Thursday, June 30, 2016

Articles: When the Government Lies: TWA Flight 800

Articles: When the Government Lies: TWA Flight 800

When the Government Lies: TWA Flight 800

Years ago, in another lifetime, I flew the mighty F-4S Phantom II in the jet route structure. Several times I flew high enough for the engine exhaust to condense in the minus 60°F atmosphere. At 30,000 feet, I’d look in the mirrors on the canopy bow and watch a pair of thick contrails swirl behind me, laying down a set of unmistakable tracks proving that I was no longer just turning jet fuel into jet noise but I was leaving a trail visible for all to see for miles and miles. Some people on the ground, primarily those on the political left, have suggested my contrails were actually “chemtrails,” that they were some wild Petri dish concoction consisting of chemical or biological agents that were being deliberately sprayed for some sinister purpose, like a Bond villain, on an ignorant general public. I was shocked to learn that somehow the enlisted guy who refueled my jet with JP-5 was in on the conspiracy and was dispensing some nefarious additional chemicals from his R-11 fuel truck. When I became aware of the “chemtrail controversy” years later, it proved there are some strange people in America. That when you don’t have enough facts or understanding of the basic science of condensation, I guess you make up something. Who doesn’t love a good conspiracy when the facts are just boring?
Jack Cashill has his second book coming out on Flight 800, TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy. Former FBI Special Agent John F. Picciano’s fine novel Liam's Promise, suggests there was an international terrorist conspiracy and massive government cover-up of Flight 800. In my book, Shoot Down, the president knew aircraft were threatened, that they were warned, and they did nothing about it until it was too late. Sort of like what happened on September 11th in Benghazi, Libya.  
For Misters Cashill and Picciano and myself, there has always been something wrong with the reported circumstances surrounding the loss of the TWA 747. When you look at all the evidence behind the tragedy of Flight 800, it was very difficult not to conclude that the government’s investigation was faulty and scripted, and that the probable cause of the incident was some fuel cell problem was completely unbelievable. It was July 17, 1996, and Flight 800 occurred right in the middle of the sweet spot of a string of terrorist attacks on America, on American interests, on President Clinton’s watch. The three authors came to the same conclusion, by different means, that someone used a man-portable, shoulder-launched, anti-aircraft missile. How was this not a terrorist attack? Terrorists, primarily al-Qaeda, were having a field day attacking Americans.
A truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993. On December 11, 1994, a bomb was planted on Flight 434, a Philippine Airlines Boeing 747, by the master terrorist Ramzi Yousef. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. The failed Bojinka plot was a large-scale attack to assassinate Pope John Paul II and blow up 11 airliners from Asia to the United States during January 1995. It was planned by Islamists Ramzi Yousef and a current orange-jumpsuit-0wearing occupant of Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. A pair of United States embassy bombings on August 7, 1998 killed over 200 people in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and in Nairobi, Kenya. And on 31 October 1999, there was EgyptAir Flight 990, where the aircraft plunged into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. The flight data and cockpit voice recorders were recovered and proved the relief first officer deliberately crashed the jet into the water while repeating some nine times in Egyptian Arabic, "Tawkalt ala Allah," which roughly translated to, "I rely on God." The United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) was bombed on 12 October 2000 while it was harbored and being refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. September 11, 2001.
President Clinton’s time in office saw the highest level of terrorism activity directed at American interests: buildings, embassies, a Navy warship, and over a dozen high-capacity aircraft were targeted or attacked. Other commercial aircraft had been shot down and that news was ignored. These were “spectacular operations.” And according to the National Transportation Safety Board Flight 800 was just a jet with a bad set of wires in a fuel tank. The only airplane in the history of flight to have exploded in flight because of a possible short circuit in a fuel tank. The NTSB must have been watching the “Magic Loogie” episode of “Seinfeld” when they submitted their Flight 800 report, for that was one incredible magic wire.
Sometime after 2003, I was teaching the aircraft accident investigation course for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. My graduate students were seasoned USAF instructor pilots from across the Air Force -- they flew fighters, cargo aircraft, and helicopters. I'm an old USMC F-4 pilot, and intuitively we knew what had happened to the TWA 747 was an obvious act terrorism, that the declaration that it was probably just bad wiring was an expedient political deflection to a White House intern problem while jets and buildings were being blown up all across the globe, and that it didn't explode during departure because of some defective fuel cell wiring or “overheated fuel vapors.” Military and commercial pilots know fuel systems don’t work that way.
It was a good exercise for my students to look into what other reasons there could be to explain the government's handling of the case and determine a better or more rational probable cause. One of my students found an interesting newspaper article, where a couple of congressmen were stopped as they were leaving a closed-door session on the proliferation of MANPADS, Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems. Those are shoulder-launched, anti-aircraft missiles. French Mistrals, Russian SA-18s, British Blowpipes, and the U.S. Stingers. I will always remember my reaction to what was reported, when my student said, “One of the congressmen said, they were looking into the problem of the proliferation of MANPADS to prevent another Flight 800.” It was a curious statement at best. An inadvertent admission? Someone who had wandered off script and forgot to maintain the government’s message? Sometime after the Flight 800 incident, some 14 pieces of legislation were introduced related to MANPADS were introduced to the U.S. Congress. The timing of the proposed legislation was a conspiracy theorist’s wet dream.
As an adjunct, also immediately following the downing of Flight 800, there were hearings on Capitol Hill to force DOD to install heat-seeking missile countermeasures on commercial aircraft. It wasn’t until 2005 that Fred Smith, FedEx CEO/Chairman, volunteered some of his aircraft to be fitted with directed infrared countermeasures equipment (DIRCM) to thwart shoulder-launched heat-seeking missiles. Were these MANPADS really a threat? Were they responsible for Flight 800? Consider this: between “500 to 750 thousand MANPADS are believed to have been produced,” thus far. Reportedly, at the date of that report up to 27 militia and terrorist groups possess shoulder-fired SAMs. Yet it was one magic wire that brought down that jet.
The EgyptAir Flight 990 case demonstrated that a government can manipulate the outcome of an investigation. Egyptian government officials rejected the interpretation of the actions of the first officer, they asserted that it was “culturally impossible for [the relief pilot] Batouti to have done what the NTSB believed; second, that the NTSB lacked the cultural sensitivity to understand what was on the cockpit voice recorder.” Despite the data from the recovered black boxes, the Egyptians blamed Boeing for an inoperative elevator system. They blamed everyone else except their guy.
What happens when you -- an accomplished investigative reporter, an FBI Special Agent, and an old accident investigator -- know you’re not being told the truth? The investigators of Flight 990 capitulated on reason, genuflected and tested the myriad ridiculous Egyptian theses that the Boeing 767 suffered a hidden mechanical malfunction. There is a psychological impact on subordinates when high ranking government officials reject the obvious evidence for their own narrative. The normal first inclination is not to be confrontational even as the available evidence, like a finding compass, continually points in the same direction.
President Lincoln ran through a half-dozen generals before he found one who could do the job. When the government wants to maintain or foster a certain message, they are in the power position to reject those that do not “get it,” that there is a message and that message is to be maintained. Those investigators and witnesses that do not play well with others are cast off to the Island of Misfit Toys. Flight 800 went through a crazy number of investigators. Many dynamic witnesses were ignored. The CIA was even brought in. The government went overboard to prove what it wasn’t, not what it was. The message was, “It wasn’t terrorism. It definitely wasn’t a missile -- ignore all those witnesses who say they saw a missile launch. We’re pretty sure it was only a broken wire.”
What do you do when you know you are not being told the truth on Flight 800? Some of us write a story that is tangential to the cover-up and the government lies. I know I can’t wait to read Jack Cashill’s new book.

