The Truth About "Bidenomics" and How It Compares to Trump's Economy | Victor Davis Hanson
Breitbart Business Digest: Bidenomics Already Happened. It Was Ugly.
Bidenomics: A Fancy Word for Things Getting More Expensive
President Joe Biden desperately wants to convince Americans that they have done well under his presidency. That’s going to be a tough sell.
There are parts of the economy that are doing well, as the establishment media and its friends in the White House have been reminding us for months. The unemployment rate is extremely low. Despite the steep rise in interest rates, economic growth has remained stronger than many economists expected. Consumer spending is holding on, as Americans continue to spend down the excess savings created by pandemic stimulus measures.
Yet Americans are still deeply unhappy with Biden’s economic stewardship. Just 34 percent of the public approve of his handling of the economy, barely changed from 33 percent in May. An Economist/YouGov survey from early July found that 45 percent of the public rate the economy as “poor” and 29 percent rate the economy as “only fair,” for a negative assessment of 74 percent. Just 17 percent think the economy is improving.
Biden and his political advisers understand that his re-election chances very well may turn on the public’s perception of the economy. So, they have decided to embrace a high-risk strategy that offers potentially high rewards. Beginning with a speech in Chicago last month, Biden has embraced the term “Bidenomics” to push a positive spin on economic developments.
Biden Says Wages Are Up
On Sunday night, for example, Biden proclaimed that real wages for American workers are higher than before the pandemic. This got challenged by “readers” of the Tweet who pointed out that real wages are still lagging behind where they were as the economy went into lockdown in March of 2020.
This is not quite fair to Biden, however. (Also, the phrase “real wages” means “adjusted for inflation wages,” so “real wages AFI” is a silly redundancy. Real in economics indicates an adjustment for inflation, while nominal means the figures are not adjusted for price changes.) The average wages in March of 2020 were above where they are now, but that was in part because the average jumped from $11.03 in February to $11.15 in March (measured in constant 1982 dollars). The reason for this jump was almost certainly the fact that so many of the lowest earners lost their jobs in March 2020, with employment shrinking by 701,000 jobs.
This is a very normal pattern in downturns. Average wages rise as many companies lay off recent hires first, and these are often at the lower end of pay scale. What’s more, it is often the lower-skilled and lower-wage workers that first feel the brunt of a downturn. As a result, average wages increase even as unemployment rises. Indeed, by April 2020, the average hourly wage was up to $11.71 because nonfarm payrolls had collapsed and 20 million people had lost their jobs.
Slow Progress Since 2020, Falling Behind Since 2021
A better rejoinder to Biden’s touting real wages being higher than before the pandemic is just to point out that it has been more than three years. Meaning, it took the economy three years to cross the threshold where people are earning more than they were before we got clobbered by COVID and lockdowns. That’s hardly an impressive feat.
Even more pointedly, average real hourly earnings still are underwater when measured against the beginning of the Biden presidency, when they were $11.34 in constant dollars. For almost the entirety of Biden’s presidency, inflation has outpaced wage gains. In the chart below, the red line represents inflation and the blue line is private sector average hourly earnings. Beginning in April 2021, prices were rising faster than wages. This has only reversed in May and June.
Even though wages have risen faster than inflation on an annual basis for two consecutive months, workers are still underwater for the totality of Biden’s presidency. Nominal average hourly earnings are up 11.57 percent while inflation is up 15.2 percent. So, people are still feeling pinched by what many have taken to calling Bidenflation.
And even though the month-to-month and year-over-year figures for food inflation have come way down, Americans are still feeling squeezed when they go to the grocery store. A recent piece in Barron’s pointed out:
Americans have also seen their grocery bills grow exponentially over the past four years. According to CPI data, food at home costs have jumped about 25% since June 2019. But again, that average hides some even bigger spikes. A loaf of white sandwich bread, for example, typically sold for $2.34 in June 2019. That same loaf sold for $3.16 last month—a 35% gain, according to average list price data collected for Barron’s by Datasembly at some of the largest U.S. retailers.
