middle class. The servile middle class is made up of those who work for global corporations and our governments: including local, state, and federal. These middle class and upper middle class livelihoods, northern Virginia being ground zero, are the byproduct of serving the global collective elite who run the corporations and operate the governments these Americans serve.
The independent middle class, by contrast -- the middle class of entrepreneurs, those who work for them, and the upper middle classes who work for the businesses that are targeted for destruction by the collective elite (like oil and natural gas businesses and their employees) -- is free from the parasitic rot of global collectivism and must, therefore, be destroyed. For this middle class exists independent of the collectivist machinery.
The politicization of the servile middle class has become apparent for all to see. Corporations are mandating woke policies that all must accept to continue working for them. Agents of the state are sent to hound and arrest their fellow citizens on behalf of the global collectivist elite. If you are to remain a middle-class American, then you must be a slave to the collectivist elite to keep your relatively comfortable and cushy life.
This is also why entrepreneurship and “capitalism” are attacked by the collectivist totalitarians and is represented as a history of rape, theft, and pillage -- something to be ashamed of and something that “good” and “honest” (read: servile) people living in the twenty-first century shouldn’t be engaged in. By becoming an entrepreneur, a small business owner, and employer of many workers, you perpetuate the system of racist capitalism built on theft, exploitation, and slavery! Not only that, but you’re also engaged in exploiting your workers as we speak.
America’s middle class is also intensely patriotic. This too is problematic for the collectivist elite. Patriotism, by definition, is anti-globalist and anti-collectivist. Patriotism is particular; patriotism values the particular love of country and the particular defense of what one has and doesn’t want to lose. No surprise, then, that patriotism is pilloried and excoriated in the media, in education, and even by politicians who call it xenophobia and racism.
When you consider the potential power of the American middle class if it was united, it begins to make sense why our politicians, our media, and our educational system is set on dividing the middle class. Dividing the American middle class and causing it to go to war with itself it weak and susceptible to exploitation by global collectivists. The call to unity rings hollow and propagandists in the media, Bolshevik educators, and government officials bought by global collectivists teach Americans to hate each other over crimes and sins they have not committed.
Furthermore, shutting down small businesses puts middle-class Americans out of work who must then turn to woke corporations or the government (which serves the interests of the global collectivist elite) to survive. Thus, these middle-class Americans are made slaves to the global collectivist system. This is not accidental but intentional.
By destroying all small businesses, local churches, private and religious schools, and all the institutions that are not owned by the state or woke corporations Americans are forced to submit to their enemies who now control them through indoctrination -- also called “public education” -- and their paycheck (say something they do not like or approve and you will get fired). You survive, but as a slave and servant to the global collectivist system. Some life. Some “freedom.”
The globalist and collectivist war against the middle class is only intensifying. As the world becomes more interconnected, the battle between patriotic middle-class Americans and the globe-trotting collectivist elite will become much more heated. So long as the American middle class still retains independence, owns its own shops and homes, and has the ability to send their children to private and religious schools for education, the middle class will be targeted as the clear and present danger to the global collectivist system.
Middle-class Americans must stand up and resist the punishing tentacles of the global leviathan. True liberty and real democracy, national democracy, depends on it. Don’t be fooled into thinking otherwise.
If there is any future for liberty and democracy instead of collective bureaucracy and global managerialism, that future rests in the hand and spirit of the American middle class, especially the American middle class in “Flyover Country,” the last region of the United States where an independent and self-sufficient middle class exists, unlike the woke middle class serving global corporations or the Deep State on the American coasts.
Paul Krause is the editor of VoegelinView. He is the author of The Odyssey of Love: A Christian Guide to the Great Books, The Politics of Plato, and contributed to The College Lecture Today and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters
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Jobless Claims Inch Upward
The number of Americans who lost their jobs and filed for state unemployment benefits rose last week, but the labor market remains much stronger than officials from the Federal Reserve would like to see as they attempt to tame inflation.
Jobless claims for the week ending on the first of October rose by 29,000 to 219,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The previous week’s number was revised down by 3,000 to 190,000.
The average number of jobless claims in the five years preceding the pandemic—a period in which the labor market was considered especially strong and unemployment was very low—was around 260,000.
