WHO IS KIDDED? BLOOMBERG IS THE ESSENCE OF THE WALL STREET-OWNED DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR OPEN BORDERS!
It's hard to imagine ordinary Americans feeling the love for a charmless, tone-deaf, hypocritical billionaire who wants to manage their lives, disarm them, and throw them out of work. In other words, Democrats are contemplating a repeat of 2016: jettisoning the unelectable Bernie in favor of a tin-eared, unpleasant, corrupt, filthy-rich candidate. ANDREA WIDBURG
For Democrats worried about Bernie, Bloomberg's looking good
Democrats are running out of options. So far, no candidate of the week has promised to be capable of beating President Trump and his supercharged economy or even of staying in the race. Worse, Bernie, the candidate who almost certainly cannot win, is peaking at the perfect time, right before the primaries. You can see the fear in a John Ellis opinion piece at the Washington Post:
At the moment, two realities drive the Democratic presidential campaign.Reality No. 1: Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is leading in most polls in both Iowa and New Hampshire. He's also the best organized in both states. And he's got a hot hand; what used to be called "momentum."Reality No. 2: Democratic primary voters are, as Gallup put it, "thinking strategically about [their] 2020 nominee." Here's Gallup's write-up from two months ago: "Six in 10 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents would prefer to see the party nominate the candidate with the best chance of beating President Donald Trump, even if that person does not share their views on key issues. By contrast, 36% say they would rather have the reverse: a candidate aligned with them on almost all the issues they care about, even if that person is not the most electable."
So who is electable? John Ellis thinks he has the answer:
Which helps explain why Democrats across the country will soon find themselves with a newfound appreciation for the virtues of one Mike Bloomberg, former Republican mayor of New York and billionaire founder of a financial data services empire.What people don't yet seem to have grasped is this: Bloomberg is going to spend an astronomical amount of money on this race. Probably at least $1 billion. Maybe twice that. Possibly even more. Numbers like that upend every model of every presidential race in history. He can buy every news adjacency on cable and local television stations from now until November and not make a dent in his net worth. U.S. politics has never seen such financial throw weight in a presidential campaign.
With that kind of money, says Ellis, Bloomberg won't worry about early primaries. When others run out of money, he'll be the last man standing on Super Tuesday — and he's already built an extraordinary infrastructure across America.
What Ellis misses, but Don Surber recognizes, is that Bloomberg is an awful candidate:
Mini Mike looks up at President Donald John Trump and thinks I am richer and smarter than him; I should be president.And then the smarter, richer Mini Mike copies President Trump's brilliant plan that got him elected in 2016. Or tries to. Clones pale compared to the original.Part of Donald Trump's plan was to use the media to bombard the electorate with his image and his policies.Mini Mike said me too, and is buying ads to do this.The trouble with campaign ads is they are commercials, which people dismiss as propaganda. Donald Trump gains attention by earning media.
To support his point, Surber points to the execrable tweets "Team Bloomberg" is sending out in an effort to copy Trump's genuine, edgy, and on-point tweets:
After finishing his final term as mayor, Mike went on to portray Dr. Jürgen Shenk in 168 episodes of the German soap opera in "Arzt Einrichtung Stadt." #BloombergFacts #DemDebate
Mike is a fervent opponent of the bad NRA (National Rifle Association), but a proud supporter of the other NRA (National Rigatoni Alliance). #BloombergFacts #DemDebate
(You can see more awful Bloomberg tweets at Surber's site.)
Donald Trump, of course, gets it:
Ellis and others also forget that Bloomberg is divorced from the real world. While Trump is a real guy who can talk to ordinary people on a construction site, Bloomberg lives a bizarre life of lavish mansions around the world, private planes, and uncountable cars. Worse, this carbon-spewing man promises to shut down America's coal plants, throwing thousands out of work:
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is plunging $500 million into an effort to close all of the nation's remaining coal plants by 2030 and put the United States on track toward a 100% clean energy economy.[snip]Bloomberg said he'd work with states and utilities to shutter "every last U.S. coal-fired power plant by 2030." It's a goal he says is achievable -- "we're already more than halfway there," he said, touting the 289 coal-fired power plants shut down since 2011 through a partnership between Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Sierra Club.
It's hard to imagine ordinary Americans feeling the love for a charmless, tone-deaf, hypocritical billionaire who wants to manage their lives, disarm them, and throw them out of work. In other words, Democrats are contemplating a repeat of 2016: jettisoning the unelectable Bernie in favor of a tin-eared, unpleasant, corrupt, filthy-rich candidate.
Mike
Bloomberg: Employers Should Hire ‘the Best’ Foreigners Instead of Americans
Pay Raises and Training
Expand in Donald Trump's Tight Labor Market
Rasmussen Shows 2:1
Opposition to Cheap Labor Legal Immigration
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BLOOMBERG’S
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REST OF THEIR FAMILY AND THEN CUT TAXES FOR THE RICH.
