Thursday, August 12, 2021

NAFTA JOE BIDEN'S WAR ON LEGALS - NOW HE GOES AFTER SENIORS AS HE SCATTERS HIS INVADERS ALL OVER AMERICA TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED

THERE IS NOTHING NEW GOING ON HERE. JOE BIDEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SLUT FOR BIG BANKSTERS. THAT IS WHY  BARACK OBAMA CHOSE HIM TO BE V.P. OF THE BANKSTER REGIME OF LAWYER BARACK OBAMA, LAWYER JOE BIDEN, LAWYER ERIC HOLDER. ALL RENT BOYS FOR BANKSTERS! THE OTHER BANKSTER-OWNED SLUT, CHUCK SCHUMER IS RIGHT IN THERE WITH THE WORST OF THEM!


As the Wall Street Journal editorialized, “Behold Big Business colluding with Big Government to grab subsidies and raise consumer prices,” a form of “corporate socialism, or state capitalism.” This unholy alliance calls to mind the “military-industrial complex” Dwight Eisenhower warned about in 1961, a warning still pertinent today.

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Rep. Byron Donalds: Biden’s WH Knows Massive Spending Hurts Seniors and Low-Income Americans – ‘They Just Don’t Care’

 By Craig Bannister | August 12, 2021 | 10:43am EDT

 
 
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“Does the White House not understand economics, or do they just not care?” Fox & Friends First asked Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on Thursday.

“Oh, they just don’t care. They’ve heard the reports. Look, even CNN has put out reports concerned about this massive spending, what’s it’s going to cost, for inflation,” Rep. Donalds replied.

Spending like the Democrats’ $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill and $3.5 trillion budget resolution are great for politicians and government contractors – “It just sucks for everybody else,” especially seniors and low-income Americans, Rep. Donalds said:

“The only people that are winners are the politicians in D.C. and some of the favored hands that get these contracts. That’s about it. It’s the American people that suffer, because Joe Biden has no idea – frankly, because he’s never had a job a day in his life – what the impact is when you spend this kind of money this fast, throwing it into an economy that’s already overheated, because they have too many people staying at home, not enough work – all by design.

“It is the American people who are going to suffer. It’s going to be seniors who are going to suffer. It’s low-income Americans who are going to suffer.

“But, if you’re on the Beltway, or you’re a politician, oh, this is great for you. This is a good plan for you – it just sucks for everybody else.”

“It’s this kind of economic idiocy that the White House knows is going on, but they’re busy playing politics. They’re busy paying back the people that helped them get into office,” Rep. Donalds said.

Producer Price Index Shows Bidenflation Is Not Going Away

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 03: U.S. President Joe Biden takes questions during an event in the East Room of the White House where he addressed the importance of people getting a COVID-19 vaccination August 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden also said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign following …
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U.S. producer prices jumped much higher than expected in July, suggesting inflation could remain higher than anticipated by the Biden administration and Federal Reserve officials.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index rose one percent compared with June, matching the June rise and outpacing the 0.6 expected. Compared with a year ago, the index is up 7.8 percent, the biggest annual increase in decades.

Excluding food and energy, PPI rose by one percent on a monthly basis and 6.2 percent on an annual basis. Excluding food, energy, and trade services, pries rose nine-tenths of a percentage point and 6.1 percent compared with a year ago.

In other words, instead of cooling off, inflation continued to sizzle in July.

Democrats: Passage of Infrastructure Bill Is Step Toward Massive Amnesty

PHILADELPHIA, PA - JULY 27: on the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 27, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Philadelphia, including …
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Senate and House Democrats are relishing in the passage, with the help of 19 Senate Republicans, of a so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill which they see as a building block toward a massive amnesty plan for millions of illegal aliens.

On Tuesday, in a 69-30 vote, 19 Senate Republicans joined all 50 Senate Democrats to pass the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which does not include a provision to ensure American infrastructure jobs go to American citizens rather than illegal aliens.

Those 19 Senate Republicans include:

Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rob Portman (R-OH), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Jim Risch (R-ID), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), John Hoeven (R-ND), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Mitt Romney (R-UT)

Now, House and Senate Democrats are saying the passage of the infrastructure bill is vital to passing their $3.5 trillion budget resolution which, among other things, would give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, foreigners with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), those working on farms, and those considered “essential” workers.

The amnesty would cost American taxpayers around $107 billion, though the cost in depressed and lost wages for the nation’s working and middle class would likely boost that estimate significantly.

On August 9 on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made clear to Senate Republicans that Democrats’ end goal was to pass the infrastructure bill to then pass the multi-trillion dollar budget with amnesty.

