CLOSET MUSLIM, SERVANT TO MUSLIM DICTATORS Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s back door, however, was unique to him. Before prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the slammer for their dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a Saudi billionaire peddled to get Obama into Harvard. JACK CASHILL
Monday, December 24, 2018
NANCY PELOSI AND THE OBAMA-SOROS GLOBALIST DOCTRINE FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED - Democrats do not care about American citizens!
"Along with Obama, they are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration."
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were certain they could beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of themselves, as usual. The stand-off is not over but with each passing day, the Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal immigration agenda. Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for years: Democrats do not care about American citizens!
We are an annoying inconvenience, especially those of us who do not buy what they are selling. We vote against them, which makes them angry. They lash out at us, call us names, impugn our intelligence with fervor. All of the late-night comics, the Bill Mahers of the comedy branch of the entertainment industry, are especially venal. Jimmy Kimmel has decried those who have contributed to the GoFundMe page to fund the border wall as meth addicts. It was begun by a Vet, Brad Kolfage, who lost three limbs and it's raised nearly $15m.
It appears that Democratic members of Congress are as snowflakey as millennials on our university campuses. They assume that anyone who opposes their ridiculous socialist, genderless, climate-alarmist, virtue-signaling directives is a Neanderthal, unfit to have an opinion. It is then thoroughly acceptable to malign such people, those of us who oppose every aspect of their anti-America-as-founded agenda, in any and every disgusting manner they can devise.
The left is all about identity politics. They assign all of us to a group -- racial, class, and/or all of their fabricated gender categories. The right is all about individuals, their character, their talent, their contributions to society. We do not care about skin color, economic class or sexual orientation. We do care about good vs. evil, right vs. wrong. This makes us quite villainous in the eyes of the left for whom everything is relative. For example, we do not think poverty causes crime, unlearned values of Western Civilization do. Try to steal an election? It is moral if it takes out an opponent. We are, it appears, the left vs. the right, very different on a neurological level.
Schumer and Pelosi have armed guards whenever they are amongst the public. But they are both fervent in their quest to deny us the right to bear arms and to prevent a wall on the southern border to protect us from the flood of lethal drugs that flow into the US. They are impervious to the crimes of the barbaric gangs like MS13, no matter how many innocent Americans they kill. They do not give a thought to the many illegals from terrorist nations that also seek to enter the country on a daily basis. Schumer, Pelosi and their willing subjects in Congress ignore completely the horrific hazards that cross the border every day. They want cheap labor, no matter how many Americans are left jobless, and they want, more than anything, a dependent underclass whom they mean to give the right to vote. They already vote anyway, thanks to the Left's rejection of Common-sense voter ID.
If there were a television program based on Schumer and Pelosi, it would have to be a comedy; the two of them are so inept, so childish. They would be Dumb and Dumber redux. Each of them seems to believe they run the country and can dictate to the president how he will govern. They demand that Trump abandon the wall. They have no intention of compromising; they only want to deny Trump and his supporters what they want -- border security that works. So enraged, so benighted, by Trump's presidency, they would rather see us overrun by migrants from third-world nations, like those who have destroyed the UK, Germany, Sweden, and the rest of Europe, than protect America as a sovereign nation.
The "government shutdown" is just a ploy, many times overused by now, relatively meaningless to the lives of most Americans. The Schumer & Pelosi show will do everything they can to hype it as a disaster, but we all know it is nothing of the kind. Trump must hold out for funding of the wall.
While there have been some bad actors in our government in the past, Schumer and Pelosi are the worst of the worst. They are equally arrogant, each thoroughly ignorant of reality beyond the bubble of wealth and privilege they inhabit. They both believe themselves to be smarter than the rest of us, when in fact they are both really dim bulbs, long past their sell-by date. Yes, Pelosi is good at raising money; how and why is a mystery. That each of them is repeatedly re-elected does not say much for their constituents' familiarity with the Constitution, the law, American history or the facts in their own communities.