Articles: Jack Cashill's TWA 800: My Personal Hole in the Sky

Articles: Jack Cashill's TWA 800: My Personal Hole in the Sky

Jack Cashill's TWA 800: My Personal Hole in the Sky

I am sure there is a TWA captain somewhere who believes the government theory that a spontaneous fuel tank explosion brought down TWA Flight 800 in July 1996. I just have not met him. -- Jack Cashill
I spent a couple years and $40,000 earning a nonfiction creative writing MFA so I could share my experience in a memoir about TWA Flight 800. I made this effort in part as a remembrance for my late fiancée Susanne who died onboard, but also because boiling inside me is a great frustration and firm belief that the truth about what really happened to that Boeing 747 has been deliberately concealed.
I’ve flown thousands of flights into New York’s major airports, and admired Long Island’s southern shore so many times that I can paint it as it must have existed on the evening of July 17th, 1996.
The sky was that deep shade of blue you only see only at dusk during summer in the moments just before the sun finally sets. The distant colored sails of leisure boats jibed and tacked -- small irregular triangles bending and pulling their water-skimming vessels.
And above them were the departing aircraft -- some fanning out for a variety of domestic destinations, while the European-bound flights cued up offshore like a string of marching ants on an invisible fishing line, all heading for the North Atlantic track system with an entry point somewhere far-off near Newfoundland.
A recent departure from JFK International airport joined the procession -- a double-decker red and white Boeing 747 with four underwing engines, each producing roughly 50,000 lbs. of thrust during climb-out.
From the shore, it would have appeared as a Cross of Lorraine: a single line for its body with two lines across it -- one larger to represent the wings, and a smaller one for the tail -- such as a stick figure a child would draw. Inside the plane’s windows, too far away to see, were 230 passengers and crew. And although I knew several of them, someone special to me was in seat 3-2 in the forward first-class section: my fiancée Susanne Jensen.
She would have heard the aircraft’s inner workings from her upfront seat. The gentle vibration after takeoff as the landing gear retracted and stowed, followed by the hum of jackscrews retracting the flaps for the aircraft’s acceleration, reminded her that she was now safely on her way to Paris.
With the world getting smaller outside, she would have already reclined her seat and most likely taken off her high-heeled dress shoes with a smile of satisfaction, happily unaware that anything was about to go fatally wrong.
At 10,000 feet the flight attendants would have just been given the signal to unbuckle, rise from their retractable jump seats, and begin their service, but there would not have been time to wheel the dull aluminum carts out into the aisle.
Susanne would have been reading reports and notes from her briefcase, mentally preparing for her multilingual financial meeting in the morning, or chatting with my coworker and friend Captain Gid Miller, deadheading on this flight and seated across the aisle to her right.
If she instead looked beyond the seat to her left, her view out the pressure-retaining, double-pane window would have faced north across the water at a steady string of Long Island’s strands -- Atlantic Beach, Long Beach, Lido Beach, Point Lookout -- with the slowly setting sun behind her casting lengthy shadows.
With a US Air flight overhead, this 747 was restricted from climbing above 10,000 feet until adequate aircraft separation was obtained. More seaside communities -- Jones Beach followed by Fire Island -- would have slipped by, creating a beautiful moving view from the largest successful commercial aircraft of its day -- one I’d hoped to eventually command. But Susanne’s Long Island sightseeing ended without warning at Smith Point near Moriches, NY.
So many witnesses reported seeing a streaking flash of ascending light. That’s what shakes the perfect summer evening’s tranquility when I imagine what happened. The sky is suddenly stained with exploding smears of red and orange airborne violence. A glowing fireball spreads out from Susanne’s 747 like a grenade.
At 8:31 p.m., near the longest day of the year, it was still daylight, but not for much longer. The only red in this image should have been the pair of painted red stripes that ran the length of the aircraft’s 230-foot fuselage, and the red tail displaying TWA’s slanted, white-letter logo. The only orange should have been the impending sunset.
Whatever object caused TWA Flight 800’s center fuel tank to explode, that initial blast would have instantly shoved Susanne and everyone else onboard 12 feet upward and 17 feet to the right, according to William Donaldson, an independent researcher and retired U.S. Navy commander.
The Suffolk county medical examiner’s office announced that the probable cause of death for almost everyone onboard was a snapped neck. That’s the feel-good report for victims’ families so that we imagine our loved ones departed this world quickly and painlessly. The bulk of the passengers were seated in the main coach section where this probably was the result.
But because first class, in the nosecone of the aircraft, broke off from the rest of the now burning wings, fuselage, and tail, I can’t get this image out of my head: Susanne freefalling for what would have felt like a lifetime, lap-belted to her mostly-blue seat styled with a single narrow white and two wide red vertical stripes.
She would have been in pure panic mode while flopping about violently, gasping for breath from the sudden decompression, and deafened by the explosion and resulting wind noise -- only to finally die with her eyes wide open when impacting the water at roughly triple highway speed in what would later became known as the yellow debris field.
My only consolation is that, without being able to turn around, she never saw behind her the giant hole where the rest of the aircraft should have been -- an oblong oval opening to the tumbling sky, bordered by torn cables, shredded aluminum aircraft skin, sheared beams and spars, and accented with sparking severed wires.
And I hope she couldn’t comprehend what was actually happening if she lived long enough to ride this nearly three-mile-high, free-falling hellivator all the way down to the ocean’s surface, and then sink to 140 feet below, where her body would wait to be recovered.
In hardly more time than I can hold my breath, her life was over, and mine was torn inside out. The 747 that went up whole and came down in 876 pieces invaded every part of my life.
Moving on from real-world disaster isn’t so easily imagined. I can’t just paint over the images in my brain of the streak of light, the burning jet fuel, the now lifeless bodies, and the splintering aircraft. The woman I loved, nestled in the safest, most sacred place in my professional aviation world, was eradicated out of a clear evening sky without so much as a hint of a warning.
Gone forever was the love of my life, torn from the sky while in the trusted and competent hands of my fellow employees -- my mentors and my peers. The red and orange fireball that consumed her life also burned its way into my core existence. I’d lost everything, and even my airline didn’t know what to do with the pilot whose fiancée was on that flight.
As the days and weeks and months without her stretched on, I looked for solace within the familiarity and fraternity of the cockpit -- the only thing with meaning I had left, and what became known as my aluminum parachute. It wasn’t much, but going to the cockpit was something tangible for me to hold on to, and a reason to get out of bed. After I buried Susanne, I buried myself in my work.
I applaud those who are creating documentaries and writing books that reveal insight into the aftermath and investigation of that July 17th, 1996 disaster. My memoir does include my opinion that the 258 witnesses who saw a missile have been rejected by the official investigation.
But mostly my memoir is a personal interest story. It reveals what it’s like to be in love, and to lose her -- along with my international airline -- all in a single unpredictable moment. 13,760 Feet -- My Personal Hole in the Sky is a memorial at altitude for 230 passengers and crew, and if you read it, you too will yearn for answers.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Woman blames vampire for crash near Fruita