“As we move forward, we’re proceeding on both tracks — the track of the bipartisan infrastructure proposal and the track of the budget resolution with reconciliation instructions,” Schumer said.

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, warned Senate Republicans that by withholding votes for the infrastructure bill, the GOP was also stopping in its tracks the Democrats’ amnesty plan.

Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) suggested in an interview with National Public Radio that she will consider voting against the infrastructure bill unless the Senate passes the Democrats’ budget resolution with amnesty:

What progressives have been clear about since day one, as has President Biden, as has Democratic leadership, is that any vote on the narrow bipartisan infrastructure package must also come with a movement on a massive investment in tandem for workers and families.

“And that’s care economy, housing, combating climate change, and a pathway to citizenship for millions of our immigrant neighbors,” Presley continued.

Similarly, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) said Senate Democrats would “continue our work to deliver even bolder investments in child & elder care, immigration, and climate action” after passing the infrastructure bill.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) solidified on Wednesday that the infrastructure bill is directly tied to Democrats’ budget framework with amnesty, telling the media that she will not allow a vote in the House on the infrastructure bill until the Senate passes the budget.

“The votes in the House and Senate depend on us having both bills,” Pelosi said.

Already, Pelosi is facing backlash from her caucus with swing district House Democrats asking her to untie the infrastructure bill from the Democrat budget with amnesty.

“This is part and parcel,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) told SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily. “It’s a two-part plan to transform America, as Bernie Sanders has said. He’s been the author of this, and what we’re seeing is the actual realization of Joe Biden’s promise during the campaign to transform America.”

Hagerty, along with 29 other Senate Republicans, voted against the infrastructure bill.

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



Scalise: Infrastructure Bill Tax Hike Will ‘Kill Middle-Class Jobs’

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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Wednesday shared his criticism of the so-called bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure package that is linked to the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending bill.

Scalise warned on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” that the infrastructure bill, which he argued has a lot that doesn’t pertain to infrastructure, will “kill middle-class jobs.” He warned the bill would also negatively impact inflation.

“[N]ow, we are starting to see the details, and there are a lot of things in there that people are not going to like, not the least of which is the ability for the Secretary of Transportation to start the process of imposing a per-mile car tax on every person who drives a car in America,” Scalise emphasized. “They also have hundreds of billions of dollars slush funds.”

“The big problem here, Maria, that they are going to have is that it is directly linked to that tax-and-spend bill, the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill that is now moving, as well,” he added. “Nancy Pelosi has made it clear the two bills are linked together. Reconciliation, in her mind, has to pass before she even brings up the infrastructure bill, so the two are one and the same, which means over $5 trillion of new spending with taxes to go with it that would kill middle-class jobs. Joe Biden can talk all he wants about people making less than $400,000 a year. Does anybody in America think that a bill written by Bernie Sanders is going to leave your pocketbook alone? Of course, every family is going to feel the compact of it, starting with the car tax, but think of the inflation.”

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Bidenflation: Real Hourly Pay Suffers One of the Worst Collapses Ever

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It is getting harder and harder for American workers to make ends meet as rising inflation outpaces pay gains, pushing down inflation-adjusted compensation at a pace almost never seen before.

Adjusted for inflation, hourly compensation fell 2.7 percent in the second quarter, data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the nonfarm business sector showed Tuesday.

Real compensation fell 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011. That decline came in part because unadjusted wage gains were very small, just 0.5 percent. The economy was just extremely sluggish, with a low level of demand for labor following the financial crisis and the collapse of the housing bubble. The consumer price index increased 3.3 percent in the quarter.

The only other comparable contraction was in the first quarter of 1974, when real compensation fell 2.1 percent. That was in an atmosphere that was also very different from today’s, with extremely high inflation meaning prices outpaced wage gains. Consumer prices jumped 9.1 percent and wages rose 7.6 percent.

In the most recent quarter, unadjusted hourly compensation rose 2.0 percent compared with the 2020’s April through June period. CPI, however, was up 4.8 percent.

The losses to inflation are getting worse. Compared with the first quarter, real hourly compensation in the nonfarm business sector fell 4.8 percent.

Manufacturing compensation fell 3.3 percent compared with the start of the year and four percent compared with a year ago. That is the worst collapse ever. Compensation in durable goods manufacturing fell 2.8 percent on a quarterly basis and 4.3 percent from a year ago. Nondurable goods compensation was down 3.4 percent on both an annual and a quarterly basis.

 

Pollak: After ‘Infrastructure’ Hoax, It’s Time for Mitch McConnell to Go

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a hearing before Senate Rules and Administration Committee at Russell Senate Office Building March 24, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing to examine S.1, The For The People Act. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell no longer leads his party, and proved Tuesday that he is incapable of leading the opposition to Democrats’ radical agenda for the country.

