When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Thursday, September 14, 2017
HILLARY'S LAP DOG BERNIE SANDERS HAS A DEAL WITH TRUMP ON HEALTHCARE.... BUT SANDERS WANTS AMNESTY, OPEN BORDERS AND MORE "FREE" HEALTHCARE FOR LA RAZA
TRUMP: For more tax cuts for the rich, NO (REAL) WALL,
NO E-VERIFY, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY and NO ENFORCEMENT!
Sanders health care
bill: A cover for Democratic Party deals with Trump
By Patrick Martin
14 September 2017
Senator Bernie Sanders took his campaign to
whitewash the right-wing character of the Democratic Party to a new level
Wednesday, introducing single-payer, “Medicare for all” legislation,
co-sponsored by 15 Democratic senators, on the same day that House and Senate
Democratic leaders were to visit the White House for cozy talks with President
Trump on corporate tax cuts.
The bill was given
full-scale media promotion, including an op-ed column by Sanders in the New
York Times, lengthy articles in all the major daily newspapers, and reports
on the network and cable television news programs. This for a bill which has
not the slightest chance of passage by the Republican-controlled Congress,
which will never even hold a committee hearing, let alone bring it to a vote.
This makes co-sponsorship an opportunity to
strike a left pose without actually incurring the wrath of the insurance
companies and other giant corporations that control the provision of health
care in the United States. Accordingly, a half dozen Democratic senators who
are beginning to promote themselves as potential 2020 presidential contenders
signed on as co-sponsors—up from zero co-sponsors the last time Sanders
introduced such a bill.
The list of co-sponsors demonstrates the cynical
and fraudulent character of the Medicare for All Act of 2017, the bill’s
official title. It includes Corey Booker of New Jersey, a favorite of the
insurance industry, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, the junior senator from
Wall Street who received $2.7 million from the financial industry and $500,000
from insurance companies in her re-election last year.
Nearly 60 percent of House Democrats have
endorsed a similar “Medicare for all” bill introduced by Representative John
Conyers of Michigan, but this support is meaningless, since the Republican
majority controls all action on the House floor.
Significantly, neither House Democratic Leader
Nancy Pelosi nor Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer have signed on to the
bill. Neither has the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions Committee, Patty Murray of Washington, nor key Democrats in the
Midwest like Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.
The Sanders bill cannot be judged simply by its
text, but rather by the political purposes for which it has been brought
forward. The goal of the exercise is to provide a political smokescreen for
backroom Democratic Party dealings with the Trump administration, on health
care and especially on tax cuts.
Representative Kevin Brady, the Republican
chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which would write the tax cut
legislation, said some details would be released on September 25, although the
actual bill will not be drafted until after Congress approves a budget
resolution.
This sequence is necessary in order to invoke
so-called “reconciliation,” a process that allows legislation to pass the
Senate by a simple majority, rather than requiring 60 votes to overcome a
filibuster. That would require the support of at least eight Senate Democrats
and a unanimous Republican caucus, considered unlikely. But even to reach 50
votes in the Senate will likely require some Democratic support to offset
Republican defections. Democrats will be equally critical in assuring passage
through the House as well, because of likely opposition by the ultra-right
Freedom Caucus of Republicans, who want tax cuts combined with massive spending
cuts.
The cynicism of the Sanders health bill is that
on the same day he introduced legislation that would purportedly put the
private health insurance industry out of business, Democratic leaders were
dining with Trump at the White House, discussing his plan to give the health
insurance giants—and the rest of corporate America—tax cuts worth hundreds of
billions, and even trillions, of dollars.
Schumer and Pelosi were to discuss taxes, health
care and immigration at the White House dinner, according to press reports.
Trump also met Wednesday with a bipartisan group of members of the House of
Representatives to discuss his plan for a massive cut in corporate taxes, from
the present (largely nominal) level of 35 percent to only 15 percent.
The day before, Trump hosted six senators, three
Republicans and three Democrats, at dinner, seeking their support for the
business tax cut. Each of the three Democrats—Joe Manchin of West Virginia,
Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana—said afterwards they
were open to working with the White House.
Besides tax cuts, key Democrats are working with
the Trump administration and congressional Republicans on various aspects of
health care, in the wake of the failure of the Republicans to push through an
outright repeal of Obamacare.
Two Republican senators, Lindsey Graham of South
Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, made public legislation Wednesday that
would not abolish Obamacare, but convert the funds provided by the Affordable
Care Act into block grants to the states, which could use the money as they
chose—Democratic-run states maintaining the structure of Obamacare exchanges,
Republican-run states moving to voucher programs modeled on health savings
accounts. Under the complex financing formula spelled out in the bill, money
would be taken from high-cost, largely Democratic-run states like New York and
California and shifted to poorer states, mostly Republican-run.
