Monday, June 25, 2018

AMERICA AT THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR II

Insurrection is Here; How Long do We have Until Civil War 2.0 Starts?




Organized lawlessness is spreading to cities across the United States but the news is almost totally ignored and blacked out by the mainstream media.
These ominous uprisings are taking various forms but the most visible and aggressive ones involve Antifa-style “occupy” socialist and anarchist street mobs dedicated to taking down ICE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal government policing agency that is part of the Department of Homeland Security. The impetus for these actions has been the anti-President Trump Fake News psy-op meme that claims minor children of illegal immigrants arrested for crashing the U.S./Mexico border are being separated from their parents, sent to “Nazi”-like “concentration camps,” and systematically mistreated.
Far left groups whose rag tag appearance belies their sophisticated networking skills, including Direct Action Network and Democratic Socialists of America, are behind the actions. The Hill analyzed the radicals’ agendas after a group of DSA activists loudly confronted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen while she was having dinner at a restaurant in Washington, D.C.
Though the protests are not led by any one group, the Democratic Socialists of America are involved in most states, alongside groups associated with prison abolition, immigration rights and anarchist collectives. The protests are calling for an abolition of ICE and an end to what they call human rights abuses by the criminal justice system, alongside other reforms.
Cities around the country including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and in Washington State and Utah have seen waves of demonstrators assemble at local ICE headquarters in attempts to shut down the agency’s operations enforcing immigration laws, including processing deportation orders against illegal criminals. The Hill took note of recent actions in New York City:
Dozens of protesters organized by the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) are camping outside of an ICE office building in Manhattan on Saturday [June 23]. They are blocking the loading dock through which ICE vans bring immigrants in and out of the building, MACC organizer Marisa Holmes said to The Hill.
One of the largest such actions is well into its second week in the leftist haven of Portland, Oregon, and it’s growing into a semi-permanent tent city of hundreds of radicals dedicated not only to frustrating ICE’s work but to totally abolishing the agency. The official Twitter account of the Portland effort is titled “Abolish I.C.E. PDX” and its banner photo reads “ICE = GESTAPO.”
The radical street mobs are being egged on by a growing number of slightly more mainstream elected Democrat politicians and progressive candidates running for office as Democrats this fall who are also demanding an end to ICE. An online story by NBC News on June 22 is headlined “’Abolish ICE!’ is the new rallying cry for progressive Democrats.”
Doing away with the immigration agency has become an issue left-wing insurgents can use to differentiate themselves from established party rivals in midterm primaries.
Fueled by outrage over the Trump administration’s immigration policies, a small but growing number of progressive Democratic candidates are signing onto a nascent effort to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
It’s a radical idea and one that was confined to the fringes just months ago in a party that has historically balanced calls for better treatment of migrants with support for stronger border security and enforcement.
But as an emboldened left challenges old assumptions about everything from health care to jobs, doing away with ICE has become the latest issue left-wing insurgents can use to differentiate themselves from more established rivals in Democratic primaries, especially as mainstream party candidates increasingly co-opt other contrast issues, like Medicare for All and a $15 minimum wage.
This week, as the crisis at the border intensified and dominated headlines, mentions of abolishing ICE shot up on Google searches and Twitter as new candidates and activists groups jumped onto the bandwagon.
And the protesters who disrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s dinner at a Mexican restaurant this week in Washington yelled “abolish ICE!” and other slogans as they drove her from the eatery.
“I think we’ve come to a moment where we need to call for the abolishment of ICE,” actress Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in next week’s Democratic primary, told an audience in Brooklyn on Tuesday, while acknowledging that governors have little influence over the federal agency.
Since the actions of street demonstrators targeting ICE are not being covered at all in the mainstream national media except for a handful of political websites, it is necessary to search local media – television and print – for any details on the actions that may have been published or broadcast on the local level. It appears that the demonstrations in Portland, Oregon are the largest and are serving as a model for other radicals as the highly-organized and -motivated leftist forces hope their anti-law enforcement campaign catches fire, trends on social media, and spreads to other cities. A VICE headline about the Portland occupation is titled “The Protesters Who Shut Down an ICE Facility Are Just Getting Started.”
