Enthusiastic Trump supporters. (Trump/Facebook) Posted on 09/08/2015 10:58:40 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
WASHINGTON, September 8, 2015 – Donald Trump’s current candidacy for the 2016 GOP Presidential nomination is still being treated as a jolly entertainment carnival by the lamestream media.
Meanwhile, “traditional” and RINO Republicans—particularly those in the Jeb Bush camp— are freaking out as Trump continues to dominate the news. Democrats are getting increasingly nervous about Trump as well, given the increasingly dismal Hillary Clinton campaign, which is getting buried beneath The Smartest Woman In The World’s tsunami of lies and defiance.
But the increasingly shallow and clueless media and party professionals are generally ignoring the reason why their best-laid plans are getting smithereened by Trump’s bull-in-the-China-closet antics. Perhaps they shouldn’t be so smug.Enthusiastic Trump supporters. (Trump/Facebook)
After years of mind-boggling and spirit sapping oppression by the criminal cartel currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the middle- and working-class majorities occupying America’s hard-hit flyover country are absolutely thrilled to hear that someone, anyone—including a wealthy, mercurial real estate mogul like Trump—is actually addressing their despair over the job-, career-, and salary-crushing onslaught of illegal aliens and unwanted H1B visa holders who are responsible for driving the jobs and the salaries of American citizens right off the cliff.
The GOP establishment got an early warning of what was to come when an unknown non-politician named Dave Brat unseated the Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a surprise 2014 primary upset in Virginia’s 7th congressional district. Brat went on to win the seat, decisively beating both his Democrat and Libertarian opponents.
How could a House Majority Leader be so easily unhorsed? Simple. Finding himself ascendant in the House, the generally conservative Cantor began to tack more strongly in the direction of Republican Lite, the primary philosophy of the party’s old guard which fears to take on the Democrats and the media while fearing just as much the wrath of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Once strong supporters of America’s small businesses, the Chamber, over the last decade or two, has joined America’s fat cats and oligarchs in championing massive increases in H1B visas and encouraging unbridled immigration of all kinds, the better to crush any attempt at all by working American citizens to win the kind of wage increases they used to enjoy back in the day.
(For an example of what we’re talking about, check out this story:
Typically, Cantor, like the rest of the Republican House leadership, fell into the Chamber’s line on this issue. The problem is, his Virginia constituents had been demanding he do precisely the opposite. Cantor failed to pay attention, preferring to listen to the Chamber’s campaign contributions instead. Unfortunately for him, voters in his district took note.
They also took note of Dave Brat, who pounded the H1B/illegal alien issue home. Vastly underfunded in comparison to Cantor, and vastly undercovered by the media, he crushed the incumbent in the primary and never looked back. He’d hit on the winning issue in his district in 2014, but the GOP failed to heed the message Brat and his constituents were sending.
It’s a year later and the GOP still isn’t listening, attempting to push through some flavor of amnesty before the 2016 elections. But this time, Dave Brat has morphed into Donald Trump. Trump alone is preaching the same message, one that flies in the face of inside-the-Beltway and media wisdom.
The elephant in the room is plain to see. American workers are sick and tired of having their jobs taken and their salaries constantly eroded by foreigners of all stripes who enter this country legally (HiB) or illegally (across our southern border), taking away the jobs of American citizens and depressing salaries in vast waves, like the hyperactive zombies in the film “World War Z.”
Even more interesting: there is growing evidence that Hispanic and black U.S. citizens are increasingly infuriated over this issue as well. The Prudent Man has been astonished in recent conversations with black and Hispanic friends and associates, most of whom are absolutely infuriated over the current Administration’s deliberately job-crushing immigration strategy. They feel utterly betrayed by the black president they’d enthusiastically elected, and are furious at Congress and the wealthy elites for colluding to drive American wages down and real unemployment up.
For the first time he can recall, the Prudent Man has spotted a short article that both quantifies and visualizes the serious wage-depression and employment-depression issue.
Entitled “698K Native-Born Americans Lost Their Job In August: Why This Suddenly Is The Most Important Jobs Chart,” this ZeroHedge story drills down on the facts and figures that underscores the reason why American workers are getting fed up. We quote at length:
“After the Fed admitted over a year ago that the US unemployment rate (which in 2012 was supposed to be a rate hike “threshold” once it hit 6.5% and is now at 5.1%) has become irrelevant in a country where a record 94 million people have left the labor force…. with the Fed poised to hike rates even though US hourly wages have not only not increased for the past 7 years, but for the vast majority of the labor force continue to decline, some have asked – is there any labor-related chart that matters any more?
