BIDENOMICS - HOW MANY MORE AMERICANS WILL FALL INTO POVERTY DUE TO BIDENOMICS - Retail Sales Crash as Inflation and Delta Variant Fear Ravage America

FOR 50 YEARS JOE BIDEN HAS GOTTEN RICH SERVING THE RICH, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS AND AMERICA'S WAR MACHINE.

WE CAN'T SAVE THE COUNTRY UNTIL WE RID OURSELVES OF THIS CREATURE!

Consumer Confidence Crashes Below Crisis Lows on Inflation and Geopolitical Fears

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Chris Hedges | WHY The Democrats Are HOPELESS

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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and

 Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy

 approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This

 is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---

-Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER

Poll: Wisconsin Majority Says Economy is Worse Than a Year Ago and Many Say It Will Get Even Worse

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JOHN CARNEY

17 Aug 20215

4:10

The Biden administration’s hopes to benefit from a rebounding economy have been thrown into doubt by a poll indicating that views of economic conditions have turned for the worse in Wisconsin, a key battleground state in the midterm elections next year.

A poll of Wisconsin registered voters found that just 23 percent say the economy has improved over the past year, with 51 percent saying the economy is worse than it was a year ago. Twenty-two percent say it is the same.

Only 30 percent expect the economy to improve over the coming year. Forty-three percent say it will worsen. Twenty-five percent expect no change.

Inflation is a big worry. Twenty-five percent say they are “very concerned” about inflation. Another 18 percent say they are “somewhat” concerned. Six percent so they are not too concerns and two percent say they are not concerned about inflation at all.

Biden’s handling of the economy gets more demerits than gold stars.  Just 46 percent say they approve, while 48 percent say they disapprove. In the last statewide poll that asked about approval of the president’s handling of the economy—taken in October 2020—Trump got 51 percent approval.

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It’s remarkable how much hope has faded. In that October 2020 poll, forty-five percent said they expected the economy to improve over the next year and just 13 percent expected it to get worse. The current conditions metric is almost unchanged, with 24 percent saying in October 2020 that things have become better over the last year and 54 percent saying the economy was worse.

In other words, the public’s views of the economy’s current conditions have not improved during the Biden administration and expectations have become far grimmer.

US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One in the rain at Andrews Air Force Base on March 31, 2021 in Maryland. – US President Joe Biden is traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to deliver remarks on his economic vision for the future and the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to “Build Back Better” for the American people. (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN / AFP) (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Thirty-eight percent say they strongly disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy, with another ten percent saying they somewhat disapprove. Biden gets 23 percent on both somewhat and strongly approving.

Trump has 40 percent strong approval and 36 percent strong disapproval. The somewhat approve and somewhat disapprove were each at 11 percent.

The poor showing of Biden on economic numbers will be welcome news to Republicans looking to the 2022 elections. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is a top target of Democrats and holding his seat is viewed by political strategists as crucial to Republican hopes to regain control of the Senate.

Unfortunately for Johnson, his favorability rating dropped 6 points. Just 35 percent say they approve of Johnson and 42 percent say they disapprove.  The state’s Senate Democrat, Tammy Baldwin, saw her approval rating drop by four points. But at 40 percent approve and 39 percent disapprove, she remains above after. Baldwin is not up for election until 2024.

WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 04: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (L), joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), speaks on the bipartisan infrastructure bill during a press conference with fellow Republican Senators at U.S. Capitol on August 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The group of Senators criticized the bill for being too expensive and claim it will increase the debt, inflation and taxes. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images))

Republicans also hope to take back the governor’s mansion. Governor Tony Evers scored a 50 percent approval rating, with 21 percent strongly approving. He gets 43 percent share of registered disapproving of his job performance, including a 32 percent strongly disapproving.

President Joe Biden’s approval is narrower, split between 49 percent approving and 46 percent disapproving, highlighting how divisive the Biden president has been. His strongly approve number, however, is just 26 percent. His strongly disapprove share is 38 percent.

US President Joe Biden eats an ice cream cone while visiting The Pearl Ice Cream Parlor & Confectionery in La Crosse, Wisconsin, June 29, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

In the 2020 election, Biden had a commanding lead over Trump in most polls in Wisconsin. The November Morning Consult poll had Biden at 54 percent and Trump at 41 percent. The numbers were so bad that they discouraged Trump’s campaign from focusing on the state. The actual results were much closer, with Biden winning 49.45 percent of the vote and Trump getting 48.82 percent.

If the Marquette poll is similarly exaggerating support for Biden, his actual approval numbers could be underwater.