The shocking and obscene radical banner above about an ongoing occupy action in New York City is featured on the Portland Abolish I.C.E. PDX Twitter page. It calls for “no prisons no ICE no borders” and adds “chinga la migra” which translates as “f—k migra.” The word migra is a derogatory Spanish language slur for U.S. immigration officers often used by illegal immigrants.
In Portland, demonstrations began on Sunday June 17. Two days later, the crowds encamped outside the ICE building on 4310 SW Macadam Avenue, which they call a “prison,” were large enough to threaten federal government employees at the end of their work day as they tried to leave for home. Armed DHS officers were called in to escort employees safely from their facility as the mobs were threatening them and surrounding their automobiles. Since then, the building has remained closed as the crowds living in the tent city that has sprung up on the streets and sidewalks around it have grown in size and become more militant. They are promising to grow their numbers and stay put until ICE is disbanded. Meanwhile, the Democrat socialist mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler,ordered Portland police to stand down and keep their distance from the mobs, even as they close down city streets..
Abolish I.C.E. PDX’s Twitter account links to a daily multi-page Resources guide that reports on the goings-on as it requests that people come on down and join the occupiers living in the tent city. It also lists items that need to be brought or donated to support the occupiers (such as specific foods, sleeping bags, tents, personal hygiene products, condoms, etc.). The effort is quite well-organized with WiFi access having been set up to provide occupiers with free Internet access so they can instantly share photos, videos, and reports of what’s happening via social media with other radicals around the country.
On Sunday June 24, the Portland tent city’s 6-page Resources guide included these two notices:
Today’s weather is sunny all day, with a high of 89°F. Wear sunscreen, drink water, take care of yourself.
Download the ACLU Mobile Justice app to record police, if they arrive. It will automatically upload the footage to the ACLU.
Meanwhile, neighborhood businesses, including restaurants, have had to hire private security because occupiers are stealing (or “borrowing”) everything that isn’t nailed down and trespassing on businesses’ parking lots, impeding commerce.
At a number of points, the mobs have literally taken over and closed down one or more streets as the police do nothing.
Occupy I.C.E. Portland shuts down the busy street in front of the ICE building as police stand down. KOIN TV Portland
This wave of insurrection aimed at ICE is one element of a broader effort to frustrate and curtail law enforcement in many other areas and to intimidate government officials. The big picture agenda is to tie the hands of police at every level. In a variety of major cities now, left wing mayors are instructing local police to ignore law breaking by illegal immigrants and people of color on the theory that to not enforce laws and hold illegals and “minority” lawbreakers accountable will reduce the number of illegals and people of color who are locked up for crimes, in numbers greatly disproportionate to – that is, much higher than – their percentage of the population (because they commit more crimes). The most recent example of this insidious policy is taking place in Austin Texas, the leftist political leaders of which have declared Austin the first “freedom city” in Texas.
The move is seen as a challenge to Texas’s state law passed last year that forbids localities from declaring themselves “sanctuary cities.” As the Los Angeles Times reported on June 19:
City Council members unanimously passed two resolutions last week that will restrict police attempts to question immigrants [sic] about their status and curtail arrests for nonviolent crimes.
One of the new city resolutions requires officers who question immigrants [sic] about status to also say that their questions about immigration need not be answered.  The other resolution directs police to avoid arrests for misdemeanors, including those for smoking marijuana, having drug paraphernalia, and taking part in petty theft – crimes that city data shows frequently end in arrests of black and Latino residents. [Emphasis added.]
While Austin is among the country’s first so-called freedom cities, it’s part of a wider movement around decriminalizing low-level offenses and decreasing arrests.  According to Local Progress, a national network of progressive city officials, some council members in El Paso and Dallas are also considering “freedom city” proposals.
In recent years, law-breaking from the streets to the political suites no longer carries consequences for the preferred classes – Democrat politicians, high-level Deep State bureaucrats, professional leftist and anarchist agitators and their fellow travelers, and now illegal alien invaders.
Peter Barry Chowka is a veteran reporter and analyst of news on national politics, media, and popular culture.  He is a frequent contributor to American Thinker.  Follow Peter on Twitter at @pchowka.


