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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #16680 on: July 14, 2019, 03:47:41 AM »

---Get it? More immigration means more workers,
which means higher GDP — which means… we
need more immigration.
Reality check: GDP does indeed rise when
new immigrants enter the labor force. But living
standards are best measured by per capita, not total,
GDP. Per capita income falls if immigrants are less
educated, productive, motivated — and earn less —
than natives. This is the case in the U.S., as seen in
the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) latest survey
of the immigrant workforce10.---

https://npg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016NegativeEconomicImpactForumPaper.pdf

Sorry to smash the liberal elite dream of cheap nannies.

Stop polluting the internet. Get outside in the healthy air. Pick some strawberries.

No?

STFU.
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« Reply #16681 on: July 14, 2019, 05:41:58 AM »

From your favorite economics professor

---Clinton ignores the hard truth that not everyone benefits when immigrants arrive. For many Americans, the influx of immigrants hurts their prospects significantly.

This second message might be hard for many Americans to process, but anyone who tells you that immigration doesn’t have any negative effects doesn’t understand how it really works. When the supply of workers goes up, the price that firms have to pay to hire workers goes down. Wage trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of that group by at least 3 percent. Even after the economy has fully adjusted, those skill groups that received the most immigrants will still offer lower pay relative to those that received fewer immigrants.---

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216

Remember before the latest Ted Kennedy influx when Health packages were always a standard part of the hiring process? You now have workers staying on or moving for health care alone. Instead of continuing in a leadership role for workers America is  becoming a sweat shop hell hole.  Instead of helping raise standards for the worker it has dragged it down toward Guatemalan levels.

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« Reply #16682 on: July 14, 2019, 08:11:48 AM »

Way to let plutocrats and kleptocrats off the hook.

If you do that though, you’ve got to put the blame somewhere. Why not on those least responsible able to kick back?

It sounds like your kind of coward move.
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« Reply #16683 on: July 14, 2019, 08:21:32 AM »

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Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers
The candidates tell drastically different stories about immigration. They’re both skipping half the truth.

By GEORGE J. BORJAS September/October 2016

Duh!
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #16684 on: July 14, 2019, 08:50:29 AM »

IDEA
Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers
The candidates tell drastically different stories about immigration. They’re both skipping half the truth.

By GEORGE J. BORJAS September/October 2016

Duh!

luee! We get it!


You hate and fear black and brown people and you think there are hordes of them teeming at the border waiting to swarm in like the zombies in WORLD WAR Z.

Just pull the covers over your head and squinty your eyes real tight and it will all be alright.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #16685 on: July 14, 2019, 10:24:27 AM »

From your favorite economics professor

---Clinton ignores the hard truth that not everyone benefits when immigrants arrive. For many Americans, the influx of immigrants hurts their prospects significantly.

This second message might be hard for many Americans to process, but anyone who tells you that immigration doesn’t have any negative effects doesn’t understand how it really works. When the supply of workers goes up, the price that firms have to pay to hire workers goes down. Wage trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of that group by at least 3 percent. Even after the economy has fully adjusted, those skill groups that received the most immigrants will still offer lower pay relative to those that received fewer immigrants.---

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216

Remember before the latest Ted Kennedy influx when Health packages were always a standard part of the hiring process? You now have workers staying on or moving for health care alone. Instead of continuing in a leadership role for workers America is  becoming a sweat shop hell hole.  Instead of helping raise standards for the worker it has dragged it down toward Guatemalan levels.

Nobody said nobody was negatively impacted. People are helped, people are hurt, either way. The people *most* hurt by immigrants are (a) people with less than a high school education (as your prior link illustrated) and (b) the immediately prior group of immigrants.

The change in health care has nothing to do with immigrants and your conflating them ignores, as you have all along, the greed of our corporate structure. See also: the chart on productivity vs. wages.
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« Reply #16686 on: July 14, 2019, 10:26:08 AM »

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« Reply #16687 on: July 14, 2019, 10:31:17 AM »



"...with liberty and justice for all"

ALL

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« Reply #16688 on: July 14, 2019, 11:03:48 AM »



"...with liberty and justice for all"

ALL

ALL (who are wealthy and white)

See the next post.
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« Reply #16689 on: July 14, 2019, 11:04:02 AM »

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« Reply #16690 on: July 14, 2019, 12:06:30 PM »

IDEA
Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers
The candidates tell drastically different stories about immigration. They’re both skipping half the truth.

By GEORGE J. BORJAS September/October 2016

Duh!

luee! We get it!


You hate and fear black and brown people and you think there are hordes of them teeming at the border waiting to swarm in like the zombies in WORLD WAR Z.

Just pull the covers over your head and squinty your eyes real tight and it will all be alright.

On the contrary, I love the American worker and what all the labor unions did to improve working conditions and made the workplace  the most enjoyable and productive one in the world. I am for the native workers of all races and creeds. It is the blue collar worker who is being squeezed out and is having his power and voice taken away. The one percenters want to use the failures and self-loathers to continue to castrate the labor movement by allowing cheap labor from backward third world areas in. Someone used GEORGE J. BORJAS as a defender of open borders he certainly was not, in his own words.
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« Reply #16691 on: July 14, 2019, 12:32:38 PM »

IDEA
Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers
The candidates tell drastically different stories about immigration. They’re both skipping half the truth.

By GEORGE J. BORJAS September/October 2016

Duh!

luee! We get it!


You hate and fear black and brown people and you think there are hordes of them teeming at the border waiting to swarm in like the zombies in WORLD WAR Z.

Just pull the covers over your head and squinty your eyes real tight and it will all be alright.

On the contrary, I love the American worker and what all the labor unions did to improve working conditions and made the workplace  the most enjoyable and productive one in the world. I am for the native workers of all races and creeds. It is the blue collar worker who is being squeezed out and is having his power and voice taken away. The one percenters want to use the failures and self-loathers to continue to castrate the labor movement by allowing cheap labor from backward third world areas in. Someone used GEORGE J. BORJAS as a defender of open borders he certainly was not, in his own words.

No, it's not the immigrants squeezing blue collar workers, Luee. Borjas's numbers don't show that.

The loss of voice and power comes from the attacks on unions - not coming from the "liberal elite" you love to attack.

The loss of voice and power comes from the loss of jobs due to automation - not from the immigrants.

The loss of voice and power comes from corporations moving jobs to other countries - not either immigrants or liberals.

America needs more plumbers, more carpenters, etc. We don't lack for work for them. We don't need a ton more for our assembly lines, regardless of where they are from.

And the tariffs are not bringing back many jobs --> about 6% of the overseas manufacturing places in China might come back. The rest are either staying or moving, but not moving here.
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« Reply #16693 on: July 14, 2019, 02:15:10 PM »



Bastard just put targets on these women.
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« Reply #16694 on: July 14, 2019, 02:24:14 PM »



Rashida was born in Detroit, AOC in the Bronx.  AOC's dad was also born in the Bronx.
Her mother is from PR, which is a US territory.  Trump remains an ignorant slandering twit, water remains wet, gravity still pulls down.
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