http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/08/20/why-iowa-conservatives-flocking-trump/32036317/
Soon to be Ex.................
Thornton is weak.
He must go.
That would be former co-chair.
FIRING PEOPLE!
And a good house cleaning of the GOP leadership from top to bottom is badly needed along with a massive firing of 1,000’s of government losers collecting checks and well as whole departments that need to be eradicated.
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The air is leaking out of the Trump balloon.
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Clearly Richard Thornton has never worked in business.
That’s not how you talk to/about the CEO... esp. if you want to keep your job!
Here's what was actually said....
“On illegal immigration, he wants to gather up the families and ship them out? That was a boondoggle. The caucusgoers are like, ‘What?’ That was a big mistake,” Richard Thornton told The Des Moines Register.
Thornton said that the CAUCUSGOERS said it was a big mistake. Was he right? By the look of Trump's crowds and their enthusiasm level, I'd say NO, that he was wrong.
Is this guy Thornton weak? Looks like he's not the brightest color in the crayon box. Might be demoted, or out on the street, soon.
Actually it’s a big win for him; it allows him to advocate amnesty without it appearing that way.
(Maybe not a big win for the country, but no candidates are actually advocating more.)
6000 miles of land based border between US and Mexico / Canada
90m+ adults not working.
real unemployment exceeds 20%.
30m illegals in the country.
solution:
1. stop the flow
2. return the illegals
to accomplish #1, hire 6000 teams of 100 individuals to each produce 1 mile of wall in 1 year. contracts would be fixed price, with the price established by the median amount bid (not the lowest). certain sections may warrant special attention, and prices would necessarily vary for those sections. each section would have the same core design as all previous sections.
also note, wherever possible, there would be a 1/8 mile of flattened ‘no man’s land’ on either side of the wall. this is to provide additional security.
the entirety of the wall would lie on the US side of the border. this would imply a 1/4 mile ‘line’ at the border.
as for #2, establish a no-harm bounty program on illegals to commence 1 year after the work on the wall begins. prior to that time, illegals may return to their country of origin without being detained. after that time, any illegal that is turned in will net a bounty of $500-1000. if any harm comes to the illegal, the bounty hunters will be charged with the appropriate crimes. once apprehended, the illegal will be interviewed and their country of origin would be determined. they would then be placed on the next commercial flight to that country, flying coach, with $100 in their pocket. the entire bill for their return would be forwarded to their embassy in the US... payable within 30 days. if the bill is not paid, the embassy will be closed and relations with that country will be severed. to avoid the cost of deportation, we would encourage the embassy to contact its citizens here illegally and encourage them to go home before the time runs out.
this is how to solve the problem.
Too late, Thornton. The Trump train has left without you. Today’s headlines show that 51% of Americans are in favor of securing the borders and 57% of Republicans believe Trump will be the nominee.
I think you remove the benefits and they will self deport from need.
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.
Sounds like Donald needs a new Iowa campaign manager.
Des Moines Register and Trump have a little feud going on.
Iowa RINOs love their meat packing slave laborers
Another Politico poltroon.
In my opinion, Trump can simply brush this off. Kep the co-chair, and simply state that he is entitled to his opinion, but the plan is the plan.
Dicky, you’re fired.