YOU KNOW WHAT THE JOBS, HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISIS IS, WITH BIDEN'S AMNESTY FOR 40 MILLION MEX FLAG WAVERS WILL ENABLE THEM TO BRING UP THE REST OF MEXICO. NOW DO THE MATH!
Back in February, I reported
to you on the myth of the American worker shortage by spotlighting more than 50
stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other
high-skilled industries. MICHELLE MALKIN
AS THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HANDS OUT BRIBES TO DEMS FOR OPEN BORDERS: Remember these laid-off workers when Beltway crapweasels come back from their Labor Day holiday to lobby for more imported foreign farmworkers, work permits for illegal immigrant DREAMers, H-1B tech visas, more foreign doctors and other medical professionals, Silicon Valley tax breaks, and Fortune 500 bailouts. MICHELLE MALKIN
Chamber of Commerce Backs Freshmen House Dems Over Trade and Immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has decided to endorse 23 freshmen House Democrats in this fall’s elections, a bipartisan move by an organization that has long leaned strongly toward Republicans.
The country’s largest business group is also endorsing 29 freshmen House Republicans, said a person familiar with the organization’s decision who described the actions. Even so, the decision has prompted internal divisions, with some state chamber officials criticizing the national group’s decision to back freshmen Democrats in their areas.
The House freshmen the chamber is endorsing
include several who face tough reelections, such as
Reps. Abby Finkenauer and Cindy Axne of Iowa, Andy
Kim of New Jersey, Xochitl Torres Small of New
Mexico, Anthony Brindisi of New York, Kendra Horn
of Oklahoma, Joe Cunningham of South Carolina and
Elaine Luria and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia.
The chamber has a long track record of using most of its political might to back Republican candidates, especially with money. But the organization has had to recalibrate its tactics as the once-reliably pro-business GOP has taken a more populist, conservative hue on issues like immigration and trade, reflecting the views of President Donald Trump and hard-right tea party adherents whose numbers in Congress have grown.
In earlier indications of the chamber’s more bipartisan approach, it has boosted some campaign contributions to Democrats and changed how it assigns publicly released scores about whether lawmakers help business, now factoring in whether they try reaching across party lines.
The moves come as Democrats seem all but certain to continue running the House after November’s elections. Any support for Democrats helps the chamber maintain lines of communication with them, especially as growing numbers of progressive Democrats in Congress makes it harder for business groups to find allies in the party.
Democrats in tough reelection fights can cite the chamber’s backing “as a sort of Good Housekeeping seal of approval,” said Liam Donovan, a lobbyist and former GOP political operative.
The chamber is also endorsing freshmen
Democratic Reps. Greg Stanton of Arizona;
Josh Harder, TJ Cox and Harley Rouda of
California; Sharice Davids of Kansas; David
Trone of Maryland; Haley Stevens of Michigan;
Angie Craig and Dean Phillips of Minnesota;
Susie Lee of Nevada; Antonio Delgado of New
York; Colin Allred and Lizzie Fletcher of Texas
and Ben McAdams of Utah.
The person describing the chamber’s endorsements would only do so on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the moves publicly. The decision by the chamber, which issued no statement about the matter, was first reported by The Hill newspaper.
Earlier this year, the chamber said it spent six figures on digital ads opposing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in a primary that the progressive lawmaker won easily.
Otherwise, all of the chamber’s $2 million so far in the 2020 campaign on outside spending — money spent without coordinating with candidates — went to helping Republicans, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. So did all of the $40 million in outside spending by the chamber during the 2018 and 2016 campaigns.
Yet the chamber’s much smaller, direct contributions to candidates have been more evenhanded, if politically pragmatic.
The $210,000 the chamber’s political action committee has donated directly to 2020 candidates’ campaigns has been split about evenly between Democrats and Republicans, the center’s data shows. In 2018, about 2-in-3 dollars it gave to House candidates went to Republicans.
The chamber has also contributed $168,000 this year to GOP candidates for the Senate and nothing to Democrats. Since it is unclear if Republicans will continue running the Senate, the chamber’s contributions to Senate GOP candidates have more political weight than spending on the House, where control isn’t in serious doubt.
Some state chambers complained to U.S. chamber officials about the expected endorsements, arguing that the Democratic lawmakers did not have sufficiently pro-business records.
