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The Big PictureOk. This is flat out stupid.
Put American Workers FirstI agree with that thought, but at the same time the biggest question of the day is what exactly did Donald Trump learn from his father and how does it affect his determination about immigration today? People need to know and they need to use that information to make the determination for themselves that he is what he genuinely represents.
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
Immigration Reform
Yep. They sure do need to know.
"They have got to go. That about sums up the immigration ideas laid out by Donald Trump on Sunday's "Meet the Press," and in an accompanying 1,900-word policy paper. After making opposition to illegal immigration a cornerstone of his circus-like presidential campaign, The Donald has finally ventured into specifics with an immigration policy plan centered on increased border security and immigration enforcement.
While it is a good sign that Trump has ventured into actual policy proposals, his ideas are impractical at best and at worst inhumane. His ideas veer far to the right of the American mainstream. Far from stabilizing our economy, his plans could well stunt our economic growth.
Consider: Trump wants to build a wall all across our southern border with Mexico. To those for whom fighting illegal immigration is a top priority, this might sound like a smart, common-sense plan. But this line of thinking ignores reality. The border is more secure than it has been in years; an analysis this year by The Washington Post found that illegal crossings along the Mexican border were at their lowest level in two decades.
Meanwhile, our country's population of undocumented immigrants has dropped by about 1 million over the last several years, according to the Pew Research Center. We don't need that wall; what we do need is smarter immigration enforcement.
Trump says that his administration would force the Mexican government to pay for this wall. With all due respect, such an idea is laughable. A spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, when told of Trump's plan to have Mexico foot the bill for a wall between our two countries, told Bloomberg News, "It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it." He's right on both counts.
To force Mexico to pay for this wall, Trump says he would impose import tariffs for its construction. Imagine how disruptive it would be if "President Trump" were to enter into an all-out economic battle with one of our top three trade partners, whose imports to the U.S. in 2014 totalled $294 billion.
The most troubling part of Trump's immigration plan is that he has, in effect, endorsed mass deportations of the undocumented. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," he said on "Meet the Press." Think about what this would mean: Our undocumented population is estimated at about 11 million, roughly equivalent to the population of Ohio.
Think of the tremendous economic upheaval, human suffering and community destabilization that would occur if our government were to round up and remove 11 million people. Such an idea is staggering in its lack of compassion, especially since a reported 62%of the undocumented have lived here for at least a decade, most as productive members of their American communities.
More at the link "Donald Trump's clueless immigration plan - CNN.com
Yes they sure as hell do need to know.
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.
By the numbers:
These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
- In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
- Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
- 362,163 are individuals.
- About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
- About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed
At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).
As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.
Snapshot of Homelessness
A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
Do you understand?
No, and I think his solution is repulsive.
"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."
Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.
Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism.
The Big PictureOk. This is flat out stupid.
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
Immigration Reform
Yep. They sure do need to know.
"They have got to go. That about sums up the immigration ideas laid out by Donald Trump on Sunday's "Meet the Press," and in an accompanying 1,900-word policy paper. After making opposition to illegal immigration a cornerstone of his circus-like presidential campaign, The Donald has finally ventured into specifics with an immigration policy plan centered on increased border security and immigration enforcement.
While it is a good sign that Trump has ventured into actual policy proposals, his ideas are impractical at best and at worst inhumane. His ideas veer far to the right of the American mainstream. Far from stabilizing our economy, his plans could well stunt our economic growth.
Consider: Trump wants to build a wall all across our southern border with Mexico. To those for whom fighting illegal immigration is a top priority, this might sound like a smart, common-sense plan. But this line of thinking ignores reality. The border is more secure than it has been in years; an analysis this year by The Washington Post found that illegal crossings along the Mexican border were at their lowest level in two decades.
Meanwhile, our country's population of undocumented immigrants has dropped by about 1 million over the last several years, according to the Pew Research Center. We don't need that wall; what we do need is smarter immigration enforcement.
Trump says that his administration would force the Mexican government to pay for this wall. With all due respect, such an idea is laughable. A spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, when told of Trump's plan to have Mexico foot the bill for a wall between our two countries, told Bloomberg News, "It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it." He's right on both counts.
To force Mexico to pay for this wall, Trump says he would impose import tariffs for its construction. Imagine how disruptive it would be if "President Trump" were to enter into an all-out economic battle with one of our top three trade partners, whose imports to the U.S. in 2014 totalled $294 billion.