Mike
Bloomberg: Don’t Believe Trump – Our Economy Is Broken
Bloomberg and his fellow oligarchs lay down the law: Not a penny more
in taxes
Trump: Open Borders Threatens the
Wage Gains of America’s Lowest-Income Workers
President Donald
Trump touted the wage gains for Americans in the lowest income brackets, adding
that that the open borders policies of the Democratic Party threaten those
gains.
Mike
Bloomberg: Employers Should Hire ‘the Best’ Foreigners Instead of Americans
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Investor,
CEO, and presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg says he would allow investors
and employers to hire the “the best” workers from around the world instead of
Americans.
“This country needs more immigrants
and we should be out looking for immigrants,” Bloomberg told the San Diego Union-Tribune on
January 5.:
For those who need an oboe player for a symphony, we want the
best one. We need a striker for a soccer team, we want to get the best one. We
want a farmworker, we want to get the best one. A computer programmer, we want
to get the best one. So we should be out looking for more immigrants.
The reporter did not ask Bloomberg to define “best.” But for
cost-conscious shareholders and executives, “best” is a synonym for ‘cheaper
than Americans.’
“If business were able to hire without restrictions from
anywhere in the world, pretty much every [American’s] occupation would be
foreignized,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration
Studies. He continued:
Americans would have to accept dramatically lower earnings,
whether they object or not. Not just landscapers and tomato pickers, [because]
Indians and Chinese by the millions can do nursing and accounting. There would
not be any job that would not see its earnings fall to the global average.
Bloomberg — who has an estimated wealth of $55 billion — is
trying to exempt investors and shareholders from the nation’s immigration
rules, said Krikorian. For Bloomberg, “immigration laws are not one of those
things that should be allowed to interfere in [the growth of] shareholders’
value,” he said.
“It is obviously unprecedented — but this is not obviously
different from [President] George [W.] Bush’s ideal immigration plan … [and] he
is expressing a pretty standard Republican plutocrat approach to
immigration,” he added.
Out of common sense and fairness, our laws should allow willing
workers to enter our country and fill jobs that Americans have are not filling.
(Applause.) We must make our immigration laws more rational, and more humane.
And I believe we can do so without jeopardizing the livelihoods of American
citizens.
Our reforms should be guided by a few basic principles. First,
America must control its borders …
Second, new immigration laws should serve the economic needs of
our country. If an American employer is offering a job that American citizens
are not willing to take, we ought to welcome into our country a person who will
fill that job.
In December 2018, departing House
Speaker Paul Ryan echoed Bush’s
“any willing worker” goal, saying:
[Immigration reform needs] border security and interior
enforcement for starters, but also a modernization of our visa system so that
it makes sense for our economy and for our people so that anyone who wants to
play by the rules, work hard and be part of American fabric can contribute.
This “any willing worker” idea
encouraged Ryan to work closely — but behind the scenes — with pro-amnesty, pro-migration
groups.
Many GOP legislators echo this “any willing worker” claim when
they declare a “‘legal good, illegal bad,’ approach to migration,” said
Krikorian. That mantra is “piously claiming that illegal immigration is bad,
but is making [pro-American protections] moot by letting huge numbers of people
in legally.”
In contrast, President Donald Trump won his 2016 election on a
promise to shrink immigration. Since then, he has forced down illegal migration
via Mexico and has largely blocked numerous efforts by business to expand the
huge inflow of legal immigrants and visa workers. Trump’s curbs on the supply
of foreign labor have helped to force up wages for blue-collar Americans —
despite determined efforts by business and investment groups to prevent wage
increases.
Almost 50% of U.S. employees got higher wages in 2019, up from almost 40%
in 2018.
That's useful progress - but wage growth will likely rise faster if Congress stopped inflating the labor supply for the benefit of business. http://bit.ly/2SyaLg7
That's useful progress - but wage growth will likely rise faster if Congress stopped inflating the labor supply for the benefit of business. http://bit.ly/2SyaLg7
Pay Raises and Training
Expand in Donald Trump's Tight Labor Market
Bloomberg’s “best worker” pitch is not a problem for the
Democrats’ 2020 base of “woke” progressives, said Krikorian:
He is running in the Democratic primary and there is an overlap
between the plutocrat assault on national borders and the leftist assault on
national borders. They come at the issue from the different starting points but
they have the same enemy, which is Americans’ sovereignty. It is not obvious
that his [pro-employer] immigration stance is going to be a turn-off to
Democratic primary votes.. How different are the specifics of his immigration
proposal from [Joe] Biden, Sen. [Bernie] Sanders or [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren?
Biden, Sanders, and Warren endorse
wide-open borders as a form of charity towards unlucky foreigners fleeing from
home country persecution. For example, a January 5 tweet from Biden said:
Our Statue of Liberty invites in the tired, the poor, the
huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Donald Trump has slammed the door in
the face of families fleeing persecution and violence.
