Blacks and Whites standing together for American Jobs

By Anthony Bruno

July 17, 2013

On Monday, July 15th I attended an event which brought to light what the majority

of the senators who voted in favor of the immigration bill refused to address, the

great damage illegal immigration is doing to our country.

 

The event was organized by Leah Durant, of the Black American Leadership Alliance

(BALA) and had the support of Tea Party and other grass roots groups who share this concern.

 

Although not widely publicized, it was attended by approximately 500, with a list of notables

from Congress and the Black community. All echoed the concerns we do not hear over the

airwaves or read in print.

 

All the "numbers", unemployment, lower wagers, cost of social services provide an indictment of

our Federal government for its failure to address the problem illegal entrants have done to our

country. 

 

Yet, the senators who voted in favor of this bill did not seem to care. The pro-immigration bill proponents

refused to accept the impact this bill has on the most vulnerable citizens, poor, low skilled American workers.

 

Fortunately, BALA and grass roots groups know first hand the reality of the failure of govt. and are standing

firm to stop the continuation of illegal entry which this bill will foster..

 

And, thankfully, there are strong voices in Congress such as Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz, and  Steve King

who are fighting the battle against the majority in both chambers. All spoke on Monday.

 

But, what these few members face is a tremendous uphill battle, and just like the odd combination of

a Black organization and a mostly White grass roots contingent, we see a similar one on the other side.

 

We see pro-amnesty groups on the same side as the US Chamber or Commerce and the Wall Street

Journal  propagating the lie we need the 11 million illegals as we have a labor shortage, while failing

to mention more than 23 million Americans are unemployed and another 10-15 million are under employed.

 

No such consideration for American citizens, while there is an endless amount of empathy for the

plight of the illegals living  "in the shadows", a hollow soundbite the public has had to digest for more

than a decade.

 

But, there is one very disturbing side to the battle; the disinterest of the Congressional Black Caucus

(CBC) to get  involved to aide THEIR constituents who have suffered the most by every employment

measurement. 

 

I took the opportunity on Monday to ask the same question to 4-5 of the Black speakers, "Is the CBC

supporting your efforts to stop the immigration bill?"  Sadly, the answer was the same. NO, the CBC

does not care, they know they will not lose these voters.

 

So, here we are....Special interests inside and out of govt, going down a path which will worsen the

state of every working American, thanks to greed and partisan poltics.

 

What is the answer?  I know what it ISN"T.....to give up the fight. We can not be satisfied with status

quo governance....allowing politicians to ignore us.

 

We need to seek out every member of Congress who is willing to stand for what is right for our country,

not what pressure groups want done. Let them know we "have their back", especially when leadership

twists their arms to support bad legislation as this immigration bill is.

 

Additionally, every grass roots group across the country must make the immigration bill its highest priority

as it is for the Black American Leadership Alliance. Seek out any group equally concerned. Build your

own local coalition and target your legislators.

 

If nothing else, this past Monday demonstrated liberal and conservative do have a common bond, and

together they can counter the assault being waged by our Congress, president and special interests.

 

This is the link of the event   http://www.dcmarchforjobs.com/

 

In closing, one request....please forward this on to anyone you know equally concerned, especially to members

of Congress who represent you.

New American:

Regulators R Us: Feds Crank Up Regulations — on Everything

Get set for the Obama administration’s post-election tsunami of business-killing, job-killing, economy-killing federal regulations. It’s already begun. Take a look at www.regulations.gov, the administration’s regulatory website. The home page informs us that in the last 90 days, the administration has posted 5,934 new regulations.

Yes, our federal bureaucrats have been very diligent. The above-mentioned website informs us of their daily productivity of regulations over the past 90 days:

Today (121)
Last 3 Days (274)
Last 7 Days (371)
Last 15 Days (826)
Last 30 Days (1,915)
Last 90 Days (5,934)

How will these regulations affect you, your family, your job, business, ranch, or farm? You may not have federal SWAT teams descend upon you, as has happened to dairy farmers and natural food store operators who dared to sell raw milk products not approved by the federal Food & Drug Administration (see here and here) or the hundreds of other Americans subjected to Gestapo-type treatment for running afoul of the volumes of murky and convoluted regulations that fill the 169,301 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) published in the Federal Register. However, even if your home, farm or business is not personally “visited” by agents of the FDA, EPA, OSHA, SEC, or any of the myriad other federal agencies, you will pay a huge price nonetheless, both in economic costs and in loss of freedoms.

A cost analysis by the Small Business Administration in 2008 found that the cost to our national economy of compliance with federal regulations was an astronomical $1.75 trillion!

That was in 2008. The cost, of course, has escalated dramatically in the four years since that study was conducted. We should note also that the 169,301 pages of federal regulations referenced above covers only those promulgated through 2011; it does not include thousands of pages added in 2012. Nor does it include the thousands of pages that are expected to soon be dumped into the pipeline by bureaucrats who had been instructed to hold off until after the election.

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, between Jan. 1, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2011 the Code of Federal Regulations increased by 11,327 pages — a 7.4-percent increase. The regulatory burden is now a crushing weight on the entire economy, a hidden tax which is equivalent to roughly half the current federal spending and equal to the entire federal budget of the late 1990s.

A study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce entitled Project No Project found that a broad range of energy projects “are being stalled, stopped, or outright killed nationwide due to a broken permitting process and a system that allows nearly limitless opportunities for opponents of development to raise challenge after challenge.”

The impact has been truly mind-boggling. The Chamber of Commerce study reported:

In total, the 351 projects identified in the Project No Project inventory could have produced a $1.1-trillion boost to the economy and created 1.9 million jobs annually during the projected seven years of construction. Moreover, these facilities, once constructed, would have continued to generate jobs, because they would have operated for years or even decades.

