Trump: People Who Work Their Ass Off, Not Illegals, Are The Backbone Of This Country

Real Clear Politics ^ | February 4, 2016 | RCP

[xzins]

debunked

[ifinnegan]

Ostrich.

Hands over ears humming.

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That’s just how it is in those industries.

[Resolute Conservative]

As a Cruz supporter I agree.

[DefeatCorruption]

The rest of the pack including Cruz are not willing to address this plainly.

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They can’t as they are beholden to their donors.

[Harpotoo]

Trump, now you are talking like Trump! Go Trump!

[PATRIOT1876]

Who cares how hard illegals work? They are not supposed to be here stealing jobs from Americans in any case.

[5thGenTexan]

Cruz’s position is laid out clearly and with detail in the issues section of his website.

He addresses illegal immigration, the wall and increasing security measures, an H1-B visa freeze tied to unemployment numbers, and many other points.

It’s all their for anyone willing to read it.

[Nifster]

I think everyone can agree on thst

[5thGenTexan]

By the same measure, healso hasn’t made one vote against any of those, or fufilled a single campaign promise.

[Grampa Dave]

Why is Trump the only candidate, strongly stating, without nuance, the obvious?

Are the others bank rolled by the Open Borders Elite Thugs?

[varyouga]

I’m in highrise construction.

Good luck finding a demo contractor that doesn’t use illegals.

They’ll all have paperwork in the files but people use other/fake IDs all the time.

If you were to actually recheck every single worker every time they come/go on site, nothing would ever get built

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

I’ve run a union business for over 30 years in Chicago, and I have many friends who do the same in New York and New Jersey (I am a pipefitter, fire sprinklers, water mains, and gas lines).

I will tell you how this works, I do NOT hire people, I get them from the union hall. I have no say so in this (well very little), I can only go the union steward (union rep), and file a grievance.

Further, who the union provides is none of my business (or so I am told over and over). Sometimes I get chronies from one alderman or a friend of a friend who couldn’t find the sharp side of a shovel, and I have to deal with them until the grievance is worked out.

As far as $5 an hour laborers, I have no idea what my union pays laborers, and sometimes they send some pretty dicey people, especially on big jobs where there aren’t enough regular union members.

As union members, I do NOT supply their tools, protective equipment or the like, they are responsible for those things.

Strikes are a prime example of how this works, say IBEW is on strike somewhere, or even the Teamsters, the unions here will hire about 100 people at $5 an hour (cash) to go picket.

There is little I can do about it, and of course I want to.

As far as Trump giving money to dems over the years, all I can do is laugh. Year after year I have to give to every mayor for the 50 towns around me, and every election cycle I have to pony up at least a grand for anyone who may have a chance to beat him. Without doing so, I can get jerked around by inspectors, on permits, and on final job inspections

I also have to pay to each and every damned towns pet charity (which is almost always United Way), but it also includes Rainbow, Operation Push, The Daley Initiative, Rahm’s Chicago, the list goes on and on. This is the cost of doing business where I live.

Also, I am a registered dem, because how I register is public knowledge, and I do get reminders that how I register is of public record. Welcome to Chicago, and I am sure New York is the same. I need to work, get jobs, and feed my family.

I haven’t voted since Reagan, and I can tell you now I didn’t vote for him because he was a bible thumper, he was the anti-Carter bible thumper. This country needs a leader, not a bible thumper. We got a born-again now in the white house, and I have no desire to stick another one in. America is in bad shape, and I WILL vote Trump(and almost every other pipefitter and construction guy (union members) will as well, or we will most likely stay home.

If Cruz is the nominee.. forget it. One thing we hate is some slickster in a suit coming around us asking “have you heard the word brother?” You can keep your Hucklebees, your Jimmy Swaggarts and your Jim and Tammy Bakers.

BTW, I signed up today after watching this forum for a couple of months. I would have signed up sooner, but it seems that if you haven’t been here since 1992 your a noob and your opinion doesn’t matter (or you are flamed to death). But hell, I said screw it and signed up.

If Trump doesn’t get the nomination, I’ll just stay home again, I won’t vote for a Clinton or a socialist.

[5thGenTexan]

Are the others bank rolled by the Open Borders Elite Thugs?

Apparently Cruz is not. The open borders crowd is attacking him:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3393336/posts

[CSM]

I agree with Trump on this one and am glad to see he responded to the democrat plant accordingly.

