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Re: Jobs disaster continues, but Congress debates increasing immigration?
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walt tonne
Jun 17, 2013, 1:38:17 PM6/17/13
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On Jun 14, 11:33 am, Joe Cooper <nieqezbmv...@tormail.org> wrote:
> The most underreported news story of the current year and of President
> Obama's second term is the continuing jobs crisis, and the determination of
> both the President and the Congress to ignore it in trying to enact big
> increases in future immigration and an amnesty of 11 million or more
> immigrants illegally present.
>
> The official unemployment rate for May actually ticked upward to 7.6% from
> 7.5% in April. The employment/population ratio has been flat, around a low
> 58.5% through the recession.
>
> That's officially 12 million of our fellow Americans still looking but
> unable to find a job, which doesn't include millions of other Americans
> either underemployed or who have given up trying to find a job after years
> of unemployment.
>
> Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is beginning debate on the Schumer-Rubio so-
> called immigration reform that will more than triple the number of legal
> immigrants over the next decade to 33 million from current legal
> immigration of about 1 million each year, and will also increase the
> numbers of temporary workers allowed to enter and work.
>
> The proposed bill will invite future immigrants to violate U.S. immigration
> law by providing amnesty to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants
> already in the U.S. A similar amnesty was enacted in 1986 which had that
> effect.
>
> Why is Congress ignoring the interests of suffering unemployed and
> underemployed Americans? There are two reasons: money and politics.
> Employers and business interests want the largest possible pool of labor to
> drive down their labor costs. They are actively lobbying (and making
> campaign contributions to) members of Congress to support the legislation
> to expand the labor pool.
>
> Elected officials hope that a pathway to citizenship for more immigrants
> will lead to more votes for them and their party in the future. Democrats
> are hoping that immigrants will reward their efforts with a permanent
> majority. Some Republicans have been persuaded that the permanent majority
> for Democrats is likely to happen unless they, too, fall in line and
> support the bill in the hope of attracting a fraction of the future
> immigrant vote for Republicans.
>
> While immigrant voters as a group are as politically divided as everyone
> else, it is true that Hispanic and Asian voters have been skewing
> Democratic in recent elections, which is the basis for the hope for a
> permanent Democratic majority. There's enough truth to that possibility to
> wonder how Republicans could believe they help themselves by joining
> Democrats to enact the Schumer-Rubio bill.
>
> It's also true that no one feels the impact of competing with new immigrant
> labor more than the immigrants who arrived earlier. So speculation on how
> new voters will vote is just that, speculation.
>
> Meanwhile, Sherry Lockhart, 53, of Enumclaw, Washington, is having her
> jobless benefits slashed as a result of federal spending cuts. She tells
> the New York Times, "I just feel I've done my best over the years, and I
> feel like I haven't failed the system. The system has failed me, and
> millions more."
>
> http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/blogs/brandywine-to-broad/item/55808
>
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> Enjoy Internet Privacy And Anonymity:http://hidemyass.com/vpn/r6995:5/
>
> Loathing of the religious right becomes an end in itself, a consuming
> passion. Liberals denouce Christian conservatives for being moralistic,
> for imposing their morality on others, for not separating morality from
> politics, and for bringing religious zeal to public life--and then work
> themselves into a frothing frenzy of righteous, moralistic zeal over
> their own moral excellence for being so rational, calm, and detached.
> One is reminded of the sadistic moralists from Dickens novels, who latch
> on to the idea that whipping is good for the child, so they can beat the
America is saddled with a failing two party system. Now demographic
shattering is displaying it's utter whoreishness pandering to illegal
aliens. Hopefully, the shithouse in DC will fail in the next few
years.
> The most underreported news story of the current year and of President
> Obama's second term is the continuing jobs crisis, and the determination of
> both the President and the Congress to ignore it in trying to enact big
> increases in future immigration and an amnesty of 11 million or more
> immigrants illegally present.
>
> The official unemployment rate for May actually ticked upward to 7.6% from
> 7.5% in April. The employment/population ratio has been flat, around a low
> 58.5% through the recession.
>
> That's officially 12 million of our fellow Americans still looking but
> unable to find a job, which doesn't include millions of other Americans
> either underemployed or who have given up trying to find a job after years
> of unemployment.
>
> Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is beginning debate on the Schumer-Rubio so-
> called immigration reform that will more than triple the number of legal
> immigrants over the next decade to 33 million from current legal
> immigration of about 1 million each year, and will also increase the
> numbers of temporary workers allowed to enter and work.
>
> The proposed bill will invite future immigrants to violate U.S. immigration
> law by providing amnesty to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants
> already in the U.S. A similar amnesty was enacted in 1986 which had that
> effect.
>
> Why is Congress ignoring the interests of suffering unemployed and
> underemployed Americans? There are two reasons: money and politics.
> Employers and business interests want the largest possible pool of labor to
> drive down their labor costs. They are actively lobbying (and making
> campaign contributions to) members of Congress to support the legislation
> to expand the labor pool.
>
> Elected officials hope that a pathway to citizenship for more immigrants
> will lead to more votes for them and their party in the future. Democrats
> are hoping that immigrants will reward their efforts with a permanent
> majority. Some Republicans have been persuaded that the permanent majority
> for Democrats is likely to happen unless they, too, fall in line and
> support the bill in the hope of attracting a fraction of the future
> immigrant vote for Republicans.
>
> While immigrant voters as a group are as politically divided as everyone
> else, it is true that Hispanic and Asian voters have been skewing
> Democratic in recent elections, which is the basis for the hope for a
> permanent Democratic majority. There's enough truth to that possibility to
> wonder how Republicans could believe they help themselves by joining
> Democrats to enact the Schumer-Rubio bill.
>
> It's also true that no one feels the impact of competing with new immigrant
> labor more than the immigrants who arrived earlier. So speculation on how
> new voters will vote is just that, speculation.
>
> Meanwhile, Sherry Lockhart, 53, of Enumclaw, Washington, is having her
> jobless benefits slashed as a result of federal spending cuts. She tells
> the New York Times, "I just feel I've done my best over the years, and I
> feel like I haven't failed the system. The system has failed me, and
> millions more."
>
> http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/blogs/brandywine-to-broad/item/55808
>
> --
> Enjoy Internet Privacy And Anonymity:http://hidemyass.com/vpn/r6995:5/
>
> Loathing of the religious right becomes an end in itself, a consuming
> passion. Liberals denouce Christian conservatives for being moralistic,
> for imposing their morality on others, for not separating morality from
> politics, and for bringing religious zeal to public life--and then work
> themselves into a frothing frenzy of righteous, moralistic zeal over
> their own moral excellence for being so rational, calm, and detached.
> One is reminded of the sadistic moralists from Dickens novels, who latch
> on to the idea that whipping is good for the child, so they can beat the
America is saddled with a failing two party system. Now demographic
shattering is displaying it's utter whoreishness pandering to illegal
aliens. Hopefully, the shithouse in DC will fail in the next few
years.
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