Woman blames vampire for crash near Fruita

Woman blames vampire for crash near Fruita

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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - A woman claims she spotted a vampire on the road ahead of her and it made her back her car into a canal around 11 p.m. Sunday.
According to authorities, the woman was driving on a dirt road at K and 20 Roads near Fruita when she says she encountered the vampire.
She says it scared her, and she threw her car into reverse, backing it into a canal.
She was not injured. Her husband arrived on the scene and took her home. Troopers do not suspect alcohol or drugs to be factors in this accident.
They added that they found no evidence of a vampire.

Fact Sheet: Taxing Wealthy Americans – Americans for Tax Fairness

Fact Sheet: Taxing Wealthy Americans – Americans for Tax Fairness

Fact Sheet: Taxing Wealthy Americans

Key Facts

Talking points

  • It’s time for the wealthiest Americans and big corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. When they take unfair advantage of the many loopholes in the tax code the rest of us pick up the tab.
  • Instead of cutting education funding for our children, we should ask millionaires to pay a tax rate at least as high their secretary’s.
  • Instead of cutting Social Security and Medicare, we should ask the wealthy to give up a few tax loopholes so that we can make sure everyone has a secure retirement.
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Overview

The federal income tax is designed to be progressive — tax rates increase in steps as income rises. For decades this helped restrain disparities in income and helped provide revenue to make public services available to all Americans. Today the system has badly eroded — many multi-millionaires and billionaires pay a lower tax rate than average American families.
Ironically, this has happened while the gap between the wealthy and everyone else has grown wider than ever. The extremely rich aren’t only earning and owning more — many are also passing wealth to their heirs tax free, creating a new American aristocracy with vast fortunes.

How the rich avoid paying taxes — and what to do about it

  • Tax income from investments like income from work. Billionaires like Warren Buffett pay a lower tax rate than millions of Americans because federal taxes on investment income (unearned income) are lower than the taxes many Americans pay on salary and wage income (earned income). Because Buffett gets a high percentage of his total income from investments, he pays a lower income tax rate than his secretary. Currently, the top statutory tax rate on investment income is just 23.8%, but it’s 43.4% on income from work. To reduce this inequity, we should raise tax rates on capital gains and dividends so they match the tax rates on salaries and wages. These loopholes lose $1.3 trillion over 10 years.
  • Cap tax deductions at 28% for the wealthiest Americans. The rich are able to get much bigger tax breaks for the same tax deductions taken by the middle class. For example, a wealthy family living in a McMansion gets a much bigger tax deduction on the interest on their large mortgage than a middle-class family gets on the interest on their small mortgage on a two-bedroom house. President Obama has proposed to limit the tax break on deductions that the richest 3% can take to 28 cents on the dollar. In other words, the rich would get the same tax benefit per dollar of deductions as a household in the 28% tax bracket, but not more (as they do now) at the higher 39.6% bracket. This would raise $500 billion over 10 years.
  • Strengthen the estate tax. Some of the ultra-rich are able to take advantage of loopholes so they pay almost nothing in inheritance taxes. Others take advantage of the fact that the exemption levels for the estate tax are very high — $5.3 million per individual ($10.6 million per couple). President Obama proposes to restore the exemptions to their 2009 levels — $3.5 million for an individual ($7 million for a couple) taxed at a 45% top rate. This and other reforms would raise $131 billion over 10 years. Only three estates for every 1,000 deaths would be affected.
  • Another way to ensure that large inheritances are taxed is to close the income tax loophole that lets wealthy people avoid capital gains taxes by holding their assets until they die. Their heirs then escape paying taxes on these gains. This would raise about $650 billion over 10 years. We should also end specialized trusts that allow families, such as the Waltons who own more than half of Walmart, to completely avoid paying estate and gift taxes.

