But only our modern Big Tech barons have used their power to police, and yes, rob individuals of individual thoughts with one click, while producing herdlike thinking and behavior with another. In the process, they have also helped diminish America as a unique beacon of freedom in the world.
When are Democrat voters going to wake up and hold their representatives accountable?
It really is bizarre that there are so many people in this country that continue to vote for Democrats every election cycle -- at all three levels of government: federal, state and local -- when economic and social problems continue to get worse almost by the day.
During Biden's administration, inflation, crime and out-of-control illegal immigration have been the most notable. It's a reminder of Einstein's famous aphorism "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". This describes the Democrat electorate in nutshell, except for all of the institutional elites to whom these chronic problems don't apply. They just sit back and virtue-signal their wokeness while living comfortably and securely in their gated communities.
The facts and metrics that are demonstrably true seem to be ignored every election day. Biden’s administration has actually made life worse for everyone, including every single person within the Democrat voter base regardless of race, sex and ethnicity.
Of course, those in the upper classes, so many of whom vote for Democrats out of a seriously misguided noblesse oblige, are never seriously affected by bad Democrat policies they support. It was Bill Gates who convinced Joe Manchin, senator of West Virginia to cast the deciding vote for the Inflationary Reduction Act that's now projected to add an additional $1 trillion in more new spending under Biden.
But the financially secure suburban white women are more numerous and important when it comes to votes. They seem to be more concerned about legal abortion than economic policies that would benefit single mothers and families in the middle and the bottom, who struggle to pay their bills and put food on table month-in-and-month-out. And generally speaking, the numbers of those struggling financially are in the millions if not tens of millions, whereas the number of young women wanting to get an abortion is miniscule in comparison. So wealthy suburban white women who secured Biden’s last election voted on a very narrow social policy that benefits the few versus helping improve the financial well-being of tens of millions.
Under Trump, there was the lowest unemployment for all identity groups in history. All the Democrat voters outside of the wealthy ones essentially cut off their noses to spite their faces when they voted for Biden, who then gave them a hefty pay cut because of the inflation caused by his monstrous spending policies.
And as for all the young progressive voters, especially those who work in the tech industry, they basically voted themselves right out of a job when they voted for Biden. His inflationary policies that tanked the economy are catching up with Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook and many other tech companies, causing them to layoff tens of thousands.
If you're a millennial or Gen Z, you really should be be wondering why you voted for Biden. For a young black business owner or one working a construction job or driving a truck for a living, the same could be said, when they see how much less their bi-monthly paychecks are going in paying the bills.
You would think that some serious soul-searching would be in order and they would begin questioning their loyalty to the Democrat party, since it has made life much worse.
Democrat voters will see the light and take a hard look at the GOP and how their policies can actually make their life much better financially in so many ways, I hope. The same can be said about the misguided wealthy and financially secure suburban white women, who many political analysts say were the difference in the 2020 elections in putting Biden over the top.
It's time for them to hold elected Democrats accountable and throw the bums out of office to send them a signal that they're not pleased with the current policies that are not improving the lives of anyone except their donors and the billionaire and millionaire classes.
Google Employees Express Outrage over CEO Sundar Pichai’s $226 Million Pay Package amid Massive Cuts
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s $226 million pay package in 2022 has ignited controversy among employees following the tech giant’s aggressive cost-cutting measures, including the elimination of 12,000 jobs and reductions in employee services.
CNBC reports that Google’s $226 million pay package for CEO Sundar Pichai in 2022 has sparked a firestorm of debate among staff members, who have taken to internal forums to vent their resentment and disappointment. This backlash follows Google’s aggressive cost-cutting initiatives, which included the axing of 12,000 jobs, scaling back on employee benefits, and reducing employee services.
One meme, addressing CFO Ruth Porat’s comments on multi-year cuts to employee services, stated, “Ruth’s cost savings applied to everyone… except our hardworking VPS and CEO.” Other memes making the rounds on Google’s internal forums compared Pichai to other tech CEOs like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, both of whom took significant pay cuts in response to layoffs at their respective companies.
Pichai’s pay increase was mainly the result of a $218 million stock award that he will get every three years. In addition to a $2 million base salary, his 2022 compensation package included nearly $6 million set aside for personal security. Many employees questioned the decision’s justification in light of Google’s extensive cost-cutting measures and the company’s recent authorization of a $70 billion stock buyback. Pichai’s total compensation is a gigantic increase from his 2021 compensation of $6.3 million.