Egg costs, which experienced major price spikes in late 2022 and earlier this year, increased 28% since 2019. Meanwhile, a 12-pack of Coca-Cola or Mountain Dew has more than doubled in price. It adds up to a hefty bill for average consumers.
This is reflected in the polls. The Economist/YouGov poll shows just 14 percent of people say they are better off than a year ago, while 42 percent say they are worse off. Just 15 percent believe inflation will be lower six months from now, while 43 percent say they expect inflation to climb.
That’s Bidenomics, at least as far as the American people are
concerned.
Leading Economic Index Falls For 15th Straight Month, Indicating Looming Recession
The index of leading economic indicators fell 0.7 percent in June, the fifteenth monthly decline, the Conference Board said Thursday.
The leading index uses 10 indicators designed to show whether the economy should be expected to improve or worsen. Seven of the 10 indicators fell in June.
“The Leading Index has been in decline for fifteen months—the longest streak of consecutive decreases since 2007-08, during the runup to the Great Recession. Taken together, June’s data suggests economic activity will continue to decelerate in the months ahead. We forecast that the US economy is likely to be in recession from Q3 2023 to Q1 2024. Elevated prices, tighter monetary policy, harder-to-get credit, and reduced government spending are poised to dampen economic growth further,” said Justyna Zabinska-La Monica, Senior Manager, Business Cycle Indicators, at The Conference Board.
A gauge of current economic conditions, known as coincident indicators, was flat in June.
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Bidenomics Fail: Biden’s Economic Approval Rating Still Just 37%
The push by the Biden administration to promote its economic record under the label “Bidenomics” has not given much of a lift to President Joe Biden’s economic approval rating, a poll released by CNBC showed Thursday.
The president’s economic approval rating rose by just three percentage points compared to the prior survey in April. It now stands at 37 percent approving and 58 percent disapproving, according to the CNBC All-America Economic Survey. Despite a net negative of 21 points, this is better than the net negative 34 reading last summer.
The gain was driven by increasing approval among Democrats, CNBC said.
The share of the public who view the economy as excellent or good rose six points but remains very low at 20 percent. Seventy-nine percent say the economy is just fair or poor, down from 85 percent in the April survey. Forty-seven percent say the economy is poor, the worst rating.
Only 24 percent of the public believe the economy will improve in the next year, up six points compared with April but worse than the surveys from November and October. Forty-three percent expect the economy will get worse.
Thirty percent of the public say inflation is their top concern, more than twice as many as any other issue. In October, the last time CNBC asked the public to rank issues, inflation was the top issue for 27 percent. “Threats to democracy” is listed as the top concern by 14 percent and immigration and the border by 12 percent.
Republicans have solid leads over Democrats on economic issues. Thirty-nine percent said Republicans have “policies that have a positive effect on your personal financial situation,” with just 28 percent saying Democrats do. Forty percent said Republicans are better at dealing with the economy, 16 points higher than Democrats. Forty-three percent say they trust Republicans more on inflation, putting the GOP 18 points ahead of the Democrats.
The survey also asked which of the following things is most responsible for high inflation: government spending, companies trying to increase profits, and higher worker pay and labor costs. Fifty-one percent blamed government spending and 34 percent increased profits. Just 9 percent said they blamed labor costs. Six percent say they were not sure.
Republicans lead on the issue of bringing down energy costs at 37 to the Democrats at 30. Asked which party has “policies that have a positive effect on your job situation,” 34 percent chose Republicans versus 26 percent who said Democrats.
On housing affordability and reducing the cost of health care, however, Democrats have big leads over Republicans.
Empty suit, empty suites: Joe Biden's government of empty buildings
We often ask who's running the government with a White House led by doddering Joe Biden.
But with a new audit out, maybe the real question is what is the government.
According to the Washington Examiner:
The evacuation of federal headquarters during the COVID-19 crisis appears to have become permanent and costly with up to 90% of several agency headquarters empty, according to a federal audit.
At least 6 of 24 Washington area headquarters are 90% empty, including several that manage federal office space and employees such as the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management.
