JD Vance nails it:
“I call these ‘masters of the universe’ events, and they’re held all over the country in fancy hotels, ski lodges and beach resorts. On this particular evening, my wife and I found ourselves at a roundtable with the CEO of a large hotel chain on our left, and a large communications conglomerate on our right. The Republicans, we’re often told, are the party of the rich and famous. Yet nearly everyone assembled at this dinner simply loathed Donald Trump. He was the focus of nearly every conversation. And then the hotel CEO announced, ‘Trump has no idea how much his policies are hurting business. I mean, we can’t keep people for $18 an hour in our hotels. If we’re not paying $20, we’re understaffed. And it’s all because of Donald Trump’s immigration policies.’ Let’s pause for a second to appreciate one of the wealthiest men in the world complaining about paying hard-working staff $20 an hour. The only thing he was missing was the Monopoly Man hat and cane. His argument, while vile, was at least intellectually honest: ‘Normally, if we can’t find workers at a given wage, we just get a bunch of immigrants to do the job. It’s easy. But there are so few people coming in across the border, so we just have to pay the people here more.’ This is why the American labor movement opposed immigration expansion for much of the past century—until recently, when many labor unions decided that being woke took priority over protecting workers. My wife is not a political person, and I’ve never seen her as animated by a conversation about politics as she was at this ‘masters of the universe’ dinner. ‘OK,’ she told me later. ‘I can understand why you can’t stand these people.’… Nearly every major business and financial leader in this country is a supporter of the Democratic Party. They love illegal immigration for the simple reason that their livelihoods are subsidized by illegal immigration—while illegal aliens themselves are subsidized by the taxpayer. It’s a redistribution scheme from the poor to the rich. More immigration means lower wages for their workers and easier access to servants for their decadent personal lives…. Whenever I criticize the Biden administration’s immigration policies, someone tells me I’m ‘racist.’… It’s not racist to refuse to do the bidding of America’s corporate oligarchy, and it’s not compassionate to create a crisis on both sides of our southern border.”
Go here to read the rest. For too many years Republican politicians have carried the water for loathsome individuals like the above. No more. They are as much our enemies as the Left they are now in bed with.
This is why we need an independent People’s Party with probably someone other than Donald Trump as the leader. One problem with Trump as he tends to measure things by the level of the stock market which is upheld by the Federal Reserve. Time for a stock market crash, time for the people to assert themselves and take the country back from all the elites.
Wasn’t the USCCB also there?
Looking to steal sheep from other countries with gov funds to replace the uncatechized ?
I love you, MD.
Do you believe there is the slightest chance there will be a future, fair and free election?
Otherwise, President Donal John Trump’s non-politician/non-Beltway policies drove unemployment to record lows and the US saw real median incomes rise in one year more than 20 of the prior years. He tried to get control of the southern border – the Wall. He made real strides in Middle East peace. He achieved energy independence and consistent low gas and heating oil prices […]
Chinese Joe’s handlers are reversing all of it. Energy prices for one, by design, are skyrocketing.
When the China virus hit the Fed drove rates to zero,. However throughout 2017 and 2018, FED Chmn. Powell and the FOMC raised rates (from 0% – 0.25% Fed Funds to 2.25% – 2.50% FF – the only large economy on the planet – and the Dow dropped 4,000 in December 2018 alone) and Trump was vilified for trying to get him to back off.
They stole the November election and illegitimately deposed the most successful president since Reagan with garbage people and garbage ideas.
You won’t see the wreckage in the papers or on TV.
Otherwise, I totally agree.
MD, No it’s not time for a stock market crash. A reset, maybe. Retirement funds from all walks of life are invested in the market.
What gripes me is when a corporation files for banruptcy often the unions are reimbursed before the stock holders.
Do not overlook the Republican lawmakers who are voting with Democrats as they pass legislation increasing immigration now that Trump is out of their way. These Republicans are shills for the Chamber of Commerce who is as much an enemy of average American workers as the Democrats. Only their motivations differ.
What gripes me is when a corporation files for banruptcy often the unions are reimbursed before the stock holders.
If the corporation is insolvent, I cannot figure why the shareholders would be reimbursed. Bondholders are secured creditors. One thing that bothered a mess of people about the Democrats’ auto industry rescue is that the interests of the secured creditors were disregarded in favor of the Democratic Party’s client unions. And, you’ll notice the Treasury department in the summer of 2008 rejected draft plans for recapitalizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through a debt for equity swap in favor of just pumping tax money into them. Note the board and executive suite at these two enterprises was chock a block with the (Democratic) Washington insider nexus (James Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Franklin Raines, and Herb Moses – better known as Barney Frank’s boi toy).