I would say the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which is an enforcement arm of Dodd-Frank also has some affirmative actions that resemble those that led to the 2008 recession in the first place - a government directive that started up as NINJA loans and ended as bundled derivative clusters.
The research to back this statement with EO citations is more work than I want to pursue.
While you are asking Max for verifiable negative policy, I will insert an opinion - that Obama’s rhetoric and non policy actions have inflamed racial passions on both whites and blacks (Don’t know about other groups), perhaps more than the policies.
One can also make that case for sexual, woman, and religious matters. He has a worldview far to the left of the American consensus, but has used a tremendous amount of his energy towards moving the US in line with that worldview. These have also come both from policies and speeches.
It’s not at all clear to me that the policy is a mistake consequent of Obama’s awareness of racial disparity. The author of the criticism doesn’t make a coherent argument, and, looking through his past contributions to Huffpost, he seems to have some kind of thing about singling out black kids for help in the school system, assailing any such policy as “segregation” when in fact most of the criticisms of black America popular on PWI would be better addressed by education than by most other efforts.
Edit: if “segregation” – and by that the critic means tasking a particular subset of DOE specifically with achieving black education outcomes – leads to a measurable reduction in both poverty and crime, will you remain opposed to it?
I appreciate the detailed response. I will pull quotations in order to address your points specifically, so I’ve got to hold off until I’m at my laptop.
Blaming the lack of vetting on Snowden is PR boiler plate bullshit, privacy concerns do not apply to non-citizens outside of the US. Applicants from those countries who have issue with their social media being looked at should be immediately disqualified. We have no obligation to admit anyone who doesn’t want to comply with our policies. That statement about Snowden is a cover story to silence debate about the issue, just suggest that investigating someone with a Muslim background is a sign of Islamaphobia and people quickly back off from the issue.
How does bombing Muslim countries compare with how we vet and treat suspicious Muslims here domestically ? The first sign of Obama’s bias was with Ft Hood being labeled workplace violence. Then we have the Boston bombers, who were alresdy flagged and let go. Then we have the San Bernardino shooters, who had all sorts of jihadi bullshit on their social media. Then the Orlando shooter, who set off all sorts of red flags yet still allowed to run free. The Chelsea bomber, didn’t alarm anyone that he went to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
You are not allowed to fuck up that much ^ without having a systemic breakdown in policy.
There’s really no need to. There are only a handful of reasons for illegals to come here whether they’re minors or not. Low skill jobs and government assistance are about it. [/quote]
It makes a huge difference because the hordes of minors coming over is creating a humanitarian issue and junior illegals are taxing the hell out of government resources. I would bet illegals minors suck up more resources than able bodied adult illegals.
Think how much of this money could go towards helping American children or heck on mass transit so trains aren’t crashing in Hoboken?
The author is saying a number of things, but, as it relates to immigration, legal and illegal, people coming in is mostly irrelevant. This is because a) more illegals are leaving than coming in anyway and b) the jobs that these people work are eroding, quickly. [/quote]
Pew research article focuses only on illegal Mexican immigrants. While they enter illegally through Mexico, it’s not just Mexican immigrants many come from central America - Honduras, Guatemala, etc. In fact there are now African migrants crossing into the US illegally from Mexico
If the jobs are eroding, what is the benefit of adding so many people who only have the capacity to work low skilled jobs? What will these people do when automation really takes off?
13.7% of the population is foreign born and a million new people enter in every year… how on earth is that not high by any measure?
This is an often repeated lie. Illegals take jobs Americans do not want to work
Firms hiring illegals get labor for dirt cheap while passing on the social costs to society. They pay them a slave like wage while the government subsidizes their labor by providing illegals welfare (Much of welfare is aimed at the working poor). In essence many of these jobs only exist because the low wages + government welfare makes it cheaper than automation.
Again, with a dearth of low skilled jobs, what will low skilled do in America?
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Back to it -
After Kaine’s assertion that the FBI investigation found nothing… More evidence that Comey was looking the other way, and that Clinton staffers outright lied. It just keeps coming back to the Clinton Foundation and ties to the State Department (by that I mean yoga and bridal showers.)
If we were on the high school debate team, I could argue your side, smh. But I wouldn’t want to. Seriously, there are some nice quotes where I believe he’s trying to tamp down violence.
BUT his treatment of Michael Brown and his family, his negation of the Justice Department findings “we may never know what happened,” his waxing poetic about “stained black children’s hearts,” and use of inflammatory statements like “walking while black” in the same paragraph he’s talking about Michael Brown. If someone told me that my children’s “hearts had been stained” I’d want vengeance. I mean, that sounds terrible, right? … All of that adds up to a president who believes personally that Michael Brown is some kind of civil rights martyr and hero of the BLM movement. It’s intellectually dishonest, but it suits the narrative so the facts do not matter. The DNC asking his mother to come take a place of honor as a guest speaker is a JOKE. “I hope my kid grows up to be just like Michael Brown,” said no mother ever.
I couldn’t disagree more. I thought he sounded like a jackass. He was rude and his method of constantly trying to make Pence into Trump was a tactical mistake. Even my wife, who pays little to no attention to politics, asked me “Why won’t that weasel guy shut up for two seconds and let the other one talk?” (Meaning Kaine interrupting.)
You’reright though, it doesn’t really matter. I think the Republicans had a good night, but it will do little in the long run. We don’t vote for the VP and this will fade into obscurity very shortly.
Here in lies the problem though, Kaine made the debate all about Trump so instead of undecided voters getting the chance to see Pence express real policy and realize him as a much needed grounding force in the campaign they saw two pundits arguing.
