Hire Americans First!

by Patrick J. Buchanan

September's unemployment figures were not only disappointing -- they were grim. For the 21st straight month, Americans lost jobs. Fifteen million are out of work -- 5 million for more than six months.


But as The Washington Times asserts, "America's jobless crisis is much worse than the 9.8 percent unemployment rate."

The U.S. economy actually lost 785,000 jobs in September, which should have pushed the 9.7 percent August unemployment figure far higher than just 0.1 percent to 9.8 percent.
 
What kept the increase to 0.1 percent?



Over 800,000 people quit the labor force in September. They packed it in. They stopped looking for work. That is six times the number who quit looking in August and five times the monthly average of those who have given up the search for work in the year since Lehman Brothers died.

Adding to the near 15 million unemployed those who have given up looking for work and those who have taken low-paying part-time jobs, the Times estimates the true employment rate at 17 percent. We used to call that a depression.

Yet, with nearly 25 million Americans unemployed, or no longer looking for work, or in low-wage part-time jobs, 8.5 million U.S. jobs are believed to be held by illegal aliens who broke into the country or overstayed their visas.

Why is this not a matter of national outrage?

For every job opening in the country, there are six unemployed Americans. With this surplus of idle labor and shortage of jobs, the men who do the hiring are in the catbird's seat. They can cut wages in the knowledge that desperate Americans will have to accept what is offered.

Comes the rote response: Immigrants and illegal aliens only take jobs Americans do not want and will not do. But, last month, a front-page article in USA Today demolished that argument.

When a 2006 raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants rounded up 1,200 illegal aliens, 10 percent of the workforce, Swift was up and running at full staff within months. How? Native-born Americans in the hundreds came out and took the jobs.

Video: Michelle Malkin vs. Lanny Davis on Obama’s indecision

Demand the Media "Tell the Truth!" About Government-Run Health Care

Senator Tom Carper on the Senate health care bill: "I don't expect to actually read  the legislative language."

(Analyst's note:  Troubling.)

by David Martin, Media Research Center

Stop the lies and half-truths in the liberal media …

Once again, the Obama administration has manufactured a “crisis” to justify another government power grab, and their friends in the media are doing everything they can to help.

From ABC’s “Prescription for America” town hall meeting that unabashedly attempted to peddle President Obama’s proposed government takeover of our personal health decisions, to subsequent glaring omissions and bias about the details of this plan and its true cost to all Americans, the liberal media are doing our nation a grave disservice by not reporting the truth on this life or death issue.

Your Immediate Help Needed!

To expose and combat the media’s effort, the Media Research Center has launched a national petition "Demanding The Media 'Tell The Truth!' About Government-Run Health Care." Even though polls indicate 84% of Americans are satisfied with their current health care, Obama is pushing hard to pass his plan before anyone has had time to read or understand it.

The MRC is moving just as quickly to rally 200,000 citizens who are raising their voices to hold the media accountable on health care—demanding to know the real truth and the real unintended consequences of the government’s proposed health care takeover.

Americans deserve the truth. We deserve a media that are committed to honesty and providing the information we need to make informed decisions. The only way to bring about this kind of change is for grassroots Americans to mobilize and demand the media tell the truth!

TAKE ACTION by signing our petition.

Thank you for taking immediate action with the MRC for truth in the media.

Muslim Demographics

(Analyst's note:  More than a little troubling.)

Obama Birth Certificate Lawsuit Trial Date Set

by Jacob5742 of AR

There are been several lawsuits filed in an attempt to get Dictator Obama to prove that he is a Natural Born Citizen - a Constitutional requirement to be President. Up until now they have all been dismissed before a trial date was even set because no one who had brought a lawsuit was found by the courts to have legal standing. Basically, the plaintiff must be able to prove that they are (or imminently will be) harmed to prove standing. Although I believe that all the citizens are being harmed by this man being in office the court has not seen it this way. Now, with a different combination of plaintiffs, including former Presidential candidate Alan Keyes standing appears to be within their grasp.

