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OUTRAGE: Dems could have already cut unemployment by 50 percent



With one in 10 homes under foreclosure, 95,000 nonfarm jobs lost in September, 15 million Americans out of work, why is the Administration letting them continue to suffer?

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“I feel your pain, and I wish you luck with that” comments are the lip service being offered by Democrat politicians, journalists and radio talk show hosts. According to the Department of Agriculture, a historic 42.4 million households are on food stamps, a 17 percent increase from August 2009, a 10-million person increase from 2007, making every one in seven persons program recipients. Think of the multibillions this program is costing the federal government annually! But all this time, Democrats could have cut America’s unemployment by half and have chosen not to. You deserve to know why and how this can be achieved today. There are six main reasons for America’s unemployment numbers:
  1. The Democrat Party doesn’t want to cut unemployment in America.
  2. Monthly legal immigration numbers and programs increase America’s economic/jobless problems and states’ financial obligations for education, emergency medical care, law enforcement/incarceration and entitlement assistance programs.
  3. Unemployment furthers global environmentalist objectives.
  4. De-industrialization, Free trade agreements (GAAT, NAFTA, CAFTA) which increase the price of U.S. goods (compared to China’s imports, for example), the exporting of our jobs to foreign countries by U.S. firms to keep production costs and taxes lower, thereby increasing profit margins.
  5. Employers’ uncertainty about: impending expiration of the Bush tax cuts, impacts of ObamaCare and increasing government regulations, the bleak economic future, is stagnating hiring and expansion.
  6. Most Americans aren’t aware of this agenda or the demographics and thus aren’t pushing the Administration for these simple, logical solutions.

Reclaim American Jobs Caucus

In March 2009, key Republicans including U.S. Reps. Sue Myrick (R- N.C.), Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Gary Miller (R-Calif.) established the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. Its aim is to enforce currently existing immigration laws. This effort has gone unnoticed and absolutely no action has been taken other than being reported by The Daily Caller. If the immigration laws were enforced, the 8 million illegal aliens currently withholding jobs from Americans and legal immigrants looking for work, could cut the current unemployment rate by 50 percent! According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, California has 2.2 million unemployed Americans and legal immigrants who compete with 1.8 illegal aliens in the workforce; in North Carolina, 500,000 unemployed Americans compete with 250,000 illegals in the workforce; in Texas, 1 million unemployed Americans compete with 950,000 illegals in the workforce; and in Florida more than 1 million unemployed Americans compete with 750,000 illegal aliens in the workforce. (Source) Forty-one Republican congressmen have joined the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. If your congressman is not a member of the Caucus, call his or her office and ask them to become a member. You can find the members here. The excuse that Americans won’t perform the jobs illegals hold is just that, an excuse. “I don’t believe there are any jobs that Americans won’t take, and that includes agricultural jobs,” said Carol Swain, professor of law at Vanderbilt University, author of “Debating Immigration” in an interview for theroot.com. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the top six occupational sectors for illegal aliens are farming, maintenance, construction, food service, production and material moving.

Minority unemployment is even worse

A recent Pew Hispanic Center Study (Oct. 29, 2010) points out that Hispanic Americans are losing out on jobs to non-native (illegal) Hispanic workers. Hispanic immigrants gained nearly 100,000 construction jobs from 2009 to 2010, but native-born Hispanic Americans lost 133,000 of those very same jobs. It found that from June 2009 to June 2010, the unemployment rate for foreign-born workers dropped 0.6 percent, while rising 0.5 percent for native-born workers. Interestingly, the unemployment rate for foreign-born Hispanics decreased from 11.0 percent in the second quarter of 2009 to 10.1 percent in the second quarter of 2010. At the same time, the unemployment rate for native-born Hispanics increased from 12.9 percent to 14.0 percent.

The situation is grimmer for African-Americans.