San Francisco, Pelosi's district is now a hell-hole but for her walled compound. New York too, like California, is a state that residents are fleeing as fast as they can. Both states have been destroyed by moonbatty leftists; high taxes, dumbing down of education for political purposes, and the sacrifice of common sense to global warming alarmists. Schumer and Pelosi have for years been on board with every silly attempt to restructure, to transform, American society. They both jumped on the Obama bandwagon the moment he was elected. Along with Obama, they are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration. While their constant appearances on television are so often humorous (Pelosi's silly, practiced hand gestures and Schumer's relentless badgering of Trump), they are not one bit funny. They are just loathsome.
Amnesty is all about keeping wages depressed and
passing the true cost along to what is left of the America middle-class.
The
huge inflow of migrants and asylum seekers forced officials to issue 400,000 work permits in
2017. That is roughly one new migrant worker for every 10 Americans who entered
the workforce that year. The huge inflow has also jammed the immigration
courts, ensuring that new migrants can work for a few years before a judge
decides their case.
The inflow of asylum-seeking
migrants, nonetheless, is far smaller than the inflow of legal immigrants and
temporary visa-workers, which added roughly 2 workers in 2017 for every four
Americans who entered the workforce.
Nationwide,
the U.S. establishment’s economic policy of using legal migration to boost
economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap
white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood of outside
labor spikes profits and Wall Street
values by cutting salaries for
manual and skilled labor that blue collar and white collar employees.
The
cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech
investment, increases state and local tax
burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from
high tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans
and their families, including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions.
Tucker Carlson pointed out a few days ago how the already insufferable leader of the Congressional Democrats has recently been "ordained….an archbishop in the church of progressive sanctimony." For a while now, Nancy Pelosi's been the country's expert on morality (e.g., border wall: immoral; abortion on demand: moral). She's now taken to telling the country how much she prays, and she's urging others to do it, too – at least that old sinner, Donald Trump. After last Thursday's televised squabble in the Oval Office, Pelosi shared with reporters how she told Trump she was praying for him and urged the president (whom she also called a "skunk" while ridiculing his manhood) to accept the Democrats' budget proposal with no funding for a border wall. "In fact," she said with stomach-turning piety, "I asked him to pray over it."
When a smug person ends an argument by telling you to "pray over it," she's really saying, "Ask God. He knows I'm right!"
Summarizing her and Chuck Schumer's meeting with Trump, she told the media, "I myself thought we should open the meeting with a prayer, which I did. I told him about King Solomon, when he was to become king of the Jews, he prayed to God, he said: 'I need you to give me great understanding and wisdom, Lord.'"
King Solomon is Pelosi's favorite Bible character, especially because he proposed solving a problem by cutting a baby in half.
Now Sister Nancy's praying for Trump to keep the government open so federal employees can finish their Christmas shopping.
It's an axiom that if a conservative says his faith informs his political decisions, he'll be condemned for establishing a state religion, while liberals get to veer back and forth over the church-state centerline as freely as those motorists who love to text while driving. Right now the liberal media are applauding the way Pelosi "schooled President Donald Trump about the Bible," but it's not clear why. It's not as if they're suddenly in favor of anyone being schooled in the Bible, especially anyone in a public classroom.
Pelosi never bats an eye without a political motive. This Saint Nancy act might be her attempt to occupy the spiritual high ground that, obviously, Donald Trump has shown no interest in occupying himself. Pelosi wouldn't dare try this with a president like George W. Bush, who, while he didn't boast about his piety on TV, was recognized as genuine in his Christian faith – prompting the left's usual reaction: Ross Douthat wrote in 2006 that "the fear of theocracy has become a defining panic of the Bush era."
Theology was less of an issue for liberals during the Obama years; he was their messiah, and they just worshiped him. Meantime, Obama conspicuously dissed orthodox Christians with everything from calculated snubs and criticism to gratuitously tormenting the Little Sisters of the Poor, all the while devotedly celebrating the unblemished virtues of Islam. In 2015, Hillary bluntly stated that "[d]eep-seated ... religious beliefs ... have to be changed" to accommodate the unlimited abortion license. Then, last year, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez said it is "not negotiable" that "[e]very Democrat" support abortion. Pelosi tried to mitigate Perez's remarks by saying "of course" there's room for pro-lifers in the Democratic Party, but try to find one who's not actually voting Perez-style.