The most troubling part of Trump's immigration plan is that he has, in effect, endorsed mass deportations of the undocumented. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," he said on "Meet the Press." Think about what this would mean: Our undocumented population is estimated at about 11 million, roughly equivalent to the population of Ohio.
Think of the tremendous economic upheaval, human suffering and community destabilization that would occur if our government were to round up and remove 11 million people. Such an idea is staggering in its lack of compassion, especially since a reported 62%of the undocumented have lived here for at least a decade, most as productive members of their American communities.
More at the link "Donald Trump's clueless immigration plan - CNN.com
Yes they sure as hell do need to know.
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.
By the numbers:
These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
- In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
- Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
- 362,163 are individuals.
- About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
- About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed
At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).
As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.
Snapshot of Homelessness
A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
Do you understand?
No, and I think his solution is repulsive.
"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."
Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.
Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism.
Nonsense, I do not support policies that would damage GDP by $1.6 trillion dollars, nor do I support moving millions of people at the cost of billions of dollars that would foolishly take twenty years to accomplish.
YAWN
the Left is painting themselves in a corner again. i dont think the demonization an characer assasination will work this time. what Trump's daddy did is irrelevant.
No one is demonizing Trump, in fact racists are going to love this revelation and it should boost his popularity exponentially. The right tried to paint Obama as a closet Muslim due to the actions of his father, I say what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Is Donald Trump a closet racist due to the actions of his father? It is a fair question using Republican standards.
Especially if they were Kenyan, amiright?Never judge a person on what their parents were or are.
Man, you guys a getting faster and faster. You are now upchucking tu quoque fallacies faster than I can predict they are coming!Well THANK GOD he wasn't a FORMER High Exalted CYCLOPS of the KKK who became the DemocRATs RESPECTED VOICE in the Senate!.... Are you really THIS stupid? Do I need to show a connection between any DemocRAT president, or candidate to Byrd... Just tell me and I'll fill you in!
I couldn't resist... the Hildebeasty LOVED that old KKK Cyclops!
You are a tu quoque fallacy machine! WOW!I believe there are stories of the Hildebeast single mother being a whore to make ends meet...would that count?
The Big Picture"They have got to go. That about sums up the immigration ideas laid out by Donald Trump on Sunday's "Meet the Press," and in an accompanying 1,900-word policy paper. After making opposition to illegal immigration a cornerstone of his circus-like presidential campaign, The Donald has finally ventured into specifics with an immigration policy plan centered on increased border security and immigration enforcement.
While it is a good sign that Trump has ventured into actual policy proposals, his ideas are impractical at best and at worst inhumane. His ideas veer far to the right of the American mainstream. Far from stabilizing our economy, his plans could well stunt our economic growth.
Consider: Trump wants to build a wall all across our southern border with Mexico. To those for whom fighting illegal immigration is a top priority, this might sound like a smart, common-sense plan. But this line of thinking ignores reality. The border is more secure than it has been in years; an analysis this year by The Washington Post found that illegal crossings along the Mexican border were at their lowest level in two decades.
Meanwhile, our country's population of undocumented immigrants has dropped by about 1 million over the last several years, according to the Pew Research Center. We don't need that wall; what we do need is smarter immigration enforcement.
Trump says that his administration would force the Mexican government to pay for this wall. With all due respect, such an idea is laughable. A spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, when told of Trump's plan to have Mexico foot the bill for a wall between our two countries, told Bloomberg News, "It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it." He's right on both counts.
To force Mexico to pay for this wall, Trump says he would impose import tariffs for its construction. Imagine how disruptive it would be if "President Trump" were to enter into an all-out economic battle with one of our top three trade partners, whose imports to the U.S. in 2014 totalled $294 billion.
The most troubling part of Trump's immigration plan is that he has, in effect, endorsed mass deportations of the undocumented. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," he said on "Meet the Press." Think about what this would mean: Our undocumented population is estimated at about 11 million, roughly equivalent to the population of Ohio.
Think of the tremendous economic upheaval, human suffering and community destabilization that would occur if our government were to round up and remove 11 million people. Such an idea is staggering in its lack of compassion, especially since a reported 62%of the undocumented have lived here for at least a decade, most as productive members of their American communities.
More at the link "Donald Trump's clueless immigration plan - CNN.com
Yes they sure as hell do need to know.
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.