Claims can be volatile week to week so many economists look to the four-week moving average to read the strength of the labor market. This moved up by a tiny 250 to 206,500.
The total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits moved up by 15,000 to 1.36 million for the week ending Sept. 24. The long-term average, going back to 1969, for unemployment claims is 2.79 million.
Jobless claims are considered a proxy for layoffs. Although several companies have announced payroll cuts or hiring freezes, U.S. businesses in the aggregate have continued to add jobs. ADP reported on Wednesday that its data indicated the private sector added 208,000 jobs in September, more than economists had forecast. Manufacturing jobs were down, however, as were payrolls in technology and finance.
The Labor Department will release its report on jobs and unemployment in September on Friday. It is expected to show employment in the private and public sectors grew by 275,000 and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7 percent.
On Tuesday, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed that the number of open positions fell by 1.1 million. Despite the decline, job vacancies remain at a historically high level, above 10 million.
Billionaires Demand Fast-Track Amnesty After DACA Decision
Investor advocates and White House officials are lamenting the latest legal defeat of President Barack Obama’s 2012 DACA amnesty, and are calling on Congress to pass a formal amnesty by Christmas.
“Congress absolutely has to act this year,” claimed Todd Schulte, head of the FWD.us lobby group for wealthy West Coast investors, after the federal court announced the decision on October 5.
“Our businesses will lose critical employees,” said a press statement from a business coalition organized by Schulte’s billionaires. “We once again urge Congress to swiftly pass legislation this year that will help Dreamers, American businesses, and our country,” said the Coalition for the American Dream.
“It is long past time for Congress to provide Dreamers [DACA illegals] with the ability to live and work … they’re valued employees at the businesses where they work,” said a statement from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The FWD.us investor group backs migration because it boosts their businesses with more wage-cutting workers, more consumers, and more renters. The founders include Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg. It was created in 2013 to help pass the 2013 “Gang of Eight” cheap labor and amnesty bill.
“There is a *lot* of confusion but this is a big step forward to the courts terminating DACA,” Schulte said in an October 5 tweet.\
“Judges are saying it’s dead but trying to hide it to play Biden admin & Dems for a bit,” he said in another tweet.
Schulte and other pro-migration advocates hoped to gain from a political backlash if the court fast-tracked the end of DACA before the midterm elections.
“That Federal judges who are throwing the lives of nearly 700k DACA recipients and another 1.5M family members in their households into chaos don’t understand basics on the law is VERY troubling,” he tweeted on October 5.
But the court deflated that possibility by saying that DACA’s work permits for roughly 700,000 illegal migrants can remain valid until a lower court responds to recent legal claims by the Biden administration. The court barred any expansion of the program.
The White House also complained: “It is long past time for Congress to pass permanent protections for Dreamers, including a pathway to citizenship … This challenge to DACA is just another example of the extreme agenda being pushed by MAGA-Republican officials,” said a White House statement.
FWD.us is working with other amnesty groups to sneak legislation through Congress in the lame-duck session before Christmas. For example, the groups have inserted language in the draft Pentagon spending bill that would open up white-collar jobs to an unlimited flow of foreign graduates
The business groups work closely with progressive groups who oppose national borders.
For example, pro-migration, Indian-born Rep. Pramila Jayapal (R-WA) also raged at the court’s decision, which concluded that presidents cannot hand out wage-cutting work permits to foreigners without approval from Congress. Jayapal complained:
[The] decision shows that DACA will continue to be threatened by xenophobic, anti-immigrant attacks from the right. Dreamers who continue to benefit from DACA deserve better than to have to worry about whether or not they will be able to stay in the only country they know as home each time the program is attacked in court.
“Dreamers [DACA illegals] deserve security and permanent status. Congress must step up and act to ensure that all Dreamers are safe from deportation and provided a roadmap to citizenship … And we must go further to ensure a fair, compassionate immigration system.
The staff of the FWD.us group tries to hide the identity of the wealthy investors who founded and funded the group. But copies exist at other sites.
FWD.us funds many of the progressive groups and law firms that tout amnesty and visa worker programs. The progressive groups control most of the advocacy groups to ensure that illegal immigrants do not try to negotiate a compromise deal with Republican legislators.