There is a lawsuit in the district court in California challenging the President's citizenship. A copy of a Kenyan Birth Certificate, proported to be Obama's, has been submitted to the court as evidence. Judge Carter has ruled that a trial on the merits is set to begin January 26, 2010. This is the first time in any of these lawsuits that a date has been set to hear the merits of the case. This is a major legal victory. Plaintiff's attorney is Dr. Orly Taitz.

There is another motion to dismiss set to be ruled upon on October 5th, along with discovery motions. If the motion to dismiss is denied we should see a trial in the new year. No wonder Obama is trying to hurry along the Universal Health Care vote. His time in office may be quite limited.

If Obama was born in the US and has nothing to hide then why is he wasting taxpayer money by having the Department of Justice defend him in these lawsuits instead of paying $12 for the long form birth certificate? It doesn't make sense.

Will you do whatever it takes to get Obama to present his real and Kenyan-related birth certificate so we can fix our country, including our checks and balances system that is broken in 2008?

Senate 2010: Most endangered seats

(Politico) The 2010 Senate landscape is almost evenly split down the middle: Republicans will be defending 18 seats, while the Democrats will be defending 19 seats ...

Tancredo questions illegals' 'sweetheart deals' 'How many times have ICE staff assisted in the obstruction of deportation laws?'

(Analyst's note:   Extremely troubling.  Only the American people can stop this growing corruption.)

from WorldNetDaily

A five-term congressman whose outspoken advocacy for secure national borders made him a target during his tenure in the U.S. House is charging that the government agency that is supposed to enforce the nation's immigration laws has been working to subvert them.

In a new column in WND today, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., cites what he calls the "persecution" of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency Cory Voorhis, who was put on trial – and acquitted of charges – for revealing that Colorado

Gov. Bill Ritter, while a prosecutor, cut dozens, probably hundreds, of "sweetheart deals" for illegal immigrants.

"Voorhis went public in September 2006 with the facts about the plea bargaining practices of former Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter, who happened to also be a candidate for governor of Colorado," Tancredo wrote.

"During Ritter's tenure as Denver DA, 241 illegal aliens were given sweetheart deals for the explicit purpose of helping them minimize the risk of deportation. Some of them went on to commit other, more serious crimes, and when one of those cases was made public with Voorhis' help, he was targeted for criminal investigation at the behest of the Ritter for Governor campaign," Tancredo said. ....

2012 forecast: Food riots, ghost malls, mob rule, terror Trends chief says people should brace for 'the greatest depression'

(Analyst's note:  Read and draw you're own conclusions.  This is a must read and consider item).


By Bob Unruh


A trends forecaster says the current economic "rebound" from last winter's Wall Street collapse of banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers is an artificial blip created by 'phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing."

And Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch.com, says people right now should be bracing for "the greatest recession" which will hit worldwide and will mark the "decline of empire America." Crop failures could be among the minor concerns.

"Here we are in 2012. Food riots, tax protests, farmer rebellions, student revolts, squatter diggins, homeless uprisings, tent cities, ghost malls, general strikes, bossnappings, kidnappings, industrial saboteurs, gang warfare, mob rule, terror," he writes for a quarterly publication that is available through subscription on his website.

He also talked about his forecasts with Greg Corombos of Radio America/WND in an interview that has been posted online.

The recent surge in Wall Street indexes back to near the 10,000 level, still far below the 14,000 prior to the crash, should be no reassurance for anyone, he said.

"There's no recovery. This is merely a cover-up," he said. "The market crashed in March of 2009 and around the world they papered over the damage from the collapse with phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing," he said.

This is "much bigger" than an economic collapse, he said. "This is the decline of empire America."

Find out what you can do to be more prepared

"Look what's happened to the dollar," he warned. "Gold prices are surging forward. That's the evidence.

The rest that's coming from Washington and Wall Street is rhetoric."

"This is the beginning of the greatest depression. We're telling our readers to take pro-active measures in anticipation of much worse to come," he said.