The audit from the Government Accountability Office found that just six agencies were operating with half of their staff in the office during the first three months of 2023, the latest sign that efforts to get federal employees back into the office after the coronavirus crisis and after years of encouraging telework have failed.
The findings echo private sector reports. In Washington, private offices are less than 40% full.
Turns out the government buildings Joe Biden presides over in his expensive, bloated government are about as empty as the old dotard's head.
It's like we have a pretend president, presiding over a pretend government.
Practically every agency headquarters is something like 80% empty.
But the empty buildings still stand, as if to suggest that something had been there. Mainly, it's the illusion of power and importance.
Overall, Uncle Sam owns or leases 511 million square feet. That includes some 1,500 buildings and 7,685 leases. It costs $7 billion a year to maintain buildings and lease others, said GAO.
The auditing agency urged headquarters to consider consolidating or dumping space and to even consider joining with other agencies to share space.
But many rejected that advice. “One official said their leadership is reluctant to share headquarters space with other agencies because it could lower their perceived standing as a cabinet-level agency,” said the audit report.
One thing the audit also notes is that these empty buildings waste a lot of electricity even with no one in them. So as Joe Biden tries to shove us into green vehicles and pay more at the pump to bankroll his energy transition, he's busy burning electricity ... on nothing.
The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial on the matter, has noted that even the worst empty building problems in the private sector, such as vacant office towers in big blue-run cities, are dwarfed by the emptiness of the federal government buildings.
The near-uniform emptiness across different agencies is another way the government stands out. Weekly attendance in the bottom quarter of surveyed offices is a measly 9%, and not one reported attendance above 50%. Compare that with corporate offices in New York, where average in-office attendance surpassed 50% last month, according to turnstile operator Kastle Systems.
The question is: Why are we paying for this? If the federal government can't get its post-COVID pandemic-era employees to come back to the office, then it's time for layoffs. If the government can function as it does on 20% of its people, then maybe it's time to lay the other 80% off.
The Journal notes that Congress does have a law for getting rid of empty government office space and recovering the expense for taxpayers:
The Federal Property Management Reform Act of 2016 mandates that the executive branch create and carry out annual plans to reduce its unused space. The law was passed by a GOP Congress and signed by President Obama, but it has spurred little action. The GAO report says the law has “improved the focus on real property management,” yet concedes that “federal agencies continue to have unneeded space.”
House Republicans seeking a small victory could demand that the Office of Management and Budget enforce the law and help federal agencies shed some of their extra space. The merits of working from home may be up for debate, but there’s no need to fund empty offices from the public purse.
Which should be a good project for the House and Senate.
Already, we know that at least some of them are trying to get something done.
Recall, for instance, that back in March, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on why the parking lots were so empty at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday at many of his agency's offices, which I wrote about here:
“How many are at their desk as opposed to being at home, or someplace else, the coffee shop or whatever?” Cassidy asked Becerra, after the cabinet secretary said that the department’s employees were working full time.
“What we make sure we care about is that they’re performing and they’re delivering,” Becerra said.
There was a whiff of what the problem here was in that answer, as Becerra kept gaslighting her about all his employees performing their jobs well.
Obviously, these characters view the big buildings with their agencies' names on them as proxies for their own power and importance. That will make getting rid of these costly hulks and husks all that much harder.
But they do need to get rid of them if for nothing else to save the taxpayers money. The federal government is already overspending us into inflation, and that activity has consequences. Cutting the fat in government, and shedding the excess buildings is probably the only way to restore our economy to health. This situation is not a sign of national vigor, or growth, or anything positive -- and you can bet that nations such as China and Russia are taking note.
Congress should tell these agencies they can finance themselves through selling their excess buildings that their employees won't work in, and getting rid of those who aren't showing up to work, because they aren't going to hand them another dime until they do.
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Biden Reduces Illegal Migration by Allowing in 500,000 Migrant Invaders
The CBP One app currently allows up to 529,250 migrants
I have a plan to win the drug war, let’s legalize drugs. Also, let’s end murder by legalizing murder. The mass migrant invasion at the border? That’s easy. Just legalize the invaders. That’s Biden’s plan.