The high-profile DACA fight helps FWD.us suck up time and attention from establishment reporters who might otherwise be tempted to investigate the impact of migration on U.S. society. Those impacts include the continued annual inflow of more than 250,0000 subordinate visa workers into the Fortune 500 jobs needed by U.S. professionals and their families.
Extraction Migration
It is easier for government officials to grow the economy by immigration than by growing exports, productivity, or the birth rate.
So Washington, DC, deliberately extracts millions of migrants from poor countries and uses them as extra workers, consumers, and renters. This extraction migration policy both grows and skews the national economy.
It prevents tight labor markets and so it shifts vast wealth from ordinary people to investors, billionaires, and Wall Street. It makes it difficult for ordinary Americans to advance in their careers, get married, raise families, buy homes, or gain wealth.
The federal policy of Extraction Migration slows innovation and shrinks Americans’ productivity. This happens because migration allows employers to boost stock prices by using stoop labor and disposable workers instead of the skilled American professionals and productivity-boosting technology that earlier allowed Americans and their communities to earn more money.
This migration policy also reduces exports because it minimizes shareholder pressure on C-suite executives to take a career risk by trying to grow exports to poor countries.
Migration undermines employees’ workplace rights, and it widens the regional economic gaps between the Democrats’ cheap-labor coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.
An economy fueled by extraction migration also drains Americans’ political clout over elites and alienates young people. It radicalizes Americans’ democratic civic culture because it gives a moral excuse for wealthy elites and progressives to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society, such as drug addicts.
Migration advocates admit their politics is a threat to Americans’ democratic society. “What the United States and many other democracies are experiencing is unprecedented,” said advocate Yascha Mounk. “Most democracies have historically been relatively monoethnic and monocultural, with most of their citizens sharing common cultural origins;” the German-born immigrant told the New York Times in October 2022.
The progressives’ colonialism-like economic strategy kills many migrants. It exploits the poverty of migrants and splits foreign families as it extracts human resources from poor home countries to serve wealthy U.S. investors.
Progressives hide this extraction migration economic policy behind a wide variety of noble-sounding explanations and theatrical border security programs. Progressives claim the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants,” that economic migrants are political victims, that migration helps migrants more than Americans, and that the state must renew itself by replacing populations.
Similarly, establishment Republicans, media businesses, and major GOP donors hide the skew towards investors by ignoring the pocketbook impact and by touting border chaos, welfare spending, migrant crime, and drug smuggling.
Many polls show the public wants to welcome some immigration. But the polls also show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs needed by young U.S. graduates.
This “Third Rail” opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that American citizens owe to one another.
Biggest Food Stamp Hike Ever, Thanks to Bidenflation
Food stamp benefits are increasing by 12.5 percent as families grapple with grocery prices that have skyrocketed under President Joe Biden.
Under the maximum benefit, a family of four on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will see their payments increase from $835 to $939 per month.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) noted the change would be implemented in October and last a year, CNN reported.
It is the largest annual percentage increase since the USDA’s implementation of the Thrifty Food Plan in 1975.
SNAP benefits are adjusted on what the Thrifty Food Plan determines a family of four can purchase on a healthy, low-budget diet. The benefits are updated annually based on the cost of the plan in June and take effect in October.
Since the cost of living has significantly jumped, SNAP benefits are increasing more than they ever have — in order to keep up with the high inflation that has occurred under the Biden administration.
While the increase in SNAP benefits is higher than the 11.4 percent rise in food prices since last year, grocery prices soared by a whopping 13.5 percent in August. Furthermore, food manufacturing executives do not expect grocery prices to drop anytime soon, Breitbart News noted.
This means that food stamp recipients’ purchasing power has eroded due to inflation, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) via Forbes.
“When inflation erodes the value of SNAP benefits during the year, households either have to spend more of their cash income on food or cut back on their food expenditures,” Joesph Llobrera, CBPP director of research, wrote.
Mother and children bringing groceries home (Louise Beaumont/Getty)
Depending on the state, some food stamp recipients are still receiving a minimum of $95 in extra funds dues to the federal emergency SNAP allotment rolled out in April 2020 when most of the country was shut down due to the pandemic. However, the allotment will expire once the national emergency is declared over, which may occur at any point, the Associated Press reported.
Nearly 41 million Americans are on SNAP benefits, according to the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics. The average monthly payment for an individual is approximately $218.
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