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WendyGirl33
09-26-2009, 04:04 PM
Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed When 8.3 Million Illegals Have Jobs? Immigration Moratorium Now!

One of the President's campaign promises, made often in the Midwestern Rustbelt, was to renegotiate NAFTA. It was a popular policy among hard-hit workers who understand how globalized trade has directly harmed them, since NAFTA sent thousands of jobs to Mexico and turned a moderate trade surplus into a loss. Senator Sherrod Brown estimated that NAFTA caused the loss of 200,000 manufacturing jobs in Ohio alone.

President Obama still plans an amnesty in the near, though unspecific, future, according to threats continuing to burble out of the White House.

That’s despite record unemployment and widespread misery throughout the land.

Obama’s Treason Lobby supporters nag him constantly that he promised to reward illegal alien lawbreakers. So there’s no danger he will be allowed to forget.

We have become so desensitized to Washington’s daily cruelty to average Americans that the systematic displacement of citizens in the workplace is accepted as the norm. Plus, not only is the White House guaranteeing to reward millions of aliens for violating U.S. sovereignty, but legal immigration on auto-pilot continues to dump 125,000 new workers per month into America’s already flooded labor market.

In boom times, captains of industry demanded additional foreign workers and got them. But now, when 15 million Americans are jobless, there is no corresponding reduction.

Why is that? Is there no OFF switch anywhere in Washington? An immigration moratorium, a time-out , would be sensible public policy and would relieve a lot of pain among citizens.

But there is no such legislation in Congress.

Has America drifted into an alternative universe where evil rules? Perhaps traditional citizens have been a little late in finding their voice in townhalls and tea parties.

Interestingly, President Obama understands something of the principle of supply and demand regarding employment—as he demonstrated in his CNN interview broadcast September 20:

“I think we’ll be adding jobs, but you need 150,000 additional jobs each month just to keep pace with a growing population,” the president said. “So if we’re only adding 50,000 jobs, that’s a great reversal from losing 700,000 jobs [a month] early this year—but, you know, it means that we’ve still got a ways to go.” [Obama: Economy probably won't produce enough jobs until 2010]

Among Americans, the economy is the top concern. An August Gallup poll found that 31 percent of workers personally feared losing their job, a new high and double the rate of a year ago. A Harris Poll taken in early September noted that 60 percent of Americans polled gave the President a negative rating on handling the economy.

Yet Washington and the elite media are stuck on healthcare. It’s certainly important and needs fixing. But unemployment is worsening (now at 9.7 percent nationally), and badly so in many regions and job sectors.

In August, 42 states lost jobs (an increase of 29 states from July) with a nationwide total of 216,000 persons laid off.

http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/2009/09/26/why-are-15-million-americans-unemployed-when-83-million-illegals-have-jobs-immigration-moratorium-now/

Trigg
09-27-2009, 09:20 AM
The sad part is 52% of 16-24 year olds are unemployed. That is a HUGE number.

When I walk into dairyqueen and there are older adults working the counter something is definitally wrong.

Like this article says the small businesses are the ones that can help the situation. But why should they expand, when bambam is talking about AGAIN punishing the wealthy with income redistribution.

The gov. also needs to get a lot tougher on illegals instead of continuing to talk amnesty and taking patrols off of the border.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/the_dead_end_kids_AnwaWNOGqsXMuIlGONNX1K

theHawk
09-30-2009, 11:22 PM
Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed When 8.3 Million Illegals Have Jobs? Immigration Moratorium Now!

One of the President's campaign promises, made often in the Midwestern Rustbelt, was to renegotiate NAFTA. It was a popular policy among hard-hit workers who understand how globalized trade has directly harmed them, since NAFTA sent thousands of jobs to Mexico and turned a moderate trade surplus into a loss. Senator Sherrod Brown estimated that NAFTA caused the loss of 200,000 manufacturing jobs in Ohio alone.

President Obama still plans an amnesty in the near, though unspecific, future, according to threats continuing to burble out of the White House.

That’s despite record unemployment and widespread misery throughout the land.

Obama’s Treason Lobby supporters nag him constantly that he promised to reward illegal alien lawbreakers. So there’s no danger he will be allowed to forget.

We have become so desensitized to Washington’s daily cruelty to average Americans that the systematic displacement of citizens in the workplace is accepted as the norm. Plus, not only is the White House guaranteeing to reward millions of aliens for violating U.S. sovereignty, but legal immigration on auto-pilot continues to dump 125,000 new workers per month into America’s already flooded labor market.

In boom times, captains of industry demanded additional foreign workers and got them. But now, when 15 million Americans are jobless, there is no corresponding reduction.

Why is that? Is there no OFF switch anywhere in Washington? An immigration moratorium, a time-out , would be sensible public policy and would relieve a lot of pain among citizens.

But there is no such legislation in Congress.

Has America drifted into an alternative universe where evil rules? Perhaps traditional citizens have been a little late in finding their voice in townhalls and tea parties.

Interestingly, President Obama understands something of the principle of supply and demand regarding employment—as he demonstrated in his CNN interview broadcast September 20:

“I think we’ll be adding jobs, but you need 150,000 additional jobs each month just to keep pace with a growing population,” the president said. “So if we’re only adding 50,000 jobs, that’s a great reversal from losing 700,000 jobs [a month] early this year—but, you know, it means that we’ve still got a ways to go.” [Obama: Economy probably won't produce enough jobs until 2010]

Among Americans, the economy is the top concern. An August Gallup poll found that 31 percent of workers personally feared losing their job, a new high and double the rate of a year ago. A Harris Poll taken in early September noted that 60 percent of Americans polled gave the President a negative rating on handling the economy.

Yet Washington and the elite media are stuck on healthcare. It’s certainly important and needs fixing. But unemployment is worsening (now at 9.7 percent nationally), and badly so in many regions and job sectors.

In August, 42 states lost jobs (an increase of 29 states from July) with a nationwide total of 216,000 persons laid off.

http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/2009/09/26/why-are-15-million-americans-unemployed-when-83-million-illegals-have-jobs-immigration-moratorium-now/

Maybe you are unaware of this but there is a very good reason there are so many illegals in this country with jobs. Its a combination of corparate welfare and modern-day slavery. Democrats have always had a love affair with slavery. Back in the "good ole days" of old fasioned slavery, Democrats had nothing but distain for the GOP for declaring some semblance of freedom for the slaves. For many years they formed the voting block of the south that opposed the GOP for decades after the civil war. To this day, the liberals that make up the Democratic Party cannot help but have a similar elitist attitude that makes some people superior and other inferior. Enter the "wetback", a new breed of cheap labor that can do all the dirty work for our society. Isn't it amazing how liberals fight so hard for things like minimum wage and labor laws, but turn a blind eye to all of the illiegals getting paid far less than minimum wage. Where's all the liberal compassion when there is human trafficking going on at our border? Why hasn't this all Democrat Congress and White House passed legislation that penalizes companies for hiring illegals?

Agnapostate
09-30-2009, 11:43 PM
You're only marginally on point.

Immigration both legal and illegal is primarily caused by the displacement of agricultural laborers and those uprooted by that displacement in Mexico, which was itself caused by the expansion of trade liberalization. Focus on immigrants themselves is a mere red herring designed to function as a distraction from the reality that the wealthy financiers that have invested in this liberalization effort are far more responsible for illegal immigration than corn farmers are. This in turn leads to ignorance of the facts that there are unjustly inequitable wage differentials between the U.S. and Mexico and that there is a disproportionately high demand for unskilled labor in the U.S., and the manipulation of public policy according to the interests of the financial class.