This year, Pelosi watched the Democrats lurch wildly to the extreme left. For decades before that, they were trusted allies in the left's war on conventional morality and religion (except Islam!) for being repressive, patriarchal, and counterrevolutionary. It may be that, alarmed that the Democrat brand has become too materialistic, amoral, and atheist, she thinks she can give it religion. Maybe she can draw an unfavorable comparison between the reprobate and undisciplined Donald Trump and herself: the "ardent, practicing Catholic," who exhorts the President to beg for "the great understanding and wisdom" that she (and Chuck Schumer?) have already been granted by God. Haven't Republicans marched under the banner of morality and Christian values long enough? Now that they've elected the unholy Trump, why can't the Democrats seize that banner for themselves?
For one thing, because no evangelical or conservative Catholic would ever buy it. Sure, the Democratic Party is crowded with Catholics, but the serious ones left years ago. The leading unserious Catholic is Pelosi herself, who professes her devotion to the faith but does it while living in open, willful defiance of the Church's crystal-clear teaching against abortion: "It is the teaching of the Catholic Church from the very beginning that the killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified."
When her duplicity threatened to become an issue in 2004, Pelosi pretended that, moved by her "ardent" devotion to the Church, she had been studying the Church's teaching on the beginning of life "a long time," and she stated falsely to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that the Church has never defined it. Asked when human life begins, she replied, "We don't know," and that "[t]he point is, that it shouldn't have an impact on the woman's right to choose" – the "it" being when a human life begins, which shouldn't have an impact on the decision to get an abortion. Easy mistake to make when your catechism is Roe v. Wade.
Later, when a reporter mentioned the Gosnell infanticides and challenged her own support for partial-birth abortion, an agitated Pelosi snarled back that "[a]s a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this[.] ... This shouldn't have anything to do with politics." But as a politician, she never stops talking about it, and the sacred ground she was talking about wasn't human life, but the exercise of a mother's "free will" to terminate her child. In response, New York's Cardinal Egan said, "Anyone who dares to defend that [the unborn] may be legitimately killed because another human being 'chooses' to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name." Her own bishop reluctantly corrected her misstatements in a public letter, necessitated by "the widespread consternation among Catholics" of her deliberate distortions of Catholic doctrine. Pope Benedict counseled her, in person, on the Church's express teaching, "which enjoins all Catholics, and especially legislators," to protect "human life at all stages of its development." Pelosi, " the respectful Catholic" who presumed to tell Trump to pray for wisdom, emerged from thatmeeting no wiser for it, obtusely extolling the "Church's leadership in fighting poverty, hunger and global warming."
Jesus warned against hypocrites who make a public display of praying "that they may be seen by men." The way Pelosi pretends to exemplify "prayerful" politics, and the way she told Trump "in private" that she's praying for him – and immediately announced it in a televised press conference – is pure Pelosi: cynical, addlebrained, phony. If it might hurt Trump, she'll pontificate how every MS-13 killer retains a "spark of divinity," then goes right back to her life's work snuffing out that spark from 60 million innocents and counting. The Bible never says it's intrinsically evil to build a wall or protect a border, but it's still got that commandment against murder.
Let the Democrats canonize this Pharisee if they need a patron saint. Her feast day can fall on January 22.
T.R. Clancy looks at the world from Dearborn, Michigan. You can email him at trclancy@yahoo.com.
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost
of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit.
Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President
Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3
million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy
Institute.”
Heather Mac Donald: OBAMA’S
SABOTAGE of HOMELAND SECURITY
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD
AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of
LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California
through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers via
President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing
them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
THE CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY
The Democrat
Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for invading
illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to destroy
the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’ DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN
BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
Demonstrably and
irrefutably the Democrat Party became the party whose principle objective is to
thoroughly transform the nature of the American electorate by means of open
borders and the mass, unchecked importation of illiterate third world peasants
who will vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare
state. FRONTPAGE MAG
The main
objective of “political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to
get elected;
it’s not to fix a broken America, nor to protect her. There are
people who
govern and there are people who campaign; Obama and the
Clintons are the
latter. Just look at the huge Republican electoral gains under
Obama and the
Clintons. It’s amazing that Democrats who still care about
their party still
support the very people who have brought it down.
