Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed?

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Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed?
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Sat, 09-26-2009 - 4:36pm

Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed When 8.3 Million Illegals Have Jobs? Immigration Moratorium Now!

One of the President's campaign promises, made often in the Midwestern Rustbelt, was to renegotiate NAFTA. It was a popular policy among hard-hit workers who understand how globalized trade has directly harmed them, since NAFTA sent thousands of jobs to Mexico and turned a moderate trade surplus into a loss. Senator Sherrod Brown estimated that NAFTA caused the loss of 200,000 manufacturing jobs in Ohio alone.

President Obama still plans an amnesty in the near, though unspecific, future, according to threats continuing to burble out of the White House.

That’s despite record unemployment and widespread misery throughout the land.

Obama’s Treason Lobby supporters nag him constantly that he promised to reward illegal alien lawbreakers. So there’s no danger he will be allowed to forget.

We have become so desensitized to Washington’s daily cruelty to average Americans that the systematic displacement of citizens in the workplace is accepted as the norm. Plus, not only is the White House guaranteeing to reward millions of aliens for violating U.S. sovereignty, but legal immigration on auto-pilot continues to dump 125,000 new workers per month into America’s already flooded labor market.

In boom times, captains of industry demanded additional foreign workers and got them. But now, when 15 million Americans are jobless, there is no corresponding reduction.

Why is that? Is there no OFF switch anywhere in Washington? An immigration moratorium, a time-out , would be sensible public policy and would relieve a lot of pain among citizens.

But there is no such legislation in Congress.

Has America drifted into an alternative universe where evil rules? Perhaps traditional citizens have been a little late in finding their voice in townhalls and tea parties.

Interestingly, President Obama understands something of the principle of supply and demand regarding employment—as he demonstrated in his CNN interview broadcast September 20:

“I think we’ll be adding jobs, but you need 150,000 additional jobs each month just to keep pace with a growing population,” the president said. “So if we’re only adding 50,000 jobs, that’s a great reversal from losing 700,000 jobs early this year—but, you know, it means that we’ve still got a ways to go.”

Among Americans, the economy is the top concern. An August Gallup poll found that 31 percent of workers personally feared losing their job, a new high and double the rate of a year ago. A Harris Poll taken in early September noted that 60 percent of Americans polled gave the President a negative rating on handling the economy.

Yet Washington and the elite media are stuck on healthcare. It’s certainly important and needs fixing. But unemployment is worsening (now at 9.7 percent nationally), and badly so in many regions and job sectors.

In August, 42 states lost jobs (an increase of 29 states from July) with a nationwide total of 216,000 persons laid off.

http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/2009/09/26/why-are-15-million-americans-unemployed-when-83-million-illegals-have-jobs-immigration-moratorium-now/

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Registered: 08-24-2009
Sat, 09-26-2009 - 4:44pm
Ho hum....
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Sun, 09-27-2009 - 9:09am

Realize this, many illegals, and even if they get amnesty and become citizens, for the most part, they are doing jobs we perfect Americans wouldn't want to do! Working in the hot fields, working cleaning toilets and making beds in Hotels,working at meat packing plants. Have you ever been to one of them? how many people want to slit open a cow or pig and watch the guts splash all over the floor?


My son had a job for a time because it was what was available at the time working for a Pharmacutical company. Now this was not your normal Pharma company. This company dealt with reagents, we are talking corum from a cow's hide, we are talking putting animal blood clots in beakers, we are talking going to a farm and holding a bucket under a lamb while the blood drains out! Now guess where many of your cosmetic products come from, those that contain collegen? From the corium of a COW.

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Registered: 02-19-2008
Sun, 09-27-2009 - 12:29pm

Of course BO understands supply and demand regarding employment. He also understands the potential of millions of newly legalized law-breakers becoming registered voters.

DH came up with an interesting idea for a compromise .... grant the amnesty, but attach a provision that none of the formerly illegal immigrants or their families will ever be permitted to vote (at least in Federal elections.)

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Registered: 09-02-2009
Sun, 09-27-2009 - 4:43pm
Wow, just wow.
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Registered: 02-06-2003
Mon, 09-28-2009 - 2:35pm

**DH came up with an interesting idea for a compromise .... grant the amnesty, but attach a provision that none of the formerly illegal immigrants or their families will ever be permitted to vote (at least in Federal elections.)**

That is not a solution that I could get behind. That is if you are including a path to citizenship along with that amnesty. I just can't support an idea that would deny citizens the right to vote. Even those convicted of felonies, who have been stripped of their right to vote can petition to have those rights reinstated. And of course any children born in the states would automatically be citizens and would have the right to vote when they reached 18. On the other hand, if you are talking about amnesty that allows them to become legal residents but not providing a path to citizenship, at least for those who entered the country as adults, that is something different. They gray area would be the children who come here illegally with their parents. I certainly couldn't see baring a child who had been brought here at the age of say 4-5 from ever being able to be a citizen. A 16 or 17 year old on the other hand, I'm not so sure about.

Sheri