Merry Christmas… now let’s burn the Capital to the ground...
(*THOUGHTFUL PAUSE*)
…with our esteemed representatives handcuffed to their
desks.
Yep…. the following Breitbart expose is pretty infuriating.
It really is almost enough to spur me on to donate to al
Qaeda.
(*GNASHING MY TEETH*)
OK... here goes:
* * *
GOP House leaders are preparing a huge appropriations
bill for a vote next week — and top GOP legislators want to include a rider
that could allow employers to replace at least 100,000 blue-collar Americans
with up to 264,000 foreign temporary H-2B workers.
* SERIOUSLY...
(*PAUSE*)
* NOT THAT I'M CALLING FOR VIOLENCE (BECAUSE THAT WOULD
BE ILLEGAL), BUT IN ALL SERIOUSNESS... OTHER THAN KILLING THE BA$TARDS... HOW
DOES ONE "REFORM" WASHINGTON D.C.?
The plan would actually cost taxpayers billions of
dollars each year, because the unemployed Americans workers won’t pay taxes,
but would get unemployment checks and welfare aid from the taxpayers.
The GOP’s pink-slip plan would also cut the wages of many
other American workers before the 2016 election. That’s because the foreign
temps hold down the normal wages that Americans could otherwise negotiate in a
free market for their labor.
The GOP legislators, the House appropriations committee
and the GOP’s leadership would not respond to repeated requests for information
about the measure. A Hill aide, however, provided Breitbart with documents
indicating legislators are pushing to include it in the omnibus bill. GOP
leaders plan to rush that huge spending bill through the House by the end of
next week.
* WHERE'S CRUZ? WHERE'S PAUL? FOR THAT MATTER, WHERE'S
CLINTON? WHERE'S SANDERS?
* WHERE'S TRUMP...???
The complex bill is a gift to donors and businesses
because it would allow them to reduce wages offered in advertised jobs, thus
deterring American applicants and then justifying their requests for H-2B visa
workers.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
It also provides a huge loophole that technically keeps
the current annual cap of 66,000 H-2B workers — but excludes from the cap any
H-2B workers who got an H-2B visa in the prior three years. That clever
loophole would allow employers to simultaneously hire up to four years of H-2B
workers, or 264,000 foreign workers.
* FOLKS... WHERE IS HARRY REID'S PROMISE TO BLOCK THIS?
* THE FOCUS OF THE ARTICLE IS ON THE SCUMBAG REPUBLICANS
- AND RIGHTLY SO - BUT WHERE ARE THE SCUMBAG DEMOCRATS?
“This bill reads like it was written by landscaping
industry... It’s a wish list of everything they could possibly want,” said Ed
Tuddenham, a lawyer in New York.
(“The steel industry doesn’t get low-wage labor to
compete with foreign steelmakers,” he scoffed.)
The bill is being pushed by the H-2B Workforce Coalition,
which includes hotel owners, golf courses, landscaping companies, realtors, the
National Federation of Independent Business, building contractors, roofing
companies, the racetrack association and many other groups. “Failure to enact a
returning worker exemption will decimate seasonal businesses across the
country,” the group claimed in a May letter, which also includes a 20-page list
of companies looking to hire foreign workers instead of American workers.
* F--K 'EM! THEY'RE FULL OF $HIT!
The group declined to comment for this article.
* YEAH... I BET THEY DID!
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)
In the House, the bill has been championed by Ohio Rep.
Steve Chabot, chairman of the Small Business Committee, Virginia Rep. Bob
Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Maryland Rep. Andy Harris
(R-MD) and Louisiana Rep. Charles W. Boustany. Their offices did not respond to
multiple emails. Goodlatte’s constituency include many poultry growers who rely
on cheap labor to manually process chickens and turkeys in slaughterhouses.
* IT'S NOT JUST CHICKENS WHICH NEED TO BE SLAUGHTERED...
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND AGAIN*)
The office of House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) office
declined to comment.
* WHAT DID I TELL YOU FOLKS ABOUT THIS SCUMBAG?!
In the Senate, the measure is being pushed by two new GOP
Senators — North Carolina Republican Sen. Tom Tillis and Louisiana Sen. Bill
Cassidy (R-LA). The Senators’ offices did not respond.
Two veteran Democrats - Maryland’s Sen. Barbara Mikulski
(D-MD) and Virginia’s Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) - are also supporting the
measure.
* FOLKS. IF THE DEMS DON'T FILIBUSTER THIS WHEN IT GETS
TO THE SENATE... THAT SAYS IT ALL.
So far, the “voter layoff act of 2016″ is still in the
omnibus bill, a Hill aide tells Breitbart News.
* RYAN. PELOSI. MCCONNELL. REID. PROVE ME WRONG ABOUT WHAT
SCUMBAGS YOU ALL ARE.