Bloomberg’s pro-employer view is coherent and likely sincere,
said Krikorian.
Bloomberg aspires to a single global labor market, and
everything else follows from that. A concern about improving the lot of
less-skilled American workers is by definition contrary to that view because
there is no such thing as an American labor market. There is only a global
labor market. Domestic employers are not thinking about the consequences for
people from Pennsylvania when they hire people from Tennessee, and Bloomberg
wants that same approach across the entire world.
There is even an altruistic way of viewing that — which I
assume guys like this have — that it improves the lot of Hondurans [and other
migrants] who are coming here.
The issue is not that Bloomberg and his guys are factually
incorrect. It is that their values are contrary to the values that most
Americans hold – which is that we have a greater loyalty and obligation to our
fellow countrymen than to foreigners. Guys like Bloomberg reject that
[obligation] in principle.
A Rasmussen survey shows likely voters by 2:1 want Congress to make
companies hire & train US grads & workers instead of importing more
foreign workers.
The survey also shows this $/class-based view co-exists w/ much sympathy for illegal migrants. #S386http://bit.ly/2ZA6WIE
The survey also shows this $/class-based view co-exists w/ much sympathy for illegal migrants. #S386http://bit.ly/2ZA6WIE
Rasmussen Shows 2:1
Opposition to Cheap Labor Legal Immigration
But Bloomberg also wraps his economic demand for more immigrants
in a progressive-style cultural message.
Bloomberg told the San Diego Union-Tribune that
amnesty “is a no-brainer — you give [a] pathway to citizenship to 11 million
people.”
In December, Bloomberg said additional immigrants
could “improve our culture, our cuisine, our religion, our dialogue, and
certainly improve our economy” — but without being asked by reporters which
American cultures, cuisines, religions, and dialogues do not meet his
standards.
Bloomberg also echoes the Democrats’ claim that the U.S is a
diverse “nation of immigrants,” instead of a country built by similar-minded
settlers from Europe. “This country was built by immigrants,” Bloomberg said,
without noting the role played by Americans and their children.
Bloomberg has long supported greater
immigration. In 2013, he joined with the owner of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, to
create the Project for a New American Economy. The group of investors and
politicians then pushed for
passage of the failed Gang of Eight amnesty in 2013.
The Congressional Budget Office
(CBO) predicted the planned “Gang of Eight” amnesty would shift more of the
nation’s new wealth from workers to investors.
The flood of roughly 30 million
immigrants in ten years would cause Americans’ wages to shrink, the report
said. “Because the bill would increase the rate of growth of the labor force,
average wages would be held down in the first decade after enactment,” the CBO
report said.
But all that cheap labor would boost the profits and the stock
market, the report said. “The rate of return on capital would be higher [than
on labor] under the legislation than under current law throughout the next two
decades,” says the report, titled “The Economic Impact of S. 744.”
For Bloomberg, Krikorian said, U.S.
“employers have no greater obligation to fellow Americans than to Hondurans [or
other foreign workers] … what Bloomberg is saying is that immigration laws
should not interfere with the pursuit of shareholder value [because] employers
can hire anyone from anywhere at any wage, period.”
Estb. media and esp. WashPo journos cannot, or dare not, follow the $$$ in
immigration politics.
For example, the WashPo article on @SenMikeLee's @S368 bill to expand the outsourcing of U.S. grads' jobs.
Maybe b/c the money ends up in Jeff Bezos' pocket. http://bit.ly/2tChhYt
For example, the WashPo article on @SenMikeLee's @S368 bill to expand the outsourcing of U.S. grads' jobs.
Maybe b/c the money ends up in Jeff Bezos' pocket. http://bit.ly/2tChhYt
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REST OF THEIR FAMILY AND THEN CUT TAXES FOR THE RICH.
Mike
Bloomberg: Don’t Believe Trump – Our Economy Is Broken
By
Michael R. Bloomberg
Photograph by Melissa Sue
Gerrits/Getty Images
President Donald Trump says our economy is “the
best it has ever been,” and he is planning to ride that false claim to a second
term.
I won’t let him get away with it. I have the
track record—in business and government—to show America what real economic
leadership looks like.
Sure, the stock market is at an all-time high.
But almost half the country doesn’t own any stocks. And yes, the unemployment
rate is low. But nearly half of all workers are in jobs that earn $18,000 at
the median. In fact, the share of national income going to workers—rather than
investors—is near an all-time low.
Too much wealth is in too few hands. And while
a handful of big cities are doing well, a lot of the country is struggling; our
middle class is being hollowed out; and working Americans are being squeezed by
higher prices on everything from health care to housing.
As a candidate, Trump promised to take on these
issues. As president, he has been in the pockets of the special interests that
dominate Washington.
Remember when candidate Trump promised to
deliver for regular people—the forgotten Americans?