And the media reports this with a straight face.
The Biden administration has welcomed over half a million migrants under programs designed to reduce illegal border entries or offer a safe haven to refugees, using a 1950s law to launch the largest expansion of legal immigration in modern U.S. history
Exciting! Finally, we can reduce illegal border entries by allowing the invaders in legally.
In less than two years, the administration has allowed at least 541,000 migrants to enter the U.S. through the immigration parole authority, which gives federal officials the power to authorize the entry of foreigners who lack visas, according to internal government statistics, court records and public reports.
The unprecedented use of the parole authority has allowed officials to divert migration away from the southern border by offering would-be migrants a legal and safe alternative to journeying to the U.S. with the help of smugglers and entering the country unlawfully
Instead of trying to stop them from invading America illegally, Biden has authorized them to invade America legally. We don’t want invaders going to the trouble of unsafely and illegally invading us when Biden can just authorize them to invade us legally and safely.
Taken together, the immigration parole programs created by the Biden administration amount to the most significant expansion of legal immigration in three decades. And to the dismay of Republican critics, the administration has done so unilaterally, without explicit consent from Congress, which has not expanded legal immigration levels since 1990 amid decades of partisan gridlock.
Congress, laws, who cares about these things? Presidents should have the authority to do any leftist thing they want, but no authority to do any conservative thing. That’s pretty simple, isn’t it?
The number of migrants paroled into the U.S. is expected to increase even further. The program powered by the CBP One app currently allows up to 529,250 migrants to be processed each year
Good news. Illegal crossings are down… because they’re now legal.
Officials, for example, have credited the CBP One app and program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans — as well as stricter asylum rules — for a dramatic drop in illegal crossings along the southern border in recent weeks.
Also if you create a big hole in the walls of banks, fewer people will break into the front of the bank.
The senior DHS officials said they expect migrants to leave the U.S. once their parole expires if they have not gained permanent status by applying for programs like asylum or visas for relatives of Americans.
“If they, at the end of the two years, have not found a lawful pathway in the U.S., our expectation is that we will be seeking to remove those individuals,” one official said.
Like all the millions of illegal aliens already in the United States. Is there a human being on earth dumb enough to believe this lie?
The Biden administration continues to illegally seize and wield unlimited authority to implement radical leftist goals. All of those goals, like the border invasion, add up to the destruction of America.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Biden’s DOJ Awarded $300 Million in Taxpayer Money to Sanctuary Cities
President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) gave hundreds of millions in American taxpayer money to sanctuary cities, those jurisdictions protecting illegal aliens from arrest and deportation, in 2021, new data reveals.
Federal data compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that in 2021, Biden’s first year in office, the DOJ awarded about $300 million to 11 sanctuary states and 86 sanctuary counties and cities that refuse to turn criminal illegal aliens over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for arrest and deportation.
President Joe Biden (JULIA NIKHINSON/AFP via Getty Images)
The taxpayer money was funneled to the sanctuary jurisdictions through three DOJ grant programs: the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants (JAG), and the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.
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Jack Knudsen / Breitbart NewsCIS researchers Jessica Vaughan and Nathan Desautels wrote:
The awards to sanctuaries represented more than 40 percent of the available funding under these programs. Sanctuary jurisdictions are receiving this funding despite having adopted policies to hinder cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities. As a result, the federal government is subsidizing agencies that may be violating federal law and undermining public safety. [Emphasis added]
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The majority of SCAAP and Byrne JAG program funding went to sanctuary jurisdictions in 2021; 58 percent of the SCAAP funding and 68 percent of the Byrne JAG funding went to sanctuaries, while 28 percent of the COPS funding went to sanctuaries. [Emphasis added]
Chart via Center for Immigration Studies
In particular, Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC; San Bernardino County, California; and Nassau County, New York were among the top sanctuary counties and cities in the nation to secure tens of millions in DOJ funding in 2021.