They Protest because They Believe




What is going on?  Is the left going bonkers?  Mostly peaceful protesters blocked the ICE office in Portland, Oregon.  Protesters drove Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen out of a D.C. restaurant.  Woke young women everywhere are reciting the magic words "F--- Trump."  And then the mean-girl owner of a Virginia restaurant told presidential spokeswoman Sarah Sanders she didn't want her in her Meryl Streep clique and to get out of her restaurant, because transgender policy in the military.
Let us leave aside my prediction that this is a replay of the sixties, when the left last thought the Progressive Millennium had arrived in the wake of civil rights and protesting the Vietnam War.  And then had its head handed to it.
The fact is that leftism is a militant religion that wants to make war on its Satan and all his renegade angels in the nine circles of racist, sexist, homophobic Hell.
Waging war on Satan works pretty well as long as you work on your own personal demons.  But many people prefer to work on other people's demons.  That is what the separation of church and state is all about.
Now, back in the old days, after thirty years of the Thirty Years War, the Deep State of the time decided that the combination of religion and war was getting a bit out of hand.  For one thing, it had killed off about a third of the Germans.  So they appealed to everyone in the Euro aristocratic Deep State to dial back the appeal to religion.  They called it the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
But then the Protestant Dutch decided that Catholic France was too much of a threat, so they invaded England, taught them central banking, and launched a second Hundred Years War from England to teach the French a lesson.
So the French invented the modern secular revolution, the Reign of Terror, and efficient execution to teach the Rosbifs a lesson.  And then they invented the modern Man on a White Horse, Napoleon, to rescue them from their totalitarian Hell.
Again, the aristocratic Deep State got together and decreed a Treaty of Vienna to cool all the jets in Europe.  That lasted until the rich sons of the bourgeoisie got woke to revolution and started the whole thing over again.  Only this time, in 1830, the rich kids decided to make a musical, Les Mis.  And then there was 1848, and a new generation of rich kids.  Only this time, no musical, just a Manifesto.
While all this was going on, the Brits and the Yanks were putting the finishing touches on The Great Enrichment, a deep, dark conspiracy so immense that it proposed to raise incomes by a ridiculous 3,000 percent in 200 years.  And whaddya know: they succeeded!  Check it out at my updated Great Enrichment page right here (note that the chart is a log chart, so U.S. annual per capita income goes from $1,100 in 1820 to $30,000 in 2010):
Do you see all the arcs of history in that chart?  Some of them are a bit jagged.
At the end of the second biggest jag in that chart, World War II, the global Deep State decided to deep-six the religion of aggressive nationalism as practiced by the nation-state and rule without the consent of the nationalist mob.  How is that working out, Deep-Staters?
Now, I was at the Seattle stop on the Jordan Peterson road show last week, reported here.  What Peterson is saying is that none of us just views the world as facts.  We all view the facts and interpret them through our values, our religion.
So all our lefty friends are doing is looking at, e.g., little children on the border or transgenders not in the military and deciding, through the lens of their values, that the facts require peaceful protest to bend the arc of history toward justice for these victims and refugees.  And no dinner for Sarah Sanders!
They deny that there are other lenses and that other good people can have different values and see the facts through a different lens.  If you know only one lens, then it is easy to give Clinton a pass and throw the book at Trump and throw people out of restaurants.
Not surprisingly, humans have developed maxims that address this hypocrisy.  We all know them: physician, heal thyself.  Judge not lest ye be judged.  Clean your room.  And then there is the long-form version:
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
That was 2,000 years ago.  What did they know of modern leftism?  So here is a new one for the ages:
"Activist, protest thyself."
Christopher Chantrill (@chrischantrill) runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also get his American Manifesto and his Road to the Middle Class.

Billionaire Mexicans tell their poor to JUMP U.S. OPEN BORDERS and LOOT THE STUPID GRINGO… and loot they do!

Billions of dollars are sucked out of America from Mexico’s looting!


1) Mexico ended legal immigration 100 years ago, except for Spanish blood.
2) Mexico is the 17th richest nation but pays the 220th lowest minimum wage to force their subjects to invade the USA. The expands territory for Mexicans, spreads the Spanish language, and culture and genotypes, while earning 17% of Mexico's gross GDP as Foreign Remittance Income.

HEAR THAT SUCKING SOUND?

IT’S MEXICO SUCKING THE BLOOD OF AMERICA…. HUNDREDS OF 

BILLIONS FOR WELFARE, “FREE” HEALTHCARE, HEROIN SALES, CRIME 

COST AND THEN THEY SEND TENS OF BILLIONS BACK TO NARCOMEX





“In the U.S. the remittances that come of illegal 

immigration drive down U.S. wages, particularly 

of those on the lowest-skilled parts of the ladder, 

and as money flows out from local communities, 

leaves them underinvested and run-down. 