Well, President Trump pushed through the
biggest tax cut for the wealthy in history, and nearly all the money goes to
people like me, who don’t need it.
Remember when candidate Trump stood in front of
the GM factory in Lordstown, Ohio and promised to keep it open?
In 2018, that plant closed down.
Remember when candidate Trump promised to
“protect the farmers”?
Last year, farmers lost billions of dollars,
and many lost their farms, as a direct result of his tariffs and trade wars.
Again and again, candidate Trump made economic
promises to working people that he had no intention of keeping. And sure
enough, he has broken all of them.
In fairness, we faced serious economic problems
before President Trump took office. That’s one of the reasons he won. He
promised to fix them.
Instead, he has made them worse.
We need to elect a leader who can actually
deliver real change—not just talk about it—and create more good jobs, with good
salaries, all across America.
And I know I can do that, because I’ve done it.
Coming from a middle-class home, where my
father never made more than $6,000 in a year, I was lucky to get a good
education and work my way up from an entry-level job. When I got laid off, I
started a company from scratch that now employs 20,000 people. We pay good
salaries and provide the best health benefits money can buy, including six
months of parental leave—at full pay.
As mayor of New York, I helped create nearly
500,000 new jobs, most of them outside of Manhattan.
When I was first elected shortly after the
terrorist attacks of 9/11, the question everyone asked us was: Can you rebuild
Lower Manhattan?
Our answer was: Yes, but that’s not enough.
We set out to rebuild every area of the city,
starting with those outside Manhattan that had faced decades of industrial
abandonment and decay. We spread good jobs with good salaries to those
communities. I know we can bring about that kind of progress all across
America.
This week on the South Side of Chicago, I
announced some of the core elements of the strategy I’ll take to create
millions of good jobs where they are needed most, by investing in areas of the
country that have been hurt by globalization and automation, and have been
ignored by the federal government for too long.
To start, I will dramatically increase spending
on research and development, by over $100 billion. Rather than sending that
money to only a few places that already have massive research budgets, like
Harvard and Stanford, we’ll spread it to places like Akron, Ohio, where I was
today.
The way we’ll do it is by funding new “job
factories” in Akron and around the country, with the goal of bringing
opportunity to places that don’t have enough of it. We call them job factories
because that’s what they’ll produce: jobs. They’ll do it by generating
scientific breakthroughs in a wide variety of areas, which will generate
millions of good jobs in everything from green energy and sustainable
agriculture to advanced manufacturing and public health.
We’ll also make sure Americans have the skills
they need to do the work—supporting community colleges, apprenticeships, and
job-training programs all across our country.
In addition to preparing people for good jobs,
we will modernize the social contract between employee and employer—so laborers
are protected, no matter where they work.
We will do that by working to guarantee paid
sick leave and paid family leave for all workers—just as we do at my company.
We will support the right of all workers to organize and bargain
collectively—including gig, contract, and franchise employees, many of whom
have to work two or three jobs to put food on the table.
I know a lot of candidates say they’re going to
create good jobs. But for me, creating good jobs is not something I just talk
about. It’s what I’ve spent my whole career doing.
That’s a key part of the message we need to
beat Trump. I’m ready to take it directly to him.
Michael
R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is the founder of Bloomberg
LP.
Bloomberg and his fellow oligarchs lay down the law: Not a penny more
in taxes
Many
of the billionaires who own America and consider it their fiefdom have rallied
behind one of their own, Michael Bloomberg, who last week announced a potential
run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Bloomberg,
the three-time former mayor of New York and founder of Bloomberg News, is
himself worth an estimated $53 billion, placing him ninth on the list of
wealthiest Americans. He let it be known that he was taking steps to enter the
race pending a final decision to run, reversing his announcement last March
that he would not run because he believed former Vice President Joe Biden had a
lock on the nomination.
The
immediate developments that triggered his announcement were the rise in the
polls of Elizabeth Warren at the expense of Biden, the right-winger favored by
the Democratic Party establishment and Wall Street among the current field of
candidates. Polls show Warren leading in the first two primary states, Iowa and
New Hampshire, while Biden has dropped into fourth place behind Buttigieg and
Sanders.
The second event was Warren’s
announcement November 1 of a six percent tax on wealth holdings above $1
billion as part of her “Medicare for All” plan. That tax is on top of a
previous proposal to tax holdings above $50 million at two percent.
Neither of these taxes would be passed
by either of the two big business parties, and Warren knows it. The same is
true for Bernie Sanders and his similar plan to finance “Medicare for All” in
part by increasing taxes on the rich. The two candidates are engaging in
populist demagogy in order to divert growing working-class resistance and
anti-capitalist sentiment behind the Democratic Party, where it can be
dissipated and suppressed.
But the modern-day lords and ladies who
inhabit the world of the super-rich are indignant over any possibility of
having to give up a part of their fortune to pay for things such as health
care, education, housing and a livable environment. And they are petrified at
the prospect of popular anger against the staggering levels of social
inequality erupting into revolutionary upheavals.
