You hear it often: America has a shortage of workers. The facts, however, show fewer and fewer working age U.S. citizens are employed. Instead they stay home, not able to compete with immigrants often willing to accept bare minimum wages or work "under the table." Analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Population Survey … Continue reading Millions of U.S. workers staying home, while immigrants take the low-wage jobs
Category: Inequality
Save Social Security with an easy change!
It's in the news every year at tax time - Social Security needs reform or it will run out of money in 13 years. Ignored is the projection that FICA taxes would continue to fund 79% of benefits even if the current $3 trillion trust fund was depleted. Most tragic projections come from folks like … Continue reading Save Social Security with an easy change!
Flu cases crash – with thanks to Covid-19?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has 15,000 personnel (including 6,000 contractors and 840 United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Officers), but it can't tell us how many Americans died from the Flu in the 2020-2021 season. Every year the agency offers charts like the following one for 2019-2020: As the CDC … Continue reading Flu cases crash – with thanks to Covid-19?
Biden bows, China celebrates, elites gloat!
http://1253985869.vod2.myqcloud.com/ee20c49fvodtransgzp1253985869/8c3ae1f6387702291534164838/v.f100040.mp4 A day ahead of the summit meeting, Janet Yellen told CBS that removing tariffs imposed by the Trump administration imposed on Chinese imports "would make some difference" on inflation, and added that US trade representative Katherine Tai was "revisiting" the phase one trade agreement with Beijing. - the Global Times President Joseph Biden and … Continue reading Biden bows, China celebrates, elites gloat!
U.S. sends your money to Taliban so they don’t have to sell $83 billion in weapons
The US and some Western allies will fly planeloads of dollars to Afghanistan – somehow without letting the cash fall into Taliban hands – to help prevent a humanitarian crisis, Reuters reported on Thursday We have all read about domestic abuse cases where the wife starches the shirt of her husband, so he looks nice … Continue reading U.S. sends your money to Taliban so they don’t have to sell $83 billion in weapons
China and the Taliban are longtime friends, working together against the United States
China, the world's most odious abuser of human rights has become very cozy with the tiny - but murderous - Taliban regime that controls Afghanistan. One word describes why the giant and the dwarf are buddies. Lithium. Used in batteries for tools and electric cars, the Taliban control Afghanistan's one trillion dollars of lithium reserves. … Continue reading China and the Taliban are longtime friends, working together against the United States
Walmart and Walt Disney to take away jobs from some poorly-paid workers who lack Covid-19 jab
The Walt Disney Company announced Friday that all employees - working for the company in the United States - must be vaccinated against the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) COVID virus. Disney joins big-tech companies, including Google and Facebook, who declared in July that every American employee must get the jab before entering the office. The … Continue reading Walmart and Walt Disney to take away jobs from some poorly-paid workers who lack Covid-19 jab
The FBI and this reporter tangled briefly in 1960; “Cointelpro” winner as the enemy of free speech
Bring spied upon by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is frightening news to any American, and I was no exception in 1960, when agents were hot on my trail. No, I had not robbed a bank or refused to "Like Ike." The FBI had targeted me, when they went after the Socialist Workers Party … Continue reading The FBI and this reporter tangled briefly in 1960; “Cointelpro” winner as the enemy of free speech
You can fool nearly all the people... 