Other ways to close tax loopholes for the wealthy

  • Pass the Buffett Rule. The Buffett rule, inspired by billionaire Warren Buffett, would require millionaires to pay a minimum tax rate of 30%. This will guarantee that the wealthy will not pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than a middle-class family pays. It would raise $72 billionover 10 years.
  • Close the Wall Street carried interest loophole. Wealthy private equity managers use a loophole to pay the lower 23.8% capital gains tax rate on the compensation they receive for managing other people’s money. We should close this loophole so that they pay the same rate as others at their income level who receive their compensation as salary. This would raise $17 billion over 10 years.
  • Eliminate the payroll tax loophole for S corporations. This loophole allows many self-employed people to use “S corporations” to avoid payroll taxes. Used by Newt Gingrich and John Edwards to avoid taxes, closing this loophole would require treating this income as salary rather than profit, making it subject to payroll taxes. This would raise $25 billion over 10 years.

What conservatives say — and why it’s wrong

Conservatives claim the wealthy are overtaxed. But the overall share of taxes paid by the top 1% and the top 5% is about their share of total income. This shows that the tax system is not progressive when it comes to the wealthy. The richest 1% pay an effective federal income tax rate of 24.7%. That is a little more than the 19.3% rate paid by someone making an average of $75,000. And 1 out of 5 millionaires pays a lower rate than someone making $50,000 to $100,000.
Conservatives claim that the estate tax is a “death tax,” wrongly implying that the tax is paid when every American dies. In fact, the tax primarily is paid by estates of multi-millionaires and billionaires. The vast majority of deaths — 99.9% — do not trigger estate taxes today.
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This is by far the BEST GUN LAW In Years

This is by far the BEST GUN LAW In Years! 

Want a Gun-Free Zone? Tennessee Says That’s on You: LITERALLY

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In one of the most awesome pro-gun laws to come down the pike, Tennessee is blaming business owners if they disarm citizens with “gun-free zones.”
If those citizens get injured because they were stripped of their Second Amendment rights, the new law – which goes into effect Friday – allows gun owners to sue the person who set up the “gun free zone.”
Bearing Arms puts it in layman’s terms: Any permit holder injured as a result of being stripped of their right to self-defense, and their handgun, in a posted gun-free zone can file a lawsuit within two years of the event as long as they meet the following requirements:
  • were authorized to carry a gun at the time of the incident
  • prohibited from carrying a firearm because of a gun-free sign
  • the property owner was not required to be posted by state or federal law and posted by choice
So if a grocery store in Tennessee banned guns on its property and a robber, or a bear, or a rabid mongoose barged in and killed or injured someone who has a carry permit but were prohibited from carrying his or her gun, they could sue the grocery store owner for damages.
“It is the intent of this section to balance the right of a handgun carry permit holder to carry a firearm in order to exercise the right of self-defense and the ability of a property owner or entity in charge of the property to exercise control over governmental or private property,” the bill states.
The legislation places responsibility on the business or property owner of the gun-free area to protect the gun owner from any incidents that occur with any “invitees,” trespassers and employees found on the property, as well as vicious and wild animals and “defensible man-made and natural hazards.”
This is a great idea and other states should adopt a similar law. If you’re going to disarm Americans, then you bear responsibility for what happens to them.
Awesome.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

9 INSANE Things In The New Democratic Party Platform

9 INSANE Things In The New Democratic Party Platform 

9 INSANE Things In The New Democratic Party Platform

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JUNE 27, 2016
The Democratic National Committee has released excerpts from its new platform – and it’s even more insanely extreme than the old platform. More so, as we’ll see. Here are the top nine lowlights from the party of Bernie Sanders:
1. Prosecute People Who Disagree With The Theory of Anthropogenic Climate Change. According to the platform, it’s not enough to back climate change legislation – those who donate to groups like the Heartland Institute that make the case that fossil fuels are not the chief contributors to climate change must be actively prosecuted:
Another joint proposal calling on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change was also adopted by unanimous consent.
2. Embrace Of $15 Minimum Wage. The left’s obsession with the number “15” comes to a head in this latest proposal. They can’t explain just why $15 per hour should be the minimum wage – why should Kansas companies pay the same minimum wage as Seattle ones? – but they’re all for it, no matter how many jobs they kill:
Acknowledging that the current minimum wage is a starvation wage, the platform draft already included language declaring that Americans should earn at least $15 an hour, that the minimum wage should be raised and indexed, and that all workers have the right to form and join a union.  It also includes a call to end sub-minimum wage for tipped workers and people with disabilities.
Note the addition here about tipped workers – they want to eliminate tips for waiters and waitresses, many of whom formally work for less than minimum wage but earn far more with tips.
3. Abolishing The Death Penalty. This is the first time the Democrats have ever explicitly called for abolishing the death penalty, although they’ve been moving toward this morally nonsensical position for quite a while. They’re all for the death penalty for unborn babies, however…
4. Abortion For Everybody On Earth, And You Pay. According to the platform:
The platform also vows to oppose, and seek to overturn, all federal and state laws that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment.  It also strongly supports the repeal of harmful restrictions that obstruct women’s access to healthcare around the world, including the Global Gag Rule and the Helms Amendment, which bars US assistance to other countries that provide safe, legal, abortion.
The Hyde Amendment bars federal taxpayer funding for abortion. So you get to pay for everybody else’s abortion. They wantall restrictions on abortion overturned, including partial birth abortion. They want American taxpayers to foot the bill for abortion overseas.
5. Protectionism Is Back! Thanks to Bernie Sanders, the Democrats now embrace trade protectionism to “protect worker’s rights” against the scourge of “corporate profits.” That will only cost a few million jobs.
6. Increase Entitlement Programs To Bankrupt The Country. 2011 marked the first year on record where Social Security took in less money than it paid out, but the Democrats aim to make that permanent:
The Democratic Platform makes clear that not only will Democrats fight every effort to cut, privatize, or weaken Social Security, but we will in fact expand it while requiring those at the top to pay more. And pursuant to an amendment crafted by members McKibben and Tanden, the Committee added language that said we would we would achieve this goal by taxing some of the income of people above $250,000.
Taxes at this level simply won’t cover this burden. The math doesn’t add up.
7. Amnesty For Virtually All. The new Democratic platform adds several provisions designed to keep illegal immigrants in America at all costs: “keeping families together, ending family detention, closing private detention centers, and guaranteeing legal counsel for all unaccompanied minors in immigration proceedings.” In other words, release everybody into the wind -- the vast majority of detainees are in private detention centers -- and force ICE to find attorneys for everyone who they want to deport. This means everybody gets to stay, folks.
8. Nationalized Healthcare. Remember when the left said it was racist to accuse the Obama administration of aiming for government-run healthcare? Now they’re calling for it openly: they want “access to public coverage through Medicare or a public option.” This is called nationalized health care, given that subsidized medical programs will always be cheaper than private programs and will never go bankrupt, since they can actively confiscate wealth from citizens to pay for their deficits.
9. Increasing Crime. The left’s surrender to Black Lives Matter is complete:
The current draft calls for ending the era of mass incarceration, shutting down private prisons, ending racial profiling, reforming the grand jury process, investing in re-entry programs, banning the box to help give people a second chance and prioritizing treatment over incarceration for individuals suffering addiction.  The Committee also voted unanimously to recognize the role activists and recent movements have played in putting these issues front and center in the national conversation, as they should be.
There is no era of “mass incarceration.” There are criminals who have committed crimes going to prison. Grand juries aren’t the problem in America – criminals are. Racial profiling has been illegal across the country for years, but behavioral profiling certainly is not. And forcing private businesses not to ask about prior crimes is ridiculous.
The DNC has moved further to the left. Of course. And they won't stop that gradual slide into madness any time soon. After all, with the help of a compliant media, they're winning.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL

*A female physician in Munich,Germany sends a...

*A female physician in Munich,Germany sends a...


*A female physician in Munich,Germany sends a message to the World . . . . ..*

*Yesterday, at the hospital, we had a meeting about how the situation here and at the other Munich hospitals is unsustainable. Clinics cannot handle the number of migrant medical emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the main hospitals.*
*Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff and we women are now refusing to go among those migrants! Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be *accompanied by police with K-9 units.*
*Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we in Europe do not know how to treat. *If they receive a prescription to the pharmacy, they suddenly learn they have to pay cash. This leads to unbelievable outbursts, especially when it is about drugs for the children. They abandon the children with pharmacy staff with the words: So, cure them here yourselves! *So the police are not just guarding the clinics and hospitals, but also the large pharmacies.*
*We ask openly 'where are all those who welcomed the migrants in front of TV cameras with signs at trainstations?' * *Yes, for now, the border has been closed, but a million of them are already here and we will definitely not be able to get rid of them.*
*Until now, the number of unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now it will be at least 3.5 million. Most of these people are completely unemployable. Only a small minimum of them have any education. What is more, their women usually do not work at all. I estimate that one in ten is pregnant. Hundreds of thousands of them have brought along infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and very needy. If this continues and Germany re-opens its borders, I am going home to the Czech Republic. Nobody can keep me here in this situation, not even for double the salary back home. I came to Germany to work, not to Africa or the Middle East!*
*Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes him to see the cleaning woman, who has cleaned every day for years for 800 euros and then meets crowds of young men in the hallways who just wait with their hands outstretched, wanting everything for free, and when they don't get it they throw a fit.*
*I really don't need this! But I am afraid that if I
return home, at some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. If the Germans, with their systems, cannot handle this, then, garaunteed, back home will be total chaos..*
*You - who have not come in contact with these people have absolutely no idea what kind of badly behaved desperadoes these people are,and how Muslims act superior to our staff, regarding their religious accommodation.*
*For now, the local hospital staff have not come down with the diseases these people brought here, but with so many hundreds of patients every day â this is just a question of time.*
*In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8-month-old on the brink of death, who they'd dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died two days later, despite having received top care at one of the best paediatric clinics in Germany. The paediatric physician had to undergo surgery and the two nurses are recovering in the ICU. Nobody has been punished - what ???*
*The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we can only inform you through email. What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed the doctor and nurses with a knife?
Or if he had flung his own syphilis-infected urine into a nurses face and so threatened her with infection? At a minimum he would have gone straight to jail and later to court. With these people so far, nothing has happened - WHY?*
*And so I ask ... where are all those greeters and receivers from the train stations? Sitting pretty at home, enjoying their uncomplicated, safe lives.* *If it were up to me I would round up all those greeters and bring them here first to our hospitals emergency ward as attendants ! Then in to one of the buildings housing the migrants, so they can really look after them there themselves, without armed police and police dogs, who, sadly today, are in every hospital here in Bavaria.*
*Is this "situation" coming to your country ??? '

