[Breitbart] The Democrat party’s pick for Secretary of Labor says CEOs are being victimized by a shortage of immigrant workers.
Companies want to hire another 11 million people, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Fox News on September 2, adding:
If those 11 million jobs had to be filled tomorrow, we certainly don’t have enough people in the United States to fill those jobs … the issue of workers has to be addressed and the only way [emphasis added] you can do it is through immigration.
“When I talk to CEOs from companies all across America, they’re all in favor of immigration reform,” he said, “they’re all in favor of pathways — of visas — for people coming into the United States working and we’re going to have to have that real serious conversation because at some point it will begin to impact our economy.”
But Walsh “doesn’t seem to know what’s going on in the U.S. labor market in terms of real wages for the less-educated, or the labor force participation,” responded Steve Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“There are two main things that you could do [to get Americans into those jobs] — make it more attractive to work and make it less attractive to sit on your ass,” he said:
“Could you ever get teenagers to work like they did in the 70s? No, but could you get a million more teenagers to work? Yeah. Could you ever get men to have the labor force participation rate of 96 percent — say non-college men 25 to 54 — that we had in 1964? No, but could you get it up to 88 percent instead of 84 percent or 83 percent? Yes.”
The government should try to fill jobs with some of the roughly 60 million adults not working by allowing wages to rise, he said.
The 60 million number includes 5.5 million people who said they want a job but are not part of the unemployment numbers because they have not looked for jobs in the last four weeks.
The government should also try to raise the productivity of American workers with better training and machinery, he added:
“The most important way to make a country actually richer on a per capita basis — which is all that really matters — is productivity. If you want to grow the per capita GDP, productivity is really a key option, and there’s no evidence that immigration helps to do that.”
Walsh “seems to be entirely captive to the perspective of Wall Street, which wants a bigger economy and ignores the fact that productivity growth is the real key to increasing wages and improving the standard of living,” he added.
Some GOP legislators are looking at ways to help non-working Americans rejoin the labor force. For example, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), told a town hall event:
“There is a number of innovative ideas I would support. [Former Sen.] Phil Gramm came to the Senate where we were talking about our labor shortage and one of his suggestions was to coax seniors to re-enter the workforce — don’t charge them payroll tax. They’re not paying it anyway so they want to get back in and earn a few extra bucks.”
But that pro-American, anti-poverty proposal was quickly stabbed by Todd Schulte, the president of a billionaire-funded pro-migration advocacy group:
[I] would suggest a better approach is a pathway to citizenship (work permits!) for undocumented immigrants, not terminating DACA/TPS/H-4 EADs, and modernizing and expanding vs trying to slash legal immigration avenues for those coming in the future.
Schulte heads FWD.us, which is a trade lobby created by wealthy West Coast investors, including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, and various other investors-billionaires. The group was formed in 2013 to maximize the inflow of foreign workers, taxpayer-aided consumers, and high-occupancy renters into the U.S. economy. The investors have close ties to many Democrats, including Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain.
The mostly female staff of the group tries to hide the identity of the investors who founded and funded the group. But copies exist at other sites.
Interesting they understand that by flooding the labor market they lower their costs (of servile labor) but can't grasp that by increasing the production of gas/oil that would also lower the costs.
#2
I got my layoff notice Tuesday, While searching job sites I found the company I worked for is wanting 3 people for the position I had but at a significantly lower pay than what I was making. They want people with little experience and will "train them on the job" which is one reason I was hired. To fix the multiple mistakes made by the previous crop of low experience designers,
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While the electric harvester is plugged in, those onions aren't going to pick themselves, right?
The government should also try to raise the productivity of American workers with better training and machinery, he added:
#4
We have a shortage of people that consistently come to work and work productively. I believe the root cause would be decades of woke socialist culture and education. Weed and fentanyl are not helping.
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/\/\ Sorry to hear that Deacon. Been there, done that. Takes the 'feel good meter' a while before it finally leaves the peg. Nothing you have done. Nothing you could have done. It's not personal, it's just foking binnes in the current environment.
Difficult not to blame one's self, even subconsciously. Don't do it !
#6
Actually the decline in the labor force participation rate for men 25-54 is the screaming headline. I would love a serious study of why this is happening.
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Deacon, whoever made that decision is a fugly moron, hoping the gumball machine gives them a packet of magic beans.
#10
With regards, The Great State of Kansas re-did their game license system.
It was obviously made by people with no real world experience.
License vendors were to print onto copy paper. Copy paper. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I can't get out of the car on a fishing trip without getting wet, nevermind doing a day long walkabout without this piece of paper not getting absolutely ruined.