Chad Warmington, president of the Oklahoma state chamber, opposed the expected endorsement of Horn, who was narrowly elected in 2018 to a district centered on Oklahoma City. Warmington said he believes Horn hasn’t been supportive enough of the state’s oil and gas industry.
“A U.S. chamber endorsement can be persuasive in convincing voters that she’s pro-business,” Warmington said in an interview last week. “And I don’t believe there is enough evidence to say she is. I was saying to them, ‘Stay out’” and don’t endorse anyone.
Alan Cobb, president of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, said he objected to the U.S. organization’s expected endorsement of Davids, from the Kansas City area. Cobb said he prefers Davids’ GOP opponent, Amanda Adkins, a businesswoman and former member of the state chamber’s board.
Warmington and Cobb both said they’d not been consulted by the national chamber about the endorsements.
Don't Be a Victim of Democrat Abuse and Voter Endangerment
Biden poked his head out of the basement Monday but saw his shadow and quickly retreated back into hiding. Bad news, America: six more weeks of riots and looting.
Democrats have a problem. It turns out they can't set cities on fire, destroy local businesses, and unleash rampant violence upon their residents and call it an election strategy. They can accurately call it domestic terrorism or anti-government insurrection, but those bumper stickers don't sell well when every car parked in Democrat zones of lawlessness from New York City to Portland has already been ransacked and torched.
What to do? Blame the whole Democrat operation on President Trump, of course. Somehow, the guy who has been standing up to the mob for four years is secretly leading the mob, too. Joe Biden's campaign may be bailing out the army of Marxist brownshirts toppling statues in city squares and beating people in the streets, and Soros-installed faux prosecutors may be setting criminals free to commit new and worse crimes, but it's the law-and-order candidate in the White House who is actually to blame.
I know it's a bedrock principle of American politics that Democrats achieve success by simply accusing their Republican opponents of whatever crimes or political transgressions they, themselves, are instigating, but this about-face takes the cake! After every Democrat fear merchant has spent months bending the knee in support of and allegiance to the enemy occupying forces taking over American towns, they now want us to forget their ties to the Marxist mobs entirely? That would be like asking Americans to vote for a candidate who is so well known to be suffering from dementia that...wait, scratch that simile.
Democrats do get away with murder, don't they?
This last Saturday, an Antifa operative walked up behind a Trump-supporter in Portland and shot him dead. There was no heat-of-the-moment fight leading to the murder. It was a cold-blooded political assassination, and Antifa immediately cheered the result and began fundraising for bulletproof vests while the victim still lay on the street. Both Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and "Joke" Biden immediately blamed President Trump, while giving Antifa and their murderous allies another pass. It was murder most foul, and Democrats took sides with the murderer. Only in Biden's America can a person be killed for his political views and immediately be blamed by the national press and Democrats before even being carried away. The lives of Trump-supporters just don't matter.
This type of Democrat political violence should have been highlighted and eradicated back in 2017, when a Bernie Sanders–supporter and frequent emailer of Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois attempted to carry out a mass political assassination that could easily have ended with two dozen dead Republican congressmen. That attack nearly changed the balance of power in Washington and the course of national history, but still Jeff Flake and other apologists found it easier to blame President Trump rather than call out the relentless Democrat campaign to tar his presidency as illegitimate and a national threat. Because the press and the Democrats ignored the violence breathing life into their political party, they implicitly sanctioned all the acts of violence that have continued to the current day. If Antifa and BLM someday achieve what the 2017 shooter did not, nobody in America will be surprised because nobody in America has seen any pushback against the Democratic Party's sympathies for acts of domestic terror.
There is no reason for Americans to accept Democrat terror as an inevitable "new normal," though.
If you have been surviving in a pocket of America where Democrats have forced you into unemployment over a virus that is proving less lethal by the day, robbed your kids of an education while using teachers' unions as political weapons, turned your elderly parents' nursing home into a death camp for disease transmission, fire-bombed your favorite restaurant or neighborhood drugstore because you've been deemed insufficiently "woke" and irredeemably racist, and now deprived you of any sports or entertainment shows that don't first take a moment to tell you how awful and evil you are, then you are a victim of Democrat abuse and voter endangerment.
American cities didn't kill themselves, after all. Democrats did that. All this mayhem and violence in the streets — the Democrats built that, too.
