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Lou Dobbs: Tom Donohue wants to reverse the direction of rising labor costs
Fox Business Network ^ | March 7, 2019 | Lou Dobbs

Posted on 03/07/2019 8:20:42 AM PST by EveningStar

Tonight, I'd like to share a few thoughts with you....about what I fear is a new direction for President Trump Opens a New Window. and his administration....and very likely a catastrophe for working men and women, small business and entrepreneurs, our middle class, and the American family.

I try not to overstate, let alone indulge in hyperbole, but what we watched unfold today at the White House Opens a New Window. was, to me, a disastrous policy turn for the country....and heartbreaking.

What the White House billed as a meeting of major corporate ceo's who will serve on the president's workforce advisory board, co-chaired by Presidential Advisor Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, here's the president on their concerns and purpose:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chamberofcommerce; loudobbs; tomdonohue; trump
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1 posted on 03/07/2019 8:20:42 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Cheap Labor Express - bump for later....


2 posted on 03/07/2019 8:23:16 AM PST by indthkr
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To: EveningStar

Lou is right. There is no end to the appetite for the importation of cheap labor by the elites. I fear someone has caught the President’s ear on this issue. Perhaps he’s been told that the only problem is illegal immigration, not legal immigration.

In fact, mass legal immigration is killing the American worker. There will never be an end to wage stagflation for American workers as long as we continue to import millions of low cost foreign workers.

Block the calls of Tom Donohue and other Chamber of Corruption cronies, Mr. President, and listen to NumbersUSA, FAIR, and CIS.


3 posted on 03/07/2019 8:27:11 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: EveningStar

No, we don’t want cheap labor. We want jobs that pay enough to support families. You do that by bringing back manufacturing, and by tightening the border.

We want jobs sufficient to give people something to work for and hope for. When there are no jobs, people find other ways to survive; disability, Starbucks, living with mom, “tiny houses”, delayed marriage, welfare, and the culture changes for the worse.


4 posted on 03/07/2019 8:28:09 AM PST by marron
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To: EveningStar

Automation has helped to take wages out of the cost equation. Automation is helping to keep wages high by making them a smaller fraction of the total cost. It is our friend.


5 posted on 03/07/2019 8:29:51 AM PST by marron
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To: marron

Bump.


6 posted on 03/07/2019 8:30:29 AM PST by EEGator
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To: SharpRightTurn

Tell this Communist creep Donahue to go to hell.


7 posted on 03/07/2019 8:31:06 AM PST by alstewartfan ("If I should live to be seven I might forget Stephanie." Al Stewart)
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To: marron
While your premise sounds great, higher salaries for all, what people who claim they are unable to make it on the salary being offered, they just might ask their grandparents, what they did to cut lifestyle costs, for that is the real problem I witness in my own family.

It’s called, or used to be known as, in the last century, “living within your means!”

8 posted on 03/07/2019 8:36:15 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: EveningStar

This is where Trump is wrong. He says that employers need more workers, so bring them in from other countries.

If there’s anything that can be learned from the Immigration Act of 1965, it is that these foreigners are plyed and exploited by unscrupulous politicians who tell them that they are discriminated by and that they should vote against historic Americans.

These foreigners also come from anti-gun, socialist countries and they bring their biases and voting patterns with them. These are what are called “Paper Americans” - they know nothing and care nothing about the values and ethos and history of this country and its native population. After they get the vote, they will vote against the Second Amendment. They are citizens by some document, only.

They are locust invaders, generally speaking (there are a few exceptions, of course).

Its time that the US put civic cohesion and national values ahead of economics.

The Amish are not entirely wrong: they put community and faith ahead of economics and materialism.


9 posted on 03/07/2019 8:36:58 AM PST by bkopto
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1/2 of Americans are not having children, and the married couples that are only have one maybe two children. Then these children are totally spoiled and become entitled liberals. The rest of NBCs are born to single mothers that have children to increase their welfare benefits and then let the state raise them. Then you have the largest population increase coming across the boarder legally from third world shit holes. Ya, I can see the advantage of merit based immigration.


10 posted on 03/07/2019 8:37:48 AM PST by JoSixChip (Trump stands alone.)
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To: EveningStar

It seems wages can never be low enough for most Republicans.


11 posted on 03/07/2019 8:39:17 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: JoSixChip

Merit based immigration makes the problem WORSE for young Americans.


12 posted on 03/07/2019 8:40:31 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: EveningStar

ANYTHING that expands the H-1B program is anti-American.

And ANYONE who supports that is also anti-American.

Most folks don’t understand the devastation caused by H-1B in the tech business, they’ve only seen snippets like the Disney fiasco.

But it’s wholesale, universal destruction of the American middle class.

Visit anywhere in Silicon Valley. It’s about 50% immigrants that are paying those exorbitant rents and mortgages. Entire families from India, Pakistan and China pooling their resources.

Displacing Americans.

And it’s not just Silicon Valley. It’s EVERYWHERE, every company that has tech workers.

If you’re a tech worker, testify!

If you didn’t lose your job, your pay has been declining in real terms. Project Managers that were making $80/hr in 1995 are making $50/hr today.


13 posted on 03/07/2019 8:41:34 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: JoSixChip

“Ya, I can see the advantage of merit based immigration.”

That’s because you hate America and Americans.


14 posted on 03/07/2019 8:43:16 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: JoSixChip

That’s because you hate America and Americans.


16 posted on 03/07/2019 8:51:22 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: marron

If people don’t start to experience rising wages and an improvement in their standard of living, they aren’t going back to Bush-era business as usual.

No, they’ll elect AOC or the Fake Indian or somebody to PUNISH those they feel responsible.

This is a fools errand.


17 posted on 03/07/2019 8:53:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EveningStar

Trump’s “America First” agenda meets the reality of the demands from the Republican donor class. It’s no accident that we have corporate executives from all over the world who did not grow up in living the American experience and culture.

For white, educated young men, the future is bleak indeed. Corporate America doesn’t want or like you. You are too expensive and too symbolic of “oppression.” You are stuck with a pile of student debt and no decent employment prospects because someone from India or China has the same degree and will work for half the price. Say hello to a bunch more hopeless unemployed, who become agitators living their parents’ basements demanding “hope and change”.

If Trump follows this path, he is toast in 2020.


18 posted on 03/07/2019 9:35:53 AM PST by con-surf-ative
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To: SharpRightTurn

Tom Donohue and the Chamber of Commerce are anything but American. They are total globalist whores who would sell their mothers, wives and daughters for a dollar to their bottom line.

They are no more Americans than the illegals swarming into our country. Yes I question if these corporations know what patriotism is at this point. The “US” Chamber of Commerce is our version of snotty and effete Eurotrash.


19 posted on 03/07/2019 10:10:09 AM PST by sarge83
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To: EveningStar

Trump needs to get himself straightened out on this. His Kushner schmoozes with big donors has led to a false narrative that he is buying into.


20 posted on 03/07/2019 10:11:26 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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