America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Thursday, August 19, 2021
JOE AND KAMALA HARRIS ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME - HUNTER, TOO. JOE IS ON HOLIDAY, KAMALA IS SCREECHING AND HOWLING, AND HUNTER IS SUCKING OFF BRIBES FOR THE 'BIG GUY'
It is clear that Biden and his Democrats don’t believe in American exceptionalism or greatness, preferring to share the stage with powerful dictatorships. Biden’s legacy will be American surrender, economically, politically, and morally.
Inflation Hits Highest Since 1974 in Philly Fed Manufacturing Survey as Growth Unexpectedly Slows
Inflation signals climbed in August even while the pace of growth in manufacturing unexpectedly slowed in August, according to a survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Fed’s survey of manufacturers showed the current activity index slipping from 21.9 to 19.4 in August, the regional Fed bank said Thursday.
Economists had forecast an increase in the index to 25.
Yet the slowdown in the pace of growth did not slow down price increases. To the contrary, the price indexes climbed in August.
The index of current prices received by manufacturers for their products increased 7 points to 53.9, its highest reading since May 1974. The index for prices paid for components and materials edged up 2 points to 71.2, after dropping 10 points last month from June’s 42-year high.
Vice President Joe Biden makes a phone call on a train at Union Station in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, as he headed to an event in Philadelphia to tout plans to improve the nation’s infrastructure. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The median forecast for manufacturers’ prices was for an increase of 5.0 percent over the next four quarters, the same as when the question was last asked in May. The firms’ actual price change over the past year was 3.0 percent.
Companies expect that their employee compensation costs will rise 4.0 percent over the next four quarters, the same as in May.
When asked about the rate of inflation for U.S. consumers over the next year, the median forecast was 5.0 percent, an increase from 4.0 percent in May. The median forecast for inflation over the next ten years was 3.0 percent, the same as in May.
The index for new orders increased, while the current shipments index dropped. The current employment index rose, as did the average workweek index rose 6 points to 24.5.
(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Other than the inflation gauges, most of the other indexes of future business activity showed slowing. The index for future general activity decreased, the second consecutive decline after reaching a 30-year high in June. Nearly 46 percent of manufacturers expect growth over the next six months, down sharply from 59 percent last month. Twelve percent expect a decrease in activity.
The future new orders index fell alongside the future shipments index fell. The future employment index declined but remains elevated. Over 48 percent expect to increase employment in their manufacturing plants over the next six months, compared with only 6 percent that foresees employment declines.
The survey covers manufacturing businesses in an area with 13.3 million people in Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern and central Pennsylvania.
While we’re watching all the terrible chaos break out in Afghanistan, His Fraudulency Joe Biden and the Democrats are also serving up plenty of chaos right here at home.
That’s not to say we shouldn’t keep an eye on Afghanistan, not with thousands of American civilians trapped behind enemy lines after a jihadist takeover. But let’s do two things at once and remember all the chaos Joe Biden and the Democrat party are wreaking on the home front.
You know, when Donald Trump was president, all that chaos was mostly manufactured by the fake news media; that chaos was fabricated by a Deep State determined to use lies (like the Russia Collusion Hoax and the Ukraine phone call) to foment a coup. Granted, some chaos was created by Trump himself and his mercurial personality.
Still, the chaos we’re now seeing is all a result of Joe Biden and a feckless, hapless, and totally incompetent Democrat party — and it’s real, very real.
Afghanistan Chaos
The withdrawal in Afghanistan did not have to be this way. Biden did not have to break Trump’s deal with the Taliban for a May 1 withdrawal. Biden did not have to remove our troops before every American was safely evacuated. He did not have to leave behind billions of operational U.S. weapons for the Taliban to pick up. He did not have to choose Summer to withdraw when the Taliban are fully operational, instead of Winter when the Taliban are scattered around waiting out the cold weather at their respective homes.
As a result, we now have thousands of American civilians trapped in a terrorist hell being told by their own government that they are on their own.