This is the last attempt by any section of
Republicans to make use of “reconciliation” to pass a major change in
Obamacare. Authority to use the reconciliation process will expire on September
30, and Graham appealed to the White House to push for a vote on his bill
before then. The measure has not yet been cost-estimated by the Congressional
Budget Office, a requirement before it can be voted on, and it is widely
rejected by House Republicans, who oppose allowing Obamacare to continue even
in states which choose to do so.
Meanwhile, the top Republican and top Democrat
on the Senate Finance Committee announced Tuesday an agreement to make
significant cuts to the Children’s Health Insurance Program while extending its
duration by five years. The program would otherwise expire at the end of
September.
Republican Orrin Hatch and Democrat Ron Wyden
said the CHIP program would continue at the present level of funding, but the
federal share of the joint federal-state program will be gradually reduced to
the level that prevailed before the enactment of Obamacare, which boosted the
federal share by 23 percentage points. In effect, states will be required to
make up the difference, adding a drastic new charge on already strapped
budgets.
Another bipartisan effort, this time by
Republican Lamar Alexander and Democrat Patty Murray, would guarantee federal
subsidies to insurance companies with low-income customers under the Obamacare
exchanges. The Trump administration has continued the subsidies on only a
month-to-month basis—deliberately undermining the stability of the
exchanges—but a lawsuit filed by House Republicans challenges the legal basis
of the subsidies. The White House has opposed any legal reinforcement of the subsidies,
calling that a “bailout” of the insurance companies.
The Sanders “Medicare for all” legislation is an
attempt to disguise all these reactionary maneuvers, each of them aimed at
subordinating the health care of millions of people to the profit interests of
big business, behind pie-in-the-sky promises that neither Sanders nor any of
his co-sponsors take seriously.
Bannon to Charlie Rose: Elites Have Committed ‘Economic Hate Crime’ Against Working-Class Americans
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon told Charlie Rose that elites on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, DC, have committed an “economic hate crime” against working-class Americans by eviscerating the country’s industrial base.
Rose aired Bannon’s remarks Monday evening on his much-heralded Charlie Rose Showon PBS after 60 Minutes devoted two segments to Rose’s interview with Bannon on Sunday evening.
Bannon said though Donald Trump had a double-digit deficit in the polls when he took over his campaign, he knew Trump was going to win the election as soon as Hillary Clinton gave her infamous alt-right speech.
“America does not think it’s a racist country. You saw [that] in Houston. This is the greatest country in man’s history in how we pull together. People don’t think they’re racist,” Bannon told Rose. “And she’s up there with identity politics at the time when elites in this country have had an economic hate crime. You wanna talk about hate crimes? Economic hate crime on the working class people in this country. That’s a hate crime.”
Bannon said the “industrial base in this country has been eviscerated, and the elites in the ascendant economy in Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood, and Washington DC” are living large.
“And she’s got the gall to sit up there and talk about that,” Bannon said of Clinton. “Her whole defeat was summarized the day she came back … and we knew it.”
Bannon said when he was announced as the Trump’s campaign chairman, the legacy media and the left saw that Trump was down 16 points in the polls and thought the campaign was heading to a 20-point deficit. He said they figured Trump knew the campaign was over and brought in a “bomb-thrower” who was “going to wreak havoc” on all of his “enemies on the way down.”
But Bannon told Rose that “what you saw was the opposite—a highly disciplined campaign … going to certain areas we knew we had to be with that message every day of populism, nationalism.”
He said a week after he joined the campaign, “Clinton, who had been with all her fat cats in the Hamptons and Silicon Valley doing nothing but raising money the entire time,” comes out and gives “the Breitbart, Bannon, white supremacist, alt-right speech.”
Bannon said he was in the campaign’s war room and told the crowd, “We got her.”
“If that’s where she’s gonna go, we got her,” Bannon recalled saying. “She’s done.”
Bannon said though Trump was 15 points down in the polls, he said Clinton “reconfirmed” to him that “she has no earthly idea what she’s doing. She has no earthly idea where this country is.”
“I thought at that time that we could beat her big,” Bannon said. “They walked into a trap.”
Bannon told Rose that he reminded Trump to keep hammering the economic nationalist message at all of his campaign rallies, and Bannon was proven right on election night when Trump shocked the world by winning the White House largely due to working-class voters in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
In a segment that aired on 60 Minutes, Bannon told Rose that economic nationalism will unite Americans of all backgrounds.
“Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system—we look after our own. We look after our citizen, we look after our manufacturing base,” Bannon told Rose. “And guess what? This country’s going to be greater, more united, more powerful than it’s ever been. This is not astrophysics. And by the way, that’s every nationality, every race, every religion, every sexual preference.”
JEFF SESSION’S LONG BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER He is the only one in the country that has consistently spoken out for the AMERICAN WORKER!
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States.Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
HILDA SOLIS WAS BARACK OBAMA’S SECRETARY OF ILLEGAL LABOR BEFORE MEXICANS VOTED HER IN AS LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR WHERE SHE IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING THE MEX WELFARE STATE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
HILDA SOLIS – The Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “THE RACE” building LA RAZA SUPREMACY over Legals and the Mexican welfare state in America’s open borders.
“Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, a former California congresswoman with close ties to the influential La Raza movement, announced the “We Can Help” project with great fanfare a few days ago.”
“Prosecutors say the girl, who was 11-years-old at the time, went to a medical center where it was determined she was pregnant. Officials say she would have conceived the child at ten years of age.”
END THE MEX INVASION – IMPOSE BORDER to OPEN BORDER E-VERIFY and put EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS IN PRISON!
Notice how we never hear the phony populist Trump talking about E-VERIFY!
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
“The percentage of foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor force has more than tripled over the last four decades and while the U.S. represents just 5 percent of the world’s population it attracts 20 percent of the world’s immigrants, according to a new report.”
Open the floodgates of our welfare state to the uneducated, impoverished, and unskilled masses of the world and in a generation or three America, as we know it, will be gone.
Those most impacted are middle class and lower middle class. It is they whose jobs are taken, whose raises are postponed, whose schools are filled with non-English speaking children that absorb precious resources for remedial English, whose public parks are trashed and whose emergency rooms serve as the local clinic for the illegal underground.
THE SECRET REPORT ON ILLEGALS TAKING MIDDLE AND HIGH END JOBS…. What? You thought they only took the shit jobs?
Raise More than a Quarter Trillion Dollars of Tax Revenue by Ending Tax Subsidies for Unauthorized Employment of Illegal Aliens
CIS Backgrounder, August 31, 2017
https://cis.org/Report/Raise-More-Quarter-Trillion-Dollars-Tax-Revenue-Ending-Tax-Subsidies-Unauthorized-Employment Excerpt: Aliens enter the United States without authorization for many reasons, but for most of them the goal is to secure employment at much higher wages than are available in their native countries. While breaking the law provides very significant economic benefits to these illegal workers and to the businesses that hire them, it comes at a cost to American workers. According to Harvard economist George Borjas, recent empirical research indicates that American workers suffer a reduction of $99 billion to $118 billion in annual wages because of illegal immigration.1
The economic rewards of unauthorized employment of aliens are not limited to the higher wages of the illegal workers and the lower labor costs of their employers. Unauthorized alien workers and their employers also enjoy multi-billion dollar tax deductions and tax credits that were enacted into law for the benefit of law-abiding workers and businesses.
The Right Way to Save DACA: Now, Congress Must Ensure that E-Verify Goes National, and That Chain Immigration As We Know It Ends
President Trump has arranged a soft landing for the illegal immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional DACA program. Now it’s up to Congress to craft a solution for this unique category of illegal immigrants — in a way that doesn’t do more harm than good.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program might well have ended abruptly Tuesday, by judicial order, since 10 states had threatened to sue if the administration didn’t act — with a deadline of this week. Instead, the nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants will be able to keep their work permits for up to 21/2 more years, as the program is wound down.
Whatever the merits of the individuals involved — illegal immigrants who sneaked across the border or overstayed a visa before age 16 — the DACA program itself is illegal and had to be ended. No less an authority than Obama said in 2011 that enacting what would eventually become DACA “would not conform with my appropriate role as President.”
BLOG: SEE JUDICIAL WATCH ON ILLEGALS VOTING BELOW
But as the 2012 election neared, his aides saw that Hispanic voter registration numbers were below the 2008 level and panicked. So to energize Hispanic voters to go to the polls and vote for an administration that had not delivered on its immigration promises, Obama decreed DACA.
The program provides more than just a two-year, renewable exemption from immigration law; it also results in a work permit, Social Security number, driver’s licenses, access to the Earned Income Tax Credit welfare program and more.
The question now is, What will Congress do with the six-month grace period before DACA permits start expiring?