Meanwhile, sanctuary states were the biggest sanctuary beneficiaries of DOJ grants.
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NYC Mayor's Office / YouTubeLocalities in the sanctuary state of California, for instance, scored nearly $83 million while Colorado secured more than $6.1 million, Connecticut got $7.1 million, Illinois got nearly $7 million, Massachusetts got more than $11 million, New Jersey secured nearly $16 million, and New York got more than $26.7 million, among others.
Across the United States, there are about 150 sanctuary counties and cities.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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The sheer volume of border crossers and illegal aliens staying in shelters has increased the system’s population by more than 110 percent since Adams took office. To afford subsidizing new arrivals, Adams has said New Yorkers will see public services like meals for senior citizens and library hours cut.
Every day, illegal immigration is costing New Yorkers nearly $8 million, and by the middle of next year, Mayor Eric Adams predicts it will have cost more than $4.2 billion.
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Who Really Benefits From Illegal Immigration? | Victor Davis Hanson.... OTHER THAN NAFTA JOE???
More than five million illegal aliens have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border since Joe Biden took office, according to a study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. With some exceptions, these migrants tend to be low-skilled, poor, and come from countries where violence is normal and women and certain minorities are degraded. By importing millions of foreign nationals who come from countries with cultures and values that are diametrically opposed to ours, American leaders are setting the stage for exactly the kind of strife and turmoil that is occurring in France.
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Tom McClintock Breaks Down Biden Border Crisis: 5.5M Illegals at Border, 2.1M Released into U.S., 1.5M Got-Aways
House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) detailed, in numbers, the extent to which the nation’s southern border remains more porous than ever under President Joe Biden’s watch.
During his opening statement at the subcommittee’s hearing on Thursday regarding criminal illegal aliens living throughout the United States, McClintock said the Biden administration’s policies have created “sanctuaries for criminal illegal aliens” while forcing “a dystopian nightmare for law-abiding citizens … who must live in them.”
By the numbers, McClintock said there have been more than 5.5 million illegal aliens encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border since Biden took office in late January 2021 — a foreign population that far exceeds the city of Los Angeles, California.
More than 2.1 million illegal aliens, McClintock said, have been released directly into American communities by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This is a foreign population equivalent to the city of Houston, Texas.
Similarly, more than 1.5 million illegal aliens are known to have successfully entered the U.S. interior without being apprehended by Border Patrol. This is a foreign population the size of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Among the 1.5 million known got-aways, there is no way to estimate the number of terrorists and criminals entering the country,” McClintock said:
But we do know this: By surrendering to border patrol, you are virtually assured of being released into the country. The 1.5 million who have evaded border patrol have done so for a reason: They are either conducting criminal activity or they are hiding criminal records. [Emphasis added]
McClintock also noted the Biden administration “has essentially adopted the sanctuary policies that prevent many dangerous illegal aliens from being deported after they have been convicted and incarcerated for committing other crimes while in the United States.”
Indeed, after the Supreme Court recently ruled that states lack standing to sue over Biden’s so-called “sanctuary country” orders — which ensure most of the nation’s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens are not eligible for deportation — DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reinstated the orders.
The lack of arrests and deportations from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency under Biden, McClintock said, paints a clear picture of the impact of the orders:
In fiscal year 2020 — the last year of the [Donald] Trump administration — ICE removed 186,000 aliens from the United States. Two years into the Biden administration, deportations have plunged to only 72,000 — a decline of more than 60 percent. [Emphasis added]
The Trump administration removed 104,000 convicted criminals from the country in fiscal year 2020, yet the Biden administration only removed 38,000 in fiscal year 2022. That requires repeating. The number of convicted criminal aliens removed from our country has declined by nearly two-thirds under this administration. [Emphasis added]
Similarly, in 2020, the Biden administration removed just 60 percent of the number of known or suspected gang members as the Trump administration had done just two years prior. [Emphasis added]
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U.S. House of RepresentativesAs Breitbart News reported, the orders have also ensured that fewer criminal illegal aliens are ever taken into ICE custody, even after their arrests for local crimes.