Inequality, class and life expectancy in
America
A study by Brookings
Institution economists released Friday documents a sharp increase in life span
divergences between the rich and the poor in America. The report, based on an
analysis of Census Bureau and Social Security Administration data, concludes
that for men born in 1950, the gap in life expectancy between the top 10
percent of wage earners and the bottom 10 percent is more than double the gap
for their counterparts born in 1920.
For those born in 1920, there was a six-year differential between rich and
poor. For those born in 1950, that difference had reached 14 years. For women,
the gap grew from 4.7 years to 13 years, almost tripling.
Overall, life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent improved by just 3 percent
for men born in 1950 over those born in 1920. For the top 10 percent, it soared
by about 28 percent.
Life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent of male wage earners born in 1950
rose by less than one year compared to that for male workers born 40 years
earlier—to 73.6 from 72.9. But for the top 10 percent, life expectancy leapt to
87.2 from 79.1.
The United States ranks among the worst so-called rich countries when it comes
to life expectancy. But its low ranking is entirely due to the poor health and
high mortality of low-income Americans. According to the Social Security
Administration, life expectancy for the wealthiest US men at age 60 was just
below the rates for Iceland and Japan, two countries with the highest levels.
Americans in the bottom quarter of the wage scale, on the other hand, ranked
just above Poland and the Czech Republic.
Life-expectancy is the most basic indicator of social well-being. The minimal increase
for low-income workers and the widening disparity between the poor and the rich
is a stark commentary on the immense growth of social inequality and class
polarization in the United States. It underscores the fact that socioeconomic
class is the fundamental category of social life under capitalism—one that
conditions every aspect of life, including its length.
The Brookings Institution findings shed further light on the catastrophic
decline in the social position of the American working class. They follow
recent reports showing a sharp rise in death rates for both young and
middle-aged white workers, primarily due to drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide.
Other recent reports have shown a dramatic decline in life expectancy for
poorer middle-aged Americans and a reversal of decades of declining infant
mortality.
It is no mystery what is behind this vast social retrogression. It is the
product of the decay of American capitalism and a four-decade-long offensive by
the ruling elite against the working class. From Reagan to the Obama
administration, Democrats and Republicans alike have overseen a
corporate-government assault on the jobs, wages, pensions and health benefits
of working people.
The ruling elite has dismantled the bulk of the country’s industrial
infrastructure, destroying decent-paying jobs by the millions, and turned to
the most parasitic and criminal forms of financial speculation as the main
source of its profit and private wealth. Untold trillions have been squandered
to finance perpetual war and the maniacal self-enrichment of the top 1 percent
and 0.1 percent.
The basic infrastructure of the country has been starved of funds and left to
rot, to the point where uncounted millions of people are being poisoned with
lead and other toxins from corroded water systems. Flint, Michigan is just the
tip of the iceberg.
Under Obama, this social counterrevolution has been intensified. The financial
meltdown of 2008 has been utilized by the same forces that precipitated the
crash to carry through a reordering of social relations aimed at reversing
every social gain won by the working class in the course of a century of
struggle. A central target of the attack is health care for working people.
Obamacare is the spearhead of a worked-out strategy to reduce the quantity and
quality of health care available to workers and reorganize the health care
system directly on a class basis. Corporate and government costs are to be
slashed by gutting employer-paid health care, forcing workers individually to
buy expensive, bare-bones plans from the insurance monopolies, and rationing
drugs, tests and medical procedures to make them inaccessible to workers.
The rise in mortality for workers and the widening of the life span gap between
rich and poor are not simply the outcome of impersonal economic forces. In
corporate boardrooms, think tanks and state agencies, the ruling class is
working to lower working class life expectancy. In late 2013, the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank with the closest
ties to the Pentagon and the CIA, published two policy papers decrying the “waste”
of money on health care for the elderly. The clear message was that ordinary
people were living much too long and diverting resources needed by the military
to wage war around the world.
The social and economic chasm in America finds a political expression in the
vast disconnect between the entire political establishment and the masses of
working people. Neither party nor any of their presidential candidates, the
self-described “socialist” Bernie Sanders included, can seriously address the
real state of social conditions or offer a serious program to address the
crisis.
In his final State of the Union Address last month, Obama presented an absurd
picture of a resurgent economy. “The United States of America, right now,” he
declared, “has the strongest, most durable economy in the world… Anyone
claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton and
Sanders are seeking to outdo one another in seizing the mantle of the Obama
administration and praising its supposed social and economic achievements.