The DACAs aren’t just the most sympathetic group of illegal immigrants; they’re a special case. Though almost all are now in their 20s and 30s, they grew up here and have developed their identities as Americans. Some didn’t even know they were illegal aliens until they went to get a driver’s license in high school.
So an amnesty for them — and only for them — can be justified as a prudent act of mercy. There’s a lot of support for amnestying the DACAs, even among immigration hawks like Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
But any measure considered by Congress would be harmful unless it addressed the two drawbacks of any amnesty.
One, all amnesties encourage future illegal immigration — by sending the message abroad that crime pays, as it were — and they set in motion future increases in legal immigration, as relatives of the amnesty recipients take advantage of the chain-migration provisions of our current immigration program.
That’s why any legislative solution to this problem must include both enforcement measures and legal immigration cuts. Though the President has made a border wall a centerpiece of his enforcement strategy, he already has all the authority he needs from Congress to build one; he only needs some extra funding, which in and of itself would be an insufficient tradeoff for legalizing DACA.
The chief item the President needs from Congress regarding enforcement is to require universal use of the E-Verify program. This is a free, online system that enables employers to check the information they already have to collect from a new hire (name, age, authorization to work) and to ensure he is telling the truth about who he is.
Last year, roughly half of all new hires were screened through the system, but use of the system is still voluntary. Only Congress can make it mandatory, which would be the single most important step toward weakening the magnet of jobs that drew the parents of the DACAs here in the first place.
The second element Congress must
incorporate in any DACA amnesty is abolition
of the immigration categories that permit
chain migration of an endless procession of
relatives. Fully two-thirds of the million legal
immigrants we take in each year are selected
because they already have relatives here.
After an amnesty for the DACAs, they would be able to bring in their relatives, including the parents who put them in this difficult position in the first place. Cotton’s RAISE Act would, among other things, focus family immigration only on husbands, wives and little kids, ensuring that any DACA amnesty would not create a future surge of immigration.
A stand-alone DACA amnesty would, at least, be legal. But it would be a mistake. These young people must be granted formal permission to stay in a way that limits the harmful
Princeton Economist: Nearly Half of U.S. Men Who Dropped Out of Workforce on Opioid Painkillers
The opioid crisis is growing in America, and it may be the reason many men are dropping and staying out of the workforce, according to a new study.
Nearly half of the men in the U.S. who dropped out of the workforce are on opioid painkillers, Princeton University economist Alan Krueger wrote in a Brookings Institute study released this week.
“The opioid crisis and depressed labor-force participation are now intertwined in many parts of the U.S.,” Krueger wrote in the Brookings Institute study.
Krueger found that nearly half of the men surveyed “take pain medication on a daily basis, and in nearly two-thirds of these cases they take prescription pain medication.”
“Labor force participation has fallen more in areas where relatively more opioid pain medication is prescribed,” he wrote.
Krueger said the men surveyed took painkillers either as a result of being out of the workforce for a prolonged period or because they had a condition that required the use of painkillers and could not work because of the condition.
“The results of this survey underscore the role of pain in the lives on nonworking men, and the widespread use of prescription pain medication,” he wrote. “Fully 47 percent of NLF (not in labor force) prime age men responded that they took pain medication on the previous day.”
He added that nearly two-thirds of the men who took pain medication said they were taking prescription meds.
“These figures likely understate the actual proportion of men taking prescription pain medication given the stigma and legal risk associated with reporting taking narcotics,” Krueger said.
NBC News cites data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that show the labor force participation rate, comprised of people who are working or actively looking for work, reached an all-time high of 67.3 percent in the U.S. in early 2000.
The labor force participation rate reached a 40-year low in September 2015, dipping to 62.4 percent, as the American economy grew very slowly under former President Barack Obama.
Krueger said the labor participation rate in the past decade declined faster than the decade preceding it.
“The share of non-college educated young men who did not work at all over the entire year rose from 10 percent in 1994 to more than 20 percent in 2015,” he wrote.
The decline roughly coincides with the beginning of the opioid epidemic, when the number of unintentional overdoses from prescription painkillers quadrupled since 1999, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
A survey from NIDA found that 91.8 million people, roughly one in three Americans, used opioid painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin in 2015.
President Trump declared the national opioid crisis a “state of emergency” on August 10 and vowed to “fight the deadly epidemic.”
Does H-1B Fraud Lead to More Jail Time than the Hiring of Illegal Aliens? By David North
CIS Blog, September 8, 2017
https://cis.org/North/Does-H1B-Fraud-Lead-More-Jail-Time-Hiring-Illegal-Aliens Excerpt: Now, given the fact that there are about 900,000 H-1Bs in the country at any one time, and about eight times as many illegal alien workers, why do I have the impression of more enforcement of the H-1B law, than of employer sanctions? At least proportionally? Not that there is much of either.