By the numbers:
These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
- In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
- Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
- 362,163 are individuals.
- About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
- About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed
At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).
As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.
Snapshot of Homelessness
A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
Do you understand?
No, and I think his solution is repulsive.
"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."
Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.
Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism.
Nonsense, I do not support policies that would damage GDP by $1.6 trillion dollars, nor do I support moving millions of people at the cost of billions of dollars that would foolishly take twenty years to accomplish.
Say that out loud. You support depressing wages for Americans.
No. This is ridiculous. Concentrate on what he has done. He has enough horrible stuff going on. His record on civil rights is bad enough don't get lost in 85 year old garbage.This business about Trump's father obviously demands he be asked about his father's racist past and forced to respond.
"What is he hiding?"
YAWN
the Left is painting themselves in a corner again. i dont think the demonization an characer assasination will work this time. what Trump's daddy did is irrelevant.
No one is demonizing Trump, in fact racists are going to love this revelation and it should boost his popularity exponentially. The right tried to paint Obama as a closet Muslim due to the actions of his father, I say what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Is Donald Trump a closet racist due to the actions of his father? It is a fair question using Republican standards.
Are you saying beng a Muslim is a bad thing nutjob? you appear to be. obama DOES appeary to be a closet Muslim based on his OWN actions dummy; not his father's..... and especially by his INACTIONS regarding the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and his lack of commentary on that.
YAWN
the Left is painting themselves in a corner again. i dont think the demonization an characer assasination will work this time. what Trump's daddy did is irrelevant.
No one is demonizing Trump, in fact racists are going to love this revelation and it should boost his popularity exponentially. The right tried to paint Obama as a closet Muslim due to the actions of his father, I say what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Is Donald Trump a closet racist due to the actions of his father? It is a fair question using Republican standards.
Are you saying beng a Muslim is a bad thing nutjob? you appear to be. obama DOES appeary to be a closet Muslim based on his OWN actions dummy; not his father's..... and especially by his INACTIONS regarding the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and his lack of commentary on that.
Deflect all you like, let your heart sing. Trump needs to answer some questions about his involvement in racial discrimination as a senior member of his father's company in the 1970's. That should be easy to do, right?
Especially if they were Kenyan, amiright?Never judge a person on what their parents were or are.
YAWN
the Left is painting themselves in a corner again. i dont think the demonization an characer assasination will work this time. what Trump's daddy did is irrelevant.
No one is demonizing Trump, in fact racists are going to love this revelation and it should boost his popularity exponentially. The right tried to paint Obama as a closet Muslim due to the actions of his father, I say what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Is Donald Trump a closet racist due to the actions of his father? It is a fair question using Republican standards.
Are you saying beng a Muslim is a bad thing nutjob? you appear to be. obama DOES appeary to be a closet Muslim based on his OWN actions dummy; not his father's..... and especially by his INACTIONS regarding the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and his lack of commentary on that.
Deflect all you like, let your heart sing. Trump needs to answer some questions about his involvement in racial discrimination as a senior member of his father's company in the 1970's. That should be easy to do, right?
HOW AM I DEFLECTING leftard?
YOU'RE deflecting. i'm saying people dont accuse obama of being a Muslim based on aning h is Daddy did; but based on ACTIONS AND STATEMENTS.
fail; try again.............
That is a matter of public record and it is Donald doing it. And it is an ugly record. They were forced to pay fines and sign a consent decree which they had a record of violating regularly. They are still subject to it, and I would not be surprised that they still in violation.Deflect all you like, let your heart sing. Trump needs to answer some questions about his involvement in racial discrimination as a senior member of his father's company in the 1970's. That should be easy to do, right?
Man, you guys a getting faster and faster. You are now upchucking tu quoque fallacies faster than I can predict they are coming!Well THANK GOD he wasn't a FORMER High Exalted CYCLOPS of the KKK who became the DemocRATs RESPECTED VOICE in the Senate!.... Are you really THIS stupid? Do I need to show a connection between any DemocRAT president, or candidate to Byrd... Just tell me and I'll fill you in!
I couldn't resist... the Hildebeasty LOVED that old KKK Cyclops!
YAWN
the Left is painting themselves in a corner again. i dont think the demonization an characer assasination will work this time. what Trump's daddy did is irrelevant.