He voted for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure “deal,” providing one of 19 Republican votes that allowed President Joe Biden’s radical proposals to pass the Senate after clearing the filibuster. In return for allowing Biden to reshape the American economy, and claim a bipartisan victory, Republicans got nothing.

That’s right: nothing.

There is no border wall in the infrastructure deal, whose cost would be little more than a rounding error in the total proposal. The wall is urgently needed, as hundreds of thousands of migrants continue to pour across the southern border.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) proposed an amendment that would have directed a modest $1 billion toward completing the wall. But McConnell acceded to a process that did not allow Republicans to amend the bill at all.

There is no Keystone XL pipeline in the bill. Instead, Biden is promising electric vehicles — as he did in the 2009 “stimulus,” when he steered Fisker’s electric car factory to his home state of Delaware. Hundreds of millions of dollars later, Fisker produced no cars in the U.S. and went bust.

Biden is playing the same political games today, fêting UAW-staffed companies but excluding non-union Tesla, the industry leader.

We are told that there is “water infrastructure” in the bill, but there is no significant water storage in the legislation, even as drought grips the West.

What is in the bill is a new form of racial discrimination, called “digital equity,” which is only the latest attempt by the Biden administration to distribute federal funds on racial grounds, an approach that has already fallen afoul of the courts.

The bill also helps China steal American jobs, with carveouts for bogus “Buy American” provisions.

Perhaps the bill might have been defensible if it actually grew the economy, but an independent study found that the bill would “have no significant impact” on economic growth in the next ten years, or even in the next thirty years.

And after promises that the bill would be fully paid for, the Congressional Budget Office informed Congress that the bill will add $256 billion to the deficit. That’s a quarter of a trillion dollars to add to the growing inflation problem, for no real benefit.

Republicans told their voters that the $1.2 trillion bill would help deter Democrats from passing a proposed $3.5 trillion spending bill through the “reconciliation” process. That bill is partly based on the radical “Green New Deal,” and includes massive new social entitlements. It could even include amnesty for some illegal aliens, such as the so-called “Dreamers.”

There is nothing to stop Democrats from passing it. Far from deterring them, McConnell has given them new momentum.

Now McConnell is threatening to oppose raising the debt limit if Democrats go ahead with their plans. He is bluffing, and everyone knows it. “The full faith and credit of the United States cannot be in question,” he said as recently as 2019.

He is simply posturing, hoping to fool people into thinking he is putting up a fight. Meanwhile, on his website, he is telling his own constituents that his vote for the infrastructure bill “delivers for Kentucky,” boasting of the pork he will bring home.

What hurts most is not even the wasteful spending; voters are resigned to that by now. What really irks Republican voters is that their Senators have given Biden a victory while his administration is doing so much to hurt the country.

The border is a catastrophe. Crime is surging across the country, while Biden talks about gun control, and Democrat mayors defund the police. The Supreme Court ruled the eviction moratorium was unconstitutional, but Biden went ahead with another one. The pandemic is surging again, after Biden’s vaccine rollout sputtered.

Biden has abandoned Cuban protesters. He is begging Iran to return to the failed nuclear deal, as the regime steps up its attacks on Israel through terrorist proxies. He is appeasing China and Russia, and leaving Afghanistan in a mess.

Yes, Republican voters want infrastructure, but not at the price of abandoning effective opposition.

When President Donald Trump proposed spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure, McConnell ruled it out entirely. In addition to the staggering cost, what McConnell opposed was Trump’s new model: the federal government would only spend $200 billion, letting the private sector do most of the rest.

That would have cut costs, while investing only in projects that had a good prospect of succeeding. But it would have also limited McConnell’s control of the cash and the patronage.

Republican voters are aghast at the betrayal. Yes, he confirmed Trump’s judges. But now, McConnell has cleared the way for the Democrats’ agenda.

The only hope left is that the Senate parliamentarian will rule out amnesty in “reconciliation”; that “moderate” Democrats like Joe Manchin (WV) or Kirsten Sinema (AZ) will get cold feet; or that the “Squad” will find a petty reason to oppose the bill in the House.

When Republican voters have more faith in the Senate parliamentarian, a pair of fickle Democrats, and in AOC than in the Senate Minority Leader, it is well past time for a change in leadership.

Under McConnell, Republicans lost control of the Senate, yet he somehow remained in charge of his party caucus. He took a gratuitous swipe at Trump after the second impeachment trial, rather than working to heal internal rifts. And with a 50-50 split, the best he could do on infrastructure is total surrender. Even his proposed amendments to the “reconciliation” bill fail to include a border wall.

Most of his caucus voted against him on the infrastructure bill. It is a sign: McConnell has to go.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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