One meme that garnered over 1,200 likes criticized the company’s priorities, asserting, “$70 billion in buybacks shows we respect external shareholders more than Googlers.” Another widely circulated meme depicted an image of the Shrek character Lord Farquaad, accompanied by the text, “Sundar accepting $226 million while laying off 12k Googlers, cutting perks, and destroying morale and culture.”
Pichai publicly admitted in January that he bore “full responsibility” for the company-wide layoffs. But when asked about possible reductions in executive pay, he sidestepped the question by focusing on how senior vice presidents were bearing “significant reductions to their bonuses.”
Employees at Google are becoming more tense as they consider the effects of Pichai’s pay increase and the company’s cost-cutting initiatives. Google has not yet made an official statement addressing the rising employee dissatisfaction.
Read more at CNBC here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan
DIDN'T JOE'S HIGH TECH BILLIONAIRES FOR OPEN BORDERS AND NO CAP ON VISAS ELECT THE WORST AND MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY???
ALL THESE BILLIONAIRES NEEDED WAS A SOCIOPATH GAMER PARASITE LAWYER LIKE JOE BIDEN!
The Biden administration has largely ignored efforts to get native-born Americans back into the workforce, instead adding millions of foreign workers to the labor market which adds downward pressure, particularly for working-class Americans in terms of finding jobs and securing higher wages. JOHN BINDER
Senate GOP Gives Victory to Kamala Harris, Her Big Tech Donors with Green Card Giveaway…. WITH KAMALA, JUST FOLLOW HER LONG HISTORY OF BRIBES SUCKING!
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-kamala-harris-another-closet.html
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
In this country they seem far more interested in cooperating with one major political party than the other. Witness the Zuckerberg “investment” of hundreds of millions in the 2020 election, less to bolster American democracy than to assure a Democrat party victory.
Today’s tech barons -- Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the like -- are much more powerful, much more insidious, and much more dangerous than their counterparts of long ago. They are also just as willing as any Rockefeller to crush their competitors and just as committed as any Carnegie to controlling their workers.
But only our modern Big Tech barons have used their power to police, and yes, rob individuals of individual thoughts with one click, while producing herdlike thinking and behavior with another. In the process, they have also helped diminish America as a unique beacon of freedom in the world.
The New Robber Barons
A free country will always have its robber barons. But not all such barons are equal. Nor are they all equally bad -- or good.
The title was not meant to be a compliment when it was first given to the Rockefellers and Carnegies of the late 19th century. Curiously, it has not been attached at all to today’s Big Tech barons. And yet they are worse, maybe even far worse, than their counterparts of long ago. This is true for many reasons, far from the least of which is that their impact has been to make this country less free.
All our barons have benefited from operating in a country grounded in political and economic freedom. But only our modern Big Tech barons have used their power to police, and yes, rob individuals of individual thoughts with one click, while producing herdlike thinking and behavior with another. In the process, they have also helped diminish America as a unique beacon of freedom in the world.
Today’s tech barons -- Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the like -- are much more powerful, much more insidious, and much more dangerous than their counterparts of long ago. They are also just as willing as any Rockefeller to crush their competitors and just as committed as any Carnegie to controlling their workers.
More than that, they are also willing to do the bidding of America’s enemies. Witness Apple’s kowtowing to the “request” of the Chinese communist regime that it shut down communication among Hong Kong anti-regime protesters.
In this country they seem far more interested in cooperating with one major political party than the other. Witness the Zuckerberg “investment” of hundreds of millions in the 2020 election, less to bolster American democracy than to assure a Democrat party victory.
What to do, given the clout and predilections of our current robber barons? Ironically, maybe the best answer would be to reverse the course of action taken by the original progressives in their attempt to rein in the original robber barons.
There is little doubt that those barons presented a serious challenge to our founding constitutional order of limited government and divided powers. In fact, so serious was this challenge that both major parties developed reform-minded progressive wings. And yet over the course of the past century those bipartisan progressive reforms have played a major role in further upending that original constitutional order.
Our first progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt, was convinced that something had to be done about the “wealthy criminal class.” Despite his trust-busting reputation, TR’s real emphasis was on building up the state rather than on breaking down the trusts.