With national unemployment hovering around 10 percent and black male unemployment at a staggering 17.6 percent, it’s just not true that undocumented workers are doing the jobs that we won’t do, wrote Cord Jefferson in his article, “How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black America” for theroot.com. “[Illegal immigration] hurts low-skilled, low-wage workers of all races, but blacks are harmed the most because they’re disproportionately low-skilled,” Professor Swain said. After an ICE raid eliminated 300 illegal aliens at a Columbia Farms processing plant in Columbia, S.C., House of Raeford began replacing immigrants at its plants, converting from an 80 percent Latino (illegal) to a 70 percent African-American workforce, the Charlotte Observer reported. The Federation for Immigration Reform identifies indirect costs resulting from unemployment payments to Americans who lost their jobs to illegal aliens willing to work for lower wages and lost tax collections from those American workers who became unemployed at an additional $4.3 billion annually. This results in an annual cost of illegal alien services to states of $24.44 billion.

Bogus global climate change schemes

And now for the impact of environmentalism on our current unemployment picture. A recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimated that up to 79 percent of these jobs may be gone for good. Is this by accident or by design? Don’t forget that global warming czar Carol Browner was listed as one of 14 leaders of the socialist group Commission for a Sustainable World Society. Once the Washington Times reported this little factoid, her affiliation was conveniently scrubbed from the Commission’s site. This group calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. Shrinking economies through reduced industrialization results in fewer jobs and is considered asuccessful implementation – to decrease a nation’s carbon footprint.

Illegal aliens cost federal, state and local governments

FAIR has recently estimated the annual cost of illegal aliens to the federal, state and local governments at $113 billion; $84.2 billion of this is at the state and local levels, with $29 billion at the federal level. This equates to $1,117 per native-born household. Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and local governments. And most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury. The updated costs of illegal aliens by state which include costs for education, emergency medical care, law enforcement and entitlement assistance programs are here:

Why aren’t taxpaying American citizens the priority?

The Administration is not willing to make its taxpaying citizens a priority because the emphasis is on a multicultural America with open borders while all immigration enforcement is under fire: Deportation arrests are down 68 percent. Criminal arrests are down 60 percent. Criminal indictments are down 58 percent, and criminal convictions are down 63 percent per the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. Regardless of which party you are affiliated with, is this the America you recognize? Couple this with the fastest growth in government workers. Now at 21.3 million, federal, state and local government workers comprise 15 percent of the working population who are insulated economically from these problematic market cycles. So then, tell me again why, if you are an out-of-work Democrat who continues to vote Democrat, you would continue the same behaviors resulting in the same outcomes? The example of Nevada and its 14.4 percent unemployment rate comes to mind…

Five Immigration-Reduction bills

According to Numbers USA, nearly 26 million Americans were unemployed as of June 2009, had to settle for part-time work, or left the job market altogether. Yet the U.S. continues to import more than 125,000 foreign workers each month and issue them green cards. This is in addition to the Visa Lottery program which allows 55,000 foreigners per year, Asylum and Refugee Programs, birthright citizenship, chain migration and the EB-5 Foreign Investor Visa Program for Entrepreneurs. The EB-5 program grants citizenship for foreign businessmen who will contribute $300,000 – $1 million to a pre-identified regional area (creating jobs), and in return, receives citizenship for his wife and all children under age 21. Do the math. If we are taking in just a minimum of 125,000 immigrants with green cards per month, already have 26 million Americans out of work and lost 95,000 jobs in September, how will we ever catch up? Answer: At this rate, we can’t. We must insist on adherence to the already-existing immigration laws, stop current immigration programs which exacerbate our current unemployment woes, while reducing monthly legal immigration numbers. If your legislator is not a supporter of Numbers USA’s “5 Immigration-Reduction Bills,” get them onboard as sponsors for all five. Remember, there is no excuse for our current unemployment rate as America’s unemployed citizens are made to take a back seat to the Administration’s multinational, open border priorities. Call your Washington D.C. representatives and insist they join the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus and fight to resolve this matter on behalf of unemployed Americans. Knowledge is power. Carmen Reynolds, Lt Col (Ret), USAF is an investigative journalist, copy editor and researcher. Carmen can be reached at: journalist@bellsouth.net


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