They do not fear Warren, a
self-described “capitalist to my bones,” or Sanders, a long-standing Democratic
Party operative, so much as the possibility of reform proposals encouraging
social opposition. They want to block their candidacies so as to exclude the
issue of social inequality from the 2020 election.
The levels of wealth wasted on this
parasitic elite are almost beyond comprehension. Here is how economist Branko
Milanovic put it in his 2016 book Global Inequality:
It is very difficult to comprehend what
a number such as one billion really means. A billion dollars is so far outside
the usual experience of practically everybody on earth that the very quantity
it implies is not easily understood—other than that it is a very large amount
indeed... Suppose now that you inherited either $1 million or $1 billion, and
that you spent $1,000 every day. It would take you less than three years to run
through your inheritance in the first case, and more than 2,700 years (that is,
the time that separates us from Homer’s Iliad) to blow your inheritance in the
second case.
And yet, there are 607 people in the United
States with a net worth of over a billion
dollars.
Bloomberg, a liberal on
so-called social issues such as abortion, gun control and the environment, is a
vicious enemy of the working class. As New York mayor from 2002 to 2014, he attacked
city workers, laid off thousands of teachers, cut social programs and presided
over the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to Wall Street in
the history of the city. He expanded the hated “stop and frisk” policy that
encouraged police to brutalize working class youth.
Last January he
denounced Warren’s proposal to tax wealth above $50 million as “probably
unconstitutional.” Echoing Trump’s anti-socialist propaganda, he warned that
seriously pursuing the plan could “wreck the country’s prosperity” and pointed
to Venezuela as an example of the supposed failure of “socialism.”
Over the past several
months, at least 16 billionaires have gone on record opposing proposals for a
wealth tax. This chorus has grown more shrill since the release of Warren’s
Medicare plan.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie
Dimon, declaring that “freedom and free enterprise are interchangeable,”
complained on CNBC last week that Warren “vilifies successful people.”
Microsoft founder Bill
Gates, whose personal fortune of $108 billion places him second in the US
behind Jeff Bezos (whose Washington Post has run a string of
editorials denouncing wealth taxes, the Green New Deal and other proposed
reforms), said last week, “I do think if you tax too much you do risk the
capital formation, innovation, the US as the desirable place to do innovative
companies.”
Billionaire Mark Cuban
tweeted that Warren was “selling shiny objects to divert attention from
reality” and accused her of “misleading” voters on the cost of her program.
Hedge fund owner Leon
Cooperman, worth a “mere” $3.2 billion, appeared on CNBC and said, “I don’t
need Elizabeth Warren or the government giving away my money. [Warren] and
Bernie Sanders are presenting a lot of ideas to the public that are morally and
socially bankrupt.” A few days later he announced his support for Bloomberg’s
potential candidacy.
The New York
Times, the voice of the Democratic Party establishment, has run a number
of op-ed pieces denouncing Warren’s wealth tax proposal, including one by Wall
Street financier Steven Rattner, who headed up Obama’s 2009 bailout of GM and
Chrysler until he was forced off of the Auto Task Force because of corruption
charges laid by the Securities and Exchange Commission. While he was on the
panel, he imposed a 50 percent across-the-board cut on the pay of newly hired
GM and Chrysler workers.
But for fawning toward
the oligarchs, viciousness toward the working class and yearning for an
authoritarian savior from social unrest, it is hard to beat this week’s column
by the Times ’ Thomas Friedman, headlined “Why I Like Mike.”
Calling for
“celebrating and growing entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship,” he writes: “I
want a Democratic candidate who is ready to promote all these goals, not one
who tries to rile up the base by demonizing our most successful entrepreneurs…
Increasingly the Democratic left sound hostile to that whole constituency of
job-creators. They sound like an anti-business party… The Democrats also need a
candidate who can project strength. When people are stressed and frightened,
they want a strong leader.”
This is under
conditions of record stock prices on Wall Street and ever rising levels of
social inequality. A recent study by economist Gabriel Zucman showed that the
richest 400 Americans now own more of the country’s wealth than the 150 million
adults in the bottom 60 percent of the wealth distribution. The oligarchs’
share has tripled since the 1980s.
In their new
book, The Triumph of Injustice, Zucman and Saez show that in
2018, for the first time in US history, the wealthiest households paid a lower
tax rate—in federal, state and local taxes—than every other income group. Since
1980, the overall tax rate on the wealthy in America has been cut in half,
dropping from 47 percent to 23 percent today.
The United States is
not a democracy in any true sense. It is an oligarchic society, economically
and politically dominated by a slim but fabulously wealthy elite.