That’s nearly two million jobs annually, just in the energy sector, that are being killed by the federal regulatory straitjacket.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post on November 13, attorney Keith A. Ashmus noted that the regulatory cliff rivals the fiscal cliff among small business owners’ biggest concerns. And it is almost certain to get worse, if Team Obama has its way.

“Following President Obama’s reelection and the continuation of the current majorities in the House and Senate, we can expect continued difficulty moving initiatives forward legislatively in Washington,” noted Mr. Ashmus. “That means more regulatory activity, unrestrained by the any concerns about the president’s reelection. The Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the National Labor Relations Board are likely to go after employers, large and small, with regulations that make it more difficult to manage workforces and obtain outside help understanding the legal requirements concerning unions.”

Obama Regulatory Plan: Sly, Not Shy

Not that President Obama has been shy about using executive branch regulations to get the Big Government programs he has been unable to get passed legislatively. In fact, following the 2010 congressional elections, in which the Democrats suffered historic losses in the House of Representatives, the Obama White House indicated it was going to move ahead with its agenda by executive fiat. The New American reported on this unconstitutional regulatory usurpation plan at the time. (See Obama Eyes "Executive Orders" to Circumvent Congress.)

However, with the economy imploding, unemployment skyrocketing, and with eyes fixed firmly on the 2012 presidential election, President Obama began a major effort, in 2011, to make it appear he was sensitive to the needs of job producers, especially stressing his administration’s commitment to easing the regulatory red tape that is so fatal to small and medium businesses that create most of our jobs.

Amid great fanfare, on January 18, 2011, President Obama signed “Executive Order 13563 — Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review.”

If words signified genuine intent, then there would be cause for rejoicing. The executive order stated, inter alia:

Our regulatory system must protect public health, welfare, safety, and our environment while promoting economic growth, innovation, competitiveness, and job creation. It must be based on the best available science. It must promote predictability and reduce uncertainty. It must identify and use the best, most innovative, and least burdensome tools for achieving regulatory ends. It must take into account benefits and costs, both quantitative and qualitative. It must ensure that regulations are accessible, consistent, written in plain language, and easy to understand. It must measure, and seek to improve, the actual results of regulatory requirements.

That was balm to the ears of struggling producers. Six months later, on June 13, President Obama launched follow-up public relations effort, signing “Executive Order 13576 — Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government.”

President Obama and members of his Cabinet made repeated ovations about the importance of small businesses and reducing the burden of regulation. Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got on the bandwagon. In a speech to Arab leaders in New York on September 28, she sang the praises of deregulation as the solution to economic stagnation in the Middle East:

On the economic front, we are zeroing in on small and medium-sized enterprises because they are the growth engines in any economy. They create the bulk of new jobs and they spread wealth more broadly through more communities….

So the OECD is helping emerging democracies find ways they can loosen regulations and make it easier to start or expand a small business.

Regulation reform figures prominently on the White House’s 21st Century Government: Campaign to Cut Waste website. It is also a major feature of the White House’s Open Government Initiative, which says it’s all about “Transparency, Collaboration, Participation.”

To this end, President Obama issued a “Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies.” It is entitled: “Transparency and Open Government.” The opening paragraph reads:

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

Where’s the Transparency?

CONTINUE READING:  http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors/item/13665-regulators-r-us-feds-crank-up-regs-%E2%80%94-on-everything

See How Your State Will Fare Under Four More Years of Obama!

See How Your State Will Fare Under Four More Years of Obama!

Which economic plan will create more jobs in North Carolina?

Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama

Under President Obama

• 53,500 Jobs Lost in North Carolina
• 7% Increase in Unemployment Rate
• 584,651 New people on Food Stamps in North Carolina
• $3.63 Gas Prices in North Carolina have increased $1.882 per gallon to $3.626 per gallon.

Under the Romney-Ryan Plan

• 355,000 Jobs will be created in North Carolina by 2016
• 12,000,000 Jobs will be created nationally by 2016

GOT IT?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Big government, big business by CCTA Chairman, Nancy Murdoch

May 18, 2012

It’s in vogue for big business and corporations to be bashed by the president, Democrats and liberals. Why don’t they share the same contempt for big government? Corporations and businesses provide jobs. The businesses themselves often pay corporate taxes and the individuals within the company pay taxes, as do their shareholders. Large corporations voluntarily provide money to build hospitals, help the poor and needy, and donate to worthy causes. Foundations are created by wealthy people of business to provide scholarships for students, promote the arts, fund school programs, and help communities.



On the other side of the coin is big government. As Ronald Reagan said in his 1981 inaugural address, “We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around.” Steadily, though, we are changing into a government that has a nation.


In 2009 a public sector worker averaged total income (salary and benefits) of about $61,000. The same government worker earned $123,000, plus great job security. Right after the stimulus while the public sector lost 2.5 million jobs, the federal government gained 416,000. It seems as if the largest percentage of jobs “created or saved” were government ones, or those of green energy companies that have since gone bankrupt, owing the taxpayers millions of dollars. In 2006 the Department of the Transportation only had one employee earning more than $170,000 per year; now it has 1,690. Last year a number of White House employees received raises ranging between 17-86 percent. When was the last time you received a raise that large?


Does anyone really think any of these government jobs will go away? Wasteful and lazy employees still get paid, doing what it takes to ensure job security, and taking luxurious vacations on our dime. Government entities are motivated to spend all or more of their budget or it might get cut next year, and to hire as many people as possible.


The demagoguery of bashing big business may make good political sound bites, but how wise is to rip into those who are paying the salaries of those in government? Some big businesses like GE are in bed with the government; it’s working out nicely for them as they outsource American jobs and ingenuity to China while avoiding paying taxes. Crony capitalism is far more common than the free market.