 

Retail Sales Crash as Inflation and Delta Variant Fear Ravage America

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JOHN CARNEY

17 Aug 202121

1:36

Retail sales declined by more than expected in July as consumer confidence crashed amid rising coronavirus infections and rapid inflation.

Sales fell 1.1 percent in July, worse than the 0.2 percent decline expected, data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed Tuesday. A month earlier, sales climbed 0.6 percent.

Sales of cars and trucks have been heavily constrained by a lack of supply due to a shortage of microchips. In July, sales fell 3.9 percent.

A car dealership stands empty in Laurel, Maryland  as many car dealerships across the country are running low on new vehicles as a computer chip shortage has caused production at many vehicle manufactures to nearly stop. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) 

Excluding autos, sales were down 0.4 percent. Economists had forecast a gain of 0.2 percent.

Sales climbed 2.4 percent in gas stations, reflecting higher gas prices.

Excluding autos and gasoline, sales were down 0.7 percent. Expectations were for a 0.3 percent decline.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA – JULY 11: Fuel prices posted at over USD 6.00 a gallon are displayed at the Furnace Creek Fuel gas station on July 11, 2021 in Death Valley National Park, California.  (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

Sales at clothing stores fell 2.6 percent. Sales at sporting goods stores dropped 1.9 percent. Department store sales were down 0.3 percent.

Nonstore retailers, which is the category for online sales, fell 3.1 percent.

Grocery store sales fell, as did sales in furniture stores. Home and gardening supply store sales also dropped.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – JUNE 11: Baseball fans congregate at Sluggers sports bar across from Wrigley Field before the start of the nearly-sold-out matchup between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Sales were up 1.7 percent in bars and restaurants and 0.3 percent in electronics and appliance stores.

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and  Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy  approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This  is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” --- Karen McQuillan 

Chris Hedges | NAFTA, Clinton, and Obama, Joe Biden BETRAYED Americans... and Joe Biden was right there with the worst of them!

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Biden defended the wealthy in his speech to the donors but begged them to be aware of wealth inequality.

I was sitting next to the CEO of one of the largest hotel chains in the world. He said ‘Look, President Trump’s immigration policies are forcing me to raise wages for my workers’ and he was complaining about this. 

Exclusive–J.D. Vance: Ruling Class ‘Actually Enjoys Plundering the Greatest Country in the World’

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JOHN BINDER

14 Aug 2021379

5:38

J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, says the nation’s ruling class “actually enjoys plundering the greatest country in the world” rather than investing in American communities.

In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday, Vance said a “fundamental problem” in the U.S. is that economic and political elites have no obligation to America’s working and middle class.

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Breitbart · J.D. Vance – August 14, 2021

“I think a lot of these people have unfortunately convinced themselves that they don’t owe anything to the country that gave them so much wealth and so much power,” Vance said:

It’s not just the bad policies of the Biden administration that we have to push back against, that’s obviously important, it’s the entire leadership class in this country in the government, in the bureaucracy, in the private sector … these people do not see themselves as Americans first, as owing an obligation to the country that gave them all the incredible opportunities. And that is maybe the fundamental problem in this country: The ruling class that instead of investing in this country — building institutions, making the people who live here wealthier, happier, more prosperous — it actually enjoys plundering the greatest country in the world because it doesn’t see that it owes anything to the people who live here, to the previous generations that actually built this country. [Emphasis added]

On immigration, for instance, Vance said economic elites are stripping investment from middle America and sending that money to the coasts as a result of their desire for mass illegal and legal immigration to drive down U.S. wages.

Vance said:

I was at a dinner in 2017, 2018 with a lot of corporate leaders. I was sitting next to the CEO of one of the largest hotel chains in the world. He said ‘Look, President Trump’s immigration policies are forcing me to raise wages for my workers’ and he was complaining about this. And I said ‘Okay, well explain this to me.’ And he said ‘Look, in the past, if I wanted workers, I could just go across the southern border and get a bunch of Central American foreigners to do this job for poverty wages but now because I can’t tap into those people, I have to go to Americans and I have to give them higher wages to do it.’ And again, this guy was talking about this like it was a bad thing but this is what the elites do with immigration is they use it to undercut the wages of American workers. [Emphasis added]

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The other problem is that it actually takes investment away from our own communities. The whole way that our economy grows is by investing long-term in the American worker and American productivity. But if you can just get cheap people at poverty wages anyway, you’re not going to invest in your own communities, you’re not going to invest in your own country and that makes us poorer over the long term. It’s no surprise that maybe the biggest competitor to the United States right now is China — a very low immigration society that has generated its economic gains by investing in its own economy, not foreign workers. [Emphasis added]

Vance also railed against President Joe Biden and the national security establishment for their botched withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan after former President George W. Bush launched the war in October 2001.

