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AMERICAN COMPANIES FIRST AIM TO MAKE THEIR PROFIT MARGINS BY SCREWING THE EMPLOYEE. HENCE OPEN BORDERS FOR 'CHEAP' LABOR.
EXPOSED: Wage Theft at One of America’s Largest Employers KROGER
APARTMENT BUILDINGS FORECLOSED, FED ADMITS RECESSION, TRUCKERS STRANDED, COMMERCIAL R.E. CRASHING
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JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Wake up, America — we're losing our country!
I never thought I'd have to face the prospect of witnessing the decline and fall of the United States, the greatest country in the history of the world. I've always felt grateful to have been born in this marvelous nation. Yet, today, as I woke up and was having my morning coffee, I began to realize that things are changing quickly, and the changes are corroding us from the inside. Regardless of how I vote, or whether I vote, it seems as if it doesn't matter, because something evil has invaded this great land, and our lives are never going to be the same.
I've been confused by the hostility coming from family and friends. I look at people I've known for years, who have become so hateful that they will agree with opinions they would never have expressed as their own. The indoctrination from the mainstream media has done a thorough job of implanting a sinister poison into the consciousness of a growing segment of the population that once would have immediately rejected the absurdity coming from the left and deemed it to be ludicrous on its face. Instead, it's as though our planet has tilted on its axis and scrambled the innate common sense that once allowed us to think clearly.
We've become a nation that has lost its collective mind. We're urged to abandon reason and reject cultural norms, choosing instead an accommodation to an assortment of freakish behaviors, which, during a saner time in our history would have required psychological counseling, rather than fawning acquiescence. The more we cater to the idiosyncrasies from that tiny fraction of society, the more likely it is that it will get progressively more repugnant. You can't justify this insanity. If a guy pretends to be a woman, you're required to pretend with him. If you say it's impossible for a man to get pregnant and have children, you're attacked as a "transphobe." A woman running for the Supreme Court can't define what a woman is. If a man walks into a room wearing a dress, high heels and panty hose, while sporting a beard and goatee, and you address him as "sir," you might be vilified for "misgendering."
Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections is good. It was okay for Biden to extort the president of Ukraine, but it's an impeachable offense if Trump inquires about it. Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but 18 is old enough to vote. People who never owned slaves should pay reparations to people who have never been slaves. People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out steep loans for their degrees. Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you'd better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated. Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the U.S. must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome. Five billion dollars for border security is too expensive, but 1.5 trillion for free health care is not. If you cheat to get into college, you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country, you go to college for free.
People who say there's no such thing as biological sex are demanding that we elect a female president. We see other countries going socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to some of us. Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for things they're doing now. Criminals are caught and released to hurt more people but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of their rights. And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us racists.
Nothing makes sense anymore! No values, no morals, and no civility. People died from a Chinese virus, but it's racist to refer to it as Chinese, even though it began in China. We're clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong, and wrong is right, where moral is immoral, and immoral is moral, where good is evil, and evil is good; where killing murderers is wrong, but killing unborn babies is okay.
Wake up, America! Nihilists are systematically robbing us of everything that made our country the envy of the world. Our ancestors fought and died to give us this bountiful life. Did they pass their freedom-loving DNA to us in perpetuity? Or did the soft life they created for us weaken our backbones and drain us of the courage needed to hold onto their gift? That swinging pendulum we've been hearing about for decades has reached the breaking point. Get involved in reversing it, or prepare for the end of everything you've worked for.
The left is willing to destroy our country. What are you willing to do to save it?
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Deficit Tops $1 Trillion in First Six Months of FY2023
(CNSNews.com) - The federal deficit topped $1 trillion in the first six months of fiscal 2023 (October through March), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.
This was despite the fact that federal tax revenues in the first six months of this fiscal year were $2,048,196,000,000, which was the second-highest in the nation’s history (when compared to the inflation-adjusted numbers for the tax revenues collected in the first six months of previous fiscal years).