Nobody can live two places at once. Illegal immigrants live here but their money lives in 
Mexico. And it's often untaxed.” 

MONICA SHOWALTER


Mexico: Lopez-Obrador's bizarre statement



 

Down in Mexico, the voters are getting ready to cast a ballot in the next two weeks.  In other words, the rhetoric is getting a little crazy.
Andrés Manuel López-Obrador's latest rant is about as crazy as it gets:
This is what AMLO said:
Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called for mass immigration to the United States during a speech Tuesday declaring it a "human right" for all North Americans.  "And soon, very soon – after the victory of our movement – we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life in the United States."
He then declared it as "a human right we will defend," eluniversal.com reports.  While the election is not until July 1, Obrador is by far the frontrunner.
Now, let's analyze what he said.
First, how would any of this help Mexico?  My serious Mexican friends tell me they'd rather find prosperity and jobs in their country.  Telling people to go north is another way of saying that AMLO's policies will not help Mexico keep Mexicans.  Believe it or not, most Mexicans would rather stay home, or at least that's what they tell me.
Second, is AMLO proposing to change Mexico's rigid immigration laws?  Is he going to open Mexico's southern border and allow people in?  How does AMLO define a "migrant"?
Third, does he believe that the U.S. is just going to sit back and watch Mexicans cross the border?
The bad news is that AMLO's remarks are irresponsible and not helpful.  The good news is that he may be getting desperate, sensing that Mr. Anaya is gaining on him.
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The man likely to be the next president of Mexico just called for mass migration to the US




I don't think this fellow and Donald Trump are going to get along very well, do you?
Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called for mass immigration to the United States during a speech Tuesday declaring it a “human right” for all North Americans.
“And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.”
He then declared it as “a human right we will defend,” eluniversal.com reports.
While the election is not until July 1, Obrador is by far the frontrunner. 
Obrador in April delivered speech criticizing Trump and promising that Mexico will not become a “piñata” for any foreign government, Global News reports.
The former mayor of Mexico City, Obrador holds progressive populist views. The 64-year-old ran unsuccessfully for president twice before, according to DW.
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.
To be sure, AMLO is only saying out loud what every other Mexican president believed in his heart; that America is Mexico's "social safety net" and that it's up to the US taxpayer to take care of Mexico's unemployable, destitute millions.
Unsaid by AMLO is the implication of a mass migration of Mexicans to the US. The not-so-secret dream of every Mexican government that illegals flooding into America will eventually allow for a "return" of California and much of the American southwest to Mexico. 
What makes this socialist different, however, is his novel argument that entering the US illegally is actually a "human right." That's an opinion we could have a lot of fun with. One would assume if it was a "human right" to illegally enter the US, that it would then be a human right to enter Mexico - or any other country, for that matter.
Of course, AMLO is  just pushing leftist buttons by proclaiming this brand spanking new human right. He can't be serious, can he? It hardly matters. Trump will, I'm sure, have something to say about a mass migration of Mexicans to the US and if this socialist nutjob actually believes he can encourage that kind of invasion and not suffer any consequences, he doesn't know our president.


CUT LA RAZA’S WELFARE AND FIND THE FUNDS TO BUILD THE WALL AGAINST THE LA RAZA HEROIN CARTELS! http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/monica-showalter-cut-billions-in.html


Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California  



A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.



By Steve Baldwin



American Spectator, October 19, 2017



What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. 
The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. 


MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORT TO AMERICA… POVERTY, CRIMINALS, ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS FOR WELFARE and HEROIN


CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR


“Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them.”


http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html


The following is a partial list of politicians that are La Raza members working for open borders, amnesty (illegal Mexicans are not interested in citizenship) and no wall. The ultimate goal of Mexico is to continue successfully using the United States as their welfare system, cut a deal whereby the illegals can hop the border, give birth, pillage, make their pesos and then return home.  DAVID SIROTA.com

THE INVADING CRIMINALS:

A county by county chart:       

According to the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies, the deportations occurred between October 2008 and February 2015. The three counties with the most deportations during this period were Los Angeles County, Calif.; Maricopa County, Ariz.; and Harris County, Texas.


OBAMA’S INVASION OF ILLEGALS IS WORKING!



They’re already signed up to vote LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEM!