“I’m sick of sending our people to that country to die and to bleed and to suffer, to spend our money for a country that clearly doesn’t want the things that our leaders want them to have,” Vance said.

“This should be a national scandal. We have been told for 20 years that if we just invest a little more in this far-fledged region of the world that we’re going to turn this place into a flowering democracy,” Vance continued:

We have been gone for a few weeks and Afghan army has revealed itself to be a total farce … why isn’t it a national scandal that this army that we built for 20 years folded in the face of the Taliban in a matter of a few weeks. Heads should roll over this. This is the biggest problem with our country. When our leadership screws up, there’s no accountability. Why is there no accountability for the people who told us that Afghanistan was heading in the right direction? Clearly, it wasn’t and they should suffer the consequences for lying to us. [Emphasis added]

On inflation, Vance said he is “so sick” of Biden and elected Democrats proclaiming themselves to be defenders of the working class when they are attempting to drive up federal spending at the risk of raising prices on working and middle class Americans, and specifically, senior citizens.

“This is a disaster for middle class Americans and you know who it’s really a disaster for is seniors who live on a fixed income,” Vance said. “This inflation, which is really just a tax on the middle class, is the biggest tax on our seniors that you could imagine.”

“I think about the Democrats, they have this self-confident assurance that they stand for working people and I get so sick of it,” Vance continued. “Let’s go talk to the grandparents who are raising their grandbabies in southeast Ohio and tell them that you stand for working people when the basic essentials that they depend on are going up 5, 10, 15 percent. It makes me sick and these people, our people, need somebody to fight for them.”

Breitbart News Saturday airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Eastern.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. 

Capitalism Run Amok: What went wrong and how to fix it | Marianne Williamson and Richard Wolff

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1K Migrants Apprehended in Hours at Single Texas Border Station

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BOB PRICE

16 Aug 202147

4:55

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station apprehended more than 1,000 migrants in a few hours last week. This occurred as Rio Grande Valley Sector agents apprehended more than 4,000 in a single day.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted a video showing Rio Grande City Station agents taking a large group of migrants into custody on August 12. The chief said the agents apprehended 1,000 migrants in just a few hours.

Hastings added that agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector apprehended more than 412,000 migrants so far this fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2021.

The sector chief also tweeted a photo showing nearly 60 migrants found in a human smuggling stash house. None of the migrants wore personal protection equipment.

Agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector apprehended a record 4,000 on Thursday as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited the sector, Breitbart Texas’s Randy Clark reported.

While the secretary made some public comments, reporters were not allowed access to the briefings being provided by Border Patrol officials.

In his public comments, Mayorkas failed to address the inhumane conditions that migrants being detained face, Clark stated. Instead, the secretary described the months-long border crisis as a “serious challenge.”

Clark continued:

The record apprehensions noted in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in South Texas, break established historical figures for an agency that dates to May 28, 1924. On that date, then-President Calvin Coolidge established the United States Border Patrol. The agency was established to enforce immigration law between established ports of entry along the southwest border. The record-breaking number of apprehensions today has as much to do with Calvin Coolidge as it does with Donald Trump.

Unlike the overwhelmed humanitarian care organization of today, the primary mission of the Border Patrol, when it was established, was to enforce immigration laws. It was not to welcome, receive, and care for thousands of migrants illegally entering the country daily at the invitation of a new presidential administration. The current administration forced the agency to neglect its responsibility to the American public to safeguard its borders as a national security agency.

In Secretary Mayorkas’ political deflection of who might possibly be responsible for the deplorable conditions wrought upon border communities and the migrants themselves, he chooses to target the previous administration’s handling of immigration affairs. Rather than acknowledge the current border crisis is quickly getting out of control, Mayorkas chooses to engage in political deflection that is self-serving and protective towards an out-of-touch administration.

Agents assigned to the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors apprehended more than 73 percent of all migrants apprehended in the nine southwest border sectors in June, Breitbart reported. The agents apprehended 146,212 migrants in the month of June alone.