From February to March, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement, the fiscal 2023 federal deficit increased by $378,077,000,000, climbing from $722,627,000,000 to $1,100,704,000,000.
So far, in fiscal 2023, while the federal government collected $2,048,196,000,000 in taxes, it spent $3,148,900,000,000—resulting in the deficit of $1,100,704,000,000.
When the historical budget numbers are adjusted for inflation into March 2023 dollars, it turns out that this year’s October-through-March federal deficit is the fourth largest in the nation’s history. In fiscal 2021, during the COVID pandemic, the October-through-March deficit was $1,944,334,490,000 in constant March 2023 dollars. That was the largest deficit the federal government has ever run in the first six months of a fiscal year.
The second-largest was in October-through-March of fiscal 2009, when the federal government ran a deficit that was $1,357,706,460,000 in constant March 2023 dollars. The third-largest was in October-through-March of fiscal 2011, when the federal government ran a deficit of $1,120,280,830,000 in constant March 2023 dollars.
In October-through-March of fiscal 2012, the federal government also ran a deficit that exceeded $1 trillion in constant March 2023 dollars. But that fiscal year’s first-six-month deficit of $1,024,999,220,000 in constant March 2023 dollars was less than this year’s six-month deficit of $1,100,704,000,000.
The $2,048,196,000,000 that the federal government collected in tax dollars in the first six months of this fiscal year was only exceeded by the $2,236,043,500,000 (in constant March 2023 dollars) that the federal government collected in taxes in the first six months of fiscal 2022.
This fiscal year and last fiscal year are the only ones in the nation’s history when federal tax collections have exceeded $2 trillion in the first six months of a fiscal year.
The Department of Health and Human Services led all government departments and agencies in spending during the first six months of this fiscal year. It spent $843,257,000,000 from October through March.
It was followed by the Social Security Administration, which spent $685,876,000,000; and the Department of the Treasury, which spent $540,813,000,000—including $384,227,000,000 in interest on Treasury securities issued to fund the federal debt.
The Department of Defense-Military Programs was fourth in federal spending with total outlays of $386,255,000,000.
(Historical numbers in this story were converted into constant March 2023 dollars using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator.)
Mark Levin: 'We Must Prepare for War Against China...Because They Want War'
(CNSNews.com) - "We have a Marxist revolution that is destroying us from within, while the enemy gathers abroad," conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Sean Hannity's audience on Monday night.
Levin warned that the United States "needs to prepare for war with China," and he said it twice, so the “back-benchers regurgitate it."
“[T]here is an axis of powers against us right now. It's China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. This is no joke," Levin said:
“China hasn't built the biggest Navy on the face of the Earth, military islands in the South China Sea, over 27 bases of different kinds in our hemisphere, a deep-water naval base in Somalia...You have a China with a base on the western coast of Africa facing us, killer satellites, nuclear missiles.
"You think they're building all that to defeat Taiwan? They're building all that to defeat us. They're not going to be satisfied with Taiwan. They're in battles now with the Philippines, Japan, even Vietnam, Australia's being threatened."
Levin called it "a big damn deal," and he delivered a message that Americans may not want to hear:
"We need to prepare for war against China. I don't mean go to war. I don't mean initiate a war. But they are preparing for war.
“We are completely unprepared as a nation, psychologically. We are completely unprepared economically and immigration-wise, in securing our border. Our military is not prepared in the sense that they're pushing this woke ideology. Our military budgets do not reflect the threats that we are facing in the world around us.
"I want to say it again so that back-benchers regurgitate it. We must prepare for war against China. Not because we want war. Not because we're going to cause war. But because they want war.
“They've only communicated it in 10,000 different ways, whether it's violating our air space, navigable waters, threatening our ships, threatening our country, threatening our people. What else can they do, short of attacking?
"They're not going to be satisfied with Taiwan. This is a big damn deal. And we don't have the military brass at the Pentagon to deal with this, the secretary of defense or secretary of state.