No one is demonizing Trump, in fact racists are going to love this revelation and it should boost his popularity exponentially. The right tried to paint Obama as a closet Muslim due to the actions of his father, I say what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Is Donald Trump a closet racist due to the actions of his father? It is a fair question using Republican standards.
Are you saying beng a Muslim is a bad thing nutjob? you appear to be. obama DOES appeary to be a closet Muslim based on his OWN actions dummy; not his father's..... and especially by his INACTIONS regarding the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and his lack of commentary on that.
Deflect all you like, let your heart sing. Trump needs to answer some questions about his involvement in racial discrimination as a senior member of his father's company in the 1970's. That should be easy to do, right?
HOW AM I DEFLECTING leftard?
YOU'RE deflecting. i'm saying people dont accuse obama of being a Muslim based on aning h is Daddy did; but based on ACTIONS AND STATEMENTS.
fail; try again.............
It's about Trump not about Obama. Hop back on your tricycle we'll get you to ride this thing yet.
Lemme guess.The Big PictureOk. This is flat out stupid.
Put American Workers FirstI agree with that thought, but at the same time the biggest question of the day is what exactly did Donald Trump learn from his father and how does it affect his determination about immigration today? People need to know and they need to use that information to make the determination for themselves that he is what he genuinely represents.
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
Immigration Reform
Yep. They sure do need to know.
"They have got to go. That about sums up the immigration ideas laid out by Donald Trump on Sunday's "Meet the Press," and in an accompanying 1,900-word policy paper. After making opposition to illegal immigration a cornerstone of his circus-like presidential campaign, The Donald has finally ventured into specifics with an immigration policy plan centered on increased border security and immigration enforcement.
While it is a good sign that Trump has ventured into actual policy proposals, his ideas are impractical at best and at worst inhumane. His ideas veer far to the right of the American mainstream. Far from stabilizing our economy, his plans could well stunt our economic growth.
Consider: Trump wants to build a wall all across our southern border with Mexico. To those for whom fighting illegal immigration is a top priority, this might sound like a smart, common-sense plan. But this line of thinking ignores reality. The border is more secure than it has been in years; an analysis this year by The Washington Post found that illegal crossings along the Mexican border were at their lowest level in two decades.
Meanwhile, our country's population of undocumented immigrants has dropped by about 1 million over the last several years, according to the Pew Research Center. We don't need that wall; what we do need is smarter immigration enforcement.
Trump says that his administration would force the Mexican government to pay for this wall. With all due respect, such an idea is laughable. A spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, when told of Trump's plan to have Mexico foot the bill for a wall between our two countries, told Bloomberg News, "It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it." He's right on both counts.
To force Mexico to pay for this wall, Trump says he would impose import tariffs for its construction. Imagine how disruptive it would be if "President Trump" were to enter into an all-out economic battle with one of our top three trade partners, whose imports to the U.S. in 2014 totalled $294 billion.
The most troubling part of Trump's immigration plan is that he has, in effect, endorsed mass deportations of the undocumented. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," he said on "Meet the Press." Think about what this would mean: Our undocumented population is estimated at about 11 million, roughly equivalent to the population of Ohio.
Think of the tremendous economic upheaval, human suffering and community destabilization that would occur if our government were to round up and remove 11 million people. Such an idea is staggering in its lack of compassion, especially since a reported 62%of the undocumented have lived here for at least a decade, most as productive members of their American communities.
More at the link "Donald Trump's clueless immigration plan - CNN.com
Yes they sure as hell do need to know.
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.
By the numbers:
These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
- In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
- Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
- 362,163 are individuals.
- About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
- About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed
At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).
As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.
Snapshot of Homelessness
A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
Do you understand?
No, and I think his solution is repulsive.
"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."
Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.
Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.
Lemme guess.The Big PictureOk. This is flat out stupid.
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
Immigration Reform
Yep. They sure do need to know.
"They have got to go. That about sums up the immigration ideas laid out by Donald Trump on Sunday's "Meet the Press," and in an accompanying 1,900-word policy paper. After making opposition to illegal immigration a cornerstone of his circus-like presidential campaign, The Donald has finally ventured into specifics with an immigration policy plan centered on increased border security and immigration enforcement.
While it is a good sign that Trump has ventured into actual policy proposals, his ideas are impractical at best and at worst inhumane. His ideas veer far to the right of the American mainstream. Far from stabilizing our economy, his plans could well stunt our economic growth.