They cannot address the real conditions facing the masses of working people
because they defend the capitalist system, which is the source of the social
disaster. The remedy must be based on an understanding of the disease. It is
the building of an independent socialist and revolutionary movement uniting the
entire working class, in the US and around the world.
Billionaire Class Enjoys 15X the Wage Growth of American Working Class
The billionaire class — the country’s top 0.01 percent of earners — have enjoyed more than 15 times as much wage growth as America’s working and middle class since 1979, new wage data reveals.
Between 1979 and 2017, the wages of the bottom 90 percent — the country’s working and lower middle class — have grown by only about 22 percent, Economic Policy Institute (EPI) researchers find.
Compare that small wage increase over nearly four decades to the booming wage growth of America’s top one percent, who have seen their wages grow more than 155 percent during the same period.
The top 0.01 percent — the country’s billionaire class — saw their wages grow by more than 343 percent in the last four decades, more than 15 times the wage growth of the bottom 90 percent of Americans.
In 1979, America’s working class was earning on average about $29,600 a year. Fast forward to 2017, and the same bottom 90 percent of Americans are earning only about $6,600 more annually.
The almost four decades of wage stagnation among the country’s working and middle class comes as the national immigration policy has allowed for the admission of more than 1.5 million mostly low-skilled immigrants every year.
(Public Citizen)
In the last decade, alone, the U.S. admitted ten million legal immigrants, forcing American workers to compete against a growing population of low-wage workers. Meanwhile, employers are able to reduce wages and drive up their profit margins thanks to the annual low-skilled immigration scheme.
The Washington, DC-imposed mass immigration policy is a boon to corporate executives, Wall Street, big business, and multinational conglomerates as every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of an occupation’s labor force reduces Americans’ hourly wages by 0.4 percent. Every one percent increase in the immigrant workforce reduces Americans’ overall wages by 0.8 percent.
Mass immigration has come at the expense of America’s working and middle class, which has suffered from poor job growth, stagnant wages, and increased public costs to offset the importation of millions of low-skilled foreign nationals.
Four million young Americans enter the workforce every year, but their job opportunities are further diminished as the U.S. imports roughly two new foreign workers for every four American workers who enter the workforce. Even though researchers say 30 percent of the workforce could lose their jobs due to automation by 2030, the U.S. has not stopped importing more than a million foreign nationals every year.
For blue-collar American workers, mass immigration has not only kept wages down but in many cases decreased wages, as Breitbart News reported. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues importing more foreign nationals with whom working-class Americans are forced to compete. In 2016, the U.S. brought in about 1.8 million mostly low-skilled immigrants.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Wealthy cities and elite zip codes thrived under the slow-moving
economic recovery of President Obama while rural American communities were left
behind, a study reveals.
The
Economic Innovation Group research, highlighted by Axios, details the massive
economic inequality between the country’s coastal city elites and middle
America’s working class between the Great Recession in 2007 and Obama’s
economic recovery in 2016.
Between 2007 and 2016, the number of
residents living in elite zip codes grew by more than ten million, with an
overwhelming faction of that population growth being driven by mass immigration
where the U.S. imports more than 1.5 million illegal and legal immigrants
annually.
The
booming 44.5 million immigrant populations are concentrated mostly
in the country’s major cities like Los Angeles, California, Miami Florida, and
New York City, New York. The rapidly growing U.S. population — driven by
immigration — is set to hit 404 millionby 2060, a
boon for real estate developers, wealthy investors, and corporations, all of
which benefit greatly from dense populations and a flooded labor market.
The economic study found that while
the population grew in wealthy cities, America’s rural population fell by
nearly 3.5 million residents.
Likewise, by 2016, elite zip codes
had a surplus of 3.6 million jobs, which is more than the combined bottom 80
percent of American zip codes. While it only took about five years for wealthy
cities to replace the jobs lost by the recession, it took “at risk” regions of
the country a decade to recover, and “distressed” U.S. communities are
“unlikely ever to recover on current trendlines,” the report predicts.
A map included in the research shows
how rich, coastal metropolises have boomed economically while entire
portions of middle America have been left behind as job and business gains
remain concentrated at the top of the income ladder.