Democrats have had an absolute monopoly on the way most American cities are governed for fifty to a hundred years. They run those cities' police departments. They control the national news media housed in those cities. They sit on the boards of all the "woke" corporations that fuel their wealth. They've taken over the sports leagues and replaced entertainment with sermons from the perpetually aggrieved. They have the backing of the Chamber of Commerce, an organization that prefers Wall Street to Main Street and cashing checks from Chinese communists to aiding American workers. And the Democrats are Hollywood.
If there is "institutional racism" lurking in the heart of big "blue" cities, by golly it is wholly owned and operated by the Democratic Party. And if LeBron James thinks the "system" is still rigged against him, then he needs to wake up to who's doing the rigging. Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti is a Democrat. Kenosha mayor John Antaramian is a Democrat. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey is a Democrat. New York mayor Bill de Blasio is a Democrat. Maybe it's time for athletes who insist that "black lives matter" to recognize that seeking help from the party that harms them will only get them more of the same.
For too many years, Democrats have destroyed American cities and gotten away with it. They've encouraged rioting and looting on the streets and called it "justice." They've looked the other way while police officers and Republicans are attacked and murdered, and their national politicians pause but a second before once again engaging in the kind of rhetoric that only provides legitimacy to future violence. If the highest-ranking Democrat in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, can call Republicans "enemies of the state" without thinking the recent political assassination in Portland is the natural result, she is mentally unfit to serve. If she and other national Democrats are well aware of the violence they help seed, then they aren't representing a political party anymore. They're just part of the revolutionary mob. Either way, it's time for all of them to go.
Joe Biden’s Immigration
Plan to Accelerate Chain Migration Inflow
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Democrat Joe Biden’s immigration plan contains hard-to-see
policy changes that would dramatically accelerate the inflow of roughly four
million chain migrants.
Biden’s promise is included in his 6,600 immigration
platform, titled, “The Biden Plan for
Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants.” The document says:
As president, Biden will support family-based immigration by
preserving family unification as a foundation of our immigration system; by
allowing any approved applicant to receive a temporary non-immigrant visa until
the permanent visa is processed;
“This is the equivalent to issuing temporary driver’s licenses
to anyone who sends in an application,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director
for the Center for Immigration Studies. “They can have the temporary license
until they come back for the road test,’ she said.
If Biden’ plan is adopted, “the sky would be the limit … and
besides blowing up the numerical limits on annual immigration [it] would be an
enormous boost to the fake-document and fake-marriage industry,” she said,
adding:
We don’t (or at least we try not to) let people come live here
before they have completed the entire [immigration] application and vetting
process … Under the Biden-Harris system, people would simply create fake
relationships to get the [initial immigration] petition approved, and then get
their temporary visa to come here and just [quit] the application, knowing
there is very little interior enforcement to make them go home later, when or
if the fraud is discovered.
Each year, roughly four million Americans turn 18 and begin
using their skills and diligence to earn wages and salaries.
But the federal government slashes their ability to earn wages
and buy homes by delivering roughly one million legal immigrants — including
about 600,000 workers — to employers around the United States.
The federal government also allows companies to import and keep
roughly 1.3 million foreign contract workers in myriad white collar jobs. Those
jobs, including many well paying Silicon Valley jobs, are needed by U.S.
graduates to advance in their careers.
Congress and the White House also allows companies to keep
roughly 600,000 foreign workers in blue collar seasonal jobs. This inflow
allows companies to avoid building a recruitment business to help young people
find a variety of decent jobs around the United States.
Congress also does little to deport illegals — or even to deter
companies from employing roughly eight million illegal migrant workers.
These federal economic policies help companies and investors by
inflating the labor supply, so raising the price of housing, and spiking
government spending.
Yet at least 150
million more foreigners want to
migrate into the United States.
The federal government does not set any limits on the annual
inflow of legal immigrants’ minor children and elderly parents.
But there are limits — and so, waiting lines — for other
categories of immigrants, such as adult children, married children, and
siblings.
Overall, roughly
3.6 million would-be migrants are waiting
in multiple lines, according to a November 2019 report by the Department of
State.
For example, more than two million additional people are waiting
in the “Fourth Preference” — or F4 line — for the adult siblings of U.S.
citizens, but only 65,000 are given green cards each year.