Given the numbers cited above, there should be roughly eight times as many employer sanctions court cases as H-1B ones. In both kinds of cases the employer is exploiting aliens, shouldering aside U.S. workers, and violating the INA. There would seem to be a moral equivalence here, one violation being as deplorable as the other.
Excerpt: President Trump has arranged a soft landing for the illegal immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama's unconstitutional DACA program. Now it's up to Congress to craft a solution for this unique category of illegal immigrants — in a way that doesn't do more harm than good.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program might well have ended abruptly Tuesday, by judicial order, since 10 states had threatened to sue if the administration didn't act — with a deadline of this week. Instead, the nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants will be able to keep their work permits for up to 2.5 more years, as the program is wound down.
Raise More than a Quarter Trillion Dollars of Tax Revenue by Ending Tax Subsidies for Unauthorized Employment of Illegal Aliens
Excerpt: Aliens enter the United States without authorization for many reasons, but for most of them the goal is to secure employment at much higher wages than are available in their native countries. While breaking the law provides very significant economic benefits to these illegal workers and to the businesses that hire them, it comes at a cost to American workers. According to Harvard economist George Borjas, recent empirical research indicates that American workers suffer a reduction of $99 billion to $118 billion in annual wages because of illegal immigration.1The economic rewards of unauthorized employment of aliens are not limited to the higher wages of the illegal workers and the lower labor costs of their employers. Unauthorized alien workers and their employers also enjoy multi-billion dollar tax deductions and tax credits that were enacted into law for the benefit of law-abiding workers and businesses.
Winning: Companies Hire Americans Instead of Foreign Visa Workers
President Donald Trump’s populist “Hire American” policy is forcing employers to hire more Americans at higher wages, theWall Street Journal admits.
The pressure is highlighted by seasonal employers in Massachusetts who were forced to hire Americans when Trump’s populist coalition stymied their lobbying efforts to expand the use of H-2B foreign contract workers. According to the Journal, which has long urged the large-scale use of foreign workers:
“I have more Americans working than I’ve ever had,” says Josh Aronie, executive chef at the Home Port Restaurant in the Vineyard fishing village of Menemsha. He also reports his restaurant has been short of staff and many of the workers he does have don’t know the basics of cooking or even how to read the orders…
Nationwide data on the leisure and hospitality sector also shows a tightening labor market. In June, average hourly earnings in the sector increased 4% from a year earlier, according to government data analyzed by Moody’s Analytics …
At the Home Port Restaurant in Menemsha, Mr. Aronie recalls meeting with his small staff in a panic this June just a few days before the scheduled opening. He had applied for 18 H-2B visa workers and received none. Because of the staffing crunch, the restaurant initially was open just five nights a week, and didn’t open for lunch until late July. Mr. Aronie jokes about the qualification he requires for hiring: “Are you breathing? Excellent.” He has paid a premium to hire three people via a Boston-based temp agency.
Many seasonal employers prefer to hire H-2B workers instead of Americans because those visa workers must stay with the company for the entire season and must work at government-set hourly rates. Those lower rates for seasonal workers also allow employers to pay lower rates to full-time, year-round American staff.
Employers also prefer foreign workers because the current pool of unemployed Americans includes many immature and untrained youths, unmotivated adults on government aid programs, plus marginalized Americans, such as inner-city youths and unemployed drug users who are the customers of the Mexican drug cartels.
Amid pressure from donors, GOP leaders tried this year to expand the H-2B program from roughly 115,000 H-2B workers up to roughly 200,000 resident H-2B workers. But the lobbyists and GOP leaders — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — were largely blockedby John Kelly when he was serving as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Kelly allowed only an extra 15,000 H-2B workers, and promised to oppose any increase in 2018.
The public’s opposition to greater use of H-2B has also forced employers in other states to recruit and pay Americans. The Journal reported:
In Alaska, Silver Bay Seafoods, a big user of the program, received 31 H-2B visas this year for workers to help process salmon, down from more than 900 in 2016. The company responded by spending more than $1 million to recruit workers in 32 states, plus U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“It’s very difficult to find people to do this work,” says Joe Misenti, general counsel for Silver Bay. The company succeeded in hiring about 1,600 workers, replacing all of the foreign workers with Americans, counting those from the U.S. territories.