Good Darwinian that he was, Republican Roosevelt assumed that evolution toward bigness in business and government was both inevitable and ultimately beneficial. In addition, he presumed that a progressive federal bureaucracy would always be staffed and run by politically disinterested experts. Democrat President Woodrow Wilson essentially agreed, thereby giving the progressive agenda an additional bipartisan sheen.
While this presidential pair did not deny that the Constitution of 1787 may have been a good starting point for a new country, they were both convinced that the time had come to move beyond that ancient document.
Well, given the power and reach of today’s robber barons, coupled with the power and reach of a federal bureaucracy that often operates in tandem with them, it might be time to put that old Constitution to some newly vigorous use. The Founders would likely agree. While they believed in a limited (Jeffersonian) sphere for government, they also endorsed the “energetic” (Hamiltonian) use of government.
If successfully applied, that constitutional energy could -- and should -- generate a great reversal, as opposed to any “Great Reset.” The eventual result might also be a great irony. How so? If the conduct of the original robber barons eventually led to big-government progressivism, the conduct of our modern robber barons could lead to the gradual reversal of the process that gave us an ever-expanding federal government in the first place.
Let’s first concede that both sets of robber barons have been innovators and builders, who have made life better in many ways for countless numbers of Americans. Nonetheless, the social and political costs that have accompanied our modern technological advances are no less real -- and have become much more immediately apparent -- than any environmental costs levied by the barons of long ago. Certainly, the negative impact of Big Tech on society, while subtle, is much greater and ultimately much more damaging than anything the original robber barons might have imagined -- or imposed.
The societal contagions that have been unleashed by Big Tech have been especially damaging among the young. Witness the current social contagion that is the transgender movement.
Finally, the revelations that have come from Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter have exposed the underside of the Rooseveltian vision of a politically neutral federal bureaucracy. Witness the now revealed collusion between the FBI and Twitter to define and condemn what together they decided was “disinformation,” followed by Twitter acting to “deplatform” those deemed to be spreading it.
Only the very Constitution that the original progressives disdained is equipped to halt this juggernaut. With political will, plus executive and judicial support, Congress could reassert itself as the first branch of government, whether by ceasing to surrender its authority to the bureaucracy or by some meaningful trustbusting of Big Tech.
Bureaucracy busting should also take place. No longer remotely bipartisan, the federal bureaucracy has essentially become an arm of the Democrat party. Maybe it’s time to return to a partial version of the old spoils system.
Scrapping the FBI and starting over would be a good next step. Other bureaucracies should be scattered around the country. Disease-ridden with politics, the CDC could remain in Atlanta, so long as it is placed under strict quarantine.
Eliminating the Department of Education and returning schooling decisions to the states and local school boards should also occur. In sum, let’s revitalize localism. That should be a bipartisan goal, but it isn’t.
The ultimate goal would not be to restore the 18th century, but to revive the spirit of America. Such a revival surely makes more sense than continuing to centralize -- and politicize (in one direction only) -- virtually everything.
That such a revival would also be a reversal is deliciously ironic. Really now, what could be more ironic than one day looking back and realizing that this reversal, this devolution, had been triggered by the actions of a new cadre of robber barons whose grasp for power and control far exceeded anything that the Rockefellers and Carnegies could have ever envisioned?
Then again, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that a different set of robber barons would provoke a different set of reforms. What might be surprising to the original progressives is that today’s reforms cannot possibly be bipartisan. After all, the problem today is not simply the existence of robber barons, but the link between our robber barons and one of our two major political parties.
Nonetheless, adding even more to the irony of it all is this: The power and influence of our modern robber barons is so great, and the possibility of a permanent one-party state is so real, that action must now be taken against not one, but two powerful forces, namely Big Tech and the federal bureaucracy that was initially called into being to counter robber barons far less daunting and far less damaging than the robber barons of today.
John C. “Chuck” Chalberg writes from Bloomington, MN, and has performed for many years as Theodore Roosevelt.
Billionaires Line Up Behind Biden for 2024: ‘Stakes Are Higher than Ever’
Billionaires across big business sectors like finance, tech, and media are gearing up to throw millions at President Joe Biden’s reelection bid in 2024.