Companies with bad business practices soon pay the consequences, but rarely have enough power to affect the average person’s life. The monopoly of government has the potential to inflict tyranny upon its citizens. Nowhere in history has a huge, powerful government worked out well for the man on the street in the long run.


Nancy Murdoch, Havelock, NC

Sigh: DWS' Lie of the Day

Guy Benson
Political Editor, Townhall.com
Apr 24, 2012 04:03 PM EST

We could probably make this a daily installment, although I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to keep up with the DNC Chairwoman's endless distortions. Her latest whopper came on CNN this morning, during a spat with conservative contributor Will Cain:

Ignore, for a moment, the crux of their dispute, and focus on this snippet:

“I’m a member of Congress in the minority, unfortunately, which I plan to help change in November,” Schultz shot back. “But the people who control the agenda right now in the House of Representatives are the Republicans. Ask them why they haven’t brought a single jobs bill to the floor since they took over the majority. Ask them why they are getting ready to allow the student loan interest rates to double.”

The House Republicans "haven't brought a single jobs bill to the floor" since January 2011? This is a wildly false claim. Case in point: The House recently passed something called, um, the JOBS Act -- which cleared the Senate and was signed into law by President Obama. At the time, I noted that the bill wasn't the first bipartisan jobs legislation this GOP-controlled House helped implement (numerals added):

Let the record show that as of today, the "do nothing," "Republican" Congress has worked with the president by (1) extending the payroll tax cut extension, (2) passing patent reform, (3) repealing a counter-productive withholding rule, and (4) approving three free trade agreements. These were all elements of President Obama's jobs agenda. Now he's (5) signed a job creation bill championed by House Republicans. Remember this roster of bipartisan accomplishments as our desperate president castigates his Congressional opponents as unflinching ideological obstructionists -- as he's guaranteed to do for the next seven months. The truth is that Republicans cooperate with this president when it's sensible to do so; they attempt to jettison his worst ideas, like cap and trade, Obamacare, higher taxes, and a second slush fund stimulus.


CONTINUED:  https://www.google.com/search?q=DWS'+Lie+of+the+Day&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBR_en

The unemployment rate drops to 8.2% for one simple reason: the government lies

Truth vs. Propaganda.

The media is trumpeting another fall in unemployment today as the number of jobs created was only 60% of the expected 203,000. If the expectations had been met, unemployment should have stayed level at 8.3%. The propaganda media ignores this reality and glorifies this as good news since unemployment fell to 8.2%. Really? Removing people from the workforce denominator to adjust the numerator to a lower number will actually be believed by educated Americans? The answer is yes: if it worked in the past, it will continue to work in the future. An analysis from Zerohedge.computs this into perspective:


CONTINUED:  http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873%3ABlogPost%3A1953548&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

Message from NC Senator Richard Burr

February 10, 2012



This Week in Washington: Unemployment Benefits Reform Act
This week, I introduced a bill called the Unemployment Benefits Reform Act of 2012 which would individuals who have been unemployed for six months or more to complete 20 hours of public service and 20 hours of active job search or other work related activities per week as conditions for receipt of federal extended unemployment benefits. The United States economy is suffering, and we are experiencing record levels of sustained unemployment. Being unemployed for an extended length of time can be demoralizing for people looking for work, but engagement in volunteer service will encourage unemployed workers to maintain job skills, marketability, and a sense of self-worth while providing for the betterment of their communities. Even more, the active job search requirement will enhance the integrity of the unemployment system and its ability to identify and serve those most in need.

Public service may be fulfilled by working for a 501( c ) (3) organization or a federal, state or local agency, and the bill protects government workers from displacement by only permitting volunteering with a governmental agency when permitted by current law. However, with nearly 13 million unemployed Americans and potentially limited opportunities for voluntary service, states would have the discretionary power to waive the requirement for individuals who had made a concerted effort to volunteer. In addition, unemployed individuals may be exempt from the public service requirement due to illness, family emergency, or if they are unable to perform public service due to child care responsibilities or lack of transportation.


Work related activities include subsidized private sector employment; subsidized public sector employment; work experience (including work associated with the refurbishing of publicly assisted housing); on-the-job training; job readiness assistance; vocational educational training, education directly related to employment, receiving a high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalency; and providing child care services to an individual who is participating in a community service program.

Not only will this bill improve the stability of our unemployment system, it will also keep the morale, and more importantly, the employability, as high as possible for those looking for work.


Religious Freedom Restoration Act

On Thursday, I signed on as a cosponsor of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012, a bill introduced by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) that would repeal the recent mandate under the President’s health care law that violates religious liberties and conscience rights of faith-based institutions by forcing them to offer employees insurance coverage for contraception free of charge. This mandate is an example of the White House’s complete disrespect for religious beliefs, which has deeply offended many Americans and institutions who do not want to have to choose between providing health insurance for their employees and abandoning the religious beliefs and morals they hold dear.

Religious liberty is one of the most valued freedoms upon which this nation was founded, and I hope that President Obama will reverse this unprecedented federal mandate that conflicts with long-standing religious freedoms and conscience protections.

http://burr.senate.gov/public/

Morning Bell: Beneath Growth, a Sea of Poison

January 6, 2012

Today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor was encouraging news for the U.S. economy. It shows that 200,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate ticked down from 8.7 percent to 8.5 percent. Jobs were created in every sector of the economy save one — government! This report is consistent with other economic indicators and shows that the economy is finally coming out of its malaise. But like any reports, they must be put into context. The creation of 200,000 new jobs is solid growth and above the 130,000 to 150,000 new jobs that must be created to keep up with population growth. However, this doesn’t mean happy times are here again.