In fact, I’ll go one step further. It is those hard working Americans that will “make America great again.” We just need the federal government to get the heck out of our way!

No single person can be elected to the office of President and “make America great again” by themselves. Not Trump, nor Cruz. Not even George Washington!

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C’mon now...If George Washington showed up, wouldn’t you be just a wee bit curious?

:>)

[HarleyLady27]

Trump didn’t let them in did he? Who is in Washington D.C. that is letting them in? Cruz and Rubio....

[Grampa Dave]

All U.S. Job Gains Since Dec. 2007 Have Gone To Foreign-Born Workers

Zero Hedge ^ | 02/05/2016 | Tyler Durden Posted on 2/5/2016, 8:59:34 AM by SeekAndFind

With the Fed on the verge of a full relent and admission of policy error, the Fed's "data (in)dependent" monetary policy once again takes on secondary relevance as we progress into 2016. However, even with the overall job picture far less important, one aspect of the US jobs market is certain to take on an unprecedented importance.

We first laid out what that is last September when we said that "the one chart that matters more than ever, has little to nothing to do with the Fed's monetary policy, but everything to do with the November 2016 presidential elections in which the topic of immigration, both legal and illegal, is shaping up to be the most rancorous, contentious and divisive."

We were talking about the chart showing the cumulative addition of foreign-born and native-born workers added to US payrolls according to the BLS since December 2007, i.e., since the start of the recession/Second Great Depression.

As usually happens, it is precisely this data that gets no mention following any job report. However, with Trump and his anti-immigration campaign continuing to plow on despite the Iowa disappointment, we are confident that the chart shown below will soon be recognizable to economic and political pundits everywhere.

And here is why we are confident this particular data should have been prominently noted by all experts when dissecting today's job report: according to the BLS' Establishment Survey, while 151,000 total workers were added in January, a number which rises to 615,000 if looking at the Household survey, also according to the same Household survey, a whopping 567,000 native-born Americans lost their jobs, far less than the 98,000 foreign-born job losses.

The bottom line: starting with the infamous month when it all started falling apart, December 2007, the US has added just 186,000 native-born workers, offset by 13.5x times more, or 2,518,000, foreign born workers.

If Trump wins New Hampshire and South Carolina, and storms back to the top of the GOP primary polls, expect this chart to become the most important one over the next 10 months.

[Dick Bachert]

This January essay by Mychal Massie JUST came through here. It hits on the same theme I did on Wednesday’s radio program when a young lady called to say that, although she enjoyed our comments, she was disappointed at my ongoing support of Trump. I responded that we are in so much trouble facing a 20 TRILLION debt — not to mention a dedicated and vicious enemy! — (can you spell “OBAMA”?) that we needed someone in the White House who “...understands a balance sheet.” The only candidate with a DEMONSTRATED RECORD of that PRIVATE SECTOR ability is TRUMP! Bottom line? If we don’t solve that problem — and the others we face — the least of our concerns will be the political philosophy of the guy in the White House!

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/trump-a-pragmatist-not-a-conservative/

[Grampa Dave]

Which is why we need to go after Rubio not each other.

[Grampa Dave]

Phyllis Schlafly: Disqualify Marco Rubio for Lying About Amnesty in Spanish

http://www.breitbart.com ^ August 18, 2015 Katie McHugh
Posted on 2/4/2016, 2:59:01 PM by NKP_Vet

Phyllis Schlafly, architect of the modern conservative movement and tireless opponent of mass immigration, says GOP hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% should be disqualified from the race for dishonestly saying one thing about amnesty in English and another in Spanish.

“If Jeb’s candidacy falters despite the $114 million he raised, the establishment’s next choices, Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, have basically similar views,” she wrote in her Monday World Net Daily column:

Kasich said the 12 million illegals should be “legalized once we find out who they are,” and Rubio said Obama’s executive amnesty “can’t be terminated because there are already people benefiting from it.”

Rubio’s statement was made in Spanish on the Spanish-language network Univision, which is reason enough to eliminate him from serious consideration. When somebody is running for president of the United States, why should we have to get somebody to translate his remarks into English?

Why indeed? Bilingualism has corroded political discourse rather than strengthened it. Lying in a different language is a becoming bipartisan pastime. Democratic Rep. Luis Gutirrez mocked Kathryn Steinle’s death during a Spanish Telemundo interview, calling it a “little thing.” Steinle was allegedly murdered by an illegal alien. Gutierrez exploded with rage when an expert immigration witness calmly called him out during a congressional hearing.