Since Biden took office, ICE has cut the number of detainers issued to local police. These detainers ask the police to hold illegal aliens in their custody until they can be turned over to ICE agents for arrest and deportation.
Under the Trump administration, ICE issued more than 15,000 detainers a month in parts of 2018 and averaged about 13,000 to 14,000 detainers a month before Fiscal Year 2020. Compare those monthly figures to when Biden took office, and monthly detainers dropped to 2,200 by March 2021.
“Explain to me how this makes our communities safer. Does anyone seriously believe that making it harder to remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities makes our communities safer?” McClintock asked.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Gallup: Most GOP Voters Say Migration Damages U.S. Economy
Two-thirds of GOP voters believe the nation’s economy is made worse by legal and illegal migration, Gallup reported on July 13.
The 64 percent share of GOP votes who say the economy is made “worse” by migration is five times larger than the 14 percent share who say migration makes the economy “better,” Gallup reported.
The 5:1 split also creates a 50-point gap between the party’s two wings, which can be described as employees and employers, or populists and business libertarians, or voters and donors.
In contrast, most Democrat voters have followed the path demanded by their investor-backed leaders, despite the growing damage to white-collar, blue-collar, and black Democrats.
So Gallup reported that 62 percent of Democrats say migration makes the economy “better” while 17 percent say it makes the economy “worse.” Those numbers show a plus 46-point pro-migration gap in the nation’s left-wing party, said Gallup’s June 1-22 poll.
Gallup’s overall result matches other polls that show a plurality of the public now say migration makes their nation “worse off.”
Nationwide, Gallup’s data says Americans split evenly — 39 percent to 38 percent — on whether migration benefits the nation, even though polls show the public underestimates the scale of migration.
The rising opposition is fueled by the public recognition that migration shifts wealth from millions of ordinary Americans toward older investors living in coastal states.
GOP voters’ optimistic views on migration and the economy only began to fall in 2017.
That downturn came as the party’s voters overrode the business-backed GOP leaders and installed immigration-skeptic Donald Trump as party chief and then president. Since 2017, the GOP voters’ views have grown to the 5o-point “worse” score reported by Gallup.
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Rebecca Brannon, Independent Photojournalist/LOCAL NEWS X /TMXThe voters’ views about the economy have created a huge — and also skewed — partisan gap in support for more or less migration, Gallup said.
The parties had broadly similar internal splits over migration from roughly 1993 up to 2012 when President Barack Obama openly sided with pro-migration groups during his 2012 reelection. Since then, most Democrats have supported more migration.
But GOP voters have firmly turned against more migration in recent years, leaving the party with a massive 63-point advantage for the less-migration faction.
Gallup reported:
Currently, 73% of Republicans, matching the prior high from 1995, want immigration decreased, while 10% want it increased, meaning their net preference for more immigration is -63.
By contrast, 40% of Democrats want it increased, while just 18% want it decreased — a +22 net preference score.
The negative view of migration among nearly all GOP voters has largely blocked donor demands for more migration.
But the donors’ economic clout has also blocked the voters’ demands for a reduction in migration.
The populist opposition to migration is being voiced by top GOP legislators, including Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). “This country has prioritized the importation of cheap labor,” including legal cheap labor, Rubio wrote in his 2023 book. The book is titled, “Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity.”
The two parties’ supporters disagree about many aspects of migration:
Swing-voting independents — many of whom care little about migration — have drifted towards a modestly minus-12 point view against migration. “Independents still tilt negative, with 27% wanting it increased and 39% increased, or -12,” while 32 percent say “present level,” Gallup reported.
But that swing-voter skepticism is not being mobilized by GOP leaders. Their passivity is caused by the major GOP donors who strongly oppose a pocketbook pitch to voters who feel pressured in Biden’s high-migration, low-wage economy.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
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@datainput via StoryfulIn many speeches, President Joe Biden’s border chief, Alejandro 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 elite opinion about “the values of our country” Mayorkas claims.
Migration — and especially, labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters. A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR).
The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
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