Mass Murder Shooting Is Not Increasing – Mother Jones Proven Wrong

Mass Murder Shooting Is Not Increasing – Mother Jones Proven Wrong 


Mass Murder Shooting Is Not Increasing – Mother Jones Proven Wrong

Mass Murder Shooting Is Not Increasing – Mother Jones Proven Wrong
Mass murder shootings are not increasing. Disingenuous media outlets – like Mother Jones – and politicians and pundits that don’t bother to fact-check falsely claim mass shootings are increasing. Academic criminologists that study mass murder prove them wrong.
At least 13 people are dead and several others were wounded after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. Police have identified the suspect and cleared a possible second one. And while the dead have barely been identified, already the anti-gun talking heads are – predictably – calling for more gun control. For instance, Piers Morgan is, once again, claiming that mass shootings are on the rise in the United States. On his twitter feed he cites Mother Jones calling it “incontrovertible proof” that this is so. The Mother Jones page, A Guide to Mass Shootings in America states that the shooting at the Washington Naval Yard is the 5th one in 2013. If accurate (and it’s probably not), then that makes 2013 one of the lowest years for mass shootings since at least 1976 – or 37 years.
Regrettably, this false narrative is not new. It’s old and often repeated whenever a sensationalized shooting like the Washington Naval Yard incident occurs. Besides Mother Jones, former President Bill Clinton, and others, have also falsely claimed mass shootings are increasing.
James Alan Fox, a widely respected criminologist from Northeastern University in Boston who researches mass shootings says that they are not increasing. Dr. Fox’s analysis of the Mother Jones‘ study indicates they left out mass murders which made it seem there was an increase after the Federal assault weapon ban expired (Mother Jones has since updated their story since thanking Dr. Fox for his input while simultaneously not changing their actual content and false claims). Some mass murders receive more media attention than others, however the number has been consistently about 20 annually since 1976. Dr Fox states: “What is abundantly clear from the full array of mass shootings, besides the lack of any trend upward or downward, is the largely random variability in the annual counts. There have been several points in time when journalists and others have speculated about a possible epidemic in response to a flurry of high-profile shootings. Yet these speculations have always proven to be incorrect when subsequent years reveal more moderate levels.”
Mass Shootings 1976-2011 - James Alan Fox
Dr. Fox specifically rebuts Mother Jones findings saying: “So how does the Mother Jones report of a rise in mass shootings stand up when considering the full range of cases? Simply put, not very well.” He uses instead, the academically accepted definition of mass murder set by the FBI, which is defined as: as a number of murders (four or more) occurring during the same incident, with no distinctive time period between the murders. These events typically involved a single location, where the killer murdered a number of victims in an ongoing incident.
Time Magazine printed a chart of all mass shootings, citing Dr. Fox’s research following the Aurora Colorado, movie theater shooting (see below). The number of mass shootings varies from a low of 7 incidents in 1985, to a high of 30 incidents in 2003 (incidentally, when the federal Assault Weapons Ban was still in effect). The number of dead from these mass murder incidents varies from a low of 29 dead in 1985, coinciding with the lowest shootings – to a high of 135 in 2003, again coinciding with the highest number of shootings. In 2012, it was less than 100.
Mass shootings 1976-2010 - Time Magazine -recreated - White
Mass shootings grab our attention because they are tragic, though in reality more people die every year hitting deer with their cars. Most gun murders are one at a time, with mass shootings representing a fraction of 1% of homicides. Homicides by raw number peaked in 1991 at 24,700. Since then, homicide by raw number, the homicide rate, and gun murders have dropped in half. The homicide rate per 100,000 people today is less than it was even in the year 1900.
So while disingenuous media personalities and politicians focus on how horrible these incidents are (while they play dumb with regard to the ratings and advertising revenue these stories generate for themselves), the fact that they are horrible in itself provides nothing in terms of a solution to it. Would making the Washington Naval Yard a “gun free zone” work? Oops! It already is. Perhaps making Washington D.C. gun-free outside of people’s homes? That’s already the case as well. Maybe an assault rifle ban? Oh wait, the worst year for mass shootings happened during the federal Assault Weapons Ban. Perhaps the mantra “no guns” when there is gun violence is as inane as chanting “no cars” would be after a tragic car collision. Academic researchers explain why the “no guns” mantra fails to solve for gun violence – simply put it is because guns are not the cause of violence; socio-cultural & economic factors are. Professors Kates and Mauser explain in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy that adopting laws that restrict gun possession from law-abiding citizens is actually counter-productive, because average law-abiding citizens do not murder. The Congressional Research Study released in April reported that because of the rarity of the events, “potential perpetrators cannot be identified accurately, and no systematic means of intervening are known to be effective.” Preventing them from occurring may not be fully possible. Dr. Fox states there are no easy solutions when it comes to mass shootings; they are peak of violence, often meticulously planned by people that plan to die in the event.

Friday Wrap-Up: Top 50 Facts About Hillary Clinton From Trump 'Stakes Of The Election' Address

ClintonFacts.pdf

Friday Wrap-Up: Top 50 Facts About Hillary Clinton From Trump 'Stakes Of The Election' Address

Fact
1:
Clinton
Trade Deals “Are Disastrous”
Trump:
"This
includes fixing all of our many disastrous trade deals
and they are disastrous, they’re
destroying
our country, because it’s not just the political system that’s rigged, it’s the whole economy
.”
(Donald Trump, Speech On Hillary Clinton, New York, NY, 6/22/16)

More Than 5 Million U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Were Lost Between 1997 And 2014,” Primarily Due To “Growing Trade Deficits With Countries That Have Negotiated Trade And Investment Deals With The United States.”
This Is A Loss Of One-Third Of U.S. Manufacturing During The NAFTA-China Era.
More than 5 million U.S. manufacturing jobs were lost between 1997 and 2014, and most of those job losses were due to growing trade deficits with countries that have negotiated trade and investment deals with the United States.”
(Robert E. Scott, “Fast Track To Lost Jobs And Lower Wages,”Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog, 4/13/15)
In December 2014, There Were 12,294 Million U.S. Manufacturing Jobs, Down From 17,297,000 U.S. Manufacturing Jobs In 1997
.
(
Bureau Of Labor Statistics
, Accessed 6/24/16)
Since NAFTA Took Effect In
January 1994, The U.S. Has Lost 4,570,000 Manufacturing Jobs, A 27
Percent Decline.
(
Bureau Of Labor Statistics
, Accessed 6/21/16)
In May 2016, The U.S. Had 12,285,000 Manufacturin
g Jobs, Down From 16,855,000
Manufacturing Jobs In January 1994.
(
Bureau Of Labor Statistics
, Accessed 6/21/16)
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Entered Into Force O
n January 1,
1994.”
(M. Angeles Villarreal and Ian Fergusson, “The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),”
Congressional Research Service
,
4/16/
15)
After Normalizing Trade Relations With Chin
a, The Economic Policy Institute Estimated That
Growth In The U.S. Goods Trade Deficit With China Between 2001 And 2013 Eliminated Or
Displaced 3.2 Million U.S. Jobs.”
Growth in the U.S. goods trade deficit with China between 2001 and
2013 eliminated or
displaced 3.2 million U.S. jobs, 2.4 million (three
-
fourths) of which were in
manufacturing. These lost manufacturing jobs account for about two
-
thirds
of all U.S. manufacturing jobs
lost or displaced between December, 2001 and December 2013.”
(Will Kimbal
l and Robert E. Scott, “China Trade, Outsourcing
And Job
s,”
Economic Policy Institute
, 12/11/14)
The Economic Policy Institute Estimates That The
U.S. Trade Deficit With The 11 TPP Nations Led
To The Elimination Of More Than 2 Million U.S. Jobs In 2015.
The U.S. trade deficit with the 11 other
TPP countries eliminated 2 million jobs, as shown in Table 2, which reports the number of direct,
indirec
t, and respending jobs lost (aggregated over all industries). The trade deficit between the United
States and the 11 other TPP member countries in 2015 directly eliminated 418,900 jobs. In addition to
the direct jobs lost, the U.S. trade deficit with the T
PP country group eliminated an additional 847,200
indirect jobs in supplier industries, including jobs in manufacturing, commodity, and service industries.
Finally, wages lost because of direct and indirect job cuts from the trade deficits with the TPP mem
ber
countries would have supported an additional 759,700 respending jobs. The direct, indirect, and
respending jobs displaced by the U.S. trade deficit with TPP member countries totals 2,025,800 jobs lost.”
(Robert E. Scott and Elizabeth Glass, “Trans
-
Paci
fic Partnership, Currency Manipulation, Trade, And Jobs
,”
Economic Policy Institute
, 3/3/16)
Fact
2
: Clinton Lied About Her Landin
g In Bosnia
Trump:
Her
phony landing in
Bosnia,
where she said she was under attack, and the attack turned out to
be young girls handing her flowers, a total and
look, this was
this was one of the beauts, a total and
self
-
serving lie
. Brian Williams’
career was destroyed for saying less, remember that.”
(Donald Trump,
Speech On
Hillary Clinton
, New York, NY,
6/22/16)