The ferocious response
of the oligarchs to the half-hearted proposals of Sanders and Warren to cut
into their fortunes underscores the bankruptcy of their talk of enacting
serious reforms within the framework of capitalism. The same goes for the
pseudo-left organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America and
Socialist Alternative that have jumped with both feet onto the Sanders
bandwagon, and will no doubt shift over to Warren should she win the
nomination.
There is no way to
address the urgent problems of health care, education, housing, the environment
and war without directly attacking the stranglehold over society exercised by
the corporate-financial aristocracy. Their wealth must be expropriated and put
toward the satisfaction of the social needs of the working class, the vast
majority of the population.
The corporations and
banks must be taken out of private hands and turned into publicly owned
utilities under the democratic control of the working class, so that the
production and distribution of goods can be rationally and humanely organized
to meet human needs, not private profit.
This is a revolutionary
task. The key to its achievement lies in the growing upsurge of class struggle
in the US and internationally. This movement will expand, but it needs a
conscious political leadership.
Trump: Open Borders Threatens the
Wage Gains of America’s Lowest-Income Workers
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President Donald
Trump touted the wage gains for Americans in the lowest income brackets, adding
that that the open borders policies of the Democratic Party threaten those
gains.
“Since
the election, real wages have gone up 3.2 percent for the median American
worker,” Trump said in a speech Tuesday to the Economic Club of New York. “But
for the bottom income group, real wages are soaring. A number that has never
happened before. Nine percent.”
Wage
gains for those near the bottom of America’s economic ladder have been
particularly strong this year. The lowest-paid Americans saw weekly earnings
rise by more than 5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier,
according to a quarterly survey of households produced by the Labor
Department. Workers with less than a high-school diploma saw their wages
grow nearly 6 percent.
“That may
mean you make a couple of bucks less in your companies,” Trump said. “And you
know what? That’s okay. This is a great thing for our country. When you talk
about equality. This is a great thing for our country.”
The
so-called “poverty gap”–which measures the heightened poverty rate among blacks
and Hispanics compared to poverty overall–shrank to its lowest level on record
last year. The racial gap in unemployment has also contracted as unemployment rates hit
record lows this year. Black unemployment hit its lowest level on record in
November.
Trump
gave credit to the tight labor market for the improvement in wages and
employment. But opening the countries borders to new workers from abroad would
threaten those gains, he added.
“Our
tight labor market is helping them the most,” Trump said. “Yet the Democrats in
Washington want to erase these gains through an extreme policy of open borders,
flooding the labor market and driving down incomes for the poorest Americans.
And driving crime through the roof.”
Economic
studies have shown that when the supply of workers goes up, the price that
companies have to pay to hire workers goes down.
“Wage
trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the
number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of
that group by at least 3 percent,” Harvard economist George Borjas has written. “But because a disproportionate
percentage of immigrants have few skills, it is low-skilled American workers,
including many blacks and Hispanics, who have suffered most from this wage
dip.”
Tom
Steyer: Americans Must Provide Cheap Housing to Illegal Immigrants
California Has Highest Poverty Rate, with Housing Costs
NYT Boosts Investors' Campaign for More Immigrant Workers,
Consumers
Another line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as
impoverished Americans wait
Los Angeles County Pays Over a Billion in Welfare to
Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
THERE IS A REASON WHY ALL
BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS AND WANT WIDER OPEN BORDERS AMNESTY AND NO E-VERIY!
The state of California is home to more
illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal
aliens lives in California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4
million illegal immigrants reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows
illegal immigrant parents with children born in the United States to seek
welfare and food stamp benefits.
Tom
Steyer: Americans Must Provide Cheap Housing to Illegal Immigrants
13 Jan 20202,348
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Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor
and Democrat 2020 candidate, wants Americans to provide cheap housing to
illegal immigrants.
“A
Steyer Administration will … ensure that all undocumented communities have
access to affordable and safe housing,” Steyer said in his immigration proposal.
Steyer’s
offer of housing is combined with promises to provide illegals with free
healthcare, plus workplace training and cultural celebrations:
A
Steyer administration … [will] provide a safe platform for immigrants to share
their culture and celebrate their heritage, foster opportunities for public
service that support new Americans, and coordinate with Federal agencies and the
private sector in order to build workforce training and fellowship
opportunities for immigrants with professional qualifications from their home
nation to help them leverage their specialized skills in the American
marketplace.
Steyer
made his promise of cheap housing to illegals even though housing costs for
many Americans forces them to rent or buy cheaper housing far from work and
friends, and are being forced to give up hopes for larger families.
But
those housing costs are high partly because the federal government welcomes one
million new legal immigrants into the nation’s cities, neighborhoods, and
schools. That is a huge inflow — four million young Americans turn 18 each
year.
But
Steyer is a billionaire investor, so illegal migrants will not be moving into
his very expensive and well policed neighborhood. The New Yorker magazine
described his house in 2013:
President
[barack Obama] flew to San Francisco on April 3rd for a series of fund-raisers.