There are not enough Americans working or looking for work. In fact participation in the labor force is at its lowest point in 30 years as many potential workers are not yet even attempting to find jobs. Moreover, at this stage in a recovery, new jobs should be surging instead of averaging less than 140,000 for the last three months. So all is not well and President Obama should not check the “mission accomplished” box. In fact, Obama’s painful economic policies will only serve to further hamstring America’s economic engine, thereby preventing a truly strong, vibrant economy that the country is capable of having.

The President single-handedly unleashed another poison pill on Wednesday with the White House’s announcement that he will exact another illegal, unconstitutional end-run around Congress with the appointment of three new members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) without Senate approval, all of whom are union officials. Here’s why that matters.

The NLRB is a five-member board that is responsible for investigating unfair labor practices, creating labor-related rules, and conducting elections for labor union representation. Last year the NLRB enacted measures shortening union elections to as little as 14 days, limiting employees’ ability to hear from both sides before they vote, allowing unions to cherry-pick which workers in a company can vote on unionizing, and preventing workers from insisting on a secret ballot in union drives, as Heritage’s James Sherk explains. These measures will make it much easier for unions to organize workers — but at the expense of workers’ rights. If workers want to join a union they have that right — management gets the union it deserves — but the government should not limit their rights in order to press workers into unionizing.

Prior to the President’s appointments, the NLRB had only three sitting members, with the one member’s term ending at the end of 2012. Were the NLRB to go down to two members, it wouldn’t have a quorum to conduct its business, meaning that the President’s Big Labor agenda couldn’t be enacted. Now, though, the President has appointed three new members who will undoubtedly carry out his agenda without any checks or balances.

And that agenda is to bolster America’s unions — a key constituency and political force standing behind the President. Unfortunately, their goal is not primarily to protect workers. The trouble is that the Big Labor agenda is fundamentally at odds with the pro-growth agenda that America is so thirsty for. Sherk explains:

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http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/06/morning-bell-beneath-growth-a-sea-of-poison/

The Blaze: 50 Facts About The U.S. Economy That Will Shock You

December 18, 2011



“Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don’t make dramatic changes immediately,” writes The Economic Collapse (TEC).


For those unfamiliar with this site, TEC is an economic blog that regularly compiles a comprehensive list of the most startling and unsettling facts about the U.S. economy.


Why? Because Americans need to understand that America’s economy is precariously balanced on the edge of full-blown collapse.


“If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they will just keep falling for the same old lies that our politicians keep telling them. Just ‘tweaking’ things here and there is not going to fix this economy,” the site explains.


Indeed, America’s economic situation has become increasingly unstable. However, what’s arguably more disconcerting than the state of the U.S. economy is the fact many Americans are largely–if not completely–unaware of just how serious things have become.



“America is consuming far more wealth than it is producing and our debt is absolutely exploding,” TEC explains. “If we stay on this current path, an economic collapse is inevitable. Hopefully the crazy economic numbers from 2011 that I have included in this article will be shocking enough to wake some people up.”


It might behoove Blaze readers to share the facts listed below with family and friends.


“If we all work together, hopefully we can get millions of people to wake up and realize that ‘business as usual’ will result in a national economic apocalypse,” writes TEC.


Here are the 50 economic numbers from 2011 that will shock you (via The Economic Collapse):


1. A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.


2. Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be “low income” or impoverished.


3. If the number of Americans that “wanted jobs” was the same today as it was back in 2007, the “official” unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to 11 percent.


4. The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now over 40 weeks.


5. One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.


6. There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.


7. Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8 percent once you account for inflation.


8. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.


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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/50-facts-about-the-u-s-economy-that-will-shock-you/

Top 11 Big Government Busts Of 2011: #10

Here is a look at jobs that could have been but were blocked. Here’s the tale of the Keystone XL pipeline. See how this made our Top 11 Big Government Busts of 2011.  

http://netrightdaily.com/2011/12/top-11-big-government-busts-of-2011-10/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NetrightDaily+%28NetRight+Daily%29

Did President Obama Kill Thousands of Jobs?

If Americans needed any further proof that the Obama Administration is one of the most political on record, or that, for all the recent demagoguing, it really cares only about re-election, not about job creation, then you need look no further than its cynical Keystone XL oil pipeline decision last week.

http://www.askheritage.org/did-president-obama-kill-thousands-of-jobs/?utm_source=AH_Weekly&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2011-11-18&utm_campaign=2011_Brand

 

DC CALLER, BOB BARR: Dr. Obama’s Magical Mystery Giveaway Tour

All aboard Dr. Barack Obama’s Magical Mystery Bus Tour! If you live in one of the lucky cities and towns along the way, you too can be blessed by our marvelous and mystical commander-in-chief dispensing money, cure-alls and taxpayer elixirs at a rate not seen since the last great presidential flim-flam artist, Bill Clinton, took to the hustings.

Jobs one day; easy home refinancing the next. Health care. Social Security. Veterans benefits. Something for everyone!

With his signature American Jobs Act DOA in Congress, President Obama is trotting out a Hail Mary to Americans understandably weary of the still-faltering economy. Using his latest slogan, “We can’t wait,” as a backdrop, Obama is hawking various federal government programs, including the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), to boost his sagging poll numbers and buy the love of the electorate.

The White House hopes HARP will allow between 600,000 and 1 million homeowners with loans guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to refinance their underwater mortgages and stave off foreclosure. As Reuters reports, Obama believes that expanding HARP “will help more homeowners refinance at lower rates, save consumers money and help get folks spending again”; in other words, he hopes it will magically cure the nagging recession in one fell swoop.

Like other Washington panaceas, this one sounds good. Mortgage rates have been pushed down by the Federal Reserve during the economy’s long downturn, which arguably would offer homeowners who take advantage of HARP extra cash each month and provide a shot in the arm to a terrible housing market. Reality, of course, is quite different.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/26/dr-obamas-magical-mystery-giveaway-tour/

AP‘s ’Fact Check’ Again Hammers Obama: Jobs Plan Makes ‘Giant Leaps’

It’s a startling statistic on the state of American schools: An estimated 280,000 teaching and other education jobs could be lost in the coming year, according to the White House.


