Posted on 08/04/2013 11:00:42 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
House Republican leaders on Sunday showed no signs that their party would accept the Senate’s bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, instead suggesting that they want to address the issues one by one.
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The alien amnesty lobby has become even more hysterical, especially after the dismal July jobs report from the Labor Department last Friday. Democrats tried to brag about the number of jobs created but that didn't work since a disproportionate share of the 162,000 added payrolls were low-paying and/or part-time. And the overall figure was 'less than expected'. Over 65 percent of these new jobs were part-time.
This, after four years of Obama's glorious economic recovery and his more than a dozen "pivots" back to the stalled economy. In each of these "pivots", Obama claims to have laid out his ideas (which is true if by 'his' he means Karl Marx).
Privately, Democrats are despondent and resigned to the fact that fixing the economy is probably beyond the ability of even the most powerful man on earth -- Putin.
The jobs report showed wages had fallen, hours worked had shrunk and the workforce had contracted. The May and June figures were revised down by 26,000 jobs, or around the number of employees monitoring Anthony Weiner's Twitter account for possible lewd hackers. (It's happened before!)
The media were shocked and dismayed that a stagnant economy doesn't produce an abundance of high-paying, full-time jobs. Even with the looming threat of Obamacare, businesses are mysteriously reluctant to hire. (Why would that be? Any ideas???) In the past nine months, the annualized rate of economic growth had come in at a spectacular (under) 1 percent.
Over 6 in 10 of the new jobs added this year were generated by the economy's low-paying industries, which account for less than 40 percent of the overall economy (per Moody's Analytics).
Around 77 percent of the jobs produced since January have been part-time. The government says you're working full-time even if you're working only 35 hours per week.
Even in a zombie-like, low-inflation environment, average hourly pay dropped in July by 2 cents. The jobless rate inched down to 7.4 percent primarily because 240,000 people left the workforce, prompting Joe Biden to hail another Recovery Summer.
With Obama's hands wrapped tightly around the economy's throat, we're still around 2,500,000 jobs short compared to where we were back in the "horrible" 2008-2009 period.
Given an anemic and jobless recovery, it's not a politically great time to pile on by pushing for legalizing a flood of cheap foreign labor -- which is why Democrats are doing precisely that. They are joined by 14 stupid Senate "Republicans", led by Sen. Marco Rubio, who won his seat by posing as a conservative.
The Obama-Rubio 'stimulus' plan is to have no 'stimulus' plan, other than more vigorously flipping the bird at working class folks by bestowing irrevocable amnesty on millions of illegal foreigners -- 11 million or so being the usual ballpark estimate, which means granting legal access to America's labor market to roughly 8 million foreigners, letting artificially increased competition from unskilled workers drive down wages as a wet kiss subsidy to big business. By importing the Third World, you save big corporations from the trouble of relocating to the Third World, instead turning America into Third World underclass hellhole status via chain migration over the next decade.
The usual, tired trope is that Republicans need to "reach out" to foreigners here illegally, Hispanic, Asian, or Muslim, in order to win 'em over. Which is an odd 'land-for-peace' argument to still be making after a weekend when a thoroughly 'decimated' al-Qaeda caused us to flee our embassies and consulates throughout the Middle East and North Africa due to a very specific, unspecified, specific threat from Yemen, only 10 weeks after Obama declared the 'war on terror' over and after five years sucking up to foreigners in that part of the world. How well has sucking up to foreigners with names like Hussein worked out for president B. Hussein Obama? Whether the pandering is directed at illegal border-crossers from Mexico (lesson for Republicans) or across the Middle East (lesson for Obama), it breeds contempt. After endless apology tours, Happy Ramadans, and interviews on Al Jazeera, bow-down Obama ends up surrendering embassies in panic and entering the witness protection program. They love us so much now, don't they?
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
” See?? Ryan doesn’t care about political ramifications. He doesn’t care if Dems win all the elections. He is way too principled for that. That explains his performance last year. “
MONEY explains the traitor Ryan THIS year. Millions of COC dollars. Rubio already got HIS first traunche of money.
Flash forward to July 30. Ryan claims that breaking Boehhner's promise of sticking to the Hastert Rule is the same thing as keeping it it because LINK "we don’t know if we have a majority until we vote on it."
As SOL has posted, that is BS, since Pelosi did count votes before bringing a bill to the floor.
Ryan is a weasel, but of course he is not the only traitor in the House GOP. What do GOP traitors do, draw out of a bag to see who gets the black bean, so that other traitors can hide behind the "winner?"
Youtube strikes again!
“Flash forward to July 30. Ryan claims that breaking Boehhner’s promise of sticking to the Hastert Rule is the same thing as keeping it it because LINK “we don’t know if we have a majority until we vote on it.”
As SOL has posted, that is BS, since Pelosi did count votes before bringing a bill to the floor.
Ryan is a weasel, but of course he is not the only traitor in the House GOP. What do GOP traitors do, draw out of a bag to see who gets the black bean, so that other traitors can hide behind the “winner?”
Good job!
I can imagine Rubio drawing the black bean in the senate.
Of course.
Thank you so much for the beautiful essay, dear JohnHuang2!
Ryan may need a worse nickname than Rymney.
How about Jojo the dog-faced bitch boy?
” How about Jojo the dog-faced bitch boy?”
LOL!
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