(Economic Innovation
Group)
(Economic Innovation Group)
Economic growth among the country’s
middle-class counties and middle-class zip codes has considerably trailed
national economic growth, the study found.
For example, between 2012 and 2016,
there were 4.4 percent more business establishments in the country as a whole.
That growth was less than two percent in the median zip code and there was
close to no growth in the median county.
The same can be said of employment
growth, where U.S. employment grew by about 9.3 percent from 2012 to 2016. In
the median zip code, though, employment grew by only 5.5 percent and in the
median county, employment grew by less than four percent.
“Nearly three in every five large counties
added businesses on net over the period, compared to only one in every five
small one,” the report concluded.
Elite zip codes added more business
establishments during Obama’s economic recovery, between 2012 and 2016, than
the entire bottom 80 percent of zip codes combined. For instance, while more
than 180,000 businesses have been added to rich zip codes, the country’s bottom
tier has lost more than 13,000 businesses even after the economic recovery.
(Economic Innovation
Group)
(Economic Innovation Group)
The
gutting of the American manufacturing base, through free trade, has been
a driving catalyst for
the collapse of the white working class and black Americans. Simultaneously,
the outsourcing of the economy has brought major wealth to corporations, tech
conglomerates, and Wall Street.
The
dramatic decline of U.S. manufacturing at the hands of free trade—where more
than 3.4 million American
jobs have been lost solely due to free trade with China, not including the
American jobs lost due to agreements like the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS)—has
coincided with growing wage inequality for white and black Americans, a growing
number of single mother households, a drop in U.S. marriage rates, a
general stagnation of working and middle class wages, and specifically,
increased black American unemployment.
“So, the loss of manufacturing work
since 1960 represents a steady decline in relatively high-paying jobs for
less-educated workers,” recent research from economist Eric D. Gould has
noted.
Fast-forward
to the modern economy and the wage trend has been the opposite of what it was
during the peak of manufacturing in the U.S. An Economic Policy Institute studyfound this year
that been 2009 and 2015, the top one percent of American families
earned about 26 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent of
Americans.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
WILL
WE EVER GET THE TRUTH ON OBAMA-HOLDERS’S ARMING OF THE MEX DRUG CARTELS???
ICYMI:
Feds Want to Keep Any Mention of 'Fast And Furious' Out of El Chapo's Drug
Trafficking Trial
One of
the most disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration was
"Operation Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go
through – commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track
buyers and sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels.
Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United
States and Mexico. Two of them were used to kill Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry. BETH BAUMANN
According to the New York Daily News, Brooklyn
prosecutors are doing everything in their power to keep any questions relating
to "Fast and Furious" from being mentioned during witness testimony.
In fact, they're asking a federal judge to block defense attorneys from asking
questions relating to the highly-publicized botched campaign.
"The defense strategy is transparent. Given the
substantial number of articles that have been written about the Operation, many
of which criticize the government’s handling of the movement of weapons from
the United States into Mexico, the defense is attempting to use the well-known
operation to place the government on trial," United States Attorney Richard
Donoghue said in a letter to the court. "While the government wil lseek to
introduce at trial seized weapons that had been identified by ATF agents within
the scope of the Operation, any details about the Operation itself are
completely irrelevant to the issues at trial under Rule 401 of the Federal
Rules of Evidence and should be excluded on those grounds alone."
Judge Brian Cogan has yet to rule on the request.
According to witness testimony from former trafficker Tirso
Martinez Sanchez, he ran El Chapo's train operation from 2000 to 2003 and made
roughly $20 million. During that time, trains would pull into special
warehouses in Mexico. Workers would fill hidden compartments with kilos of
cocaine and then add oil to the train to throw off bomb-sniffing dogs at the
border. This technique also discouraged border patrol agents from conducting
physical searches.
Sanchez estimated that between 30 and 50 tons of cocaine,
with a value of upwards of $800 million, was smuggled into the United States.
Between seven to eight shipments a day made their way on the train lines to New
York City.
The trains would drop off the smuggled drugs at a warehouse
in New Jersey. Trucks would then come to transport the drugs to various
distribution locations between Queens and Brooklyn.
Various
kilo packages were hidden in secret compartments of cars and trucks. They were
then distributed at different meetings at fast food locations.