Similarly, the federal government awards 23,400 green cars for
the married sons and daughters of green card and citizen immigrants. This
“Third Preference,” or “F3,” waiting list includes 647,236 foreign sons
and daughters — many of whom will also try to bring in their children and
relatives once they are admitted into the United States.
Also, the government provides green cards to 23,400 adult
children of new legal green card immigrants, who are not yet citizens. But
federal data in November 2019 showed that this F2B waiting list of
282,551 adult sons and daughters of green-card holders.
Donald Trump's labor & immigration
promises for a 2nd term are vague but useful.
They are also better for ordinary Americans than Joe Biden's business-backed,
open-ended inflow of wage-cutting & rent-raising blue-collar workers &
college-graduates. https://t.co/OmE4tRPf4T
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 26,
2020
CALIFORNIA: THE ONCE GOLDEN STATE NOW IN MELTDOWN DUE TO
GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY POLICIES FAVORING ILLEGALS.
“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.”
California’s homeless population was estimated to be about
150,000 in 2019, a number widely believed to be a drastic underestimation. The
homeless population increased by 21,000 in 2019 and is expected to grow by
another 30,000 this year as a result of the mass unemployment and economic
devastation caused by the pandemic. The homeless, many of whom suffer from
preexisting medical conditions, are among the most vulnerable to infectious
disease.
With 154 billionaires and more wealth than all but the four
wealthiest countries in the world, California is at once the richest and the
poorest state in the country. According to the United States Census Bureau,
after adjusting for the cost of living, California has the highest poverty rate
in the nation, with an average of 18.2 percent of its 39.5 million residents
living in poverty over the last three years. While the median income in the
state is slightly above the national median, costs for housing, electric power and
essential goods are far higher than the national average.
California Governor Newsom continues murderous policies as COVID-19 cases in state reach 700,000
31 August 2020
No less than in Republican-controlled states, the
Democratic Party administration of California Governor Gavin Newsom has, since
the beginning of the pandemic, acted to protect the interests of the
ultra-wealthy. It has long since abandoned any serious effort to contain the
spread of the virus.
On May 7, six weeks after California became the first state
to issue shelter-in-place orders, Newsom announced that the state faced a $54
billion revenue shortfall. One day later, with the state averaging over 1,700
new cases per day, the administration began planning a phased reopening.
On June 12, as the number of cases in the state passed
125,000, with more than 3,600 new cases per day, California moved to stage
three of the reopening, allowing indoor businesses such as restaurants, bars
and gyms to reopen. During this period, the infection rate exploded from about
1,700 new cases per day on May 8 to more than 5,300 on June 28.
After peaking at over 9,000 new cases per day in late July,
and following a renewed closure of bars, indoor dining and gyms, the infection
rate now stands at about 6,000 per day. But the push to reopen workplaces and
schools threatens to bring about yet another wave of cases.
The level of testing, at 85,000 per day, remains grossly
inadequate to monitor, let alone contain, the pandemic.
On August 13, the Los Angeles
Times published a timeline titled “How a
rush to reopen drove Los Angeles County into a health crisis.” It documented
the direct impact of the reopening policy on the number of infections and
deaths in Los Angeles. At the time of that exposé, in Los Angeles alone 5,000
had died from COVID-19. In the ensuing three weeks that number has increased by
15 percent.
Despite the alarming data, last Friday Newsom announced a four-tier
reopening process that kicks off today with the reopening of hair salons,
barber shops and retail stores to 25 percent capacity, to be progressively
extended. The measure is being touted as a return to pre-pandemic “freedom”—a
clear concession to right-wing complaints that necessary science-based
restrictions are a limitation on personal liberties. In reality, the organized
opposition to public health-based restrictions in the name of “freedom” is
being promoted by the corporate elite in line with its murderous return-to-work
policy.
The unfolding economic and fiscal disaster, which the state
government has seized upon to deepen its attacks on public education and social
infrastructure, threatens to plunge millions of Californians into destitution. The
Newsom administration estimates that the 2020-2021 fiscal year will see a 24.5
percent unemployment rate, a nine percent drop in personal income, and a 21
percent decline in new housing permits. These projections are optimistic in
light of social reality.
In Los Angeles County, unemployment has only slightly
declined—from 20 percent in April to 17.5 percent in July, which means a
million people are without employment. A 2020 study by UCLA’s Institute on
Inequality and Democracy estimates that almost a half million people living in
rental housing in Los Angeles County have no income and are at a high risk of
homelessness.