The GOP politicians — and some Democrats — are supporting
their donors and local business-interests when they tout their measure. But the
politicians’ support may be entirely insincere — and they may intend to drop
the pink-slip measure once public protest provides them with an excuse to give
their donors.
* THEY SURE AS HELL BETTER...!!!
That’s why business leaders are worrying the
worker-replacement measure won’t make it though the closed-door appropriations
process. “That’s the $50 million question right there,” Josh Denison, the
hiring chief at Denison Landscaping in Oxon Hill, Md., told Breitbart News.
The pink-slip plan comes as GOP leaders also spurn
pressure from their alienated voters for curbs on President Barack Obama’s
ambitious and unpopular plans to increase the inflow of Muslim migrants during
2016. The leaders’ support for two unpopular priorities — more migrants and
fewer working-Americans — reflects the clout of the GOP’s donor class.
* EXPLAIN TO ME AGAIN HOW VIOLENCE ISN'T THE ONLY
ANSWER...
(*WAITING FOR AN ANSWER*)
The donors strongly support the importation of more
customers and workers. Legal immigrants and temporary guest-workers provide
top-level executives with taxpayer-subsidized consumers, taxpayer-supported
low-wage workers, higher stock-prices on Wall Street and a better chance to win
promotion into the corner office once the CEO retires.
* YEP...
(*NODDING*)
This business-first policy is also echoed by the GOP’s
new House Speaker, Rep. Paul Ryan, who has endorsed the “any willing worker”
claim that U.S.-based executives should be allowed to offer any job to any
foreign workers if Americans workers won’t take the job at an advertised wage.
“We want to have a system where people can come here and work – go back and
forth if they want to,” Ryan said in 2013.
* NO! NO WE DON'T!
In fact, Ryan endorses the H-2B worker program on his
website.
“Employers should be able to hire workers on a temporary or seasonal basis when they can’t find Americans to fill the jobs. Wisconsin, for instance, relies on seasonal labor for agriculture and other industries, but due to a lack of seasonal H-2B visas, some Wisconsin businesses face annual labor shortfalls. If we can link legal immigrants with small businesses, we can help spur economic growth.”
* AGAIN... HOW MANY TIMES DID I WARN YOU PEOPLE?
In Oct. 2015, only 62.4% of adult Americans had jobs.
That’s down from 66.9% in April 2001, and level with the June 1977 level.
* YES, THE ONGOING RETIREMENT OF THE BABY BOOM GENERATION IS
PARTIALLY A DRIVER OF THIS REALITY, BUT EVEN WHEN WE "CONTROL" FOR
THAT (STATISTICALLY "CONTROL") WE STILL COME AWAY WITH A FRIGHTENING
REALITY THAT THE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IS BEING SQUEEZED FROM BOTH
SIDES. AS FOR THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS... MANY OF THESE HIGH-PAYING JOBS ARE ACTUALLY DRAGS ON THE ECONOMY... BUREAUCRATIC DRAGS. (THINK ABOUT IT...)
But in a Dec. 3 speech, Ryan also touted the need for
higher wages and more employment. “Push wages up... Get people off the
sidelines in this country. I could think of no better way to restore confidence
in the American economy,” he said in a showcase speech at the Library of
Congress.
* THE IDIOT WANTS INFLATION - AS DOES THE RULING
OLIGARCHY IN GENERAL. NOTICE... "PUSH" WAGES UP. (VIA GOVERNMENT AND
FED POLICIES. AND HOW HAVE THESE POLICIES BEEN WORKING, FOLKS? HMM?)
The H-2B program is strongly supported by Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC), who the leading advocate of the 2013 amnesty-and-cheap-labor “comprehensive
immigration reform” bill.
* I... DESPISE... LINDSEY... GRAHAM...
In 2012, Graham intervened to deliver more than 100 H-2B
workers to a political ally who owns a resort and golf-course frequented by the
Senator.
(*SILENCE*)
Their business-first agenda, however, is overwhelmingly
opposed by most Americans, including the GOP’s populist base and much of the
Democratic Party’s base. For example, that GOP’s base blocked the
industry-backed, wage-cutting, Obama-pushed 2013 “immigration reform bill,” and
then ejected GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in his June 2014 primary. Since
then, and amid further disappointments over the GOP’s unwillingness to fight
Obama’s cheap-labor economic policy, the populist base is now breaking away
from the GOP’s uncompromising business wing. They’re making the break by
shifting to support anti-amnesty Donald Trump for the 2016 race.
* YEP...!
Democrats have split on the H-2B program, partly because
various Left-wing groups and publications have scorched it as modern form of
indentured servitude for the foreign workers. However, a new article in
Buzzfeed, titled “All You Americans Are Fired,” shows how the H-2B program, and
its similar H-2A program for agriculture workers, also disadvantages Americans.
The Washington Post’s progressives ran a front-page article Nov. 26 worrying about
why the H-2B program was supported by progressive champion Mikulski.
