UNIONS PARTNER WITH OBAMA AND WALL STREET TO
ASSAULT THE AMERICAN WORKER WITH AMNESTY
AND OPEN BORDERS… It’s all about keeping wages depressed
For their part, US trade unions such as the United Auto Workers have functioned as junior partners in the impoverishment and exploitation of the working class, suppressing any opposition to the attack on living standards.
In this corporate America has enjoyed the full backing of the Obama administration and both big business parties, which have slashed food stamps and long-term unemployment benefits. The White House, which orchestrated the slashing of wages in the auto industry restructuring of 2009, has made the lowering of living standards for US workers the centerpiece of its so-called revival of American manufacturing.
Detroit bankruptcy conspiracy enters its final stage
17 September 2014
The ruling class conspiracy against Detroit workers, implemented by an unelected “emergency manager” and overseen by a federal bankruptcy judge, is entering its final stage. Over the last several days, settlements have been reached involving key players who previously objected to the city’s financial restructuring plan.New York-based bond insurer Syncora has been paid off with choice riverfront property, a piece of the Detroit-Windsor tunnel, and a guaranteed flow of millions of dollars in parking fees from a publicly owned garage near the city’s planned entertainment district.
A separate deal will end the city’s control over the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, which dates back to 1836. A new regional authority, run by unelected commissioners, will operate the system, which generates $1 billion a year in revenues. This paves the way for the privatization of the third largest municipally owned water system in the US.
The differing financial and political interests in the bankruptcy proceedings have been battling over the spoils from the carve-up of a modern American city. Whatever the conflicts, however, they have been united behind one demand—that the working class pay for the city’s financial crisis.
The settlements set the stage for the confirmation of the city’s Plan of Adjustment. Under the plan, drawn up by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, the pensions, health benefits and life savings of 32,000 current and retired city workers will be gutted. Tens of thousands of low-income residents will be turned into urban refugees as water and other essential services are discontinued and poor neighborhoods are razed to the ground. Enormous sums of money and valuable public assets will be laid at the feet of billionaire developers and private investors who are overseeing the city’s “revitalization”.
From the beginning, the World Socialist Web Site warned that the bankruptcy proceedings were an anti-democratic conspiracy against the working class, involving the courts, the emergency manger, the Democratic Obama administration, Republican Governor Rick Snyder, the media and the trade unions.
In the 14 months since Orr brought the city into bankruptcy, this evaluation has been confirmed. In a column celebrating the end to what he called the courtroom “drama,” Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes pointed to the lineup of forces behind the bankruptcy.
“Banks and bond insurers, unions and pension funds, elected officials and Michigan lawmakers, all but the most willfully deluded are implicitly recognizing that Detroit’s financial collapse is not some fantasy concocted by a Republican governor, his hand-picked emergency manager and their collection of hired hands.”
The financial crisis, Howes continued, is “as real as it is an opportunity to shed $7 billion in debt, to restructure and reinvest in city operations, to make a more attractive investment case for would-be investors, including even Syncora.”
In lauding the carve-up of the city by various groups of financial vultures, Howes omitted any discussion of the real causes of the crisis in Detroit—the shutdown of auto production and related manufacturing by the banks and auto companies and impoverishment of the former “Motor City”.
The trade unions, including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the United Auto Workers (UAW), have played a critical role in this process, culminating in their suppression of working class opposition to the bankruptcy. Far from opposing the gutting of health benefits, pensions and basic public services, they have thrown their support behind the bankruptcy in return for control of billions of dollars in city employee health care trust funds.
The effort to smother opposition has received critical support from phony “left” organizations, including the Workers World Party and its Moratorium Now! front group, which urged workers to place their confidence in the unions, the courts and the Democratic Party. Workers World promoted figures such as Congressman John Conyers, who told workers that the Obama administration would intervene to defend them.
When anger erupted over mass water shutoffs, Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes brought Workers World and other pseudo-left organizations into talks with the water department to dissipate opposition. The outcome of these talks was the inclusion of a token Water Residential Assistance Program in the scheme to end the city’s control of the water department, allowing shutoffs to continue.
These political forces are completely tied to the big business political establishment. They play their assigned roles in imposing attacks on the working class.
The only political force that has opposed the bankruptcy process is the Socialist Equality Party. Last October 4, the SEP organized a demonstration of hundreds of workers and youth at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to oppose plans, as part of the bankruptcy, to sell off the museum’s art treasures. This was the only genuine expression of the widespread popular opposition to the bankruptcy that exists in the metropolitan Detroit region and across the country.
The demonstration in defense of the DIA was followed in February by the Workers Inquiry into the Detroit Bankruptcy and the Attack on the DIA & Pensions, convened by the SEP to expose the official lies, arm workers with the truth about the crisis in Detroit and the bankruptcy conspiracy, and outline a political program to fight.
In recent weeks, the SEP has formed the Detroit Workers Action Committee (DWAC), which has initiated a campaign for mass action by the working class against the attacks being carried out under the restructuring plan.
The line-up of political forces in Detroit reflects a broader national, and, indeed, international process. Six years after the financial collapse of 2008, social inequality has reached new heights. Trillions of dollars have been handed to the banks, while the ruling class has deepened its offensive against the social rights of the working class. Detroit is at the center of a social counterrevolution aimed at returning the working class to conditions of industrial slavery and poverty not seen since the 19th century.
There is deep opposition among workers and youth to these attacks, but this opposition must be organized and given conscious political expression. The working class must be mobilized as an independent political force. The most burning issue is the building of a new, revolutionary leadership and to arm the working class with a socialist program. We urge workers and young people to join the Socialist Equality Party to take up this fight.