On March 25, 1996, Hil
lary Clinton As First Lady Landed In Bosnia To Meet With U.S. Soldiers And
Local Leaders.
"First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her latest venture onto the international
stage Sunday with a visit to offer support for families of U.S. troops in Bosnia
-
Herzegovina. Today, she
travels to Bosnia, where she will meet U.S. soldiers and religious and community leaders in Tuzla and two
nearby outposts."
(Bill Nichols, "First Lady On Mission Of Support In Bosnia Today To Address Troops,"
USA Today
, 3/25/96)
Wh
en Recounting The Trip As A Presidential Candidate In 2008, Clinton Said "I Remember
Landing Under Sniper Fire. There Was Supposed To Be Some Kind Of Greeting Ceremony At The
Airport, But Instead We Just Ran With Our Heads Down."
CLINTON: "I remember
landing under
sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just
ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base. But it was a moment of great pride for
me to visit our troops, not
only in our main base as Tuzla, but also at two outposts where they were
serving in so many capacities to deactivate and remove landmines, to hunt and seek out those who had
not complied with the Dayton Accords and put down their arms, and to build relati
onships with the
people that might lead to a peace for them and their children."
(Sen. Hillary Clinton
,
Remarks At A Campaign Event
,
W
ashington, D.C., 3/17/08)
PolitiFact:
"But That's Not What Happened, As Demonstrated By CBS News Video That Shows
Clinton Arriving On The Tarmac Under No Visible Duress, And Greeting A Child Who Offers Her A
Copy Of A Poem."
"During an introduction to a fo
reign policy speech on Iraq on March 17, 2008, Sen.
Hillary Clinton reminisced about her days as first lady and a trip to Tuzla, Bosnia, she made in March
1996. 'I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremon
y
at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.' But
that's not what happened, as demonstrated by CBS News video that shows Clinton arriving on the tarmac
under no visible duress, and greeting a ch
ild who offers her a copy of a poem."
(Angie Drobnic Holan, "Video Shows
Tarmac Welcome, No Snipers,
"
PolitiFact,
3/25/08)
Fact
3
:
Clinton Performed
Favors for D
onors As
Secretary Of State
Trump:
Hillary Clinton
has perfected the politics of personal profit and even theft
. She
ran the
State
Department
like her own personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many oth
ers and
really many, many others in exchange for cash
.”
(Donald Trump,
Speech On Hillary Clinton
, New York, NY,
6/22/16)
Harper’s
Ken Silverstein: The Clinton’s Political Allies Won The Focused Attention Of Secretary
Clinton At The State Department.
...it is beyond dispute that these very same donors and the Clintons’
political allies have won the focused attention of presidential can
didate Hillary Clinton when she served
as Secretary of State.”
(Ken Silverstein, “Shaky Foundation
s,”
Harper’s Magazine
,
11/18/15)
One Of The Reasons That The Clinton Foundation Has Become Such A Formidable Fund
-
Raising
Machine Is That Donors Appear To Hope To Gain Access To The Corridors Of Political Power With
Their Gifts.”
(“Why The Clinton Foundation Is So Controversial
,”
The Economist
,
2/7/16)
The Problem With The Clinton Foundation Is That Appears Vulnerable To Conflicts Of
Interest.
The problem is that a foundation, which is led by an
ex
-
president and someone who
hopes to be elected president by the end of the year, can appear vulnerable to conflicts of interest.”
(“Why The Clinton Foundation Is So Controvers
ial,”
The Economist
,
2/7/16)
Example
Of Clinton Favoritism To Friends
Raj Fernando Was Appointed To
The State Department’s International Security Advisory Board By
Clinton’s Chief Of Staff Cheryl Mills At Her “Insistence.”
The newly released emails reveal that after
ABC News started asking questions in August 2011, a State Department official who worke
d with the
advisory board couldn’t immediately come up with a justification for Fernando serving on the panel. His
and other emails make repeated references to ‘S’; ABC News has been told this is a common way to refer
to the Secretary of State. ‘The true a
nswer is simply that S staff (Cheryl Mills) added him,’ wrote Wade

