The same trend is visible in the agriculture sector, where the loss of cheap illegal aliens is forcing employers to raise wages and also to hire Americans to build and operate labor-saving farm machinery.
The result of the H-2B fight boosts the growing evidence that young Americans will gain if the federal government reduces the annual inflow of foreign temporary workers.
In 2016, for example, federal data shows that former President Barack Obama gave federal “Employment Authorization Document” work permits to at least 2.3 million migrants for U.S. jobs, and approved visas for roughly 500,000 outsourcing workers, such as the H-1B white-collar workers, H-2B blue-collar workers and H-2A agriculture workers. Those temporary workers were in addition to the routine inflow of 1 million legal immigrants and roughly 400,000 illegal immigrants.
The combined inflow delivered almost 4 million legal foreign workers to Americans’ economy in 2016, just as 4 million young Americans turned 18 and began looking for decently paid jobs.
Many polls show that Americans are very generous, they do welcome individual immigrants, and they do want to like the idea of immigration. But the polls also show that most Americans are increasingly worried that large-scale legal immigration will change their country and disadvantage themselves and their children.
NEW YORK — When she served as president of the Goldman Sachs
Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Wall Street giant, White
House Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Habib Powell
repeatedly partnered with the Clinton Global Initiative for a
globalist women’s project that served as the centerpiece of
Goldman’s charitable foundation.
Besides partnership with CGI, Powell’s foundation also directly funded the Clinton Foundation and partnered with Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Powell herself was associated with numerous groups and projects linked to the Clintons.
Powell served as president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, where she ran the foundation’s projects after Goldman Sachs was implicated in the 2007-2008 financial crisis and sought to resurrect its shattered image.
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) was founded by Bill Clinton in 2005 as a part of the controversial Clinton Foundation. CGI was co-founded by Doug Band, co-founder and president of Teneo Holdings. Powell’s now ex-husband, Richard C. Powell, is president of Teneo Strategy, an arm of Band’s Teneo Holdings.
Powell, an Egyptian-American, reportedly received a salary of $2 million per year from Goldman Sachs. Her financial disclosure form from this year reveals salary, benefits, cash bonuses and equity from Goldman Sachs totaling $6,128,950.
As head of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, she specifically oversaw two major charitable initiatives, one called 10,000 Women and another named 10,000 Small Businesses. 10,000 Women aims to provide at least that number of women around the world with a business and management education to further economic opportunities and global financial growth. 10,000 Businesses, according to Powell’s Goldman bio, “provides small business owners in the US and UK with business education and access to capital.”
The projects were widely viewed as Goldman’s efforts to resurrect its tarnished image after the firm was accused of unsound practices that allegedly helped precipitate the financial crisis. “Engaging wasn’t just the right thing, it was necessary, especially in the wake of the financial crisis when people said we weren’t doing enough,” John F.W. Rogers, Goldman Sachs’ chief of staff, told the New York Times of the company’s charitable efforts.
Goldman would later agree to pay a $5 billion settlement to the Justice Department for its alleged role in the financial crisis. “This resolution holds Goldman Sachs accountable for its serious misconduct in falsely assuring investors that securities it sold were backed by sound mortgages, when it knew that they were full of mortgages that were likely to fail,” acting associate attorney general Stuart Delery announced in a statement when the settlement was finalized.
Clinton partnership
In September 2013, Powell’s 10,000 Women was a main sponsoring partner of that year’s Clinton Global Initiative conference, hosting numerous events including a panel moderated by Chelsea Clinton. Goldman reportedly paid the Clinton Global Initiative $375,000 for the hosting rights.
In 2014 again, 10,000 Women hosted the Clinton Global Initiative
annual event. Hillary Clinton spoke at the CGI event and singled
out 10,000 Women for its work. “Thanks to Goldman Sachs and
thanks to 10,000 Women for really shining a bright spotlight on
what is possible if you believe in and you provide support to
women,” Clinton said.
The official twitter account for Powell’s 10,000 Women posted a
picture of Clinton sitting at the event with Goldman Sachs’ CEO
Speakers at the 2014 CGI event included the Clintons, President Obama, actor Matt Damon, and Alibaba Group executive chairman Jack Ma. Session topics featured such titles as “Confronting Climate Change is Good Economics” and “Reimagining Finance for Social Impact: Planning for Scale.”
At CGI’s 2013 annual meeting, 10,000 Women and other groups announced the launch of a $1.5 billion commitment to act for “global contract opportunities for women-owned businesses based outside of the U.S.”