Tuddenham, the lawyer, told Breitbart he hates the H-2B
program:
“It is terrible... it allows the wages that has to be offered to [Americans workers] to be lowered dramatically... it takes jobs away from U.S. workers and it makes industries more and more dependent on foreign workers... [and] quickly drives domestic workers out of that market.”
Employers game the H-2B rules to exclude American from
huge sectors of the economy, he said.
Seasonal jobs, for example, can be kept away from
Americans and directed to H-2B workers by simply announcing that any employee
must stay on the job one week after schools and universities reopen in the
fall, he said.
* YEP! THAT'S EXACTLY THE SORT OF $HIT THESE SCUMBAGS
PULL!
When Americans students can’t meet that extra
requirement, employers can call the Labor Department to complain they need
H-2Bs to do the job that Americans supposedly won’t do, according to Tuddenham.
(*NODDING*)
However, the program has survived because it is supported
by Democratic politicians.
* BY... DEMOCRATIC... POLITICIANS...
For example, Mikulski and eight other Democratic Senators
have signed on to an Oct 27, 2015 letter from 25 Senators that slammed the
Labor Department for rejecting companies’ studies — dubbed “prevailing wage
determinations” — that justify the payment of low-salaries to the H-2Bs.
The new measure quadruples the current H-2B program,
which provides companies with an annual seasonal supply of up to 66,000
low-wage, hard-working, temporary guest-workers, mostly from Latin America and
the Caribbean.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
They’re called ‘guest workers,’ because they stay for a
few months or almost a year, work for wages approved by the government, and
cannot use the work to apply for an immigrant Green Card. These compliant and
disposable workers take many decent blue-collar jobs, such as kitchen staff,
beach lifeguards, truck drivers, sports coaches, hotel maids, landscapers, and
foresters.
The H-2B program is the little-recognized blue-collar
version of the controversial H-1B program that brings in many white-collar,
college-grad foreign workers each year. (Another program, dubbed H-2A, bring in
additional blue-collar workers for agricultural jobs.)
Employers like the H-2B workers because most of them work
hard – even when the weather is very hot — and because they usually can’t or
don’t complain about tough working conditions or bad foremen, and because they
go away at the end of the season. Perfect for employers’ accounting sheets.
(*GRITTING MY TEETH*)
The guest-workers work hard, in part, because only people
who want to work hard volunteer for these tough guest-worker jobs. Many save
their wages to pay for their families back home. But the H-2B program also
allows employers to pay lower wages to their American workforce. Few Americans
want a low-wage job that demands long hours during the spring, summer and
autumn plus inevitable unemployment during winter and Christmas. So employers
must offer higher-than-usual wages to persuade Americans to accept that
undesirable seasonal combination. But those higher seasonal wages then force
employers to raise the wages of their supervisors and year-round workers. The
knock-on impact was described by Denison in the October 2015 issue of the
industry magazine, Lawn & Landscaping, as he worried about the Labor
Department’s plans to bump up the 2016 hourly wage of H-2B workers to $13.80.
“This causes a ripple effect in all wages across the
board,” Denison says. “If your $10.30 [an hour] basic domestic or H-2B laborer
has an arbitrary wage increase, then you have to adjust wages across the board
in a sliding scale to keep it fair and balanced. What happens to the $12 guy if
the new guy is making more? And what happens to the $15 guy?”
Well, the $12 guy and the $15 guy get pay increases when
the employer has to pay Americans a free-market wage of $14 an hour to take the
seasonal job. Correspondingly, the $12 guy and the $15 guy don’t get wage
increases when a H-2B guy will take the seasonal job for $10.
* MAKES SENSE!
Roger Warren, the manager of the Kiawah country club in
South Carolina, echoed that wage-differential claim in a 2013 interview.
“That’s the kind of analysis that every business goes through, and to have
people with other conflicting interests take a position that is more
political-based than business-based ... is frustrating because in practicality
[a wage increase] doesn’t work” for the club’s balance-sheets, he said.
If the proposed layoff-an-American-today measure passes,
it will also kill the Labor Department’s plan to raise the H-2B hourly wage of
$13.80 in 2016. For an American, that’s equivalent to an annual income of just
under $20,000 for a nine-month seasonal worker. That doesn’t go far in D.C,
where rent costs $10,000 a year for half of a two-person apartment in Marlboro,
Md.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The GOP measure will also cost state and local taxpayers.
In 2015, Denison said he had to hire 142 Americans
because the Labor Department was slow to deliver his foreign H-2B work-crews.
If those 124 Americans left Maryland’s unemployment line for an average of six
months, the state taxpayers’ welfare bill would have dropped by almost
$900,000. Nationwide, the taxpayers’ cost for supporting the 200,000 Americans
to be sacked by Congress’s plan would add up to roughly $1.4 billion — every
six months.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
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