the H-1Bs then it’s the H-2Bs ……GOP, Democratic Leaders, Hide Plan To Outsource 200,000 Americans’ Jobs
House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Democratic leaders have hidden a bipartisan plan in the 2016 appropriations bill that would outsource blue-collar jobs held by almost 200,000 Americans to lower-wage temporary foreign workers.
The covert plan could also cut the salaries of many additional American workers, and force taxpayers to pay additional billions in welfare costs, so companies can boost their profits.
Nonpartisan
public opposition to cheap imported-labor defeated the massively-lobbied 2013 immigration bill, prompted primary voters to fire the GOP’s majority leader in June 2014, helped to fire five Democratic Senators in November 2014, and has helped outsider Donald Trump dominate the GOP’s 2016 race. Meanwhile, the presidential candidates who are backing low-productivity, cheap-labor policies — chiefly Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)— have fallen to very low levels, despite huge support from business donors and media personalities.
The H-2B program brings in cheap workers, mostly from Latin America, to work for companies in seasonal sectors such as landscaping, forestry, seafood, hotels, resorts and country clubs and hotels. Those workers displace Americans youths and lower-skilled Americans, including many Hispanic-Americans and African-Americans supposedly championed by Democrats. The program is backed by a large
business coalition. …..
…. Normally, the program is capped at 66,000 workers per year. But the hidden language exempts the prior three years of H-2B workers from the cap, allowing the companies to bring in four years of workers each year. That will quadruple the size of the current program up to 264,000 workers in 2016. ….. …..
In Oct. 2015, only 62.4 percent of adult Americans had jobs. That’s down from 66.9 percent in April 2001, and level with the June 1977 level. Yeh, we just don’t have enough Americans willing to take jobs, or something.
Essentially, this program provides cheap slave labor while keeping wages suppressed. This props up businesses which would otherwise fail. As we all know, in order to have success, one must also allow failure. To do otherwise defines everything else to the lowest common denominator. This is why our productivity increases hasn’t kept pace with the traditional rate over the last several decades.
Notice the near flat-line in recent years. This is a direct result of a lack of innovation in the workplace. Efficiency declines as the availability of cheap and unskilled laborers become more plentiful. Why would a business innovate and increase productivity per worker when they can just import cheap labor? Sure, it harms the rest of the US and the American citizenry, but, what can go wrong with a federally mandated bump to the bottom line of an individual company which would otherwise fail?
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Shock News!!!! The EPA Is A Bunch Of Lying Criminals!!!!!
Posted on December 16, 2015 by suyts
Constitutional Law Professor: GAO Report ‘A Black Eye for the EPA’
A Government Accountability Office report stating that the EPA broke the law is “a black eye” for the agency, says an expert in Constitutional Law. EPA is in hot water over the promulgation of a controversial water rule that a federal appeals court placed a stay on in October.“The impact of this report is more political than legal. It’s a black eye for the EPA, but doesn’t really affect the legal merits of the challenge,” Jonathan Adler, a professor of Constitutional Law at Case Western University and a regular contributor to the
Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy, tells Breitbart News.
The merits of the legal challenges to the EPA’s water rule,
filed by 22 states in two separate federal lawsuits, appear to be quite strong.
“While we know from experience that the EPA goes to great lengths to advance illegal and unprecedented regulations, I take comfort that we currently have a national stay on the waters rule and are well positioned to drive a stake through the heart of this unlawful policy,” Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General for West Virginia, one the states that has sued the EPA over the water rule, tells Breitbart News.
According to the EPA’s
website, “The Clean Water Rule: Definition of “Waters of the United States” published in the Federal Register on June 29, 2015. The rule became effective on August 28, 2015.” A federal district court judge in North Dakota issued
a stay almost immediately. The ruling initially applied only to 13 states involved in one lawsuit against the regulations. In October a federal appeals court
affirmed the stay and extended it to all 50 states in the country.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), a steadfast opponent of the water rule who had asked the GAO to issue a legal opinion on its validity, offers a similar view.
“G.A.O.’s finding confirms what I have long suspected: that E.P.A. will go to extreme lengths and even violate the law to promote its activist environmental agenda,” Inhofe
said in a statement responding to the GAO report. “E.P.A.’s illegal attempts to manufacture public support for its Waters of the United States rule and sway congressional opinion.” ……
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“At issue here,” the GAO explained, “is whether EPA violated publicity or propaganda and anti-lobbying provisions concerning the use of its FY 2014 and FY 2015 appropriations.” “The use of appropriated funds associated with implementing EPA’s Thunderclap campaign and establishing hyperlinks to the NRDC and Surfrider Foundation webpages,” GAO concluded, “violated prohibitions against publicity or propaganda and grassroots lobbying contained in appropriations acts for FYs 2014 and 2015.” ….
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