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Obama Post-Election: More Hurt Ahead For American Workers, Business Owners, Taxpayers
Townhall.com ^ | October 26, 2014 | Austin Hill

Posted on 10/26/2014 5:24:16 AM PDT by Kaslin

It’s noteworthy that the President is saving his surprise until after this year’s elections. And it’s difficult to know if he can be stopped, regardless of who wins in November.

Yet when two major, long-standing American media outlets – one leaning to the left, the other leaning to the right – both publish news and analysis detailing lies and corruption with President Barack Obama’s plan to grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegal immigrants, actual American citizens should take notice.

First, there is the left-leaning USA Today. An October 22nd headline in the Gannett-owned national newspaper read “U.S. misinformed Congress, public on immigrant release.”

But read beneath the headline, and a stark reality becomes apparent: it wasn’t the “U.S.” that did the misleading. Specifically, it was the current occupants of the executive branch of the U.S. government – President Barack Obama and staffers within his administration- that misrepresented facts about illegal immigrants flooding into the country.

The matter dates back to early 2013 when the Obama Administration ordered some 2,200 illegal immigrants to be released from U.S. jails. Officials within the Administration insisted that, because of the so-called “sequestration” government funding cuts, prisoners needed to be released from jails and it just happened to be the case that the 2,200 illegal immigrants that were turned loose were actually no danger to Americans. Their only “crime” was entering in to the U.S. without appropriate “documents.”

But now, USA Today reports that they have secured documents demonstrating that the Obama Administration’s assertions were false In the report, journalist Brad Heath writes:

“The records, obtained by USA TODAY, show immigration officials released some undocumented immigrants who had faced far more serious criminal charges, including people charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, drug trafficking and homicide.”

In the same week, the right-leaning “Washington Times” newspaper published a striking editorial detailing President Obama’s plan for an Executive Order to mandate amnesty for illegal immigrants, a plan to be initiated without a vote from the U.S. Congress and scheduled to happen afterNovember’s midterm congressional elections. According to them, the Obama Administration is planning for upwards of 30 to 40 million new immigrants to be legalized with a stroke of the President’s pen, a move that will expand the nation’s population by a whopping 10%.

As the Washington Times notes:

“In economic terms, importing millions of unskilled workers creates competition for the diminishing number of available jobs. Combine a flooded job market with the Democratic proposals for a doubling of the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and millions more American citizens will be without a job. Those who do have jobs will pay to provide federal freebies, from Obamaphones to Obamacare, to the formerly illegal aliens now with a green card.”

This news will continue to be ignored. Many entrepreneurs in the nation’s tech epicenters of Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Boston – all cities with lots of global commerce and where employment and wages are mostly pretty good – will remain oblivious to the President’s undermining of multiple national interests, while others will continue to write big checks in exchange for the opportunity to get their photo taken with Mr. Obama at a political fundraiser. They will remain oblivious to why the President and his policies have fallen drastically out of favor with a broad base of the American people, even as he becomes an untrusted embarrassment internationally and undermines the U.S. dollar.

Similarly, American business media outlets – almost all of which are headquartered on either the right or left coast and generally don’t care to observe much beyond the Silicon Valley or Wall Street – will continue to revel in Microsoft’s new earnings report, or Apple’s recent iPhone successes (has anybody noticed how Apple financed their recent stock buy-back with borrowed cash?), while pretending that immigration is an irrelevant subject. Instead of thinking critically and holistically about the state of the country, they’ll go-on regurgitating the latest press releases from the Small Business Administration detailing all the new small business lending initiatives, and essentially “call it all good.”

But for the rest of us trying to do business in “flyover country” – the forsaken regions of the U.S. in between L.A. and Manhattan and in faraway lands like Hawaii and Alaska – a flood of immigrants actually matters. It means, among other things, more strain on already burdened city, county and state-funded law enforcement and social services agencies; a greater risk of crime and litigation perpetrated against local and regional business ventures; and fewer jobs for American workers, including many 20 to 30-somethings who hold college degrees and mountains of college loan debt, but can’t find their way in the labor market even under current conditions.

Will American workers and business owners demand a government that serves them rather than enslaving them – or is it already too late?


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1 posted on 10/26/2014 5:24:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

That’s not the only hurt coming. Read this article and weep:

http://nypost.com/2014/10/26/obamas-plans-for-a-secret-radical-agenda-after-the-elections/


2 posted on 10/26/2014 5:27:25 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Kaslin
I'm having a hard time imagining anything the Communist could do that would prompt the Republican Congress to take any meaningful action against him.