As the Senate prepares for a showdown vote on the jobs bill Tuesday, President Barack Obama is promising to not only save the education jobs at risk, but to support a total of 400,000 education jobs by actions such as rehiring teachers already laid off.

In estimating the potential number of jobs that could be lost and how many his plan could save, the White House makes giant leaps. A look at the claims and how they compare with the facts:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/aps-fact-check-again-hammers-obama-jobs-plan-makes-giant-leaps/

OBAMA'S JOBS BILL

Obama's jobs bill: Section 376, subsection 2 - State Sovereign Immunity is waived, “after the date of enactment of this Act” for all States that receive "or use Federal financial assistance for any program or activity of a State".

American Jobs Act: “The Illegal Alien & Unemployed Civil Rights Act”

September 16, 2011

Okay, so I go to the White House web link for the “American Jobs Act,” http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/reports/american-jobs-act.pdf

(Please try to get a copy of the act, as when I posted this to the website, the indentation and such is lost). A friend pointed out that section 376 mentions that States lose their Sovereign Immunity under this section, and it appears this is true. First the relevant text, and please note that all emphasis hereinafter is mine (I'll be noting to you what I am drawing from this in Quick Summaries, with a final Conclusion at the end. If you wish to skip down to that, that's fine):

“SEC. 376. FEDERAL AND STATE IMMUNITY.

(a) Abrogation of State Immunity- A State shall not be immune under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution from a suit brought in a Federal court of competent jurisdiction for a violation of this Act.

(b) Waiver of State Immunity-
(1) IN GENERAL-


(A) WAIVER- A State's receipt or use of Federal financial assistance for any program or activity of a State shall constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity, under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution or otherwise, to a suit brought by an employee or applicant for employment of that program or activity under this Act for a remedy authorized under Section 375(c) of this Act.

(B) DEFINITION- In this paragraph, the term `program or activity' has the meaning given the term in section 606 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d-4a).

Here's a link to 42 USC 2000d-4a, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00002000---d004a.html  which defines program or activity, in relevant portions:

“For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “program or activity” and the term “program” mean all of the operations of—

(1)

(A) a department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or of a local government; or

(B) the entity of such State or local government that distributes such assistance and each such department or agency (and each other State or local government entity) to which the assistance is extended, in the case of assistance to a State or local government;”

And also....(I am trying to keep this as easy as possible, believe me):

“any part of which is extended Federal financial assistance.” is said uncapitalized, and not as another sentence, but as an extension of the actual citation of the general section itself, unindented.

And now, continuing section 376 in the “American Jobs Act:”

“ (2) EFFECTIVE DATE- With respect to a particular program or activity, paragraph (1) applies to conduct occurring on or after the day, after the date of enactment of this Act, on which a State first receives or uses Federal financial assistance for that program or activity.”


First Quick Summary

Essentially, according to subsection 2, of Section 376, of the American Jobs Act, cited above, States who have received, according to subsection 1 (A), Federal Financial Assistance from the National Government for “any program or activity of a State” will immediately be subject to this section of the American Jobs Act, where State Sovereign Immunity is waived, “after the date of enactment of this Act.”

Again continuing section 376:

“(c) Remedies Against State Officials- An official of a State may be sued in the official capacity of the official by any employee or applicant for employment who has complied with the applicable procedures of this Act, for relief that is authorized under this Act.

“(d) Remedies Against the United States and the States- Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, in an action or administrative proceeding against the United States or a State for a violation of this Act, remedies (including remedies at law and in equity) are available for the violation to the same extent as such remedies would be available against a non-governmental entity.”

Cumulative Second Quick Summary

An officer of the State of Arizona, for instance, is subject to lawsuit, according to subsection “c” above, on the basis of their State taking Federal Financial Assistance for any program. The same officer can be subject to criminal penalties, “including remedies at law and in equity”) and has no immunity, under subsection “d.”

So now we must know what this section is relating to, explain what a “violation of this act” is, and this is defined quite a bit more, so I'll post what gives the gist of it, from Section 374:


“SEC. 374. PROHIBITED ACTS.

(a) Employers- It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to--

(1) publish in print, on the Internet, or in any other medium, an advertisement or announcement for an employee for any job that includes-

(A) any provision stating or indicating that an individual's status as unemployed disqualifies the individual for any employment opportunity; or

(B) any provision stating or indicating that an employer will not consider or hire an individual for any employment opportunity based on that individual's status as unemployed; or

(2) fail or refuse to consider for employment, or fail or refuse to hire, an individual as an employee because of the individual's status as unemployed;

(3) direct or request that an employment agency take an individual's status as unemployed into account to disqualify an applicant for consideration, screening, or referral for employment as an employee. ”

Conclusion

So a State, nor any other employer, may use the current employment status of the employee as any criteria for their employment, and that includes the State Government as well (You'll notice no waiver of Federal Sovereign Immunity).

Now, what's a really fun thing to do when reading the document, press and hold the “Ctrl” key (“clover” key on Macs I believe), then tap the “F” key, and the search menu pops up in acrobat reader. Type in “Citizen,” “Illegal,” “Alien,” and “undocumented.” Isn't it fascinating that there's no provision to make sure those who are in this country illegally, and have no record of employment, and thus would only show up as unemployed, due to their illegal hiring even when they have worked, are not exempt from being able to impose the above legal provisions of this act.


And this is without mentioning how from section 371 to 376, the American Jobs Act, treats the States as vassals of the Federal Government, Noble Houses, whose Financial situation is to be exploited for the sake of the President of the United States' National Government & Political goals.