but every city, county, and state can completely ban firearms in America
(
Ryan Lovelace
, “
Sessions warns of historic
Clinton attack on gun rights
,”
Washington Examiner
,
5/22/16
)
Fact
48
:
ObamaCare Is A Job
-
Killing Disaster
Trump: “Repeal And Replace Job
-
Killing ObamaCare
It Is A Disaster.”
(Donald Trump,
Speech On Hillary Clinton
,
New York, NY, 6/23/16)
According To An Analysis From Goldman Sachs, “Obamacare Is Forcing Hundreds Of Thousands Of
People Into Part
-
Time Work.”
In a research note sent out Wednesday, bank economist Alec Phillips
concluded that ‘the evidence suggests that the [Affordable Care
Act] has at least modestly elevated
involuntary part
-
time employment.’ He wrote that a ‘few hundred thousand’ workers may have had their
hours cut or been forced to take part
-
time jobs because of the law. Goldman Sachs' analysis is the latest
conduct on th
e contentious topic of the healthcare law and part
-
time work, and its findings largely back
up what other studies have revealed, Phillips wrote. The bank weighed in on the question after
involuntary part
-
time work rose sharply in recent months.”
(Joseph La
wler, “Goldman Sachs: Obamacare forcing hundreds of
thousands into part
-
time work,”
The Washington Examiner,
06/08/16)
ObamaCare Con
tains $859.7 Billion In Job
-
Killing Taxes On Small Businesses, Investments And
Innovation.
(“Estimated Revenue Effects Of A Proposal To Repeal Certain Tax Provisions Contained In The ‘Affordable Care Act,’”
Joint Committee On
Taxation
, 6/15/12; “Federal Subsidies For Health Insurance Coverage For People Under Age 65: 2016 To 2026,”
Congressional Budget Office
, 3/24/16)
Over The Next 10 Years, ObamaCare Will Cause The Loss Of Over 2 Million Full Time Jobs Worth Of
Hours.
The projected reduction in the labor supply wo
uld occur in several ways. Some people would
choose to work fewer hours; others would leave the labor force entirely or remain unemployed for longer
than they otherwise would. CBO did not split its estimate of the overall reduction into the reduction in th
e
number of hours worked and the reduction in labor force participation, because in formulating its
estimate, the agency generally relied on labor supply elasticities (which measure the change in the labor
supply resulting from a change in tax rates) that
combined those two decisions. CBO did, however,
translate the reduction in the labor supply into an effect on full
-
time
-
equivalent employment. The labor
force is projected to be about 2 million full
-
time
-
equivalent workers smaller in 2025 than it would hav
e
been otherwise.”
(“How CBO Estimates The Effects Of The Affordable Care Act On The Labor Market,”
Congressional Budget Off
ice Report
, December
2015)
Fact
49
:
Real Wages Haven’t Increased For
America
Workers
Trump: “The Real Wages For Our Workers Have Not Been raised For 18 Years
But These Wages
Will Start Going Up, Along With The
N
ew Jobs.”
(Donald Trump,
Speech On Hillary Clinton
, New York, NY, 6/23/16)
According To A 2014 Pew Research Center Analysis, When Adjusting For Inflation, “
Today’s
Average Hourly Wage Has Just About The Same Purchasing Power As It Did In 1979.
According to
the BLS, the average hourly wage for non
-
management private
-
sector workers last month was $20.67,
unchanged from August and 2.3% above the average wage a
year earlier. That’s not much, especially
when compared with the pre
-
Great Recession years of 2006 and 2007, when the average hourly wage
often increased by around 4% year
-
over
-
year. (During the high
-
inflation years of the 1970s and early
1980s, average wa
ges commonly jumped 8%, 9% or even more year
-
over
-
year.) But after adjusting for
inflation, today’s average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power as it did in 1979,
following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent
growth since then. In fact, in
real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03
-
an
-
hour rate recorded in January
1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today.”
(Drew DeSilver, “For Most Workers, Real Wages Have Barely
Budged
For Decades,”
Pew Research Center
, 10/19/14)
Fact
5
0
:
Clinton’s
Regime of
Taxation, Regulation, And Open Borders, Will Destroy Jobs And
Drive Down Wages
Trump: “Hillary’s Massive Taxation, Regulation And Open Borders Will Destroy Jobs And Drive
Down Wages For Everyone.”
(Donald Trump,
Speech On Hillary Clinton
, New York, NY, 6/23/16)


Clinton’s Tax Hikes “Would Hurt The Entire Economy, Dragging Down Income At All Levels.”
Though Clinton’s proposals target the wealthy, the Tax Foundation said today that the increases would
hurt the entire economy, dragging down incomes at all levels.”
(Brian Faler, “Analysis: Clinton Proposed Almost $500 Billion In
Tax Increases,”
Politico
, 1/26/16)
A Tax Foundation’s Analysis Found Clinton’s Tax Proposals Would “Reduce The Economy’s Size By
1 Percent.”
According to the Tax Foundation’s Taxes
and Growth Model, Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would
reduce the economy’s size by 1 percent in the long run.”
(Kyle Pomerleau and Michael Schuyler, “Details And Analysis Of Hillary
Clinton’s Tax Proposals,”
Tax Foundation
, 1/26/16)
Clinton’s Tax Proposals Would Result In “311,000 Fewer Full
-
Time Equivalent Jobs.”
The
plan would lead to 0.8 percent lower wages, a 2.8 percent smaller capital stock,
and 311,000 fewer
full
-
time equivalent jobs. The smaller economy results from somewhat higher marginal tax rates
on capital and labor income.”
(Kyle Pomerleau and Michael Schuyler, “Details And Analysis Of Hillary Clinton’s Tax Proposals,”
Tax
Foundation
, 1/26/16)
Clinton’s Tax Proposals Would “Lead To 0.8 Percent Lower Wages.”
The plan would lead to
0.8 percent lower wages, a 2.8 percent small
er capital stock, and 311,000 fewer full
-
time
equivalent jobs. The smaller economy results from somewhat higher marginal tax rates on capital
and labor income.”
(Kyle Pomerleau and Michael Schuyler, “Details And Analysis Of Hillary Clinton’s Tax Proposals,
Tax Foundation
,
1/26/16)
Illegal Immigration Lowers Wages For Competing American Workers By An Estimated $99 To
$118 Billion A Year.
Economic theory predicts that immigration will redistribute income by lowering
the wages of competing American workers and increasing the wages of complementary American
workers as well as profits for business owners and other “users” of immigrant labor...
Although the net
benefits to natives from illegal immigrants are small, there is a sizable redistribution effect. Illegal
immigration reduces the wage of native workers by an estimated $99 to $118 billion a year, and
generates a gain for businesses and oth
er users of immigrants of $107 to $128 billion.”
(George Borjas,
Immigration And The American Worker,”
Center For Immigration Studies
, 4/13