He stopped in first at a cocktail reception hosted by Tom Steyer, a
fifty-six-year-old billionaire, former hedge-fund manager, and major donor to
the Democratic Party. Steyer lives in the city’s Sea Cliff neighborhood, in a
house overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
Any
inflow of migrants will be a boon to Steyer’s fellow investors who gain from
the extra workers, consumers, and renters. For example, one gauge of real
estate investments shows a 50 percent
gain since 2015, even as Americans’ wages and salaries rose by
only about 15 percent.
Meanwhile,
Steyer’s home state is experiencing record housing prices and record
homelessness as today’s illegals enjoy the state government’s offer of
sanctuary, jobs, and welfare. The federal housing agency reported January
7 the state has about 108,000
homeless:
This
year’s report shows that there was a small increase in the one-night estimates
of people experiencing homelessness across the nation between 2018 and 2019
(three percent), which reflects a 16 percent increase in California, and
offsets a marked decrease across many other states.
…
In
terms of absolute numbers, California has more than half of all unsheltered
homeless people in the country (53 percent or 108,432), with nearly nine times
as many unsheltered homeless as the state with the next highest number, Florida
(six percent or 12,476), despite California’s population being only twice that
of Florida.
In
September Breitbart News reported the
Census Bureau showed how the state’s housing costs are pushing Americans into
poverty:
The
September 10 study shows 18.2 percent of California’s population is poor, far
above the 13 percent poverty rate in Arkansas, 16 percent in Mississippi, and
the 14.6 percent in West Virginia.
…
By
2017, for example, the government’s pro-migration policies had added 11 million
people to the state’s native population of 29 million people. The huge inflow
means that one-in-four residents are immigrants.
Numerous
studies have shown many millions of foreigners want to migrate into Americans’
society. For example, another five million Central American residents
want to migrate into the United States, according to a Gallup survey published
right after the 2018 midterm elections.
Gallup
also noted “three percent of the world’s adults — or nearly 160 million people
— say they would like to move to the U.S.”
California's poverty rate is worse than Alabama &
Mississippi, says Census Bureau. The major cause of this huge change is
immigration policy which spikes housing costs & shrinks wages -- and
delivers huge gains for investors in real-estate & corp. shares. http://bit.ly/2mgvBlW
California Has Highest Poverty Rate, with Housing Costs
Steyer’s promise to welcome illegals is echoed by the other
investor billionaire in the Democrats’ primary, Mike Bloomberg, the former
mayor of New York. In January, he promised to make illegals comfortable with
Americans’ money, telling the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Well,
it’s a no brainer. You give [a] pathway to citizenship to 11 million people.
We’re not going to deport them anyways, it’s outrageous. If you look in New
York City, we make sure that people felt comfortable, regardless of their
immigration status, to come and get city services. I was always determined that
they would not be afraid to come. Somebody could need like life-threatening
things and does not get medical care. This is not a game. You’ve got to make
sure that they’re okay.
Housing
costs in Bloomberg’s New York are very high because it has huge populations of
illegal and legal immigrants. The result is that it has a homeless population
of roughly 92,000, and also the nation’s highest rate of
homelessness, at 46 homeless for every 10,000 people.
High
housing costs also make it difficult for Americans to move into towns and
cities that have better-paying jobs, according to a 2017 study about
the rising wealth gap in the
United States. Americans “are frozen where they live,” said Tom Donohue,
the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at a January 9 meeting.
But nearly all of the Democrats in the 2020 election have called
for more migrants — without showing any concern for the impact on Americans’
housing costs.
“We
could afford to take in a heartbeat another two million people,” Joe
Biden told
Democrats at an August event in Des Moines, Iowa. “The idea
that a country of 330 million people is cannot absorb people who are in
desperate need … is absolutely bizarre … I would also move to
increase the total number of immigrants able to come to the United
States.”
Sen.
Elizabeth Warren’s immigration plan, for
example, is titled “A Fair and Welcoming Immigration System.” It says:
We
need expanded legal immigration that will grow our economy, reunite families,
and meet our labor market demands … s president, I will immediately issue
guidance to end criminal prosecutions for simple administrative immigration
violations … As President, I’ll issue guidance ensuring that detention is
only used where it is actually necessary because an individual poses a flight
or safety risk … I’ll welcome 125,000 refugees in my first year, and
ramping up to at least 175,000 refugees per year by the end of my first term.
The
impact of federal immigration policy on Americans’ housing costs is taboo among
establishment reporters. But those costs were touted by a group of investors
lobbying Congress to raise housing prices by importing more immigrants. A
booklet by the Economic Innovation Group says:
The
relationship between population growth and housing demand is clear. More people
means more demand for housing, and fewer people means less demand … As a
result, a shrinking population will lead to falling prices and a deteriorating,
vacancy-plagued housing stock that may take generations to clear
…
The
potential for skilled immigrants to boost local housing markets is clear.