The Clinton Global Initiative was also a “commitment to action” partner with Powell’s 10,000 Women for a $30 million, five-year program launched in 2008 to educate women in the African nations of Liberia, Nigeria and Zambia.
CGI was further a “commitment to action” partner for 10,000 Women’s $2.5 million, four-year program launched in 2009 to “provide women entrepreneurs in Peru with quality business education and enhanced access to capital.”
The Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund run by Powell is also listed as having donated between $250,000 and $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
In the spring of 2011, meanwhile, Hillary Clinton announced in an auditorium at the State Department’s headquarters that the State Department would create a partnership with the 10,000 Women initiative to help bring the program to more countries. The New York Times characterized that support as underscoring the “long-running relationship between one of the country’s most powerful financial firms and one of its most famous political families.”
“Initiatives like 10,000 Women invest in the economic empowerment of women to promote security, stability and prosperity around the globe,” Clinton announced in a statement about the partnership with Powell’s foundation. “This new partnership with the Department of State will extend the reach of the program and provide individual women the means to build safer, stronger, families, communities and nations.”
Clinton said the partnership with State would expand the program to more countries with a focus on Indonesia and Haiti.
At a luncheon in April 2012, Powell described how women from Pakistan were educated in the U.S. as part of the 10,000 Women partnership with Clinton’s State Department.
Stated Powell: “We had our first graduation—this is a sticky situation—of this group from Pakistan on a Monday and it just so happened Melanne and I were going to speak at the Embassy of Pakistan and it happened to be the Monday after Osama bin Laden had been killed. So it was really interesting because here were these women who were just extraordinary, in the United States at the invitation of Secretary Clinton.”
Earlier, on May 11, 2009, Powell was one of ten speakers at a Clinton Global Initiative event co-sponsored with the Economist titled, “Global Challenges, Corporate Solutions: Creating Value for Business and Society.” Other speakers included Bill Clinton and Clinton’s former chief of staff, John Podesta, who at the time was president and chief executive officer of the George Soros-financed Center for American Progress and co-chairman of the Obama White House transition team. Podesta would later become chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
There are also crossover connections between employees paid by 10,000 Women and the Clintons.
Gene Sperling, who served as chief economic adviser for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, reportedly earned $887,727 from Goldman Sachs in 2008 for consulting work he did to help launch 10,000 Women. Sperling had served as director of the National Economic Council under the Bill Clinton administration, and he went on to take up that same position in 2011 under the Obama administration.
Also Noa Meyer, global program director for the 10,000 Women program, worked in Clinton’s speechwriting office when she was First Lady. Meyer is an advisor at the Clinton Global Initiative.
Asked by Fortune magazine what she learned from working for Hillary Clinton, Meyer replied: “I think the balance that you need to strike between impact and policy work, and how you actually draw attention to the importance of that work — those two need to go hand-in-hand in order to make change.”
Powell has other ties to the Clintons. In 2007, she was named a director of Vital Voices Global Partnership, where Hillary Clinton served as honorary co-chair.
Powell also served as a panelist at the second annual Women in the World Summit in 2011, which was keynoted by Hillary Clinton. The summit was launched by longtime Clinton ally Tina Brown, who also founded the Daily Beast, where Powell was a contributor.
Powell’s 10,000 Women partnered with the Obama State Department even after Clinton stepped down as secretary of state. In 2015, then-Secretary of State John Kerry joined Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd C. Blankfein to announce a new partnership between the State Department, 10,000 Women and the Harvard Kennedy School to train women in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Goldman Sachs described the partnership in a press release:
The inaugural Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women-US State Department Entrepreneurship Program brings 29 entrepreneurs from the business, media, technology, social entrepreneurship and non-profit sectors to the US for a two-week program focused on entrepreneurship, leadership training, mentoring and networking to help them grow their business and create jobs. The program participants are from 15 countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.
Powell has been described in press reports as having a good relationship with Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s closest advisers during his presidency. Jarrett wrote a piece for the Huffington Post, cross-posted on the White House blog, recalling her attendance at Powell’s first annual 10,000 Women Dinner in September 2009 and then another annual dinner held on Powell’s initiative in September 2013.
“Tuesday night ended with a return to this year’s Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women Dinner, where I had the opportunity to meet a number of the program’s new graduates and participants, and feel inspired once again by their stories of strength, sacrifice and achievement,” Jarrett wrote.
Goldman Sachs and the Clintons
Powell joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2007 and was named partner in 2010 in addition to her role as president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. She headedthe firm’s Impact Investing business, where she was responsible for Goldman Sachs’ “investments in housing and community development projects, deploying more than $5 billion in loans and equity investments to revitalize underserved communities in the US.”