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How about this, for each foreigner they bring in to replace an American, one board member/CEO/CFO/etc in upper management will be burned at the stake on the front lawn, chosen by the American being replaced. Think that would get the point across?
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What was the awful item on that list?
Since the president can declassify at will could it have been those 14 items marked TOP SECRET. He was free to take them if he chose to do so.
Could it have been those clothes/gifts?
There weren't very many of those.
Perhaps it was the accumulation of clippings and magazines and the like,. There could be a secret code in tho arrangement of those magazines that spelled out some woke forbidden word.
Or maybe those books.
Our those tantalizing empty folders.
Perhaps he removed their contents and swallowed them.
Is this really it?
How pathetic.
Perhaps the FBI is out of reading material.
By comparison Hunter's diary seems to have been full of juicy tidbits many of them highly embarrassing. and disgusting.
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Don't worry, By. They'll bring back the J6 committee after Labor Day.
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Obama took 30 million documents that hes has yet to turn over. He is actually being paid to store them.
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Next the FBI will *discover* kiddie p*rn, cocaine and a signed headshot from Putin.
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Note that the DOJ is bitching here about overbroad discovery requests (a common bitch in litigation) but doesn't have a problem with the "grab anything you want including Melania's underwear" search warrant for MAL. Goose, gander, etc.
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09/03/2022 13:13 Comments ||
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#1
This is the best that Biden can find? Podesta is the guy who fell for a phishing scam while working as Hillary's campaign manager during the 2016 election. LOL. Even Mrs. Uluque knows better than that.
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He’ll be in charge of the West Wing satanic bible study.
Snark O'The Day
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Another sign that the Soros/Obama Faction has abandoned him?
[HotAir] After staging a prime-time national address to paint "MAGA Republicans" as a unique threat to the country, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... turned around today to ... completely contradict the core argument of his demagogic rant at Independence Hall.
BIDEN walking it back: "I don't consider any Trump supporter to be a threat. I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence and fails to condemn violence when its used, refuse to acknowledge an election has been won... That is a threat to democracy."
So ... wouldn’t that include all of "The Resistance®" types who rioted in Washington DC on January 20, 2017 too? Stacey Abrams ...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary... in Georgia refused to accept the results of her election, as did Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... . Why didn’t Biden talk about that in his speech last night, if he didn’t claim that Trump’s "MAGA Republicans" were a threat?
Hint: It’s because that’s precisely what Biden said:
Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.
Now, I want to be very clear — (applause) — very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.
I know because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.
But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country. He will deny he ever said that.
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25th Amendment, time to consider... walking back this obscenely aberrant and abhorrent behavior, in my opinion, points to a need for a serious examination of the mental health for the leader of this country.
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is not acting this way on purpose and it can't be helped.
Biden has been a dog faced pony bully since the 70's. As a Democrat, he has official media protection for life.
#7
If the heralded / dreaded "Constitutional Convention" were held and the outcome was a decision to break up the republic, I doubt any politician on either side would accept the decision.
Never mind that's exactly how the document works.
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/\ Yes, in the absence of a Constitutional Convention, people are protesting by using their feet. The leftest portions of the republic are being 'broken up' (vacated) by people relocating to conservative states and regions.
The government response is the invasion of 'replacement people.' Increased migrant populations feed congressional representation numbers, provide a constant supply of low-wage earners, increase school board student populations, reinforce federal aid program recipient levels and foster increased diversity.
#11
It was thoroughly obnoxious and inappropriate and seems to fit a pattern of attempted incitement. But think back, the only ongoing role he has ever played has been as a reliable verbal bomb thrower.
When they needed somebody to rile the base he was usually there with some vile statement. He is the 'man' who told the Danville, VA NAACP that '...they're going to put 'yall back in chains.'.
Rather distant from the Lincoln Douglas debates or Coolidge's 4th of July speech. But that role has been the only thing he can fall back on. Virtually nothing he says or does holds up to any scrutiny given even a moment's reflection. Corn Pop anybody? Big driver par excellance, not to mention noted cyclist.
To my memory he's always been a semi coherent ranting bully. The family crest is no doubt a strong arm putting a knife in somebody's back over the words 'Don't You Know Who I Am'.
#12
They are backtracking it in the same way a trial lawyer withdraws a question after the judge upholds an objection.
It's already out there and everyone knows it.
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No.
He didn't write that speech. He didn't create that set. He didn't do a damn thing but slurp through a script.
Fucker probably doesn't even remember it.