After Biden announced his reelection bid last week, left-wing billionaires immediately started plotting to get behind the 80-year-old in the 2024 presidential election. According to interviews and sources who spoke to CNBC, billionaires across many industries want in on helping to reelect Biden.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, worth $2 billion, is reportedly offering to host fundraisers for Biden. Only a few weeks ago, Hoffman visited the White House, likely to meet with Biden and his team regarding the election.
Other billionaires getting behind Biden are investor Haim Saban, worth $2.9 billion, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, worth $1 billion, and Signum Global Advisors founder Charles Myers whose net worth is unknown.
“Stakes are higher than ever,” Myers told CNBC.
Also set to pitch in is hedge fund executive Donald Sussman who told CNBC that Biden was akin to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in what he has legislatively and executively accomplished with his “Build Back Better” agenda.
“I am thrilled his unique leadership will continue,” Sussman said.
Alexander Soros, the son of billionaire George Soros, is also likely to throw his financial weight behind Biden’s reelection. A recent report indicated that the 37-year-old had visited Biden’s White House some 14 times since early 2021.
The big-dollar billionaire donors for Biden are expected and welcome news for a White House stacked with former executives and employees tied to big business, big tech, and Wall Street.
In the 2020 election, more than 30 of Biden’s biggest donors had Wall Street ties while CNN analysis at the time showed that Biden’s campaign was backed by nearly “all the big banks” on Wall Street.
Related: Biden’s 2024 Announcement Lists No Accomplishments, Attacks “MAGA Extremists”
Joe Biden / YouTubeJohn Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Here is the problem in a nutshell. Most Democrat voters don't realize that leftist idealogues have hijacked the Democrat party, actively pushing traditional Democrat politicians out. They don't yet understand that the Democrat party they knew doesn't exist anymore. Almost all of the major news organizations work together to lie to Democrat voters and feed them misinformation constantly. Corrupted government entities like the FBI and the DOJ, and the leftists running all social media, have worked together to censor and silence any dissenting voices. The goal is to create a false reality in the eyes of Democrat voters and shield them from the truth. This is vital to ensure their continued support on Election Day. IAN MacCONNELL
THE CONJOB HUCKSTER FROM CHICAGO BARACK OBAMA OF THE BANKSTER REGIME OF BARACK OBAMA, ERIC HOLDER AND 'CREDIT CARD' JOE BIDEN NEVER DID A SINGLE THING FOR BLACK AMERICA BUT THEY SURE DID WONDERS FOR THE MEX FASCIST PARTY OF LA RAA 'THE RACE', AKA UNIDOUS.
The Democrats are responsible for most of the hardships suffered by the working class.
The Democrats are responsible for most of the hardships suffered by the working class.
The Democrats are responsible for most of the hardships suffered by the working class.
The Democrats are responsible for most of the hardships suffered by the working class.
The Democrats are responsible for most of the hardships suffered by the working class.
The Democrats are responsible for most of the hardships suffered by the working class.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CON JOB: RACIST MICHELLE OBAMA
But if you listen to Obama’s wife Michelle, this group is causing irreparable damage to America.
NO ONE IS BETTER AT THIS GIG THAN MICHELLE OBAMA
Despite being among the ruling class, Democrats such as Michelle Obama frequently use their race to hide behind victimhood whenever they are challenged or subjected to scrutiny.'
Let's subject Obama’s friends to the diversity criteria stated on the Democrat website that most liberals love to do when they post any group photo of human beings.
How many people of color? – None.
Obama and his friends are a perfect illustration of the modern-day elitist Democrat
Just yesterday was saw more proof that the mainstream media in the U.S. and beyond are P.R. agencies for the Democrats.
The media gave great prominence to former president Obama, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and rock star Bruce Springsteen making a surprise appearance at a Barcelona restaurant with a last-minute dinner reservation on Thursday.
The BBC carried details about the restaurateur being surprised by the visit and what he served his guests. There were details about the monument that the Obamas, Spielberg, and Springsteen visited.
Most articles mentioned restaurant staff member Pol Perello posting a photo on Instagram of the staff and chefs posing with the celebrity trio.
Image: Instagram
Let’s overlook the fact that owing to the nature of Obama's security he cannot actually make impromptu appearances without the Secret Service doing a full inspection of the place and its surroundings – the restaurant must have known well in advance about the appearance.
