Obama's Job Summit

Date: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:06 AM

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The front page of the Vdare website raises some interesting questions about
jobs and the upcoming Jobs Summit. Vdare is doing a funds drive, which is why
their front page articles are not visible. You can still read their blogs by
world famous writers and researchers, like me for instance!

http://blog.vdare.com/

I recently did one about a fiasco at ASU you might enjoy. I didn't send it out
by newsletter because I consider it off topic. Some of you might enjoy it
though.

http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/12/01/anarchists-disrupt-asu-interview-with-arpaio/
Anarchists disrupt ASU interview with Arpaio

So, putting two and two together, you might wonder why I prefer to write for
Vdare. Peter Brimelow makes as compelling an argument as I can think
of:

What this means: essentially everything you give goes to pay writers
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Roy Beck at NumbersUSA has a good commentary on the jobs summit, although it's
beyond me why he didn't mention H-1B.

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/december-1-2009/my-tips-obama-jobs-summit-put-hundreds-thousands-back-work-free.html

OK, now back to the so-called Obama's "Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth"
coming up this Thursday.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/12/president-announces-a-forum-jobs-and-economic-growth

The list of attendees will make you cringe, and it should induce the
mainstream media to ask whether there is enough balance between corporations,
ivory tower econonists, and workers. Looking through this list to speak on our
behalf we have, uh, hmmmmmm -- near the bottom of the list there is Leo
Gerard, United Steel Workers, and Joe Hansen, United Food and Commercial
Workers. My how representative of American workers! Oh well, so much for
balance -- the summit should be called something like "Flat Earthers for
Obama".

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/30/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5838545.shtml

Confirmed attendees:

Eric Schmidt, Google
Randall Stevenson, AT&T
Surya Mohapatra, Qwest
Frederick Smith, Federal Express
Brian Roberts, Comcast
Bob Iger, Disney
James McNerney, Boeing
Andrew Livens, Dow
Peter Solmssen, Siemens
Stephanie Burns, Dow Corning
Phaedra Ellis Lamkins, Green for All
Reed Hundt, Coalition for the Green Bank Larry Mishel, EPI Alan Blinder,
Princeton Paul Krugman, Princeton Joe Stiglitz, Columbia Bob Greenstein,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia David Ickert,
Air Tractor Woody Hall, Diversapack Rose Wang, Binary Group Anna Burger,
Change to Win Leo Gerard, United Steel Workers Joe Hansen, United Food and
Commercial Workers Randi Weingarten, AFT Mayor Frank Cownie, Des Moines, IA
Mayor Julian Castro, San Antonio, Texas Mayor Ed Pawlowski, Allentown, PA

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Island next July. Meanwhile, the Border Patrol has been frozen and only 5
percent of America?s southern border has been fenced.

PLEASE HELP US NOW?I hope our advisers will allow me to start posting again
tomorrow.

By Peter Brimelow, Editor, VDARE.COM

This is it?our Christmas Appeal, the time of year when VDARE.COM raises most
of its funds, through the generosity of you, our loyal readers.

It?s always stressful. We have no financial reserves and no margin for
disappointment.

Still, I couldn?t ask for a better example of why VDARE.COM is essential than
the so-called Jobs summits that occur this week.

President Obama?s Job Summit will be held this Thursday, December 3.

Congressional Democrats are reportedly working on another multi-billion dollar
stimulus package (of course!)

Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, is trying to upstage the

Democrats by holding his own summits, on Wednesday, December 2, and on
Thursday.

These Republican summits will reportedly emphasize tax cuts (of course!).

There is no doubt that America?s jobs crisis is very serious. Unemployment had
reached 10.2% at last report in early November, its highest level for some 26
years. The next unemployment report, to be released on Friday December 4,
seems certain to show more job losses?for the 23rd consecutive month. And
unemployment is expected to remain high for a long time to come.

According to the Los Angeles Times:

?Polling shows that the healthcare overhaul is not as important to Americans
as an economic recovery that yields jobs. With a midterm election next year,
Democrats in control of the White House and Congress can't afford to look out
of touch.

?A Senate Democratic aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said,
?Democrats have to address the No. 1 concern of their constituents -- and that
is, by a long shot, jobs.??

Yet, amazingly, neither Democrat nor Republican summits will address an
obvious answer to the jobs crisis: an immigration moratorium.

Incredibly, despite the recession, about 125,000 legal immigrants a month are
still entering the U.S.

And, with some 15 million Americans unemployed, there are still an estimated 8
million illegal aliens holding jobs here.

Democrats and Republicans have been bickering about whether the Obama
Administration?s stimulus package really created the claimed 650,000 jobs.

But during the same period, twice that number of legal immigrants and
?temporary? workers entered the U.S.?easily swamping even the most optimistic
estimate of jobs created.

Neither of the major political parties has been talking about the immigration
answer to the unemployment crisis. And, as far as I can see, there have been
no (0) discussions of an immigration moratorium in the Main Stream Media,
liberal or ?conservative?.

Why not?