“The answer: a resounding yes….
“The one chart that matters more than ever, has little to nothing to do with the Fed’s monetary policy, but everything to do with the November 2016 presidential elections in which the topic of immigration, both legal and illegal, is shaping up to be the most rancorous, contentious and divisive.
“The chart is the following, showing the cumulative addition of foreign-born and native-born workers added to US payrolls according to the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] since December 2007, i.e., since the start of the recession/Second Great Depression.
Domestic vs. foreign, cumulative employment figures. (All charts U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via ZeroHedge)
“The chart is especially important because what it shows for just the month of August will be enough to provide the Trump – and every other – campaign with enough soundbites and pivot points to last it for weeks on end: namely, that in August a whopping 698,000 native-born Americans lost their job. This drop was offset by 204,000 foreign-born Americans, who got a job in the month of August.
Native-born vs. foreign born employment.
“But the punchline: since December 2007, according to the Household Survey, only 790,000 native born American jobs have been added. Contrast that with the 2.1 million foreign-born Americans who have found a job over the same time period…
Native-born vs. foreign-born come. (Note: “Native-born” in these charts refers to U.S. citizens born in America, not “Native Americans.”)
“… and you have a combustible mess that will lead to serious fireworks during the next GOP primary.”
By extension, Zero should include the November 2016 Presidential contest as well. It is clear from the above charts that American workers are being left outside the gates in massive numbers, replaced seemingly at will, by lower paid foreign workers - who may or may not be citizens - because the mass importation of lower wage workers enriches the oligarchy and the politicians they fund and support, not because it’s right.
Seemingly brain dead for nearly eight years, more and more American voters are beginning to wake up and see what they’ve failed to see since at least 1992: Both political parties, prodded by their wealthy backers, have become a unified force oppressing the bulk of America’s workers by suppressing not only their wages, but their ability to even get a full-time job. The focal point of their efforts is to crush America’s wage scale by importing waves of foreign individuals willing to work for any price. The American people want this to stop. But then again, when has Washington listened to the people lately? (Think Obamacare, for example.)
The problem is, it’s every government’s duty to protect its citizens, including their right to earn a living, and indeed. This government is doing precisely the opposite, altering the system to the point where there is absolutely no advantage in being a U.S. citizen.
Like Brat before him, Trump is the only Republican candidate who is aggressively pursuing this increasingly gut-level issue. We’re not convinced that Trump is even remotely the best candidate to carry the GOP standard in 2016. But until and unless another GOP candidate decides to take the part of the American citizen-worker-voter over the money and influence of the oligarchy, Trump will continue to top the polls no matter what he has to say or how much the media elites abhor it.
BINGO!
The GOP establishment got an early warning of what was to come when an unknown non-politician named Dave Brat unseated the Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
I was proud to have played a small role in throwing the weasel Eric Can’tor/won’t from office.
The voters of VA-7 showed the rest of the country that we do have the power of term limits in our hands.
More disrticts need to Cantorize their weasels until there are no more representatives representing illegal aliens and their employers.
They are supposed to represent the citizens, which they have not been doing for years.
Very few candidates get the very basic principle that immigration law should always serve the interests of citizens. First, foremost, always.
And it never does.
For any of Trump’s other lapses in espousing conservative policy, at least he is right on the single most important issue of the past 30 years.
It’s even more fundamental than that: Trump is the only one willing to speak up for American industry in general, and really America in general. The rest are all wedded to the globalist agenda that subordinates the interests of America and Americans as against nearly everyone and everyplace else.
On this issue alone I’m tempted to support Trump rather than Cruz.
My wife came to the USA legally as a nurse during a nurses shortage in the late 1970s. Eventually we met in Tucson, married and she became a U.S. Citizen in the 80’s. Are you suggesting she is an undsirabe and should be deported.
The article doesn't say a word about deporting citizens. And if there was a genuine shortage then the article doesn't apply: "American workers are being left outside the gates in massive numbers, replaced seemingly at will, by lower paid foreign workers - who may or may not be citizens - because the mass importation of lower wage workers enriches the oligarchy and the politicians they fund and support".
What I am suggesting - nay, stating - is that I can't actively support any candidate who wants to help the oligarchy take the bread from the mouths of my wife and children.
Precisely.
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