Amnesty? No problem. Pardoning all illegal immigrant felons? No problem. Effectively banning all coal-mining through the EPA? No problem.

What frightens me the most is him giving away all of our military technology. I don't know what mechanism he could use to do it, but I'm sure the communists have been working on it.

3 posted on 10/26/2014 5:31:15 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Having both Houses makes Impeachment much easier.


4 posted on 10/26/2014 5:39:08 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: 9YearLurker
At least the NY Post knows what's going on, as does the Tea Party. As for the rest of the country, not so much. We face our first Dark Age, unless a Republican Congress, led by president Ted Cruz, declares war on oppressive government. The chances of that happening? About 10%. But it's the only chance we've got.

Mark Steyn is right. We need to transform the culture as much, or more than, we need to transform the government. But that's a 20-year process, at least.

The FIRST thing we as conservatives can do is to take the future generation out of the government schools. It's time for us to return to the catacombs to keep alive the flame of Christianity and republican government.

5 posted on 10/26/2014 5:39:42 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Kaslin

HIRE AMERICANS.

First.

We have almost 100,000,000 Americans currently out of work, yet he wants to hire MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?

To heck with that. America needs to bring back jobs.

For AMERICANS.


6 posted on 10/26/2014 5:40:45 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Lumper20
Having both Houses makes Impeachment much easier.

2/3 of the Senate, though. And the Dums are all commies.

7 posted on 10/26/2014 5:40:55 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
HIRE AMERICANS.

Nobody is stopping you from doing just that.

8 posted on 10/26/2014 5:41:25 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sirius Lee

American companies now have sent millions and millions of formerly American jobs to communist China.

Look at the tags, on everything you buy:

“Made in China”.

That means, no Americans were involved in the production.

Bring back American jobs.


9 posted on 10/26/2014 5:42:48 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

And yet, the government is fundamental in shaping the culture as well. Just look at what the War on Poverty has done reshaping the culture of minority communities.


10 posted on 10/26/2014 5:43:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
American companies now have sent millions and millions of formerly American jobs to communist China.

Then hire Americans at YOUR company, Cringe. Nobody is stopping you from producing something and building it here.

11 posted on 10/26/2014 5:47:15 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: 9YearLurker
And yet, the government is fundamental in shaping the culture as well.

True. If there's one thing conservatives can learn from the Left is to attack on all fronts at all times. Fight for every inch of ground. No battle too small. Cede nothing to the enemy without a fight. Unfortunately, we are in a perpetual war against evil that never tires. On the plus side, we have God on our side.

12 posted on 10/26/2014 5:48:04 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Lumper20

“Having both Houses makes Impeachment much easier.”

The House could impeach now. The senate must try Obama. To remove him from office takes 67 votes. Even if the GOP took the Senate they won’t have 67 seats. If they did not all of them would vote for removal.


13 posted on 10/26/2014 5:48:58 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Sirius Lee

America as a whole needs to bring back American jobs.

We need trade tariffs, and we need to build up American companies, which operate right here in America.

For the last entire generation, we have sold off America.

Both parties. Everyone. Stand up America, and bring jobs right back here.

Stop selling off American jobs.

For real. Bring back jobs, right here to America.

Close our borders if need be. America needs to be for American jobs.


14 posted on 10/26/2014 5:50:07 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: 9YearLurker

From your link:
>>>Under the scheme, HUD plans to map every US neighborhood by race and publish “geospatial data” pinpointing racial imbalances. Areas deemed overly segregated will be forced to change their zoning laws to allow construction of subsidized and other affordable housing to bring more low-income minorities into “white suburbs.” HUD’s maps will be used to select affordable housing sites.<<<

Now we know why they said it was so important to check the ‘race’ box on the census form.


15 posted on 10/26/2014 5:52:16 AM PDT by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Yes, you Cringe, should hire Americans at your company. Stop blaming others and do it.


16 posted on 10/26/2014 5:53:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Yes it takes 2/3’s. I am hoping, but; I’d be happy to see Obama do nothing more to destroy what little is left. He is releasing illegal criminals plus many more folks who should never vote. Somehow many do vote.


17 posted on 10/26/2014 5:57:27 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Gen.Blather

True.


18 posted on 10/26/2014 5:59:32 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Excellent post!


19 posted on 10/26/2014 6:01:49 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
We have almost 100,000,000 Americans currently out of work, yet he wants to hire MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?

Unfortunately, most Americans effectively voted FOR this, by voting for the goodies he was giving them.

20 posted on 10/26/2014 6:02:02 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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