“According to Immigration and Customers Enforcement data first obtained by the Associated Press this week, about 70 percent of the 40,000 migrant family members arrested at the border since May did not follow up their arrest with a necessary visit to an immigration office.”

AMERICA: YOU’RE BETTER OFF BEING AN ILLEGAL!!!


This annual income for an impoverished American

family is $10,000 less than the more than $34,500 

in federal funds which are spent on each 

unaccompanied minor border crosser.

study by Tom Wong of the University of 

California at San Diego discovered that more 

than 25 percent of DACA-enrolled illegal 

aliens in the program have anchor babies. 

That totals about 200,000 anchor babies who 

are the children of DACA-enrolled illegal 

aliens. This does not include the anchor 

babies of DACA-qualified illegal aliens.

JOHN BINDER



Underage Pregnant Girl, 1-Yr-Old Child Among 57 Migrants Rescued in Arizona Desert



36 minors and 21 adult migrants rescued by Border Patrol agents after lost in 108 degree heat of Arizona desert. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol)

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol
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An underage pregnant girl and a 1-year-old child were among a group of 36 minor and 21 adult migrants rescued in the 108-degree heat of the Arizona desert after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. Many in the group required medical attention for exposure to the heat and dehydration.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Ajo Station responded to a 911 call for assistance from a large group of illegal immigrants who became lost in the desert after illegally crossing the border on Friday. The call came in from the Sonora, Mexico, 911 system. The group consisted of 36 minors and 21 adults. At lease 17 of the minors were unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, according to information obtained by Breitbart Texas from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. The minors included an underage girl who is pregnant and a one-year-old toddler, officials stated.
36 minors and 21 adult migrants rescued by Border Patrol agents after lost in 108 degree heat of Arizona desert. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol)
36 minors and 21 adult migrants rescued by Border Patrol agents after becoming lost in 108 degree heat of the Arizona desert. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol)
Many people in the group required medical attention, including the pregnant teen. Agents who are trained as emergency medical technicians provided fluids and first aid for the distressed migrants. The pregnant underage girl required an IV for immediate fluids and then had to be transported to an area hospital for additional treatment, officials stated.
“Regardless of the unscrupulous and ill regard for human life attitude by smugglers, Border Patrol Agents work tirelessly to ensure not only the safety and security of our nation but also the safety of those who they come in contact with,” CBP officials said in a written statement. “Due to the extreme heat, Tucson Sector Border Patrol officials warn that summer is an especially dangerous time to be stranded in Arizona’s desert.”
Agents said the weather conditions were stiflingly hot, reaching a 108 degrees. The agents made sure everyone had immediate access to food and water before transporting them to the Ajo Station for processing.
Incidents like this illustrate the dangers children are being placed in by their parents and other adults, Border Patrol officials told Breitbart Texas.
“Arizona’s desert is a merciless environment for those unprepared for its remote, harsh terrain and unpredictable weather,” officials stated. The Border Patrol advises anyone in distress to call 9-1-1 or activate a rescue beacon as soon as possible as dehydration can be deadly if not treated.
Earlier in the week, Border Patrol agents patrolling along the border west of the Lukeville Port of Entry came upon a 6-year-old boy who had been abandoned by an uncle who smuggled him into the county and then left him sitting beside the dirt road in 103-degree heat, Breitbart Texas reported. The uncle reportedly told the boy Border Patrol agents would pick him up.
Border Patrol agents found the 6-year-old Costa Rican boy sitting along a dirt road in the middle of the desert during a summer day where temperatures rose in excess of 103 degrees, Breitbart Texas reported Wednesday evening. Border Patrol agents happened upon the child along the dirt road that follows the Mexican border west of the Lukeville Port of Entry, officials told Breitbart Texas. The boy told Border Patrol agents an uncle smuggled him across the border and then abandoned him saying Border Patrol would pick him up, officials stated.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTXGAB, and Facebook.


"Today, each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people, more than the total population of Latin America and double the population of the US."

OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a 11 TRILLION DOLLARS in home equity… and they’re still plundering us!

Barack Obama created more debt for the middle class than any president in US

history, and also had the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.

OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the wealth created went to the top 1% of the world’s wealthy. 