Abhorrent entirely to American government, ignoring entirely Our Constitution, except to make specific reference to losing ancient immunities that took an act of a Constitutional Amendment to secure, being assumed able to be undermined by a mere statutory act of Congress, while our nation and people are under economic duress.

Persistence it is to “never let a crisis go to waste,” our Illustrious leader puts out a plan in an appearance of moving toward bipartisanship, while assaulting the very fabric of American Government once more. The entire Democratic Party, at this point, is merely a charade, a feigned patriotism, a feigned concern for the American People, anything to be able to pass legislation that destroys the foundation of the American Republic.

Imagine illegal aliens going to a U.S. Attorney to file charges against Governor Brewer, or any other Governor who has signed an immigration law, on the grounds that the law was used to demonstrate that the applicant was unemployed, and unemployable, due to not being legally in the United States of America. The ACLU would grab these up by the bunch, suing every State, eventually with a class action lawsuit, totally breaking the bank. And that's just using illegal aliens.

Lawyers, at least this used to be the case, were required to do 2 pro bono (“for the public good” and thereby the client isn't charged) cases every year. I can see them grabbing every case where someone was unemployed and applied for a job, to make it into “how the poor are being kept poor,” and using this legislation as a “Worker's Civil Rights Act” (just look at how many times reference to the “Civil Rights Act of 1964” is found when searching the American Jobs Act.).


The American Jobs Act is a set-up, is something that is antecedent to the formation of this “Politburo” super Congress, and therefore should not be given ANY consideration in how or what they cut, either.

By the American Jobs Act, what you are witnessing, is that 4th Quarter “Hail Mary” football pass in trying to finally destroy the structure, as well as liquidate the body politic, of America and our individual resources to fight back, being carried on by the “Progressive-Terrorist-In-Chief,” to leverage our desire for jobs against our desire to keep our Freedom, hoping we'll be so desperate that we'll choose not to keep what is left of the check and balance power of the States.

As much as people need employment, I, for one, do not believe that sacrificing our form of government over a Progressive-created economic crisis, what appears to be the true purpose of the “American Jobs Act,” is in the best interest of America, and that we must weather this storm as best we can until we can remove Barack “Hugo Chavez Jr.” Obama from office.

Thank you for reading,
Toddy

Why Are Obama & Union Bosses Working to Destroy Companies & Jobs?

9/13/11

The question needs to be asked: Is it ignorance or malice? There was a time after the subprime mortgage meltdown when, if sound decisions on policy and financial initiatives had occurred, the American economy may not have been hobbled as badly, its credit rating might not have been downgraded, the recession might have been curtailed and so many Americans might not have been so negatively affected. However, rather than helping a recovery by letting the quasi-free market adjust, contract and expand again, at almost every turn, Barack Obama and the union appointees and crony capitalists within his administration are, whether out of malice or ignorance, seemingly doing everything they can to destroy an already fragile economy. It’s really no longer a question of ”if,” but “why.”


CONTINUED: 

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/09/13/why-are-obama-union-bosses-working-to-destroy-companies-jobs/

Who Will Benefit, America or China? Canada's Oil Sands Are A Jobs Gusher

Jared Law, September 12, 2011

Canada's oil sands don't just create U.S. jobs and help reduce our reliance on extra-continental foreign oil nations. They also present the opportunity to lock up a critical oil resource, keeping it from being shipped to China. After all, can we expect Canada to refuse to develop their massive oil sands resources just because the Obama Regime wants to waste hundreds of $billions on 'green' jobs that hurt the economy?


CONTINUED:  http://www.the912project.us/forum/topic/show?id=2881797%3ATopic%3A2382129&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
REFERENCE ARTICLE:  WSJ--Canada's Oil Sands Are a Jobs Gusher
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904836104576560933917369412.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

Congress returns; GOP unlikely to embrace Obama spending proposals

By Jim Abrams September 6, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of Congress spent August listening to constituents describe their economic struggles. This week, the lawmakers return to Washington to see whether there's enough bipartisanship left to make things better.


Republicans and Democrats agree that job creation is the first priority, but there's little indication so far that the two sides will come together.

President Barack Obama, who will address a joint session of Congress on Thursday, challenged Republicans in a Labor Day speech to put country ahead of party and work with Democrats on a jobs package. He said more than 1 million unemployed construction workers are ready to rebuild deteriorating roads and bridges.

Majority Republicans in the House, however, have been unwilling to spend money on new construction projects — a strong signal that they'll give Obama's address a cool reception.

Besides spending on public works, Obama said he wants pending trade deals passed to open new markets for U.S. goods. He also said he wants Republicans to prove they'll fight as hard to cut taxes for the middle class as they do for profitable oil companies and the wealthiest Americans.


The president is expected to call for continuing a payroll tax cut for workers and jobless benefits for the unemployed. Some Republicans oppose extending the payroll tax cut, calling it an unproven job creator that will only add to the nation's massive debt. The tax cut extension is set to expire Jan. 1.

Republicans may go along with tax break proposals but won't be friendly to ideas to extend jobless benefits. They also cite huge federal budget deficits in expressing opposition to vast new spending on jobs programs.

House Republicans have prepared an autumn jobs agenda that centers on repealing what they say are job-destroying environmental and labor regulations. The first bill, slated for the week of Sept. 12, would prevent the National Labor Relations Board from restricting where an employer can locate in the United States. It grows out of a complaint issued by the NLRB that Boeing Co. was punishing union workers with plans to transfer an assembly line from Washington state to South Carolina.

The anti-regulation bills are likely to hit a dead end in the Democratic-controlled Senate. But the threat of them prompted Obama last week to scrap tougher Environmental Protection Agency regulations on ozone, a key ingredient of smog that causes asthma and other lung illnesses.

