Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
Labor Day kicks off the final stretch toward the Election Day showdown between incumbent President Donald Trump and the Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden. After months of COVID-19-related layoffs, furloughs, outright firings, permanent closing of many small businesses and bankruptcy filings by major corporations, restoring jobs will be among the top issues on the candidates’ agendas.
Many of President Trump’s talking points are a mirror image of his successful 2016 platform: to prioritize American jobs, wages and security; to establish new immigration controls to boost wages, to ensure that available jobs are offered to Americans first and to curb foreign workers’ uncontrolled admission and thereby protect the economic well-being of already present lawful immigrants.
If re-elected, President Trump promises to, among his other goals and under the banner of “fighting for you,” create ten million new jobs and, as he did in 2016, “prohibit American companies from replacing United States citizens with lower-cost foreign workers.” But during his four years in office, President Trump got mixed-to-poor grades on ending American corporations’ cheap labor addiction.
On the positive side, within the last two months, President Trump intervened in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s plan to displace its American employees with H-1B visa workers. Hundreds of American jobs were saved. But, on the negative side, during his first term, President Trump has been unable – or perhaps unwilling – to keep other globalist corporations like Amazon, Google and Deloitte Consulting from tapping into the vast cheap labor pool.
Another related and alarming development: last week, President Trump moved to promote Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to the position. From the perspective of U.S. tech workers, Wolf’s resume is troublesome. Before joining the White House, Wolf worked for the National Association of Software and Service Companies, a lobbying group that promotes outsourcing and offshoring of U.S. tech jobs to India.
In more disappointing news for unemployed and under-employed Americans, the State Department gutted President Trump’s June Executive Order that paused several employment-based visa categories until December 31. President Trump’s base hailed his action as a positive intervention on struggling American workers’ behalf. But, the State Department, in an advisory written in the vaguest imaginable language, will admit entry to foreign nationals that it deems, without having to provide a scintilla of evidence, essential to “the immediate and continued economic recovery of the U.S.” Deep State bureaucrats negated President Trump’s order, and opened the door for foreign nationals to take jobs that Americans deserve.
Also contributing to President Trump’s lukewarm immigration grade is his refusal to promote E-Verify, the federal program that confirms an individual’s legal privilege to work in the U.S. Analysts are in near unanimous agreement that E-Verify represents a more effective deterrent to illegal entry and hiring than a Southwest border wall. President Trump may have forgotten that winning an election only gave him possession of the ball; he still needed to score touchdowns.
Candidate Biden’s positions vis-à-vis immigration would, in the aggregate, provide work authorization to millions. Most obviously, Biden’s support for an amnesty that would be granted to more than 10 million illegal aliens would correspondingly expand the labor pool by that total. Biden also favors more visas for low- and high-skilled workers.
The economy has failed too many Americans. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 10.2 percent unemployment rate in July. That doesn’t include the millions of workers who want but cannot find full-time jobs. African-Americans as well as other minorities, the less-educated and lower-skilled Americans can’t begin their climb toward the middle-class as long as they are unfairly and unnecessarily forced to compete with cheaper overseas labor.
Whether President Trump or Biden wins in November, putting American workers first should be the first and foremost goal of either.
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Take home pay that actually takes you to a home would be the first order of business ! Second would be realistic affordable benefits equal to government employee benefits at the same out of pocket cost to private sector employee . What a government employee pays out of pocket for any benefit as an American Citizen taxed to help cover those benefits I should receive the same coverages for the same out pocket costs . If not then indentured servitude (slavery) is still in practice just with the illusion of freedom . Average Americans know that we were tossed under the bus by government , industry and the wealthy investor class for decades economically and those damages must be repaired first .
Then we start training people in the trades to build ships and trains ! Operate blast furnaces and cranes meanwhile we clear the deck of anyone living and working illegally in this country .
As for imported tech labor GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE !
Capital street must say know to being bought of by K-Street !
Hey Mitch McConnel that includes your Chi-Com billionaire father in-law gifting $6 million to his daughter you remember your wife . You remember we had to lease cargo ships from his company to supply the Gulf War . All the years you and Biden stood by as American shipbuilding sunk and our merchant fleet went into moth balls . We can’t even supply ourselves with snot rags let alone a heavy military offensive .
The people that were trained and did all that heavy industry lifting you guys threw under the bus . Welcome to Wal Mart asshole !
It appears that Joe has the best of intentions in writing this article, but apparently never received the memo that politicians only follow orders and have no original thoughts germinating in their vacuous heads.
If people fear the election of a senile old pedophile, they obvious have enjoyed their ass raping by the Trump administration. You know, building the wall, locking her up, deporting those daca kids, etc., all according to the script he followed, but obviously didn’t write.
All the world’s a stage, so we’ve been told, and cheering for your favorite actor every four years has remained one of America’s favorite pastimes; they even give you a participation prize if you do it.
Can anyone point to any bill or legislation that has been passed in the last decade that decidedly improved the lives of white Americans? Has everyone been enjoying their “freedom” to wear a stupid, worthless mask every time you venture out?
Trump is only following orders, just as all of the last Presidents have agreed to do, as they play their role in “leading” the nation. They’ve already had the talk with blackhat and know that if they start getting out of line, they’ll be shown a few clips of the Zapruder films of Dallas in November.
Cheer lead for whomever you think will make this nation great again – but don’t get your hopes up.
The entire system is rotted to the core and soon they’ll be unable to cover up the stench of their malfeasance and misdeeds. That’s when the curtain comes down on a very dark and dismal play.
Scurrying about like cats covering up shit