A&M sociologist sees shift in immigration trends He says Chinese may replace Mexicans in unskilled labor

Hmmm, this is a toughie. Chinese immigrants replacing Hispanic immigrants for American jobs? I will have to think some more on this issue. -----lee

Contains the usual false assertions that Americans won't do the jobs they did for decades when wages were decent.  Also, suspiciously low number of immigrants given.-----rng      

By JEANNIE KEVER

Updated 07:51 p.m., Saturday, November 19, 2011

     Dudley Poston, a sociologist at Texas A&M University, began to study China in the early 1980s, when that country started sending larger numbers of students to the United States. Helping a handful of Chinese students learn the demographics of their own country was contagious; most of his scholarly work now involves the Asian nation. Poston says his work, coupled with research from Princeton University's Mexican Migration Project showing a dramatic drop in illegal immigration from Mexico, suggests Chinese immigrants may replace those from south of the border as the go-to workers for landscaping, construction, agriculture and other unskilled labor here. Poston discussed the theory with Chronicle reporter Jeannie Kever. The conversation has been edited and condensed.

     Q: Why might Chinese immigrants overtake Mexican immigrants in low-wage, unskilled jobs here?

     A: Mexico for decades has supplied our country with low-wage laborers, legal and illegal, but that's grinding to a halt. Increased border surveillance and high unemployment are keeping people away from the United States. Other things are holding people in Mexico. They have a lower unemployment rate than we do. And what a lot of people don't realize is that their fertility is dropping to 2.2 children per woman. It used to be six or seven children a few decades ago. There are fewer young people available (to take jobs), and fewer mouths to feed. There are about 4 million or 5 million undocumented Mexican immigrants in our country (and about 11 million illegal immigrants total). They pick up garbage, work construction, agriculture - all the things in big cities that the local people don't want to do. Who's going to do that work? There's already a network of migration from China to our country; probably 200,000 to 300,000 undocumented Chinese are here. They're mainly on the East Coast, in Houston and Los Angeles. They're mainly doing restaurant work. Undocumented Mexicans are much more visible.

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The Domino Effect Between Housing & Jobs

The ruling elite never seem to understand that without money we can't buy their products.  Or is it that they just don't care? (be sure and link to the excellent website drivefordecentwork.org, but they are too focused on government creating jobs.  It's end the offshoring, outsoucing and the illegal immigration if you want to save America.)---rng

Good infographic on "how a housing crisis becomes a jobs crisis" from Tim Logan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.   

http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/94/c94dba1e-e692-11e0-9557-0019bb30f31a/4e7df2c10c730.pdf.pdf

"...The purchase of a house sets off a long chain of events.  The money spent to buy it and to live in it ripples through the economy, creating jobs. From a locksmith on Main Street to an investment banker on Wall Street, furniture factories to City Hall, people earn a living off that one transaction."

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Thanksgiving To All VDARE.COM Readers! “Thank God There’s No More Of Us.”

     The self-hating Americans are at it again. The American left appears has a bottomless pit of self-loathing and it pops up its ugly head during the Christmas season(excuse me, holiday season). This influential group will only be silenced when they have passed away of old age and we can appreciate once again, the season in all its spiritual beauty. Until then, we will have endure.  --------lee


Good article that skewers the usual stream of snide, uninformed stupidity that has become the hallmark of liberal discourse.---rng

By James Fulford on November 23, 2011

     There’s a typical piece liberal hate-America snark in the New York Times today from Paul Krugman, celebrating Thanksgiving by calling the Pilgrim Fathers “illegal immigrants.”

“Think, for a minute, about what happened on the original Thanksgiving. (Yes, I know that there are doubts about what really happened, but never mind.)
Here’s how it went down: a bunch of people got together, with each group bringing what it could — the Wampanoag brought deer, the Pilgrims apparently shot some birds, etc.. Then everyone shared equally in the feast — regardless of how much they brought to the table. Socialism!
Worse yet, many of the lucky duckies benefiting from the largesse of this 17th-century welfare state were illegal immigrants. (That would be the Pilgrims).
We need to stop celebrating this deeply un-American event, and start celebrating something more in tune with the things that make America great, such as the Ludlow Massacre.”[Thanksgiving Is Un-American, NY Times, November 23, 2011, 11:15 am]

In fact, the Puritans experiment in socialism caused them to almost starve to death.[How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims, by Tom Bethell, Hoover Digest, January 30, 1999]

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http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-fulford-file-by-james-fulford-a-happy-thanksgiving-to-all-vdarecom-readers-thank-god-th

Why Full Employment Is Required to Sustain a Society That We're Proud to Live in

from alternet.org

by Eileen Appelbaum/for Boston Review

This article is part of Back To Full Employment, a forum on the possibilities for full employment in today’s economy.

Robert Pollin makes a compelling case for the centrality of full employment to the creation of a decent society, to the ability of individuals and families to live with dignity rather than despair, and to the overall health of an economy in which consumer spending is key to sustained growth. His capsule history of economic thinking on the causes of unemployment and the tradeoff between employment and inflation -- from Marx to Milton Friedman to Gösta Rehn -- is informative, and his main policy recommendations are difficult to argue with: increase employment in the United States by shifting $330 billion in annual spending from the military and fossil-fuel sectors to public and private investments in education and clean energy for a net gain of 4.8 million jobs.