California’s homeless population was estimated to be about
150,000 in 2019, a number widely believed to be a drastic underestimation. The
homeless population increased by 21,000 in 2019 and is expected to grow by
another 30,000 this year as a result of the mass unemployment and economic
devastation caused by the pandemic. The homeless, many of whom suffer from
preexisting medical conditions, are among the most vulnerable to infectious
disease.
With 154 billionaires and more wealth than all but the four
wealthiest countries in the world, California is at once the richest and the
poorest state in the country. According to the United States Census Bureau,
after adjusting for the cost of living, California has the highest poverty rate
in the nation, with an average of 18.2 percent of its 39.5 million residents
living in poverty over the last three years. While the median income in the
state is slightly above the national median, costs for housing, electric power
and essential goods are far higher than the national average.
In a recent report, the Public Policy
Institute of California found that more than 35 percent of the state, almost 14
million people, live in poverty or “near-poverty.” This section of the
population, subjected to poor housing, inadequate medical care and unsafe
working conditions, confronts both higher infection and fatality rates than the
general population. In July, more than 300 workers—three quarters of the
workforce—were infected at a downtown Los
Angeles sweatshop owned by Los Angeles Apparel.
The pandemic has swept through California’s notoriously
overcrowded prison system, infecting more than 9,300 inmates and 2,200 staff
members. Close confinement, poor medical care and limited access to personal
protective equipment have led to an infection rate almost five times higher
among state prisoners than in the general population. California’s prison
population stood at about 117,000 in April 2020, with 32 out of 35 prisons
holding incarcerated populations above their design capacities.
A particularly deadly outbreak at the California
Institution for Men has resulted in over 1,000 infections and 20 deaths. The
transfer of 121 inmates from this prison to San Quentin State Prison resulted
in an even deadlier outbreak. More than 2,100 prisoners at San Quentin, half
its population at the start of the outbreak, have so far been infected.
BLOG EDITOR: EVEN AS THE STATE CUTS, THE LA
RAZA WELFARE STATE EXPANDS.
After decades of stagnant wages and cuts to health care and
social services, working people have been made to bear the brunt of the recent
$54 billion cut in the state budget, which includes a 10 percent pay cut for
state employees, delayed payments to public schools, a $1.7 billion cut in
funding for public colleges and universities, and a $248 million cut from
housing programs. Newsom, who pledged in mid-May to take a salary cut in
solidarity with state workers, has continued to receive his full monthly salary
of $17,479.
At an August news conference, Newsom had the audacity to
claim that “there is no money sitting in the piggy bank” to pay unemployment
benefits. But between March and June, the same period during which the virus
was spiking throughout the state, California’s 154 billionaires saw their net
wealth increase by about $170 billion, more than triple the budget shortfall.
The trade unions have in every instance acceded to the
state’s demands, including a 9.23 percent cut in state workers’ salaries and a
suspension of state contributions to retirees’ health care, agreed to by the
state’s largest public employees union, Service Employees International Union
(SEIU) Local 1,000. Cal Fire Local 2881 has agreed to a 7.5 percent pay cut.
The trade unions have likewise supported
plans to resume in-person instruction in the public school system. While the
Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the nation, has
opened the school year with fully online instruction, the United Teachers Los
Angeles (UTLA), which sold out last year’s
teachers strike and paved the way for more budget cuts and school
privatizations, is collaborating in school reopening plans.
In a July report, the UTLA proposed a list of
half-measures, including keeping students in small “pods,” reducing class
sizes, and requiring masks for students and staff. The call for “pods” is
practically identical to the Newsom administration’s guidelines, which call for
children to be grouped into learning “cohorts” of no more than 14 children and
no more than two supervising adults.
The California Teachers Association has likewise called, in
the vaguest terms possible, for hand washing, face coverings, social distancing
inside classrooms, and “mental health counseling.” Even if these inadequate
measures were enforced, they would do little to make classrooms safe for
students and educators.
Statewide, counties are allowed to reopen schools if they
are off the state’s COVID-19 watch list for two weeks. Orange County and San
Diego County, two of the largest counties in the state, are both already off
the list. On Monday, the Orange County Board of Education voted to allow
schools to resume in-person instruction next month, without masks or social
distancing. A group of teachers and parents protested outside the meeting and
gathered 26,000 signatures urging the board to reconsider.