In coming to Goldman Sachs, Powell joined a firm that has long been deeply tied to the Clintons.
The New York Times partially outlined some of the lucrative Clinton-Goldman Sachs ties thusly:
Over 20-plus years, Goldman provided the Clintons with some of their most influential advisers, millions of dollars in campaign contributions and speaking fees, and financial support for the family foundation’s charitable programs.
And in the wake of the worst crash since the Great Depression, as the firm fended off investigations and criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike, the Clintons drew Goldman only closer. Bill Clinton publicly defended the company and leased office space from Goldman for his foundation. Mrs. Clinton, after leaving the State Department, earned $675,000 to deliver three speeches at Goldman events, where she reassured executives that they had an important role to play in the nation’s recovery.
The Clinton-Goldman ties solidified in the 1990’s, when Robert E. Rubin, Goldman Sachs’ co-senior partner, departed the firm to serve as the Bill Clinton administration’s Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and later as treasury secretary, a powerful economic role.
The Clinton White House famously abolished the Glass–Steagall legislation, which separated commercial and investment banking. The move was a boon for Wall Street firms and led to major bank mergers that some analysts say helped contribute to the 2008 financial crisis.
When Clinton joined the Senate, Goldman Sachs employees, who mostly lean Democrat, contributed more than $234,000 to her campaign coffers from 2003 to 2008, with the firm serving as her second largest contributor after CitiGroup.
The New York Timesdocumented federal tax breaks that Clinton was instrumental in securing for lower Manhattan, which helped Goldman Sachs construct its nearly $2 billion New York City headquarters. Clinton was there for the November 2005 groundbreaking ceremony. “Major employers like Goldman Sachs needed to know they had a partner in government to ensure that Lower Manhattan could continue to sustain their businesses in the area,” Clinton said at the ceremony.
The Clinton Foundation utilized the Goldman Sachs headquarters in Lower Manhattan for a number of events, including a May 9, 2014 meeting with the foundation’s biggest donors attended by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.
Bill and Hillary Clinton raked in massive speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, with CNN documenting a total of at least $7.7 million in paid speeches to big financial firms, including Goldman Sachs and UBS. Hillary Clinton made $675,000 from speeches to Goldman Sachs specifically, and her husband secured more than $1,550,000 from Goldman speeches. In 2005 alone, Bill Clinton collected over $500,000 from three Goldman Sachs events.
Goldman’s chief executive, Blankfein, provided a major boost to Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential bid when he endorsed her over Barack Obama and held a fundraiser in his apartment for her 2008 campaign.
Powell paid $2 million year, helped resurrect Goldman Sachs’ image
After being publicly implicated in the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs needed to endear itself to the public. Besides 10,000 Women, another of Powell’s initiatives, 10,000 Small Businesses, also may have been launched in response to negative publicity about Goldman Sachs, the New York Times relates in an article titled, “Goldman Sachs, Buying Redemption.”
The newspaper reported:
In late 2009, the company faced mounting criticism about the billions of dollars it was paying out in bonuses in the wake of the financial crisis. The firm needed some good public relations. And fast. Goldman committed $500 million over five years to another program, 10,000 Small Businesses, which helps businesses in the United States and Britain. …
Both 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses are featured prominently on Goldman’s Web site. Goldman has poured money into producing slick videos of graduates of the programs. …
Goldman is a firm that prides itself on discretion, but it isn’t giving away its billions quietly. … “It’s run as if it’s a Broadway show,” said one Goldman employee who asked not to be named because of a firm policy against speaking to the news media.
The Times documented how Powell’s $2 million paycheck stoked some “bitterness” among Goldman employees:
This has created bitterness among some employees — bitterness stoked by the favored status seemingly granted to Dina Powell, who runs the foundation. At a firm where pay is almost always tied to what money you bring in, Ms. Powell, who is in charge of giving money away, has made roughly $2 million annually in some recent years, according to people familiar with her compensation but not authorized to speak on the record.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Powell served in the Bush administration as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). Democrats heaped praise on Powell at her confirmation hearings for the position. “You will have strong allies on both sides of the aisle,” stated Democratic Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, who notably was a regular critic of the Bush administration.
Before her State job, Powell, at the young age of 31, headed the Bush White House’s Office of Presidential Personnel, where she led efforts to staff the Bush administration’s more than 4,000 presidential appointments.
Powell is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and until her appointment to the Trump administration served on the board of the globalist Center for Global Development.
Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program: Aaron Klein Investigative Radio. Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him onFacebook.
Written with research by Joshua Klein.
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