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio, Big Bend, and El Paso Sectors apprehended 146,212 migrants in July, according to the Southwest Border Land Encounters report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection late last week. These include the apprehensions of 61,779 family unit aliens, 15,267 unaccompanied alien children, and 68,666 single adult aliens.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

Toddler Found in 100+ Degree Rail Car near Border in Texas

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Del Rio Sector

BOB PRICE

16 Aug 20213

2:46

A Border Patrol K-9 team carrying out train inspections in the Del Rio Sector found a toddler and his mother locked inside a grain-hopper rail car. The mother and son were without food or water in triple-digit temperatures.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials tweeted photos of a rail car inspection that led to the prevention of a potential tragedy. Agents came upon a mother and a toddler locked inside the hopper.

A Border Patrol K-9 alerted to the presence of “human cargo” inside the rail car. Upon inspection agents found the toddler wearing only a diaper. Officials said the mother and child had no food or water.

Apprehensions of migrants in the Del Rio Sector skyrocketed this fiscal year as agents took nearly 183,000 migrants into custody, according to the July Southwest Border Land Encounters report released late last week by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. This represents an increase of 533 percent over the same period last year and moved the Del Rio Sector to the position of second-busiest sector in the nation.

Agents in the Laredo and Del Rio Sectors frequently find migrants stashed in grain-hopper rail cars. One month ago, Laredo Sector agents found another child locked inside a similar rail car, Breitbart Texas reported.

“This dangerous method of traveling further into the United States after illegal entry is strongly discouraged as it often results in serious injury or death,” Laredo Sector officials said at the time. “Many times, undocumented individuals choose this grueling method of transportation without realizing the consequences of their actions until it is too late.  Fortunately, in this case, agents detected the individuals and were able to apprehend them before any fell victim to a heat-related injury.”

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

146,000 Migrants Apprehended in July in Texas-Based Border Sectors — Up 16 Percent from June

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BOB PRICE

15 Aug 202174

4:55

Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based sectors apprehended 146,212 migrants in July who illegally crossed the border from Texas. This represents more than 73 percent of all migrants apprehended last month in the nine southwest border sectors. It also represents an increase of percent over June’s 126,485 apprehensions.

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio, Big Bend, and El Paso Sectors apprehended 146,212 migrants in July, according to the Southwest Border Land Encounters report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection late last week. These include the apprehensions of 61,779 family unit aliens, 15,267 unaccompanied alien children, and 68,666 single adult aliens.

July Southwest Border Land Encounters by Sector — U.S. Customs and Border Protection

While Texas is host to five of the nine southwest border sectors, the apprehension of migrants in these sectors accounts for 73 percent of the total apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border. The July apprehensions also show an increase from one month earlier of 16 percent.

Breitbart Texas reported last month that during the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2021 (which began on October 1, 2020) the Texas-based border sector agents apprehended more than 732,573 migrants. That number now stands at 878,785 apprehensions in ten months.

Agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in southeast Texas continue to lead all Border Patrol sectors with the apprehension of 80,306 migrants. These include 48,464 family units,20,803 single adults, and 11,036 unaccompanied children.

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The Del Rio Sector jumped into second place with the apprehension of 33,517 migrants including 21,079 single adults, 11,567 family units, and 881 unaccompanied minors.

During a visit to the Rio Grande Valley Sector last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters, “The situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. It is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic,” Breitbart reported. He attempted to blame the Trump administration for the surge in what he called the “cruel policies of the past administration.”

Breitbart Texas’ Randy Clark, a 32-year Border Patrol veteran, responded to Mayorkas visit, saying, “Mayorkas failed to address the impact of thousands of migrants being detained in inhumane conditions due to the sheer volume of traffic crossing the southern border — a level that has overwhelmed available resources at all levels of government.”

Mayorkas also appeared to ignore recent reports showing that 20 percent of the migrant children being released into Texas under his administration are testing positive for COVID-19 — after being released by Border Patrol. Additionally, 18 percent of the migrant families being released are testing positive.

Many of the migrants being released by the Border Patrol are being placed on buses without being tested for the coronavirus and transported to major cities across Texas.

“What we’re doing is coordinating with the EMC, the emergency management coordinators, in Austin and Houston, and I believe even Dallas, too,” Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz, a Democrat, told reporters. “Then, it’s really up to them to continue offering PPEs, masks, hygiene, whatever they require.”

“The reason why we don’t do testing is that once you test, there’s an obligation,” Saenz explained. “If they’re positive, we’re told that you have to quarantine. We don’t have the infrastructure for that.”

“Border Patrol was very clear that they were just going to put them out in the street, in our plazas. And, of course, we couldn’t have that,” Saenz told reporters.

“I know some people may say, ‘you’re basically transporting untested people to other cities.’ And the answer is ‘yes,’ the border mayor concluded, “But what alternative do we have here, locally?”

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.