Millions of Americans face poverty in retirement

By Kate Randall
25 June 2018
Americans are reaching retirement age in worse financial shape than the prior generation for the first time since the 1950s. According to an analysis published Saturday by the Wall Street Journal, those who should be entering their “golden years” have seen their median incomes stagnate and even decrease, reversing the pattern that had prevailed since the post-World War II Truman administration.
Those approaching retirement have dwindling resources, in many cases because they have had to pay off their children’s college loans or take from savings to care for aging parents. Social Security and retirement fund receipts have not risen in years, and 401(k) retirement funds will bring in a median income of less than $8,000 a year for a household of two.
The reality is that instead of retiring, many older Americans will be forced to remain in their jobs after age 70 or take jobs for which they are overqualified to supplement their meager retirement income and savings. 

BLOG: LEGALS WILL FIND THEMSELVES IN COMPETITION WITH MILLIONS OF "CHEAP" LABOR ILLEGALS!

These older workers will find themselves in competition with younger workers for low-wage, temporary and part-time employment.
The desperate situation facing millions of workers contemplating retirement stands in sharp contrast to the accumulating wealth of a narrow financial elite, with the world’s 18.1 million individuals with $1 million or more in investable assets shooting up by 10.6 percent last year.
A 2018 retirement savings survey by GOBankingRates compiled data from three Google Consumer Surveys by age group—millennials, Generation Xers and baby boomers—asking the same question: “By your best estimate, how much money do you have saved for retirement?”
The poll found that 42 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 in savings and that 14 percent have absolutely nothing saved for retirement. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, adults 65 and older spend about $46,000 a year on living expenses. In other words, more than four in 10 Americans do not have saved what it would cost to live for a year if they were to retire today.
Not surprisingly, the situation facing millennials—ages 18-34—is even bleaker. Fifty-seven percent have $10,000 or less saved for retirement, and 18 percent have zero saved.
Backing up this survey, the Wall Street Journal found that more than 40 percent of households headed by people aged 55 through 70 lack sufficient resources to maintain their living standards in retirement. That is around 15 million US households.
The decline in living standards of older and retired workers follows decades of progress in the financial security of America’s aging population. In the postwar era, fixed government and company pensions gave millions of people a guaranteed income on top of Social Security payments. The majority of Americans retired in better shape than their parents.
The prospect of people living a more comfortable retirement than their parents is now evaporating across all generations. 

The Journal points to the following indices:
• Median personal income of 55- to 69-year-olds leveled off after 2000 for the first time since data become available in 1950, according to an analysis of US Census data by the Urban Institute.
• Households with 401(k) investments and at least one worker aged 55-64 had a median $135,000 in tax advantaged retirement accounts as of 2016, according to the Boston College Center for Retirement Research. This would amount to just $600 a month in annuity income for life.
• Americans aged 60-69 had about $2 trillion in debt in 2017, an 11 percent increase per capita over 2014, according to New York Federal Reserve data adjusted for inflation. Their debt for their children’s student loans in 2017 was more than six times the level in 2004.
Healthcare costs are a major contributor to increasing poverty among American seniors. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, since 1999 average worker contributions toward individual health insurance premiums have risen by a staggering 281 percent, to $1,213 annually. A survey last year by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that more than a quarter of workers cut back on retirement savings due to medical costs, and nearly half reduced other savings.
Only a quarter of large companies offer retiree medical insurance, down from 40 percent in 1999, according to Kaiser. Premiums for Medicare, the government health insurance program for the elderly, and costs that the program doesn’t cover accounted for 41 percent of the average $1,115 monthly Social Security benefit in 2013, leaving the average retiree with just $658 a month.
One of the biggest factors leading to less secure retirement is the shift from pensions to 401(k)-type plans. Following passage of Social Security legislation in 1935, pensions gained momentum after World War II. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, by the 1980s, 46 percent of private-sector workers were in pension plans, a situation that is alien to most workers today.
The Journal analysis points to congressional action in 1978 that “set the stage for a pension retreat.” Congress authorized companies to obtain tax-deferred treatment of executives’ bonuses and stock-options—essentially tax breaks—to supplement their pension payouts. This move ushered in the era of the 401(k), allowing employees to reduce their taxable income by placing pretax dollars in an account. Employers seized on this to dump pension benefits and move toward 401(k)s.
With the financial collapse of 2008, workers with 401(k)s saw the value of these accounts plunge. They were forced to withdraw funds to pay bills or cut back on their contributions. The vast majority of these retirement accounts have never rebounded.
Financial “experts” on television and in blogs admonish young adults and baby boomers to be responsible and frugal and save for their retirement. These generally wealthy financial advisers are miles away from the overwhelming majority of Americans of all ages, who struggle on a daily basis to pay for basic necessities such as food, housing, transportation and healthcare.
A separate GOBankingRates survey asked more than 1,000 adults with $0 saved, “Which is the main reason you do not have any retirement savings?” The most common response was, “I don’t make enough money,” with about 40 percent choosing this response. The second most common reason for not saving was, “I’m struggling to pay bills,” with about 25 percent of respondents choosing this answer.
These studies point to the growing 