Let's subject Obama’s friends to the diversity criteria stated on the Democrat website that most liberals love to do when they post any group photo of human beings.
How many people of color? – None.
How many members were from the LGBT+ community? – None.
How many were from lower-income groups? – None.
How many from minority groups – None.
How many foreigners – None.
How many persecuted illegal migrants – None.
How many persons with disabilities - None.
How many ethnic Americans? - None.
How many Latinos? – None.
How many Native Americans? None.
How many rural Americans? None.
How many seniors and retirees? – None.
How many small business community members? - None.
How many worker union members? None.
How many veterans or members of military families? None.
How many women? None.
How many young people and students? None.
So how can Obama’s friends in Barcelona be described?
They are white, influential, powerful, and very wealthy.
Most of Obama's friends and neighbors are from this category. Most of Obama’s backers, when he was president, were also from this group. In fact, the Obama presidency was dedicated to serving this group; even some liberal outfits realized that.
But if you listen to Obama’s wife Michelle, this group is causing irreparable damage to America.
If you watch liberal outfits such as MSNBC or read Democrat mouthpiece such as the New York Times, you would think that this very group need to be destroyed if America has to survive.
This is the modern Democrat party.
There is no connection between what they say and what they are.
There is no connection between what they practice and what they practice.
Hypocrisy is their religion.
When Michelle Obama and the Democrats pushes for diversity she know that none of her rich white friends will ever be affected.
Spielberg and Springsteen will never ever lose a job opportunity because of the Democrats' diversity push.
Nobody will order Spielberg to vacate his director's chair in favor of a filmmaker from a minority group.
Nobody will tell Springsteen to cancel a concert in favor of a singer from a minority group.
The only people losing, owing to this diversity push, are white people from the working class who are aspiring to rise from their poverty by seeking education or gainful employment.
The Democrats, in general, are a part of the elite that push 'virtuous' ideas knowing that they will never suffer the consequences.
When Hillary Clinton said that Trump supporters belong to the basket of deplorables, she wasn’t misspeaking, she was expressing exactly what she thought.
When Obama referred to Republican voters as bigoted and embittered individuals who cling to guns or religion he didn't have a momentary lapse of judgment.
He was instead expressing the Democrat groupthink.
The modern Democrat party has disdain for the white working class, especially those who live in states that do not vote for them.
Consequently, this group is usually the suffers from their policies.
When the Democrats push for gun control, it applies to regular people only. They know they will remain unaffected because they have 24x7 private security and live in mansions with imposing walls. They also know that criminals will ignore that law and leftist district attorneys will not prosecute them. Guns are among the few affordable means of self-defense for working-class people. They will become targets.
When the Democrats open up the border, they know that they will never ever suffer the consequences. They will never lose a job because an illegal alien is willing to work for less. They will never be hurt because a criminal illegal alien engages in violence. They know their localities will not be overrun by unvetted foreigners. They know their resources will not be consumed by migrants.
When the illegal migrants were dropped in Martha’s Vineyard, the Obamas didn’t welcome them into their homes. New York Mayor Eric Adams is livid that unvetted illegal aliens from Texas are overrunning his city. The Democrats only advocate for compassion when they do not have to make sacrifices.
When the Democrats advocated for lockdowns, they knew they would never be affected. They lived in mansions with spacious gardens and if they felt suffocated indoors, they could amble around in their gardens or sunbathe on the terrace. The sufferers were working-class people who couldn’t step out for a stroll, who couldn’t earn a living, and who couldn’t meet their loved ones, including those who were ailing or dying.
When the Democrats advocate for green laws, once again small businesses are hurt because it means additional expenses to satisfy the criteria; for big businesses the expenditure is minuscule.
When Democrats rally against coal-based electricity, they know the homes of regular people will plunge into darkness while their mansions will remain unaffected.
When the Democrats cause inflation, they know they will never be affected by the consequences of rising prices; once again it is regular people.
Back in 2019, Bill Maher hoped for a recession because it would lead to Trump’s loss in 2020. Maher didn’t care that the recession would hurt the lives of regular people. Maher, too, wasn’t misspeaking. He was saying exactly what Democrats say behind closed doors. Maher's wish became a reality during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The goal was to destroy Trump’s economy and cause frustration and anger among people hoping that they would vote against Trump. They did not care about the suffering they caused.