Trump desperatley needed Pence to promote a coherent plan, Kaine forced him ton defend Trumps incoherence. If this was a Kaine/Pence campaign then Pence would have came out on top, unfortunately were stuck with a HRC/Trump campaign.
The U.S. population includes approximately 74,181,467 kids (under 18), but 37,000 is such a HYUGE problem. That’s .049% of the under 18 population or about .012% of the total population.
Think of how much money could go towards helping American children or heck on mass transit if we didn’t spend billions on a wall that might slowpart of our immigration problem, but ignores the rest:
I don’t know how many ways I can type this, low-skilled blue collar workers do not and are not filling the jobs that low-skill legal/illegal immigrants are taking.
They’ll leave. They come here to work minimum wage jobs in large part to support their family back in whatever shitty corner of the planet they were born in. It’s already happening:
If the above is true then driving illegal “invaders” out will not increase the labor participation rate for low-skilled American workers that cost a company much more in terms of compensation and benefits. Automation will become the cheaper alternative to American labor under the FSLA law.
Not the jobs low-skilled immigrants are currently doing that is for sure.
Partially on the article I posted earlier. Partially on logic. If the # of illegals has gone down by 140K over the past 5 or so years; yet, labor participation for low-skilled Americans has not gone up then they must not be filling these jobs for one reason or another.
I think both of the reason you mention are legitimate. We live in a very entitled society and our entitlement system is way out of whack. Why work 8+ hours at $7.50/hr-$15/hr when you could just sit back and collect a check? Manual labor is hard…
There are other things at play too, though. Manufacturing jobs (careers) just don’t exist to the extent in America that they used to. There’s a difference between working an assembly line and replacing roofs for sure. We’re a service economy now and low-skilled “blue collar” workers haven’t adapted, yet.
First off we are cross-talking a bit. Let’s focus on illegal immigration then if you want to discuss legal immigration, we’ll continue on that topic after.
The U.S. population includes approximately 74,181,467 kids (under 18), but 37,000 is such a HYUGE problem. That’s .049% of the under 18 population or about .012% of the total population. [/quote]
That translates into billions spent in the education system to bring along limited English students.
If legal hispanic immigrants are barely literate can you imagine how hard is to educate illegal ones?
Think of how much money could go towards helping American children or heck on mass transit if we didn’t spend billions on a wall that might slowpart of our immigration problem, but ignores the rest:
I’m hoping the US is around for centuries to come so it will pay off over time. Secondly, Mexico might actually end up paying for a decent amount of it. We’ll see.
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I don’t know how many ways I can type this, low-skilled blue collar workers do not and are not filling the jobs that low-skill legal/illegal immigrants are taking. [/quote]
Once again they are filling jobs that otherwise wouldn’t exist as companies would move to automate. They only have an ability to work these jobs because the government is giving them welfare.
They’ll leave. They come here to work minimum wage jobs in large part to support their family back in whatever shitty corner of the planet they were born in. It’s already happening:[/quote]
You’re okay with billions of dollars leaving the country in remittances???
Why do you think the Mexican government is going to great lengths to send illegal migrants into America? This is one huge scam.
I just told you Mexican immigrants aren’t the only ones crossing illegally from Mexico. a quarter of all illegals crossing into America are from Latin & Central America. Your numbers do not account for this.
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Center for Immigration Studies (you should love it):
Limiting immigration would not solve all the problems facing low-skill natives, but it would provide the incentive to get them back to work and back into the mainstream of society.[/quote]
they have multiple anchor babies and therefore they are eligible for welfare through their children
it’s also state dependent. For instance in California goes as far as allowing illegal immigrants to vote
The US has plenty of sanctuary cities meaning you don’t need to be a legal immigrant to receive government services. All the big ones where minorities head to are sanctuary cities.
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If the above is true then driving illegal “invaders” out will not increase the labor participation rate for low-skilled American workers that cost a company much more in terms of compensation and benefits. Automation will become the cheaper alternative to American labor under the FSLA law. [/quote]
It also means illegals provide no value here and what little low skilled jobs left will go entirely to natives as opposed to illegals. Don’t you want to put low skilled natives in the best position possible to succeed?
This will blow you away. If you can’t youtube, google Daikin plant in Houston
This a curiosity to me. My next door neighbor is a VP with these guys from Japan in the A/C business and they are building a building 94 acres!!! under roof in Houston. All the while Carrier has shut down the plant in my hometown and moved the several 1000s of jobs to Mexico, with Trane rumored to be considering the same.
All of these foreign companies (thinking autos) have spent many $BBs building plants, yet Apple can’t, because US workforce is too unskilled (compared to Chinese peasants from the farm)?
Therefore companies and government can’t or won’t build here?
Daikin’s new plant is mostly just a relocation of the other domestic plants so there is not necessarily additional manufacturing jobs just relocation. Daikin purchased Goodman a while back and they are just rebranding the Goodman residential and light commercial products. This is mostly due to the fact that Goodman has a bit of a bad rep as far as design/quality, they are however the only major brand still manufactured in the US.
Keep in mind that the other brands still do manufacture plenty of product domestically its just mostly restricted to the more complex commercial products. The reason why everyone is down in Monterrey Mexico is not just due to lower labor costs but the fact that the supply chains have all been down there for a while. The internal components are mostly made by the same manufacturers so Trane, Carrier, York etc… all want to be close to aid in production.
Seriously, there are some nice quotes where I believe he’s trying to tamp down violence.