Consider: Trump wants to build a wall all across our southern border with Mexico. To those for whom fighting illegal immigration is a top priority, this might sound like a smart, common-sense plan. But this line of thinking ignores reality. The border is more secure than it has been in years; an analysis this year by The Washington Post found that illegal crossings along the Mexican border were at their lowest level in two decades.
Meanwhile, our country's population of undocumented immigrants has dropped by about 1 million over the last several years, according to the Pew Research Center. We don't need that wall; what we do need is smarter immigration enforcement.
Trump says that his administration would force the Mexican government to pay for this wall. With all due respect, such an idea is laughable. A spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, when told of Trump's plan to have Mexico foot the bill for a wall between our two countries, told Bloomberg News, "It reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it." He's right on both counts.
To force Mexico to pay for this wall, Trump says he would impose import tariffs for its construction. Imagine how disruptive it would be if "President Trump" were to enter into an all-out economic battle with one of our top three trade partners, whose imports to the U.S. in 2014 totalled $294 billion.
The most troubling part of Trump's immigration plan is that he has, in effect, endorsed mass deportations of the undocumented. "We're going to keep the families together, but they have to go," he said on "Meet the Press." Think about what this would mean: Our undocumented population is estimated at about 11 million, roughly equivalent to the population of Ohio.
Think of the tremendous economic upheaval, human suffering and community destabilization that would occur if our government were to round up and remove 11 million people. Such an idea is staggering in its lack of compassion, especially since a reported 62%of the undocumented have lived here for at least a decade, most as productive members of their American communities.
More at the link "Donald Trump's clueless immigration plan - CNN.com
Yes they sure as hell do need to know.
While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.
By the numbers:
These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.
- In January 2014, there were 578,424 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
- Of that number, 216,197 are people in families, and
- 362,163 are individuals.
- About 15 percent of the homeless population – 84,291 - are considered "chronically homeless” individuals, and
- About 9 percent of homeless people- 49,933 - are veterans.
Don't Forget the Kinda Unemployed
At its height, underemployment hit 17.2 percent, which means that more than one in six Americans had less work than they wanted. Although underemployment has steadily declined since, the pace has been slow. As of October, it’s 11.5 percent — a ignominious milestone that marks the first time since 2008 that underemployment dropped below its previous record high, set in 1994 (which is when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of this measure).
As it stands today, 17.7 million Americans are underemployed — double the number of officially unemployed. While the labor market has recovered to the point where unemployment is nearing pre-recession territory, marginal attachment remains elevated by 61 percent, and involuntary part-timing by 64 percent.
Snapshot of Homelessness
A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
Do you understand?
No, and I think his solution is repulsive.
"The costs of mass deportations would be, to use a favorite Trump term, "huge." The conservative American Action Forum has estimated that deporting all of our undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion, and would take about 20 years. Under such a scenario, real gross domestic product would fall by nearly $1.6 trillion."
Plans like Trump's is not going to solve our economic and social problems. It promises to make them worse.
Let me spell it out for you. You support depressing wages for Americans. You have become a mouthpiece, possibly unwittingly, for corporations. It has nothing to do with racism. If you can focus on racism then you can keep the wages low and you don't have to deal with the situation. You are not liberal. You are conservative dressed up as liberal.
Your solution to homelessness is cut taxes on the wealthy, deregulate, and the magical free market work it's wonders.
No one is demonizing Trump, in fact racists are going to love this revelation and it should boost his popularity exponentially. The right tried to paint Obama as a closet Muslim due to the actions of his father, I say what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Is Donald Trump a closet racist due to the actions of his father? It is a fair question using Republican standards.
Are you saying beng a Muslim is a bad thing nutjob? you appear to be. obama DOES appeary to be a closet Muslim based on his OWN actions dummy; not his father's..... and especially by his INACTIONS regarding the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and his lack of commentary on that.
Deflect all you like, let your heart sing. Trump needs to answer some questions about his involvement in racial discrimination as a senior member of his father's company in the 1970's. That should be easy to do, right?
HOW AM I DEFLECTING leftard?
YOU'RE deflecting. i'm saying people dont accuse obama of being a Muslim based on aning h is Daddy did; but based on ACTIONS AND STATEMENTS.
fail; try again.............
It's about Trump not about Obama. Hop back on your tricycle we'll get you to ride this thing yet.
i was responding specifically to the point being made, by YOU, IDIOT, that it is ok because of what Republicans said about obama
try again you moron!
lol