No. This was a well organized, planned event. This guy is a tool, and a dull one at that.
What is hilarious, and I don't expect anyone to actually keep track, but I saw my first Mid-terms advertisement the other day, and it was Brandon shaking a lot of hands while the narration bragged up the, cough, Inflation Reduction Act (the other IRA). The show slot it was advertised in....."Lucifer".
That's great timing you all. Fantastic. Grab yourself a brioche and slice of Camembert.
#14
Can't spend the evening getting drunk at the bar with the town whore, do her on main street, then crawl into church the next morning, "Whoops! Guess I didn't think that one through. Forgiveness, or your are an extremist."
#15
Every word out of his mouth is false, either half truth or outright lie. It gets to be like Double Think. We're expected to believe the speech and then we're expected to believe the walk back. If what they're telling you now contradicts what they told you yesterday, believe what they're telling you now. Don't ask questions, just believe.
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#13, Funny how Waters could parody a totalitarian dictator like that. He only wishes he had that kind of power.
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I think his handlers wanted to evoke the power of Hitler because that is their bent. Instead we ended up with an imitation of Charley Chaplin by a community theatre level actor who needed a med adjustment.
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Yesterday's million dollar production vs. today's tin can comment.
Seems to be a jealous aspiration Abu. As the LGROQMER+ community is trying to establish, yesterday's traditional family is today's queer.
#21
Everyone is trying to distance themselves from that speech in record time. Imbecile self promoter Michael Beschloss said he was "on a panel of historians" who guided the development of the speech. Now people are digging to find out who else was on that panel.
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[Breitbart] Some Republican candidates are learning how to use pocketbook politics to trump the bipartisan establishment’s don’t-mention-the-money narrative on migration.
“Our Mayor and our Governor are incentivizing illegal immigration,” New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told Fox News on Wednesday, adding:
You have the Mayor putting up people in fancy hotels — upwards of $700 a night — costing the taxpayers $300 million. You have our governor providing free health care to illegal immigrants when you have senior citizens who are struggling to pay for their Medicare. You have payouts — $2 billion in stimulus checks [to illegal migrants, but] when you have a single mother who has three children [and is] earning $9,000 who got no stimulus check from the government.
Then [Gov.] Kathy Hochul tells New Yorkers — she tells her taxpaying citizens — “If you don’t like it, move to Florida!” That’s how disgusting it has become under one-party Democrat rule at the city, state, and federal level.
The impact of drugs and migration has been “hugely negative” for Ohioans, Senate GOP nominee J.D. Vance told Fox on Wednesday:
This is one of the things that really bothers me about [Democratic candidate] Tim Ryan. He says he stands for the working man. But what about millions of illegal migrants coming across the border and competing with working people for their jobs? What about the fact that Ohio is the third leading state when it comes to opioid overdose deaths?
These guys say that we’ve got to show compassion for illegal migrants — and of course, we do — but let’s show some compassion for our own citizens. Let’s actually secure the border so that we don’t have 100,000 Americans dying of fentanyl overdoses … We can’t run away from the border issue because it’s making our country poor.
Numerous polls show that Americans want to like immigrants and immigration — but they also prioritize their fellow Americans who lose jobs and wages to cheap labor migration. That populist attitude is helping to bring more Latino voters into the GOP coalition, despite the influence of pro-migration GOP donors.
These candidates’ focus on pocketbook damage of migration has slowly emerged because the establishment and its subordinate media have been hiding the economic damage behind an investor-friendly, pro-migrant, pro-business narratives.
This establishment narrative insists that both legal and illegal migrants deserve the homes, jobs, careers, and middle-class status that would otherwise go to young, better-paid, American families.
For example, the GOP-aligned Koch network joined with National Immigration Forum to tout a push poll on August 30 that supposedly shows that most Americans want Congress to begin “working together this year on reforms that could help lower food prices by ensuring a legal, reliable workforce for America’s farmers and ranchers.”
The skewed poll was quickly used to justify op-eds in regional media outlets, such as News5Cleveland.com. The op-ed tried to shame the vast majority of Americans who do not want their friends and families to be shoved aside by corporate hiring of cheap foreign labor:
Amid deep worries that Ohio’s foodbanks will run out of supplies this winter, a top official last week said that the labor shortage among food workers is particularly acute — and an irrational fear of immigrants isn’t helping.
… “We’re lacking is labor,” said the official, Ohio Association of Foodbanks Executive Director Lisa Hamler-Fugitt. “We’d rather demonize the people who plant our food, grow our food, pick our food, and bring our food to our grocery stores. Those are our migrant workers who do the work that most Americans have clearly demonstrated they can’t or won’t do.”