Part of the answer, of course, is the entrenched special interests that have
resisted patriotic immigration reform all along?the ethnic pressure groups,
the cheap labor lobby, etc. etc. They won?t allow any discussion of an
immigration cut, even when it would help desperate unemployed Americans,
because they fear a precedent would be set, and that their own dirty deals
would eventually come under patriotic scrutiny.

But why don?t MSM journalists at least ask about an immigration moratorium as
a way of reducing unemployment?

My own theory (which will probably sound weird to anyone who hasn?t spent the
years in the MSM that I have!) is that it goes beyond bias. Journalists don?t
ask about an immigration moratorium because nobody else has asked about it.
The idea would just never occur to them on their own.

Call it intellectual inertia?if you want to be kind.

VDARE.COM exists to challenge those special interests?and to shake up that
intellectual inertia. But we can only do it with your help.

Our National Data columnist, Edwin S. Rubenstein, has already analyzed the
possible effects of an immigration moratorium on the unemployment rate.

He calculates that even a one-year moratorium would reduce the unemployment
rate by about half a percentage point. And if a moratorium had been in place
since 1998, the labor market would have tightened so much that current
unemployment rate, even in this disastrous recession, would now still be less
than 5%.

In addition, of course, Ed has documented the negative impact of immigration
on the income of Americans, and its role in increasing the U.S.
poverty rate.

And he has provided as far as I can see is the only (!!!) systematic effort to
estimate the displacement of native-born American workers by
immigrants?constructing what we call VDARE.COM American Worker Displacement
Index, or ?VDAWDI? for short. (It has to be an estimate because the federal
government, as usual, has neglected to monitor this vital but politically
sensitive area.)

What Ed has been able to show is that immigrants got the lion?s share of the
job growth in the last decade?and they?ve held on to those gains in this
recession.

You should be hearing about the immigrant-American job trade-off every month,
when the unemployment data is released. The government should be tracking and
reporting it. And the Main Stream media should be discussing it.

But right now, the only way you can follow the issue is on VDARE.COM.

If Americans workers realized what is being done to them, they would demand an
immigration moratorium.

But they don?t realize it?and we can get the word out only with your
donations.

For that matter, why is the economy in this horrible mess anyway?

Of course, the Crash of 2008 was a ?perfect storm??it needed several elements
to come together.

But a key element was the loosening of mortgage lending standards, imposed on
the industry by a bipartisan consensus of politicians, in order to subsidize/
bribe minorities and immigrants, disproportionately uncreditworthy.

This loosening inflated the housing bubble?and precipitated the housing bust,
as the uncreditworthy borrowers turned out to be, well, uncreditworthy.

As we?ve said bluntly at VDARE.COM, the U.S. has been plunged into a
?Diversity Recession??driven by a ?Minority Mortgage Meltdown?.

Our Steve Sailer has documented this phenomenon in several full-length
articles over more than a year.

Most recently, he described how the Federal Reserve is trying to evade his
Freedom of Information Act request for data that would reveal what proportion
of defaulted mortgage dollars were accounted for by minorities.

The government publishes data on the share of mortgages that go to minorities,
but not whether they pay the money back. The data exists, but the Fed
economists who have it won?t share.

Of course, this data would show exactly how disastrous this specialized form
of anti-white Affirmative Action has been. That?s why the Establishment
doesn?t want us to know.

But there?s more: at VDARE.COM, we highlighted this problem way back in March
2004?in Thomas Allen?s eerily prescient article The Mortgage Monsters Meet The
Immigration Invasion. They Like Each Other, about the Federal National
Mortgage Association (?Fannie Mae?) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation (?Freddie Mac?) and their irresponsible pursuit of immigrant,
often illegal alien, clients.

Allen concluded: ?We?ve known for some time that current mass immigration is
politically unstable. Now it turns out that it?s financially unstable as
well.?

Remember, that was in 2004!

The moral of this story, to use an old Wall Street adage: things that can?t go
on, don?t. Washington?s manipulation of the mortgage market was doomed to fail
and it did, injuring many innocent people in the process.

Its manipulation of immigration policy will fail too.

But you need non-bipartisan, non-consensus sources like VDARE.COM to keep
reminding you of reality.

And we can keep on doing that ONLY if you supply us with the resources to do
so.

So I?m starting our annual year-end VDARE.COM fundraising drive now.

We have not had a fund-raising drive since July.

Our advisers are mad at me, again. They think I should remind you every few
weeks that it?s only your generosity and patriotism that keeps VDARE.COM
going.

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prodding, especially those who donate monthly?for details of how to do this,
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we see your donations come in.)

I know our advisors are right. But asking for money gives me the creeps.

And, frankly, management (me) is pretty stretched pretty thin at VDARE.COM.
If I spend time organizing an appeal, I can?t spend it editing.

And we post every day at VDARE.COM, an enormous amount of material. There are
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What we post is prepared to the highest professional standards?I?ve not been
working in the Mainstream Media for 30 years for nothing. And we use
hyperlinks, not the least of the advantages of this wonderful new medium,
better than anyone else on the internet...at least, I think so. They help us
document our case. Readers who are new to the cause of patriotic immigration
reform find our hyperlinks particularly compelling. But the whole process is
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What this means: essentially everything you give goes to pay writers and
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