“We've never been so weak. That's what XI sees. He sees what I see. He sees what the rest of the damn world sees..."
Levin slammed French President Macron for visiting China at the height of U.S.-Chinese tensions and "stabbing us in the back" by pursing greater cooperation with the CCP.
Levin also slammed President Joe Biden's weakness in the face of China’s rising strength.
'That thing's going to get bad'
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), appearing on a different Fox News show Monday evening, told Jesse Waters, "There's no way we finish this decade without China trying to do something about Taiwan."
Rubio said the situation -- "that thing" -- is "going to get bad."
Rubio said he thinks China would prefer to take Taiwan without military might -- "just have Taiwan surrender."
"We should stop pretending that we're not headed towards something there. We are," Rubio said.
"And...if they were to take Taiwan -- it's not just about the small little island off the coast of China. That gives them effective control over all of the eastern Pacific or East Asia, seventy percent of global commerce.
“I mean, they could literally just shut us down. They could clamp down and close down our economy, like COVID times 50. That would be a strategic major moment in world history -- not a good one for America."
Rubio said the U.S. isn't alone in wanting to contain China. He said the U.S. should be "focused on building these alliances with Japan, with South Korea, with all these countries that want to be helpful and have capacity.
“The Japanese are actually very capable. The Australians as well. It doesn't have to be us alone. All these countries have an interest there.
"But we need to take that seriously. You know, look, I'm concerned about Joe Biden. If I were the Chinese -- if I were the Chinese and Joe Biden is the president, they're probably trying to figure out, we need to do this while that guy's still there."
America Imported $78.8 Billion in 'Cell Phones and Other Household Goods' From China in 2022
In 2020, the year that the COVID pandemic — which originated in the People's Republic of China — hit the United States, Americans imported $61,689,114,229 in "cell phones and other household goods" from that country.
In 2021, Americans imported $75,104,920,094 in Chinese-made cell phones and other household goods.
In 2022, the Census Bureau reported last week, Americans imported $78,766,814,842 in Chinese-made cell phones and other household goods.
In the three years since COVID hit, the United States has increased its annual imports of "cell phones and other household goods" from China by $17,077,700,613 — or approximately 27.7%.
The only import that Americans spent more money on last year than Chinese cell phones and other household goods was Canadian crude oil. In 2022, this country imported $113,465,977,527 in crude oil from our northern neighbor.
But while no other Canadian product made the Top 10 for U.S. imports last year, Chinese-made computers and Chinese-made toys, games and sporting goods did.
In 2022, America's third largest imported product after Canadian crude oil and Chinese cell phones and other household goods was Mexican-made "other parts and accessories of vehicles" ($57,707,116,244). The fourth was Chinese-made computers ($52,571,086,869). The fifth was Irish "pharmaceutical preparations" ($50,327,409,168). The sixth was Mexican-made trucks, buses and special purpose vehicles ($43,936,008,573). The seventh was Chinese-made toys, games and sporting goods ($41,311,867,317). The eighth was Mexican-made computers ($34,660,140,616). The ninth was Mexican-made "passenger cars, new and used" ($34,624,461,556). The 10th was Japanese-made "passenger cars, new and used" ($32,816,429,484).
In 2022, Americans spent a combined $131,337,901,711 on Chinese-made computers, cell phones and other household goods.
How do you put that $131.3 billion in perspective?
In 2021, the median household income in the United States was $70,784. The $131,337,901,711 that this country sent to China in exchange for cell phones, computers and other household goods last year equaled the combined income of approximately 1,855,474 American households earning the 2021 median income.
In fiscal 2022, according to the U.S. Treasury, our federal government spent $80.865 billion on the Department of Homeland Security — which is supposed to secure our borders and enforce our customs and immigration laws. That was equal to only about 61.57% of the money we sent to China in exchange for computers, cell phones and other household goods.
This nation needs to return to the trade policy of the Founding Fathers.
