Letter To The Editor, via website, February 21st, 2016
Make No Mistake Donald Trump Is On His Way To The White House
The popular vote is growing tremendously for a President Trump, showing that every class of American is looking upon this solid businessman as a savior for our economic downturn under this present administration. With the American people having no redress, we are unnoticed, we are being told by the GOP Syndicate and the Democratic, Socialist political Parties that the country is doing well? Yes! The profiteers, the wealthy conglomerates are doing well, but that is expected when they are bring there products into America without any resistance. But Trump has other ideas, that unless they play by the rules, they will pay a tariff of 57 percent.
I’m inclined to think that the profession, well situated class at the top think the American People are fools, but this far from the case. A majority people of this great land don’t trust anybody in government or the mainstream press, as they remain isolated from the impoverished families who try to put a plateful of healthy food on the table. A dark cloud of frustration and anger has flooded across the land, with jobs vanishing overseas and to Mexico; Trump has inspired a huge part of the population pledging a better day to come, knowing that he honors his promises.
More people are elated that Trump intends to the erect a 1000 mile wall, severing us from the criminal drug cartels, killing our children and restraining the illegal alien invasion. Trump proposes in building an army along with the giant wall of US Border Agents to enforce from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas. He intends to send in the National Guard to clear out the whole areas, where just one or two sheriffs try to safeguard huge sectors of open desert and farmland that narcotics are daily sent with armed individuals, groups of illegal aliens tearing up fencing, breaking into homes and threatening landowners. Trumps new law will provide a tougher enforcement tools that will be Mandatory E-Verify and a system to track ‘Overstays’ who ignore an expired visa. These duties will be employed of a far larger force of USICE officers who will raid businesses using foreign nationals stealing jobs from American and permanent residents.
This February has been one of the bad, months for American workers. First we saw the wholly gloomy Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which found that in January the long-struggling U.S. economy created only 155,000 jobs (That’s if you are willing to believe that number, when over 93 million citizens and lawful residents are in either poorly paid jobs, underemployed, in part time work or dropped looking for something altogether?
Then, the Indianapolis Business Journal has reported that the manufacturing huge company ‘Carrier’ is motivated, over the next three years in relocating 1,400 jobs to Mexico. Carrier is the foremost air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration systems producer. In another correlated statement, northeast Indiana-based United Technologies Electronic Controls is also to remove move jobs to Mexico. By 2018, 700 jobs will materialize in Mexico. No need to speculate that net employment gains is dreary when U.S. manufacturing segment are moving overseas and has been stagnating for months and even years, finding a better opportunity in foreign countries with fewer regulations and cheap labor. Carrier and UTEC are units of the Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp., a Fortune 500 company with $65 billion in annual revenue. Watch the heated feedback from stunned Carrier employees at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ttxGMQOrY
There is an accumulation of appalling news coming from the depressed IT section of industry. Hertz announced that it would soon lay off 230 workers at its Oklahoma City technology center. A Hertz representative said that nationwide the total lost IT jobs will “…be larger than 230….” Labor Condition Applications for prospective H-1B visa holders have been traced back to the Hertz Oklahoma City address, a strong signal that more foreign workers whisked through suspicious Visa processing will take American jobs.
All these situations is serious news for the job market, grave news with Ford manufacturing moving a large part of it manufacturing to Mexico, Ford said on last April it will spend $2.5 billion to build a new generation of fuel-efficient engines and transmissions in Chihuahua, Mexico, creating 3,800 jobs. The United Auto Workers union, in response, said putting jobs in Mexico rather than the United States will be a major issue at its upcoming U.S. labor talks with Ford, General Motors Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Then Nabisco also having no sense of loyalty to the US people, when Irene Rosenfeld, the head of Mondolez announced that instead of invest $130 million in refurbishing the plant in Chicago, where Oreos have been fondly produced for the past 100 years, she will instead move the jobs to a new factory in Salinas, Mexico. The result: a loss of 600 well-paying and community-sustaining jobs on the Southwest Side.
Many American companies have quietly expanded over to Mexico — including well-known brands like Caterpillar, Chrysler, and Stanley-Black & Decker adding billions of dollars in investment and insisting to drive the economic integration that President Obama has allowed and not placing obstacles to stop this loss of US good paying jobs. Currently the United States has a deficit with our not so friendly neighbor of 500 billion dollars.
Notwithstanding the mounting data that citizens/legal residents in blue collar and high-skilled jobs are persistently at risk of overseas outsourcing or foreign-born in-sourcing, many on the Capitol beltway continue to press for more workers, mostly through greatly higher H-1B visa caps.
The entertainment industry, Nevada Hotels and Casino’s that once sported opportunities for minorities, college students and part-time Americans, is now populated with cheap labor from Mexico, South and Central America and until we have a President who works for the People and not for Special Interests.
Letter To The Editor, via e-mail, February 19th, 2016
Dear Editor
My name is Catana L Barnes. I am an independent voter and the president of Independent Voters of Nevada, I would like to caucus for Bernie Sanders but the state of Nevada and the Democratic Party of Nevada require that I give up my independence to do so.
Call me an electoral conscientious objector. I believe partisan warfare is wrong. Forcing unaffiliated voters to join a political organization in order to be able to vote is wrong. As much as I would like to caucus for Bernie, I can’t do what I am required to do.
Mr. Sanders, an independent himself, needs the support of the independent voters here in Nevada (just as he did in NH and in Iowa.) Polls currently show that he is neck and neck with Hillary Clinton.
Because independent voters are seeking a “political revolution,” many will switch their party affiliation in order to caucus for Mr. Sanders. I support their action. I understand it, and I hope that following the caucuses, they will re-register as independents. I also urge them to take one more step — contact me and join the movement to change the partisan election system which treats independents like second class citizens, even though we are 43% of the country!
Bernie Sanders had the guts to take on the most powerful political machine in America, the Clinton machine, when no one else would. He had the guts to say that the American people bailed out Wall Street and now it’s time for Wall Street to return the favor.
But it is we, the independents, who have to lead the way to the systemic political change that will make it possible to achieve humane solutions to the social and economic crisis. We must put the people first, not the parties.
I personally invite every independent voter who supports a “political revolution” to join the independent voter movement by contacting me at ivonorg@gmail.com. We can, we have and we will succeed at bringing about changes that empower all voters. Catana Barnes