According to Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara
Ferrer, the Newsom administration is giving local health officials the ability
to grant waivers to school districts that permit schools to reopen for students
in grades K-6 once case rates fall under 200 per 100,000 people. This
threshold—twenty times what the Centers for Disease Control defines as low
incidence—has been chosen not out of consideration for the safety of students
and educators, but in order to provide a justification for reopening. On
Tuesday, the case rate in Los Angeles County was 196 per 100,000 residents,
just under the threshold.
Claims that children transmit the virus
less frequently than adults have been shown to be fraudulent. A paper published
in the Journal of the American Medical Association found
that children under the age of five carry higher amounts of the virus in their
nasal passages than older children and adults, while an extensive contact
tracing study conducted in Italy found that children younger than 15 years old
transmit the virus most efficiently.
The left’s two big albatrosses – Biden and Pelosi
One
has to wonder, do those on the left, including the media, actually think that
Joe Biden is a viable candidate for president? Do they not realize
that Nancy Pelosi is as senile as Joe? Like Joe, she often slurs her words,
suffers brain freezes mid-sentence and spews gibberish. Biden is life-long
corruptocrat, a known plagiarist, a pathological liar and a truly mean and evil
man. You can catch a glimpse of just how mean in the film about Clarence Thomas; it was Biden who
grilled him mercilessly during the hearings over Anita Hill’s phony
allegations. Biden is a racist as well. Pelosi is a life-long power-mad
lunatic. She has allowed her own district to dissolve into a homeless camp
with all the attendant problems – discarded needles, feces on the streets and
sidewalks, and an ever-escalating crime wave. Smash and grab car
burglaries occur by the minute in San Feancisco and there are no consequences
for the perpetrators if caught. Like Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, Pelosi and her husband are millionaires several times
over; they’ve become rich because both have been in Congress for so many
years. They all get rich on insider information. Joe
Biden goes further; we all know he used a billion dollars in U.S. aid as
leverage to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because he was investigating his
son. John Kerry was in on that bit of bribery. He is as
low a form of life as Biden.
And
yet, at the moment, Biden is their candidate and Pelosi is their Speaker who
embarrasses herself every time she opens her mouth, as does
Biden. Both of them belong in a long-term care facility for the
aged. That the Democrats consider either of these pols a credit to
their party is proof of their willful blindness. Why do they not see
what everyone outside of their party can see? That these two people
are way past their sell-by date. How is Joe going to debate
President Trump? He is unable to utter a coherent sentence or answer a simple
question. Pelosi submitted a $3 trillion spending bill that is
simply a joke. Biden has vowed to pick a “woman of color” as his
running mate. Woe be unto him if he doesn’t.
As
for the left’s “believe all women” mantra, that went out the window the moment
Tara Reade accused Biden of sexual assault. Reade’s allegations are
infinitely more credible than Christine Blasey-Ford’s fabricated accusations
against a high school-aged Brett Kavanaugh, but Democrats are so self-unaware,
they don’t recognize their own gross hypocrisy. This time Reade is
“making it up.” See Ami Horowitz’ recent video. Blasey-Ford
most likely never met Justice Kavanaugh. Reade did work in Biden’s
office, did report his behavior and tell others at the time. But the
Dems believed Blasey-Ford and don’t believe Reade. Go
figure. Denial is a dangerous and mystifying psychological defense
mechanism and the Democrat party is in denial about the mental capacity of its
two most prominent “leaders.”
Donald
Trump has warned our federal government about the dangers China represents to
the US since the 1980s. He was right and since he took office he has
tried to rectify the horrific trade imbalance. No one can refute the
fact that China purposely unleashed the covid virus upon the world but Nancy
Pelosi calls Trump’s focus on China “a diversion.” Is she really
that clueless? Probably not, but destroying Trump is far more
important to her than protecting America. Her comments about Trump’s
use of hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic are outrageous. It
is the most effective drug at the moment, used all over the world. And
Trump is not “morbidly obese” She however is morbidly botoxed and has undergone
so much plastic surgery she resembles a character from the film Death Becomes Her. She is a
ghoul in every sense of the word but the left seems not to realize
it. They celebrate how she wields her power. That is what
they admire; it’s the only thing they admire in anyone. They just
cannot abide it in a republican, especially when they were so certain Hillary
was going to win the 2016 election and they would all be in fat
city. They would have been all-powerful. They would have
had control of all the levers of power in this country. And being
the spoiled children they are, to this day they cannot accept that defeat,
especially to an outsider like Trump. They love to mock him, to call
him stupid but he has them all by the short hairs and runs rings around their
collective body of never-Trumpers.