Despite being among the ruling class, Democrats such as Michelle Obama frequently use their race to hide behind victimhood whenever they are challenged or subjected to scrutiny.
The only cause this group really believes in is the welfare of themselves.
The likes of AOC are merely following the footsteps of Obama.
The Democrats are responsible for most of the hardships suffered by the working class.
The Democrats haven't resolved any issues such as gun control, abortion rights, etc., that they claim to certainly stand for, they merely misused issues to scare people into voting for them.
It is nothing short of astounding that they have the gall to attack others and brand them with pejorative epithets that they are deserving recipients of.
It is nothing short of shocking that they still win elections and that a section of voters are so brainwashed and indoctrinated by the media and various other agencies that they will vote for the Democrats who are the party for the ruling class, by the ruling class, and for the ruling class.
Thousands of skilled migrants with H-1B visas working as subcontractors at well-known corporations like Disney, FedEx, Google, and others appear to have been underpaid by at least $95 million. Victims include not only the H-1B workers but also the U.S. workers who are either displaced or whose wages and working conditions degrade when employers are allowed to underpay skilled migrant workers with impunity.
Chamber of Commerce, Special Interest Groups Launch Lobbying Campaign Demanding More Immigration to U.S.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and hundreds of special interest groups have launched a lobbying campaign to demand more legal immigration to the United States so business has a constant flow of cheaper foreign workers to hire for American jobs.
On Monday, the Chamber and more than 430 special interest groups unveiled the Legal Immigration and Border Enforcement Reform This Year (LIBERTY) campaign to formally ask Congress and President Joe Biden’s administration to increase legal immigration levels for the benefit of the business lobby.
“Companies are experiencing significant workforce shortages despite their sizable investments in expanding U.S. talent pipelines,” the Chamber and other groups wrote in a letter to Congress. “As a result, companies of all sizes and across a host of industries are wrestling with the myriad problems caused by their inability to adequately tap into global talent to meet their workforce needs.”
Every year the United States gives more than a million green cards to foreign nationals in addition to another million temporary work visas to foreign workers. These historically high, decades-long legal immigration levels are on top of hundreds of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens who are being added to the workforce each year after securing work permits.
The Chamber’s suggestion that businesses need more foreign workers to hire comes as labor market data shows that the Biden administration is rapidly expanding the United States workforce by funneling millions of border crossers, illegal aliens, foreign visa workers, and legal immigrants into American jobs.
In the fourth quarter of 2022, close to two million fewer native-born Americans were working compared to the same time in 2019, while two million foreign-born workers were added to the workforce.
At the same time, millions of working and middle class Americans are left on the labor market sidelines with few incentives to seek jobs.
Specifically, the Chamber and other groups want legal immigration levels “significantly” increased and a massive expansion of foreign visa workers as well as new visa programs.
The lobbying campaign comes as the nation’s labor market remains tight — a situation the Chamber of Commerce and special interest groups see as a downside for employers as they must pay higher wages, offer better benefits, and compete for employees.
While a tight labor market drives up U.S. wages, a flooded labor market from mass immigration helps redistribute billions in wealth away from working- and middle-class Americans to the nation’s top earners. It also tilts the economy in favor of employers rather than employees.
Republican voters, in particular, want less legal immigration; they view the issue as one centered around labor policy.
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey found that a majority — 54 percent — of GOP voters said they want legal immigration levels cut at least in half. Meanwhile, almost half of swing voters said they would like to see legal immigration levels reduced by at least a quarter.
The Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a future Republican presidential administration falls much more in line with the base of GOP voters, as well as swing voters, when it comes to legal immigration levels and foreign competition in the labor market.
The “2025 Mandate for Leadership” blueprint calls for the elimination of the H-2B and H-2A visa programs, both of which outsource blue-collar American jobs to foreign workers, and urges Republican presidential candidates to throw their support behind “Hire American” rules.
“Congress should mandate that all new federal contracts require at least 70 percent of the contractor’s employees to be U.S. citizens, with the percentage increasing to at least 95 percent over a 10-year period,” the blueprint states.
The Chamber of Commerce, along with other business groups, attempted late last year to promote an amnesty for illegal aliens, but the initiative ultimately failed to gain steam.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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