On July 4, 1789, President George Washington signed the first federal revenue law. It did not impose a direct income tax on the American people — which the Constitution made an impractical option prior to the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913.
The tariffs signed into law by Washington served two purposes: to raise revenue for the federal government and to protect and encourage American manufacturing.
When the Tariff Act was being debated in Congress, Rep. Thomas Hartley of Pennsylvania explained its purpose.
"If we consult the history of the ancient world," Hartley said on the House floor on April 9, 1789, "we shall see that they have thought proper, for a long time past, to give great encouragement to the establishment of manufactures, by laying such partial duties on the importation of foreign goods, as to give home manufactures a considerable advantage in the price when brought to market."
"I take it to be the policy of every enlightened nation," said Hartley, "to give their manufactures that degree of encouragement necessary to perfect them, without oppressing the other parts of the community; and under this encouragement, the industry of the manufacturer will be employed to add to the wealth of the nation."
Two days later, Rep. William Smith of Maryland presented the House with a petition made by some workers from Baltimore.
"That, since the close of the late war, and the completion of the revolution, they have observed with serious regret the manufacturing and the trading interest of the country rapidly declining, and the attempts of the state legislatures to remedy the evil failing of their object," said this petition.
"(T)hey look up to the supreme legislature of the United States as the guardians of the whole empire," it said, "and from their united wisdom and patriotism, and ardent love of their country, expect to derive that aid and assistance which alone can dissipate their just apprehensions, and animate them with hopes of success in future, by imposing on all foreign articles, which can be made in America, such duties as will give a just and decided preference to their labors, discountenancing that trade which tends so materially to injure them and impoverish their country; measures which, in their consequences, may also contribute to the discharge of the national debt and the due support of government: that they have annexed a list of such articles as are or can be manufactured amongst them, and humbly trust in the wisdom of the legislature to grant them, in common with other mechanics and manufacturers of the United States, that relief which may appear proper."
The first American Congress and the first American president sided with these workers — and with American manufacturing.
The current Congress lets billions of dollars in cell phones, computers and other goods manufactured in a nation ruled by a Communist regime flood the markets of this country every single month.
(Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSNews.com.)
Biden’s Migrant Mobile App to Release 30K Foreign Nationals Monthly into U.S.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will release as many as 30,000 foreign nationals into the United States monthly via a migrant mobile app whereby users schedule appointments at the southern border, a new report details.
The mobile app, known as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One, entices foreign nationals living in Mexico who are pregnant, mentally ill, elderly, disabled, homeless, or crime victims to schedule an appointment with agents at the border in the hopes of being released into American communities.
Foreign nationals in Mexico can submit their application for an appointment through the CBP One app up to 14 days in advance and then show up at eight Ports of Entry in Arizona, Texas, and California for their appointment.
Every month, the Biden administration has been releasing about 20,000 foreign nationals into the U.S. interior via the mobile app. According to CBS News, officials will soon increase the monthly inflow to about 30,000 releases into the U.S. interior:
The administration is planning to increase the number of migrants allowed to enter the U.S. daily under the CBP One process from 740 to 1,000, senior U.S. officials told CBS News, requesting anonymity to discuss internal plans. The number of participating bridges will also increase, the officials said. [Emphasis added]
Currently, CBP One allows migrants to request humanitarian exemptions to Title 42. But after the pandemic-era rule is lifted, the app will allow migrants to avoid being subjected to a soon-to-be-published regulation that will bar migrants from asylum if they failed to seek refuge in a third country en route to the U.S. Those who fail to use the app and cross into the U.S. illegally will risk being promptly deported. [Emphasis added]
Some migrants in Mexico say they have tried to schedule appointments at the border through the mobile app but continue to fail to secure an open time slot. Now, they are turning to crossing the border and turning themselves in to authorities in the hopes of being released.
Since the mobile app’s inception in late January, more than 60,000 foreign nationals have sought to schedule appointments at the border, while more than 30,000 have been released into American communities as of late March.