I do have one quarrel with the analysis. Pollin observes the low unemployment achieved by the U.S. economy in the late 1990s despite globalization and accepts this as evidence that the United States doesn’t have to address its trade deficit to achieve full employment. But this was possible only in a bubble scenario. With a high trade deficit, either the public or private sector (the latter, in the 1990s example) must incur debt in order to maintain high employment. Reducing the trade deficit is essential to sustaining full employment without a repeat of bubble boom and bust.

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Occupy Wall Street costs local businesses $479,400!

So far, no sign that any of the protesters anywhere had the wit to ask for the end of offshoring, outsourcing and illegal immigration.---rng


Fewer business sales means possible layoffs, maybe loss of jobs. Therefore, remove "occupiers" to save jobs and save the Christmas season. Occupy "X" costs jobs. OK, not the best syllogistic logic but I think you get the point.   -----Lee protestors

American

By CANDICE M. GIOVE

Last Updated: 1:26 PM, November 13, 2011

Posted: 12:52 AM, November 13, 2011

     It makes no cents.
     The Occupy Wall Street movement has cost surrounding businesses $479,400 so far, store owners said.
     A Post survey of a dozen restaurants, jewelry shops, beauty salons, a chain store and mom-and-pop establishments tallied almost a half-million dollars lost in the 53 days since the Zuccotti Park siege began on Sept. 17.
     “We’re done with them!” barked one Broadway business owner. The restaurateur -- who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals -- said his profits drained as soon as campers moved in.
     “My customers used to take food to eat in the park, but now they can’t,” he lamented.
     With clogged streets, aggressive signs and stories of predators and criminals lurking among the knot of protesters, business owners and managers say shoppers are not taking the risk of coming to the area.
    “They think the protesters are violent,” said Jewelry 21 manager Danny Nia.
     It’s worst on Saturdays, when protesters parade up and down Broadway all day long, the businesses said.
     “When they march on the sidewalk, everyone runs away,” said Mike Rauach, owner of VIP Men’s Suits on Broadway. “They kill business.”
     Some businesses have suffered higher staffing costs. Stubborn occupiers, for example, often hold impromptu meetings inside coffee shop Pret a Manger, forcing workers to stay hours past closing time.
     “They’d keep asking for 20 minutes, 20 minutes,” one worker complained.
     And the coffee shop has lost loyal customers who now can’t find a place to sit.
     “But we can’t tell [OWS protesters] to leave,” the worker added.
     The movement costs the dozen businesses just over $9,000 a day.
     That figure doesn’t include money spent on toilet paper, cleaning supplies and repairs, businesses said, as the tent dwellers turn bathrooms into personal washrooms.
     On two separate occasions the owner of the Essex World Cafe has rolled up his gate to find someone had defecated on it overnight.
     “It must be a good place for them to hide,” the owner cringed.
     Next door at Ho Yip, a Chinese restaurant, filthy clothes and underwear carpet the bathroom floor, the manager said.
     “I have to pick it up,” the manager groused.

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Washington spars over government regulations

     I wish the media powers that be, would also focus on the industrial policies from the federal government that have allowed companies to dump domestic workers in favor of overseas workers.  ----lee

By Charles Riley @CNNMoney October 27, 2011: 5:17 PM ET

     NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Onerous government regulations are either strangling the U.S. economy and killing job creation ... or they're not.

    

     In Washington, there is no middle ground.

     On Monday, the White House called the idea that an uncertain regulatory environment was holding back hiring a "commonly repeated misconception."

     If new regulations were a significant drag, the consequences would show up in data that measure business profits, workforce trends and investment levels, the government contends.

     But that's just not happening, the Treasury Department said. 

     Republicans offered up their own evidence on Thursday, railing against "massive amounts of red tape raining down from the administration."

Regulation: Not the job killer GOP says

     In a blog post, Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee cited a Gallup poll in which 22% of small business owners identified complying with government regulations as the most important issue they face.

     "One of the biggest failures of the Obama Administration is its determination to rely upon theoretical academics rather than listen to those who deal with the reality of the administration's actions," the blog post said.

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Jobless rate drops to 9.0% (updated)

Rick Moran
November 4, 2011

     I guess when you're at the bottom, any positive news is cause for hope.

     Or, if you're a partisan and need to spin anemic job numbers to make it appear that the economy is "gaining some momentum," it makes perfect sense that you would willingly put lipstick on a pig and take the sow to the prom.
     Unfortunatately, you're only fooling yourself.
Reuters:

U.S. employment rose less than expected in October, but a drop in the jobless rate to a six-month low of 9.0 percent and upward revisions to prior months' job gains pointed to a strengthening labor market.
Nonfarm payrolls rose 80,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, missing economists' expectations for a gain of 95,000.
However, figures for August and September were revised to show 102,000 more jobs than previously reported. In addition, the decline in the jobless rate from 9.1 percent in September came even as more people entered the labor force.
While job growth last month was less than expected, details of the report suggested the economy was gaining some momentum.
"It's not a game-changer but when you take into account the upward revision to prior months and the drop in the unemployment rate, it's a step in the right direction," said John Canally, an economist at LPL Financial in New York.
"It's about in line with the growth you're seeing in the economy but it's not enough to break us out of the range we're in."

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