scourge of income inequality, which is 

inevitably propelling working people 

into struggle against the financial 

oligarchy that dominates US economic 

and political life and maintains its rule 

through its control of both big-business

parties.

THE DEATH of CALIFORNIA:

SHOCKING REPORT OF POVERTY, CRIME AND LA RAZA SUPREMACY

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/california-passes-uk-to-become-worlds.html


PRINCETON REPORT:

American middle-class is addicted, poor, jobless and suicidal…. Thank the corrupt government for surrendering our borders to 40 million looting Mexicans and then handing the bills to middle America?


OPIOID MURDERS BY BIG PHARMA


“While drug distributors have paid a total of $400 million in fines over the past 10 years, their combined revenue during this same period was over $5 trillion.”


“Opioids have ravaged families and devastated communities across the country. Encouraging their open use undermines the rule of law and will do nothing to quell their continued abuse, let alone the problems underlying mass addiction.”


AMERICA: ONE PAYCHECK AND TWELVE ILLEGALS AWAY FROM HOMELESSNESS!

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/rick-moran-los-angeles-mexicos-second.html

 

A dashcam video of downtown Los Angeles on Christmas day reveals a stunning sight: hundreds of tents and lean-tos on the sidewalks that serve as shelter for the homeless. The scene is reminiscent of a third-world country. RICK MORAN / AMERICANTHINKER com

 

 

HOMELESS CRISIS IN LOS ANGELES, MEXICO’S SECOND


LARGEST CITY, WORSENS BY THE DAY…. Approximates the


great depression

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/homeless-crisis-in-mexicos-second.html

 

 

HOMELESS AMERICA’S HOUSING CRISIS as 40 million illegals have climbed U.S. open borders.

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/homeless-in-america-hundreds-of.html

 

EVERY AMERICAN (Legal) only one paycheck and two illegals away from living in their cars.

 


ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER…. Amazon’s JEFF BEZOS PLAN FOR A NEW AMERICAN SLAVERY

"Amazon is a massive wrecking machine consuming American retail. It's looting the economy and leaving behind rubble. " --- DANIEL GREENFIELD FRONTPAGE MAG

MODERN SLAVER JEFF BEZOS
AMAZON’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA CONTINUES
Amazon, the multinational online retail conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers to the United States to take coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and Google combined. JOHN BINDER

"Today, each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people, more than the total population of Latin America and double the population of the US."

“A comprehensive new report released Sunday by the New York-based labor rights watchdog China Labor Watch (CLW) has shed new light on the barbaric and illegal practices that Amazon employs to boost its profits by driving down production costs on the backs of factory workers at the company’s electronics assembly plants in China.”

JEFF BEZOS of AMAZON DELCARES THAT AMERICAN-BORN SLAVES ARE NOT CHEAP ENOUGH. CHINA MUST DELIVER THE REAL SLAVE LABOR!


“A comprehensive new report released Sunday by the New York-based labor rights watchdog China Labor Watch (CLW) has shed new light on the barbaric and illegal practices that Amazon employs to boost its profits by driving down production costs on the backs of factory workers at the company’s electronics assembly plants in China.”

Amazon, the multinational online retail 

conglomerate, is importing more foreign 

workers to the United States to take coveted 

tech industry jobs than Facebook and Google 

combined. JOHN BINDER

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO AMERICA'S HOUSING CRISIS IF 40

 

MILLION LOOTING MEXICANS WERE SHIPPED BACK OVER THE

 

BORDER THEY INVADED?