TOPSHOT – Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Economic Chaos
Biden inherited a recovering economy and decided to strangle it with a lunatic amount of government spending that created record inflation. As a result, all the wage gains during the Trump years have been wiped out by an explosion in the cost of life’s most basic necessities: food, housing, and energy.
Gasoline alone is up a dollar a gallon, which is a brutal tax on the working poor.
Nevertheless, Biden keeps spending, kills oil pipelines, and refuses to allow oil exploration.
Biden has opened up our southern border to anyone who wants to come in, regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated or infected. As a result, we currently have the worst southern border crisis in decades after Trump had pretty much solved the problem and stabilized it.
Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border walk alongside a highway in Chiquimula, Guatemala, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Guatemalan authorities estimated that as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants have crossed into Guatemala as part of an effort to form a new caravan to reach the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)
Coronavirus Crisis
According to the CDC’s own math, the Trump vaccine is working about as well as anyone could have dreamed, and yet Biden has lost total control of the messaging. As a result, masks, panic, and the economic devastation that comes with the panic have returned.
The fear-porn peddlers have turned a nothing breakthrough issue for the vaccinated into a false crisis that says the vaccine doesn’t really work.
What an unforced error.
Crime Crisis
Violent crime is up, and in many cases, way up, in almost every major Democrat-controlled city. But, again, this is another thing that did not have to happen. But after Democrats embraced the domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter, emptied prisons, basically legalized rioting, and ended bail, all the gains against violent crime over the last two decades have been erased.
Overseas Chaos
It’s not just Afghanistan. After years of Middle East stability under Trump (including peace treaties), rockets are again being fired into Israel, Islamic terrorists are emboldened by Biden’s capitulation in Afghanistan, as are the Chinese and Iranians.
The world is much less safe than it was seven months ago, and America is not only less safe, it is less free.
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Washington, D.C. (August 17, 2021) - A Center for Immigration Studies analysis examines the decision by a federal judge to block the Biden administration’s termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as “Remain in Mexico”. The court made clear that the administration has three choices: Detain illegal migrants, remove or expel them, or send them back across the border. Crucial to the judge’s decision was section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which requires that aliens be detained until they are granted asylum (or other relief) or are removed.
Andrew Arthur, the Center’s resident fellow in law and policy and author of the analysis, said, “If Judge Kacsmaryk’s 'Remain in Mexico' order stands (and it should), the days of 'catch, release, and disperse into the interior of the United States' at the Southwest border are numbered. And the migrant surge there will subside, because if they cannot be free in the United States, few migrants will make the trip to begin with.”
MPP was implemented in January 2019 in response to the surge of aliens coming to the border for whom there was not sufficient detention space and allowed DHS to return non-Mexican migrants caught entering illegally or without proper documentation back to Mexico to await removal hearings. They were then paroled into the United States long enough to apply for asylum, while the Mexican government agreed to provide them with protection for the duration of their stays there.
The Biden administration terminated MPP despite the continued lack of detention space – there are about 2,500 “family unit” spaces, but more than 308,000 migrants in “family units” (FMU) have been apprehended at that border this fiscal year. Just short of 288,000 of these families have come in the six months since the inauguration.
MPP removed the enticement of a quick passage for migrants — mainly from the Northern Triangle — to this country with the expectation of entering illegally with weak and/or fraudulent asylum claims. In January 2019, DHS found that 90 percent of asylum claims by nationals of the Northern Triangle countries were denied.
Their cases nonetheless clogged the immigration court system, making it much more difficult for aliens with valid persecution claims to be granted asylum.
To ensure that the administration complies, the judge ordered it to provide him, on the 15th of every month, monthly totals of aliens encountered at the Southwest border, the number expelled under Title 42 or the INA, its total detention capacity and usage rate, the total number of applicants for admission, the total number of applicants for admission who were paroled, and the total number of applicants for admission who were released on parole “or otherwise”. (Emphasis in original.)
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