[Townhall] Shall this darkness and despair never relent? You already know that more than one million US workers have received tax reform-spurred bonuses, with at least 100 companies getting in on the act thus far, as even more corporations announcing new investment plans seemingly every day. We've covered the immediate fallout of the Republican tax law very closely, tracking the crimes against humanity wrought by this destructive Frankenstein monster, also known as the worst piece of legislation ever considered by Congress -- ranging from increased compensation, to enhanced hourly wages, to new hiring, to upgraded investments, to massive charitable contributions. Here is the latest atrocity, via the Darden restaurant group, which owns large national chains like Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse:
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Well, D'Oh! Management investing in employee loyalty is one thing. Being required to cover an ever increasing outlay on employee benefits is another. Bonuses are conditional on company well-being, the other can easily bankrupt a company -- not that the rentseekers or politicians really care.
[PJ] In an interview with German newspaper Bild, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the "the migrant crisis" is, in effect, "an invasion."
When asked by Bild why Hungary hasn't deemed itself able to welcome two thousand refugees while Germany has let in two million of them, Orban answered: "[T]he difference is: you want those migrants. We do not. We do our job by closing the Schengen-border with Serbia. Doing so has cost us one billion euros since 2015 and Brussels pays us nothing for it."
"The solution to this problem isn't to divide people who are illegally in the EU among EU member states. We believe that we have to solve the root of the problem instead of bringing these immigrants here [Europe]," the prime minister continued.
"We do not consider these people as Muslim refugees. We consider them as Muslim invaders. To travel to Hungary from Syria they have to cross through four other countries that are, although not as rich as Germany, certainly stable. They don't flee for their lives. This proves that they are economic migrants seeking a better life," Orban concluded.
Bild then asked Orban whether this makes those migrants inferior in some way. "If someone wants to come to your home," the PM answered, "then he knocks on the door and asks: 'Can we come in, can we stay?' They did not do that. Instead, they broke through the border illegally. That was not a wave of refugees, that was an invasion."
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s riveting spectacle of televised bipartisanship exposed the Democrats’ political weakness in the amnesty debate ‐ and also revealed remarkable GOP unity on the goal of ending the nation’s chain-migration system.
Time after time, Democrats pleaded for a quick passage of unpopular ’dreamer’ amnesty while also promising a later-meaning-never debate over popular immigration reforms, such as the elimination of the visa-lottery and the chain-migration system, which doubles the annual inflow of legal immigrants.
Time after time, in contrast, GOP leaders wrapped themselves in sympathy for the 670,000 DACA illegals while insisting that Congress must implement Trump’s popular policies by ending the huge visa-lottery and chain-migration programs which are slowly but steadily freezing Americans’ wages while turning Republican states blue.
A key moment came when Trump invited GOP Majority leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy to shut down the Democrats’ demand for a quick amnesty by touting the president’s immigration priorities as a must-do item:
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I like Trump TV. It gives a level of transparency heretofore unknown. Trump TV is a good way to go around the MSM. It also reveals to the voters who the loser/obstructionists/bottlenecks are whether RINOs or Dems.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] In an interview with German newspaper Bild, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the "the migrant crisis" is, in effect, "an invasion."