"He testified about three seizures – one at a train
warehouse in Queens and one involving two tons of cocaine seized at a Brooklyn
warehouse in 2002 – and said the heat they generated made him reconsider his
career choice," the Daily
News reported. "He was arrested in Mexico in early 2014 and
extradited to the U.S. a year later. He pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and
distribution and is facing 10 years to life."
Call
it Saddiq Khan's London. Call it Jeremy Corbin's London. The right call is to
note the unmitigated gall of the Financial Times, the bible of the securities
marketplace, having bestowed its "Person of the Year" honoraria upon
fellow globalist George Soros.
While
The Hague fiddles as George Soros ages (currently 88), with nary an interested
tribunal convened for his participation in the Holocaust, his is a case
deserving of dispensing charges related to "crimes against Humanity,"
the "smoking gun," his own "undisputed truth" offered
during a CBS 60 Minutesinterview
(Sunday, December 20, 1998), concerning his youth as a willing "aide de
camp" to a non-Jewish "godfather" – a serf in Hungary's Ministry
of Agriculture, having groomed a willing Soros to accompany him on his
appointed rounds delivering deportation notices and cultivating lists of the
properties confiscated from Soros's fellow Jews – Soros with requisite
clipboard, the Jews on their requisite death march to Auschwitz. In
the interview, Soros offered no less than soulless quips, defending his conduct
of complicity under the Reich.
When
questioned by correspondent Steve Kroft as to his activities, Soros maintained,
"My character was made because I thought ahead anticipating events,"
adding, "The confiscations weren't difficult at all."
Since
one cannot teach a young sociopath new tricks, a movement to beatify Soros at
eighty-eight is in full swing, as noted with his being honored by The Financial
Times. Even his son Alexander, a student at UCLA Berkeley, has come
out of the shadows, seeking to ban negativity toward his father, having written
an op-ed for The New York Times, "The Hate That Is Consuming Us"
(October 24, 2018), wherein the reader, at first glance, would think
Alexander's screed concentrates on the crime at large against his father,
whereby a mad bomb-maker and sender chose the elder Soros as one of his victims. Instead,
the crux of the article showcases Alexander focusing his wrath on President
Donald Trump, the man and his populist politics, crucifying an innocent via the
Pontius Pilate playbook, as the son offers his own rendition of "The Executioner's
Song." Note: Alexander, by offering the determined flippancy of
the nefarious particulars surrounding his father's life and times in 1944
Budapest, merely states, "My father grew up in the shadow of the Nazi
Regime in Hungary." Whether Alexander was conscious or not, his
sin of omission opened a can of worms over his father's life and times in 1944
Budapest. In the meantime, George Soros has shown he's still not
finished with the Jews.
Soros's
purse strings direct his Open Society Foundation to fund such myriad
anti-Israel agencies as J Street and Human Rights Watch, while his anti-America
money order financed the likes of Lynne Stewart, best remembered as of counsel
to Abdel Rahman, known as "The Blind Sheik," convicted of
terrorism. Stewart was convicted and disbarred for aiding Rahman,
communicating on his behalf with his fellow terrorists. Obviously,
Soros has a lust for anarchy. Even CNN's house Marxist, Van Jones,
receives funding from Soros for his Climate Action Project.
To
wit, the ACLU reeks of Soros, having become the poster agency defending every
pregnant illegal and Caravan extortionist – the same ACLU who once appointed
Bernardine Dohrn to its advisory board, she the wife of Obama bestie Bill
Ayers. (The couple led the infamous Weathermen domestic terrorist
organization, having committed several bombings on American soil.)
One
has to wonder whether Soro's post-WWII wallet paid for him to be safe from
deportation from the USA when others who also worked for the Reich were
investigated and returned for punishment once litigation
ended. While Hungary has wanted the U.S. to send Soros home so they
can try him in court, his efforts to quell and quash the matter appear to be in
his favor.
Twenty
years have passed since the 60
Minutes interview, with a salvo from the broadcast offering
commentary from a money-manager in Soros's employ. When asked about
his boss, he renders his observation: "George Soros is Donald Trump
without the humility."
Unfortunately,
the Financial Times chose someone less than human as its "Person of the
Year.
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