CONTINUED:

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2011/09/06/congress-returns-gop-unlikely-to-embrace-obama-spending-proposals/?subscriber=1

Perdue Plays Politics as Unemployment Jumps to 10.1%

Friends,


Last night Governor Perdue took to the stage at a Rotary Club dinner to announce that unemployment in the state would jump to 10.9%. There are two problems with this.

1.) The report for us to analyze the numbers was not made public until 10 AM this morning- meaning we did not get to see what the report actually contained.
2.) Governor Perdue lied. She said, and it was reported, that unemployment was 10.9%, when it was really 10.1% - a HUGE difference.

So while we had to wait, she had the ability to falsely spin the numbers in her favor. Thankfully we waited until the report came out and didn’t attack her erroneous 10.9%. It doesn’t change the fact that she played politics with people’s misery and the press reported just her side of the story this morning. For the nightly news we have combated it, with this release.

Please share on Facebook and Twitter as we can’t allow her to shape this narrative: bit.ly/qTqWc5

Best Regards, Rob Lockwood


North Carolina Republican Party:  Perdue Plays Politics as Unemployment Jumps to 10.1%


For Immediate Release
Contact: Rob Lockwood: (919) 424-5555
August 19 2001

RALEIGH, NC – In a speech last night in Asheville, Governor Beverly Perdue announced that unemployment in the state would jump to 10.1%. Instead of focusing on solutions for an immediate cure, Perdue took the opportunity to mislead the audience as to the real reasons behind the jump, and chose to play the “blame game” instead. This revelation was announced on the eve of the Southern Governors’ Association’s Annual Conference about jobs, an excellent opportunity for Governor Perdue to learn what real leadership is and how to reduce unemployment from successful GOP job-creating governors.

URL: http://www.ncesc1.com/PMI/Rates/PressReleases/State/NR_July_2011_StRate_M1.pdf

More than 300,000 workers have lost their job since Perdue was sworn into office 3 years ago. She supported President Obama’s failed “stimulus”, a program that led to the loss of America’s “AAA Credit Rating”, and resulted in markets tumbling. Perdue’s failed economic policies, paired with her lack of objection to President Obama’s agenda, have led to the hemorrhaging of jobs in North Carolina. This morning it was reported that Bank of America will lay off more than 3,500 jobs in Charlotte. This is reflective of poor management of the national economy by President Obama, and no condemnation by Governor Perdue about how his policies have hurt North Carolina.


NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes had this to say, “This weekend is a great opportunity for Governor Perdue to learn about leadership and effective measures to combat unemployment. 9 out of 10 of the “most pro-business” states are governed by Republicans, so she should take the time to study solutions that actually result in job creation.

It becomes clearer by the day that the Governor knows nothing about job creation. Her focus is only on protecting her own job by blaming others for years of failed Democratic policies.”

URL: http://www.pollina.com/top10probusiness.html

In North Carolina, the Republican-controlled NCGA has been fighting to bring fiscal sanity to the state budget. In just 8 months on the job, their dedication to fiscal discipline is one of the reasons that North Carolina was saved from losing our state’s “AAA Credit Rating.” Moody’s cited North Carolina as “resilient to a downgrade,” at a time when other states are at serious risk of losing their pristine ratings.
URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/19/us-usa-states-moodys-idUSTRE76I4XQ20110719

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Paid for by the North Carolina Republican Party--www.NCGOP.org

July Unemployment Rate: 9.1%A farewell to discouraged job seekers.

The new July unemployment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics were released today. The BLS servers promptly crashed, another spectacular triumph for your $3.7 trillion deficit-fueled federal government. Technicians are scrambling to replace vacuum tubes and reel-to-reel tapes as we speak. In the basement of BLS headquarters, a guy wearing horn-rimmed glasses held together by tape is waving a fistful of punch cards and screaming at a fat technician wearing a Mrs. Pac-Man T-shirt.


Meanwhile, various news sources report the carefully massaged “official” U-3 unemployment rate dipped from 9.2% to 9.1%, while the real U-6 rate dropped from 16.2% to 16.1%.

Payrolls rose by 117,000 jobs, which is better than the 85,000 jobs projected for July, and much better than the horrifying 46,000 jobs added in June. The May and June totals were also revised upward by 56,000 jobs.
CONTINUED:  http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45330

RUSH LIMBAUGH EXPLAINED THE TRUE NUMBERS TODAY ON RADIO: 
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_080411/content/01125108.guest.html

CQ ROLL CALL: Daily Briefing August 5, 2011

Today In Washington


THE WHITE HOUSE: “When Congress returns in September, I want to move quickly on things that can create more jobs, right now,” Obama said in reacting to this morning’s better-than-expected jobs report: 117,000 new positions created in July and the unemployment rate slipping by a tenth of a point, to 9.1 percent.  (NOTE THESE NUMBERS WERE WELL MANIPULATED BY THE WHITE HOUSE, MORE ON THAT LATER, Lynn)

The president is at the Washington Navy Yard to outline his ideas for getting businesses to hire or train 100,000 veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013. At a cost of $120 million, he’s proposing a $2,400 tax credit for companies that sign on unemployed veterans during the next two years (twice as much if the person has been jobless longer than six months) as well as an extension of the existing tax credit for hiring disabled veterans. He’s also ordering the Pentagon to do more to help servicemembers get the skills and training they need before they enter the job market. (The current jobless rate for post-Sept. 11 veterans is 13.3 percent.)

Marine One will leave the South Lawn and ferry the first family to Camp David at 2:15.