USA Today says Celente "has a knack for getting the zeitgeist right," and CNBC says, "The man knows what he's talking about."

The Wall Street Jounral has said, "Those who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute."

He said during the Radio America/WND interview that retail sales this coming Christmas season will be the "real nail in the economic coffin."

"The second American revolution has already begun; it just hasn't been announced yet by the mainstream media," he said. "Anybody waiting for hope to show up at the door with a big bag full of money is going to be in for a shock."

Tim Barello in the Examiner noted that since 1980 Celente has made at least 40 accurate predictions about major world events, such as the 1987 stock market crash.

"Throughout the 1990's, many other forecasts came true, including the collapse of the Soviet Union, surges in global terrorism, the popularity of spiritual and new age philosophies, public backlash against globalization, upsurges in online shopping, and the 1997 Asian financial crisis, to name a select few," he wrote.

Now comes his forecast for a global depression and for the United States, "Obamageddon."

"We want to make it very clear that the policies leading to the decline of 'Empire America' have been long in the making," Celente told Barello. "What has happened in the Obama administration is that they have taken policies far beyond even what Bush took with the TARP program; for example, with his stimulus package, with the buyouts, with the bailouts, the rescue packages, these are unprecedented in American history.

"Never before has so much phantom money been printed out of thin air, backed by nothing, producing practically nothing," Celente continued. "You don't even have to be a student of history to know the outcome of this. All you have to do is have your eyes open, and start thinking for yourself."
In his conversation with the Examiner, Celente warned with the "bubble" bursts, U.S. taxpayers will be slammed because, unlike during the dot-com bubble, the stock market bubble and the real estate bubble, they are stockholders in a long list of major companies.

He forecasts the possibility of a civil war, and says if people want to see what Main Street America will look like, they should "drive around Detroit. Look at all the blown out houses and empty neighborhoods. Look at the violence that's increasing. … Look at the types of heinous crimes being committed by people – some blowing their whole families away…"

Iran: Israel's threats inexplicable

Iran's ambassador to UN demands Security Council take steps against comments made by Ephraim Sneh, who said Israel would attack Iran if sanctions weren't in place by Christmas ....

Muslim Congressman Ellison's trip to Mecca cost $13,350 -- paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood

(Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read.  More clear evidence of the Islamist jihadist enemy within our government.)

 

by Robert Spencer

$13,350 from the group that wants to destroy the West from within

As I noted last December, when it was first revealed that Ellison's Hajj was paid for by the Muslim American Society:

The Muslim Brotherhood "must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." -- "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America," by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991.

What does that have to do with Congressman Ellison? Everything. The Muslim American Society paid for his Hajj. And what is the Muslim American Society? The Muslim Brotherhood.

"In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation's major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members." -- Chicago Tribune, 2004.

Imagine if a conservative Congressman had taken a trip that had been paid for by a Christian group that was, according to one of its own documents, dedicated to "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house" so that Christian law would replace the U.S. Constitution. I expect we would hear more of an outcry than we are hearing about this.

But in this Star Tribune article, the controversy is all about the cost and Ellison's reporting. No one seems concerned about the nature of the Muslim American Society.

"Ellison reveals cost of trip to Mecca: $13.5K," by Kevin Diaz for the Star Tribune, October 8 (thanks to Paul):

WASHINGTON - After a months-long review by a U.S. House ethics panel, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has disclosed the amount of his privately-paid trip to Mecca in December.

The trip, paid for by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, cost $13,350, Ellison said Thursday.

The two-week trip to Saudi Arabia, which Ellison described as a personal religious pilgrimage, or Hajj, prompted little discussion until June when Ellison filed financial travel reports that failed to disclose the amount the Muslim group had paid for his travel.

In releasing the amount on Thursday, Ellison held to his previous assertion that he was following the instructions of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly known as the ethics committee.

"I never had a moral objection to giving the number out," said Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. "But the rules said I didn't have to, so I didn't.  Now I am."...