Foreign nationals released into the U.S. interior via the mobile app represent only a fraction of Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network.
Every month, tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens are released into American communities with the help of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), often funded through taxpayer dollars.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
AMERICAN COMPANIES FIRST AIM TO MAKE THEIR PROFIT MARGINS BY SCREWING THE EMPLOYEE. HENCE OPEN BORDERS FOR 'CHEAP' LABOR.
EXPOSED: Wage Theft at One of America’s Largest Employers KROGER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqrGBsUhAg
The task of combating the increase in migrant smugglers continues to threaten the department’s ability to provide traditional law enforcement functions in the county. Rios says Sheriff, Eusevio Salinas, is committed to making sure county residents receive the full services of his department despite the added workload. Several high-profile arrests in the community involving sexual assaults highlight the department’s ability to multi-task Rios says.
Under current Texas law, human smugglers can face stiff penalties. Suspects arrested and charged under a Texas statute for Smuggling of Persons, which currently is a third-degree felony, carries fines up to $10,000 and a prison term between two and 10 years.
Texas Considers Mandatory E-Verify to Boost U.S. Wages, ‘Turn Off Jobs Magnet’ for Illegal Aliens
Lawmakers in the Texas legislature are currently considering legislation that would require all employers to validate that their new hires are not illegal aliens residing in the United States.
Last month, State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R) introduced SB 1621, identical to State Rep. Steve Toth’s (R) HB 3846, which would mandate E-Verify — the online system that allows employers to ensure their new hires are American citizens or legal immigrants — for all businesses in Texas.
NumbersUSA’s James Massa testified before the legislature’s Senate Business and Commerce Committee, calling mandatory E-Verify “the most effective and most cost-effective method that the state of Texas can implement to be able to stem the flow of illegal immigrants,” among other things.
“[Mandatory E-Verify] ensure[s] that U.S. citizens and those that have valid work permits in the state of Texas are the ones who get the jobs in this economy of this great state,” Massa continued:
E-Verify also ensures that illegal workers are not working at subpar wages or that their children are not working in unsafe conditions. [Emphasis added]
RJ Hauman, a public affairs strategist who is a visiting adviser at the Heritage Foundation, as well as a consultant for Texans for Strong Borders, told the committee that Texas “has no choice but to act decisively to address a historic crisis being intentionally exacerbated by the actions of the federal government.”
“Your constituents are depending on you,” Hauman said:
In addition to disincentivizing illegal immigration, it also helps protect Americans from identity theft and removes the competitive disadvantage that employers have by hiring legal labor. Regardless of how secure we make the border, if illegal aliens can easily obtain gainful employment, they will continue to find their way into the state of Texas in large numbers. SB 1621 removes this important driver of illegal immigration and protects American workers. If you truly want to end the crisis ravaging the state, turn off the jobs magnet. It’s that simple. [Emphasis added]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has been pressed by opponents of illegal immigration to support the legislation. Republicans currently hold majorities in the State House and State Senate of the Texas legislature.
For decades, across red states, big business interests have fought tirelessly to stop mandatory E-Verify as their wide profit margins rely on hiring cheap, illegal labor against the interests of working and middle-class residents.
The result, Massa said, is that taxpayers are left footing the bill.
“Businesses that hire people for unfair lower wages reap the profit and the rest of society pays for the costs of those people to be in society,” Massa said.
A newly published survey from Rasmussen Reports, commissioned by NumbersUSA, shows widespread support for mandatory E-Verify among likely Texas voters. For example, 71 percent of all likely Texas voters said they back mandatory E-Verify — including 74 percent of white Texans, 59 percent of black Texans, and 65 percent of Hispanic Texans.
Similarly, 56 percent of Democrats in Texas said they support requiring employers to use E-Verify for all new hires, along with 82 percent of Republicans, and 70 percent of swing voters.
Some eight million illegal aliens hold jobs in the U.S. economy, even as nearly 11 million Americans remain jobless and another 4.1 million are underemployed.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