The Democrat-affiliated Immigration Hub posted a similarly skewed poll on August 24.
Voters “reject the GOP’s extreme anti-immigrant agenda [and] continue to strongly support pro-immigrant solutions, including protecting our nation’s Dreamers, farm workers, TPS holders and undocumented immigrants,” claimed Sergio Gonzalez, the director of the Hub group, which is funded by Laurene Powell-Jobs, who inherited the Silicon Valley fortune created by Steve Jobs and Apple.
Democrats need to pose as the noble champions of migrants victimized by hateful Republicans, according to the group’s statement:
Several aspects of their immigration record are deeply concerning to swing voters and should be highlighted.
Republicans support separating immigrant families and putting children in cages. (67% very serious concerns)
Republicans are trying to deport law-abiding immigrants who have lived in and contributed to the United States for many years. (60% very serious concerns)
This statement shows how pro-migration business groups and pro-migration progressives are testing narratives to minimize public opposition to the mass migration that is shifting wealth and political power from ordinary Americans.
Critically, the reports and polls produced by the bipartisan establishment almost never mention the money, despite the public’s deep solidarity with the economic concerns of other Americans.
The establishment’s pressure on Americans to ignore the money was spotlighted this week by a donor-funded trip by GOP candidates to the border.
The script for the trip urged GOP sympathy for migrants victimized by President Joe Biden’s border — and silence towards the economic worries of the voters victimized by the establishment’s easy-migration policies:
“Women and children who have been enticed into making the dangerous journey to our country are experiencing untold cruelty and suffering,” [Annie] Dickerson said in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital ahead of the trip. “The women on this trip — from all different backgrounds and from all across the country — are linking arms to give these victims a voice and demand accountability,” she added.
Democrats are also trying to create narratives that exclude Americans’ concerns about money and jobs from their own immigration debate.
In April, a Democrat narrative creator described six “deep narratives or value frameworks that we believe would help to activate a pro-immigrant majority.” Jeff Chang continued:
Those are interdependence, belonging, abundance, dignity, safety, and the freedom to thrive. And if we are able to move people on one or two into an adoption of all of those deep narratives, then what we think we’ll do is be able to get people to a worldview in which immigrants are welcomed … We call that a narrative system, a narrative system of six deep narratives that we want to activate long-term in our narrative work.
Chang runs the Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy at Race Forward, a progressive group with deep ties to wealthy foundations.
“The [progressive voter] base for immigrant stories … tends to be focused on community [because] they care about caring,” said Riki Conrey, the science director at Harmony Labs. The group was also created by wealthy progressives — including a co-founder of Buzzfeed — to help manipulate Americans’ media networks.
She continued:
We tested like 18 different pieces of creative [ideas] from like eight different creators from the advocacy stuff to the artist stuff, and virtually everything worked to activate the [Democratic progressive] base.
“We found that some things worked outside the [progressive] base and those things tended to feature things like freedom, striving, and responsibility,” said Conrey.
“We tested a positive narrative around refugees. It worked for our core [progressive] audiences, but it didn’t motivate the [swing-voting] stretch audiences, the folks on the edges. What they needed to hear was actually a story of pain of people sacrificing their lives for the U.S.,” Chang said.
“The fundamental thing that we need to move people toward, is a belief that not only does America have a future, that we can have a really great future that involves change and innovation, diversity, tolerance, and all of the things that are fundamentally small-p progressive,” said Conrey.
This wealthy investors’ determined denial of economics in politics also controls Chang’s understanding of the issue. For example, he described the immigration issue as a “culture war” when venting his frustration at Americans’ refusal to put migrants and investors first:
What we know definitively is that a large part of the culture wars has been organized around anti-immigrant narratives, and that we have, especially in the last decade, been very much losing the battle around immigration reform, around systematic change in immigration because of anti-immigrant narratives.
But economics is central to the politics of immigration — as shown by the pro-American, economic narratives pushed by Malliotakis and Vance.
#1
Approximately half the country would rather go hungry and walk to work than be told by a newsreader that they are being subjects to "mean tweets."
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Let’s actually secure the border so that we don’t have 100,000 Americans dying of fentanyl overdoses.
That's national security. Of course the pocketbook is important but can we talk about how Biden is a threat to national security? Can we talk about more people dying of fentanyl overdose than gunshot wounds? Can we talk about our country being destabilized and corrupted by Mexican drug cartels?
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^^^ Yes, WE can talk about those things. But the media certainly won't. At least not as long as Democrats control the government.
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