Notably, economist Albert Saiz (2007) found a 1% increase in population from
immigration causes housing rents and house prices in U.S. cities to rise
commensurately, by 1%
On
January 9, Donohue noted New Yorkers blocked the plan by Amazon and the city
government to build a new corporate headquarters in the city. The residents
protested the development plan partly because it would have driven up rents and
housing costs, said Donohue. “It is a very potent issue,” he observed.
A lobbying group for investors admits mass migration
helps investors in major coastal cities but 'fails' Americans in heartland
& rural towns. So it urges less immigration? No - it urges more migration
to spike family housing prices outside major cities! http://bit.ly/2VCZYUt
NYT Boosts Investors' Campaign for More Immigrant Workers,
Consumers
Another line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as
impoverished Americans wait
Want
some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so many homeless
encampments hovering around?
Try the
reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the
U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely
unemployable. Those
are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier.
Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold
awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the
tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in
blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San
Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum,
it's worth looking at.
The Trump
administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development is finally trying
to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals prepare to enter the U.S. this
year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do it yesterday.
The plan would scrap Clinton-era
regulations that allowed illegal
immigrants to sign up for
assistance
without having to disclose their
status.
Under the new Trump rules, not only would the leaseholder using public housing
have to be an eligible U.S. person, but the government would verify all
applicants through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
database, a federal system that’s used to weed illegal immigrants out of other
welfare programs.
Those already getting HUD assistance would have to go through a new verification,
though it would be over a period of time and wouldn’t all come at once.
“We’ve got our own people to house and need to take care of our
citizens,” an administration official told The Washington Times. “Because of
past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public
housing desperately needed by so many of our own citizens. As illegal aliens
attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off
of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”
The Times
notes that the rules are confusingly contradictary, and some illegal immigrant
families are getting full rides based on just one member being born in the
U.S. The pregnant caravaner who calculatingly slipped across the U.S.
in San Diego late last year, only to have her baby the next day, now, along
with her entire family, gets that free ride on government housing. Plus lots of cheesy news coverage about how heartwarming it all is.
That's a lot cheaper than any housing she's going to find back in Tegucigalpa.
Migrants
would be almost fools not to take the offering.
The problem
of course is that Americans who paid into these programs, and the subset who
find themselves in dire circumstances, are in fact being shut out.
The
fill-the-pews Catholic archbishops may love to tout the virtues of illegal
immigrants and wave signs about getting 'justice" for them, but the
hard fact here is that these foreign nationals are stealing from
others as they take this housing benefit under legal technicalities. That's not
a good thing under anyone's theological law. But hypocrisy is comfortable
ground for the entire open borders lobby as they shamelessly
celebrate lawbreaking at the border, leaving the impoverished of the U.S.
out cold.
The Trump
administration is trying to have this outrage fixed by summer. But don't
imagine it won't be without the open-borders lawsuits, the media sob stories,
the leftist judges, and the scolding clerics.
Los Angeles County Pays Over a Billion in Welfare to
Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In
2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to
illegal aliens and their families. That figure amounts to 25 percent of the total
spent on the county’s entire needy population, according to Fox News.
The
state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state in the
country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California, Pew
reported.
Approximately
a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants reside in Los Angeles
County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with children born in the
United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
The
welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los Angeles County
Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food stamp costs for
the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9 billion in 2016.
The
data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than 60,000
families received a total of $181 million.
Over
58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in 2015 and more
than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.
Robert
Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration, told Fox the
costs represent “the tip of the iceberg.”
“They
get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can cost the
government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things like
education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February
of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed a resolution making it a sanctuary
city. The resolution did not provide any new legal protections to their
immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.
In
October 2017, former California governor Jerry Brown signed SB 54 into
law. This bill made California, in Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary
state.” The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of California
over the law. A federal judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took
effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
According to Center for
Immigration Studies, “The new law does many things: It forbids all
localities from cooperating with ICE detainer notices, it bars any law
enforcement officer from participating in the popular 287(g) program, and it prevents state and local police from inquiring
about individuals’ immigration status.”
Some
counties in California have protested its implementation and joined the Trump
administration’s lawsuit against the state.
California’s
campaign to provide public services to illegal immigrants did not end with the
exit of Jerry Brown. His successor, Gavin Newsom, is just as focused as
Brown in funding programs for illegal residents at the expense of California
taxpayers.
California’s
budget earmarks millions of dollars annually to the One California program, which
provides free legal assistance to all aliens, including those facing
deportation, and makes California’s public universities easier for
illegal-alien students to attend.
According
to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report, for the estimated
12.5 million illegal immigrants living in the country, the resulting cost is
a $116 billion burden on the national economy and taxpayers each
year, after deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by some of those illegal
immigrants.
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MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS IN THE U.S. AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN
THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY, THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST
OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY LEAVING MEXICO DESERTED.
New
data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 22 million non-citizens
now live in the United States.
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