THE SENATE: Convened at 10 and recessed 39 seconds later — after clearing (on a unanimous consent voice vote) legislation re-opening all the offices of the FAA for six weeks and allowing 70,000 construction workers to return to 200 airport improvement projects. (Maryland’s Ben Cardin presided, Virginia’s Jim Webb made the motion and California’s Barbara Boxer was the only other senator in the chamber — meaning the Republicans had no parliamentary defense against a much more aggressive Democratic legislative effort.) The next pro forma meeting will be at 11 on Tuesday.

THE HOUSE: Convened at 10 and recessed seven minutes later, after disposing of some routine paperwork.  Its next pro forma session will be at 10 on Tuesday.

GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS:  Today’s employment report was initially greeted as unabashedly good news in financial markets, mostly because both the drop in the jobless rate and the rise in payrolls beat most analyst expectations. (The initial surges in all three major stock indexes dissipated after only an hour or so; each was down by about 1 percent at 11:30.) But that’s just the way investors behave. As a signal about the economy, the numbers can be seen as a glass that’s half full — or, just as plausibly, half empty. 

The optimistic view is that the almost non-existent payroll growth and the rise in joblessness of the past few months has seemingly been reversed. After GDP grew at a 0.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter and a 1.3 percent rate in the second, a jump in payrolls and a drop in unemployment for the first month of the third quarter may be a harbinger of strong growth in the latter half of the year. That’s what Bernanke has been promising. And when the Fed chairman and his monetary-policy-setting colleagues sit down next week to deliberate about what to do, the July jobs numbers may provide some reassurance.


The pessimistic view centers on the 154,000 positions created by private employers in July — because that’s about half as many as the economy will need month after month to pull the unemployment rate back into a politically acceptable place by next year. And the 37,000 government jobs that were lost (the ninth consecutive monthly decline) will be repeated as federal, state and local budget cuts continue for years to come. Moreover, there are some anomalies in the July private payroll figures, particularly seasonal adjustments for expected automaker layoffs that may have overstated the job growth figure for the month. Finally, the figures from the household survey showed a drop in the labor force and the number of people who were working, a troubling sign. Those statistics are notoriously volatile, however, and generally not as believable as company-reported payroll counts. So maybe they don’t mean much. Again, wait for the August jobs report that will be out a month from now.

Both parties, at least for a little while, appeared to agree that the best course was to see the report as a classic “on the one hand, on the other hand” event that shouldn’t be interpreted in any way as a panacea. “We’ve got a long way to go” was in the sound bite offered by both Cantor and Austan Goolsbee — who’s in his last day as chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers.

MAE DAY:  Fannie Mae said today that it lost $5.2 billion in the second quarter while it continues to seek loan modifications to help reduce mortgage defaults. As a result it will ask for about the same amount in additional cash from the Treasury. It has already received almost $100 billion since a partial federal takeover during the housing meltdown of three years ago.

IN FOR A LANDING:  The FAA impasse ended because Reid concluded that — with the debt crisis averted and the aviation story suddenly the only thing drawing attention to Congress — Senate Democrats would not be able to reverse the intensifying and outraged national perception that their petulance and petty parochialism had put 74,000 workers out on the street.

And so he totally capitulated to the House Republicans that his side had characterized as bullies and hostage-takers only the day before. His only sliver of victory was getting LaHood to promise to at least consider using his powers to retain some of the $17 million in annual subsidies that would otherwise be ended on commercial service to 13 small or remote locales.

The bill neither gives back pay to the 4,000 agency workers furloughed 14 days ago nor guarantees the government will recoup about $420 million in ticket taxes it couldn’t collect during the standoff. And it lasts only until Sept. 16, or 10 days after Congress returns, meaning negotiators will be under enormous pressure next month to reach agreement on the airline union organizing dispute that’s prevented a long-term reauthorization from being enacted for almost four years.

THROW THE BUMS OUT?  An 82 percent disapproval rating for Congress was recorded by New York Times and CBS News pollsters on Tuesday and Wednesday, just as lawmakers were leaving town after avoiding default and as their initial decision to leave the FAA in limbo was becoming a headline. It was the highest level recorded by the Times/CBS poll since the question was first asked 34 years ago. And fully 75 percent of those polled said most members of Congress do not deserve to be re-elected while just 15 percent say they do — a finding that suggests an anti-incumbent wave could sweep across all four caucuses in 2012.


The poll offered other foreboding numbers for lawmakers — especially the Republicans — on virtually every front. While the survey showed a statistical tie on approval vs. disapproval for the debt deal enacted this week, 82 percent said the preceding standoff was “mostly about gaining political advantage” and just 14 percent said it was “mostly about doing what was best for the country.” And the survey signaled that the public saw the congressional GOP as politically motivated most of all: 72 percent said they disapprove of how Republicans handled the negotiations, while 66 percent disapproved of how Hill Democrats handled them.

But the poll showed a statistical tie between those who disapproved and approved of how Obama handed the standoff. And going forward, 47 percent said they trust him to make decisions about the economy — far better than the 33 percent trusting congressional Republicans. (Boehner’s own disapproval rating surged to 57 percent, up 16 points since April. His approval rating now is 30 percent.) One finding that suggests trouble ahead for the Republicans selling the argument that cutting federal spending is the best prescription for the economy: 62 percent think creating jobs should be Washington’s focus, 29 percent think it should be cutting spending — and only 8 percent say it should be both.

HOW GREEN WAS MY CAPITOL:  When House members return in a month, they will see that the “Green the Capitol” initiative — which Pelosi launched with so much fanfare when she was Speaker — is officially no more. In light of the 7 percent spending cut Congress is imposing on itself and in the face of comprehensive ridicule from the new Republican majority, the House’s chief administrative officer has decided to fold the initiative into an existing energy reduction program handled by the Architect of the Capitol. The idea is to save money, eliminate redundancy and allow the administrative office to get back to its core duties, which GOP members lamented had been ignored too often in favor of the green work.
— David Hawkings, editor

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