Jerry White
As Obama's Wall Street cronies continue to
loot
and Obama hands the American middle class the
tax bills for their economic
crimes:
The WSWS continued: “A sea change is unfolding
in the US and world economy that portends a catastrophe of dimensions not seen
since the Great Depression of the 1930s.” It warned that for the working class,
the financial meltdown meant “rapid growth of unemployment, poverty,
homelessness and social misery,” while “many of those who precipitated this
economic disaster… will profit handsomely from the debris they have left
behind.”
UNIONS AFL-CIO
OBAMA BROKE
PROMISE ON IMMIGRATION??? Not really! Illegals are pouring over our borders in
response to Obama’s bit by bit amnesty.
AND UNIONS?
What promise have they kept to the AMERICAN (Legals) worker?
THE REASON WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN, EVEN IN TIMES OF
GLOBAL TERRORISM, IS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
AND WHAT HAS THE BLOOD SUCKING UNIONS DONE ABOUT THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY’S ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER?
NADA!
WALL STREET-OWNED BARACK OBAMA’S ASSAULT on the
AMERICAN WORKER as he builds the LA RAZA Mexican welfare state .
WAGES
PLUMMET… and millions more illegals are arriving soon!
Low-wage males’ wages declined by an astonishing 31.2
percent, with mid-wage male workers seeing a 16 percent drop, the study found.
Workers without a high school diploma suffered a 46.3 percent fall in wages,
while workers with only a high school diploma lost 32.1 percent, and those
holding a bachelor’s degree lost 4 percent. VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? DEMS
SABOTAGE E-VERIFY NATIONWIDE!
AMNESTY: America’s death warrant
THE CONSPIRACY to DESTROY AMERICA’S
BORDERS… Obama
and his Wall Street
banksters
“This nation no longer is a democratic
republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who
preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the
elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out
the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”
BILLIONAIRES partner with MEXICO,
OBAMA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to assault the AMERICAN WORKER….
Amnesty, it’s all about keeping wages depressed and passing along the real cost
of all that “cheap” mex labor to the American middle class.
OPEN BORDERS AND
ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS POURING IN IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED
To
cite just one example, if there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, are 1.5
million Americans with engineering degrees either unemployed or working in
other fields? In all too many cases, U.S. tech companies prefer foreign workers
on temporary visas because they are cheaper and more exploitable than
Americans.
UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS
OF JOBS GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS!
“At
the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew
Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the
recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born
workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”
"We
have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal
immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said.
"As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to
immigrants."
Mr.
Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years
of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and
authorizes them to work in the United States.
Some
Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates
his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce partners with Mexico and the Democrat party to WAR on the America
worker and then pass along the real cost of all that “cheap” Mexican labor, the
LA RAZA welfare state, anchor baby
welfare and crime tidal wave to the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
THE ENTIRE
REASON FOR THE AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING IS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED!
“The U.S.
Chamber is in the pocket of Communist China and big companies seeking cheap
labor in the United States. We think it is morally repugnant for the chamber to pursue, as a matter of
public policy, initiatives which exploit the poor and oppressed, just so they
can keep labor costs down for their fortune 500 member companies.”
OFFICE of REP. KERRY BENTIVOLIO (R-Milford)
LA
RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES: JOBS GO ONLY TO ILLEGALS
As an example, the inspector general offers ICE’s Los Angeles
field office which has flouted federal policy by creating its own private
system of worksite enforcement. During the three-year period considered by the
watchdog the office conducted 147 investigations, with 7% resulting in fines
and 55% in warnings. Even in instances where more than half of a business’s
federal employee verification forms (known as I-9) had “substantive errors” the
federal agents in L.A. only issued warnings instead of fines. One business
mentioned in the report had its fine slashed an astounding 78%, from $4.9
million to a little over $1 million.
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and
Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have
stagnated.”
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
TECH
GIANT APPLE COMPUTER SAYS HELL NO TO PAYING TAXES and HELL NO TO HIRING
AMERIANS! KEEP THE BOATLOADS OF CHINESE AND INDIANS COMING!
Tech firms fight hiring rules in
immigration bill…. NO AMERICANS NEED APPLY!!!
Americans would "be shocked to know that most
of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin,
D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.
HILLARY CLINTON PARTNERS WITH BILLIONAIRE RUNT MARK
ZUCKERBERG AND MEXICO TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND PROFITS HIGH
Hillary Clinton’s SECRET MISSION to expand Obama’s imperial
amnesty and buy the illegals’ votes:
THE STAGGERING COST OF THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION BY
INVITATION OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
Hillary is a disciple of OBAMAnomics. She likes the sweet smell of those bankster bribes!
She serves banksters, the 1% and illegals to keep those damned wages depressed.
.... and she fools NO ONE!
CRONY CAPITALISM at work
Obama’s “recovery” and the social crisis in America … the recovery that
NEVER was!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/08/america-under-obamas-crony-capitalism.html
She serves banksters, the 1% and illegals to keep those damned wages depressed.
.... and she fools NO ONE!
CRONY CAPITALISM at work
Obama’s “recovery” and the social crisis in America … the recovery that
NEVER was!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/08/america-under-obamas-crony-capitalism.html
Sage Foundation: Wealth "Inequality" Will Continue to Worsen.... and illegals will continue to get our jobs and vote themselves even more!
Wealth inequality increased significantly from 2003 through 2013; by some metrics inequality roughly doubled.
WILL OBAMA
BANKRUPT AMERICA? It’s looking good that he will!
THE LOOMING GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN: OBAMAnomics at work!
BUT HIS CRONY
BANKSTERS ARE SWIMMING IN PROFITS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/04/imf-report-no-end-to-economic-breakdown.html
ALIBABA:
billionaires unite to loot the working
man!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/09/billionaires-assault-workers-alibaba.html
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