US House approves massive reductions in food stamp benefits

By Dan Conway
25 June 2018
The House of Representatives passed a new version of the Farm Bill Thursday that drastically intensifies the bipartisan attack against the working poor. The bill passed by 213-211, along party lines.
The Farm Bill’s main aim is to slash food assistance to the more than 42 million people receiving aid under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.
While the Farm Bill, typically renewed every five years, provides crop subsidies and funding for food safety and other measures, more than three-quarters of the bill’s goes to the SNAP program.
The House bill restricts eligibility for food stamps and institutes work requirements for those receiving benefits. The current Farm Bill, set to expire in September, also includes work requirements for some SNAP recipients. However, under the new version requirements would be extended to households with dependent children as well.
The age of exemption for work requirements would be raised from 50 to 60 years old, while the number of work hours required per week would be raised from 20 to 25 by 2026. Job training programs could be used as a substitute for work requirements.
The House bill also makes it more difficult for states to obtain waivers from work-related requirements in areas with high unemployment.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that more than 400,000 would immediately lose SNAP benefits under the bill’s passage. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, up to 1 million households are projected to lose access to the SNAP program altogether over the lifetime of the bill. Overall, this would eliminate food assistance for more than 2 million people, according to CBPP.
The bill includes a sweeping proposal to impose severe penalties on those who fail to prove within a limited timeframe that they have worked or participated in work programs for enough hours each month, or that they qualify for an exemption from the bill’s work requirements. Food assistance will be taken away for a full year the first time this occurs and for three years the second time.

BLOG: RYAN IS THE MAN WORKING FOR BILLIONAIRES, LIKE THE KOCH BROTHERS, FOR AMNESTY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY DEPRESSED WAGES!
Exhibiting the same brazen cynicism with which he recently presented a House Bill pumping billions into the US border patrol’s anti-immigration dragnet, House Speaker Paul Ryan proclaimed that the Farm Bill would actually be a boon to the working poor. “This bill includes critical reforms to nutrition benefits that close the skill gap, better equip our workforce, and encourage people to move from welfare to work, so more Americans have the opportunity to tap into the economic prosperity we’re seeing right now,” Ryan said.
Under the new bill, if a recipient fails to work a minimum number of hours per week or attend job training programs, they will have their benefits eliminated for a full year. If they fail to meet work and training requirements a second time, assistance will be cut off for a full three years.
In reality, the bill is designed not to gainfully employ food stamp recipients—an impossibility in a society with historically high levels of wealth inequality and low wages—but to drive millions off food stamp assistance altogether in order to continuously defund and eventually eliminate the program.
The House vote came in the midst of a major initiative currently underway in Washington to restructure the federal government to put an end to what remains of the social safety net relied upon by millions of Americans who are struggling to meeting nutritional, health care, housing and other basic needs.
The SNAP program cost the federal government $70.9 billion in fiscal year 2016 and supplied an average of $125.51 per month in food assistance to each recipient. By contrast, the Department of Defense received $521.7 billion in funding during that same period. In other words, nearly 7.5 times the amount spent on feeding the population was spent on building new bombs, fighter jets and other killing apparatuses for America’s criminal wars abroad.
Under Trump, the Defense Department’s budget has increased to $681.1 billion while cuts have already been made to the SNAP program totaling $191 billion over the next 10 years. President Trump couldn’t contain his excitement over the new SNAP bill in a tweet sent out Thursday: “Farm Bill just passed in the House. So happy to see work requirements included.”
As the bill’s authors are well aware, 
millions receiving assistance receive it 
precisely because they face the type of 
precarious unemployment that has 
become a characteristic feature of the 
United States’ supposed “economic 
recovery.” Many are compelled to work
in part-time, temporary jobs in the so-
called gig economy where hours 
scheduled often are less than 20 hours 
per week.
Moreover, the new bill makes no allowance for those who are unable to work due to disability or chronic health conditions. Two-thirds of all recipients are elderly, disabled or children under the age of 18. Many recipients receive food stamp benefits while also providing care for a family member or loved one who is unable to work.
While House Democrats voted against the Farm Bill, there has been no outcry from their ranks over the new proposed work requirements for SNAP. The latest cuts only intensify a now decades-long bipartisan attack on the SNAP program.
The “work for food” program requirement began under Democrat President Bill Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform initiative. The Obama administration enacted massive cuts to the SNAP program. In 2014, Barack Obama signed a bill including $8.6 billion in cuts to SNAP and which eliminated benefits for hundreds of thousands of the working poor.
The Senate will likely begin voting on its version of the Farm Bill as soon as next week with a final congressional bill likely to appear on President Trump’s desk for passage before September.


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