To
be sure, Biden and Pelosi have their devoted fans who are so blinded by their
hatred of Trump and their thoroughly unwarranted hero worship of Biden and
Pelosi that they mistakenly think they are normal and healthy but both are
seriously in need of an intervention. Why Jill Biden allows Joe’s
candidacy to continue is a cruelty, a form of elder abuse. As for
Pelosi, where are her five kids telling her it is time to retire? Of
course the lady of iron will would refuse but how much longer can her
infirmities be on public display? Only time will tell but it
seems pretty likely Trump has the election in the bag. Biden
is the weakest candidate the democrat party has run since George McGovern and
McGovern was a decent man; Biden is not. As for Pelosi, her
district is so damaged, so depressed, they will likely re-elect her and keep
her in office until she is 100% wax-ready for Madame Tussaud’s.
Photo illustration by Monica
Showalter with use of images by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0, and USFWS // public domain
Trump Campaign: Democrats Give Housing
to Illegal Migrants, Penalizing Black Americans
President
Donald Trump’s campaign used the issue of illegal immigration on Thursday to
seek votes from working-class blacks.
A short video released by the Trump campaign Twitter account
highlighted the president’s record on improving public housing in New York and
other cities.
“My name is Judy Smith,” said one black woman, who continued:
I live in New York City public housing. I’m grateful for
the spotlight that President Trump is putting on New York City public housing.
I think it’s wrong that the Democrats put illegal immigrants before black
Americans. How is it that we have people waiting on the waiting lists for New
York City public housing for 10 years or more, but yet we have illegal
immigrants living here? Something is wrong with that picture.
President Trump is bringing real solutions
to real problems.#RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/3Q7s2ZEchE
— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 28, 2020
The comments were likely aimed at working-class blacks in many
swing states, including several Midwest states.
“Working-class African Americans are significantly more
supportive of policies that seek to: decrease the number of immigrants coming
to the United States, increase the federal role in verifying the employment
status of immigrants, and attempts to amend the Constitution’s citizenship
provisions,” said a 2013 peer-reviewed study by Tatishe Nteta, a professor
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The study continued:
For African Americans who lost a job to an immigrant,
working-class membership resulted in a 13 percentage point increase in the
probability of support for an increased federal role in workplace oversight
[against employment of illegal immigrants] when compared to middle-class
African Americans who experienced a similar loss.
Numerous polls show
that blacks — like all other groups — say they wish to welcome migrants, but
strongly prefer that
Americans get jobs before companies import more migrants.
Nationwide, the expanded supply of new migrants also cuts
Americans’ disposable wages by inflating their housing costs. That
reality is recognized by investor groups who are urging more immigration. For example, 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.”
Mike Bloomberg’s pro-migration advocacy group, New American Economy, pushed
the same argument:
The research shows that an increase in the absolute number of
immigrants in a particular county from 2000–2010 results in corresponding
economic gains—increased demand for locally produced goods and services, a
corresponding inflow of U.S.-born individuals—that are reflected in the housing
market.
The video also included comments from other blacks in New York:
My name is Manuel Martinez … Under the Trump administration, New
York City Housing Authority has received an influx of cash that it has not seen
since 1997.
My name is Claudia Perez I’m the resident council
president of Washington Houses, which is in Spanish Harlem. [New York Mayor]
Bill de Blasio and the way he has dealt with public housing residents is
disgraceful. President Trump administration has opened their ears and has
listened … [and] is bringing real solutions to real problems.
The video ends with the claim, “More Funding: Better Housing:
Promise Made: Promise Kept.”
Donald Trump's labor & immigration
promises for a 2nd term are vague but useful.
They are also better for ordinary Americans than Joe Biden's business-backed,
open-ended inflow of wage-cutting & rent-raising blue-collar workers &
college-graduates. https://t.co/OmE4tRPf4T
— Neil Munro
(@NeilMunroDC) August
26, 2020
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.
According
to a report in the Washington
Times:
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
BY MASOOMA HAQ
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.
BLOG: 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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