Hillary Clinton’s Endgame: a Third Term for Bill Clinton?

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Bill Clinton, Clinton crime bill, for-profit prison industry, Hillary Clinton, Job Loss, mass incarceration, NAFTA, third term

During Monday night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton, provided a glimpse into what is in store for the nation and its citizens should she become president.

After pointing out Barack Obama’s failed energy policies, role in our national debt crisis, job loss, and the economy, Donald Trump asked Clinton why after 30 years is she suddenly thinking about solutions? Clinton’s response is scary and a warning to America.

TRUMP:  Hillary, I’d just ask you this. You’ve been doing this for 30 years. Why are you just thinking about these solutions right now? For 30 years, you’ve been doing it, and now you’re just starting to think of solutions. 

CLINTON: Well, actually… [Interruption]

TRUMP: I will bring — excuse me. I will bring back jobs. You can’t bring back jobs.

CLINTON: Well, actually, I have thought about this quite a bit.

TRUMP: Yeah, for 30 years. [Interruption]

CLINTON: And I have — well, not quite that long. I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. I think a lot about what worked and how we can make it work again…

TRUMP: Well, he approved NAFTA… [Interruption]

(CROSSTALK)

CLINTON: … million new jobs, a balanced budget…  [for other nations – my emphasis]

TRUMP: He approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country. [Interruption]

CLINTON: Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we’re actually going to look at the facts.

 

While incomes did rise but it had nothing to do with Bill Clinton.

 

 

The credit goes to hard working Americans whose efforts and years of hard work was finally paying off only to find themselves suddenly drowning under high taxes brought about by Bill Clinton’s tax policies.

 

Clinton also outsourced manufacturing jobs overseas and supplied private prison contractors with an endless supply of prison labor courtesy of his 1994 Omnibus Spend Crime Bill “which included the infamous “three strikes” law (three felony convictions means a life sentence) and ensured that mandatory minimum sentences imprisoned even low-level, non-violent offenders for a long, long time” and courtesy of the Congressional Black Caucus who to preserve Clinton’s presidency put the legislation over the top enabling its passage.

All of the above and NAFTA resulted in the massive destruction of manufacturing jobs in the United States.

 

 

And while the Clintons have apologized for the historical mass incarceration of Americans, the majority of whom were Blacks and Hispanics under the Crime Bill described by Hillary as a “well-thought out crime bill that is both smart and tough,” both Clintons have no regrets.

Regardless of the damage to Americans, to our nation, as result of Bill Clinton’s policies, Hillary Clinton as we heard the other night stands by her belief that hubby “did a pretty good job in the 1990s. I think a lot about what worked and how we can make it work again…”

That one statement is a warning that should Clinton rig her way into the White House, Americans can expect a third-term Bill Clinton presidency, “I will put in charge of revitalizing the economy ’cause he knows what he’s doing.”

Remember Hillary Clinton’s words when you head to the polls in November.

“I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. I think a lot about what worked and how we can make it work again…”

 

 

Hardee’s Devastating Response to Obama’s Minimum Wage Hike

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automation, failed Progressive policies, fast food franchises, Job Loss, minimum wage hike, unintended consequences

For the past few years, with Barack Obama’s blessings, collective bargaining, fellow comrades in arms including Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders among other Progressive politicians and paid agent provocateurs have demanded a $15 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers across the nation.

The rationale behind the demand is so that fast food workers could pay their bills, rent and feed their families. However, left out of the conversation was the increased taxes, union dues, decreased income and the loss of jobs that accompanies such a demand.

The organization Fight for $15 staged protests in more than 100 cities across the United States resulting in the passage of legislation mandating the $15 per hour minimum wage, legislation of which is now bearing fruit but not in a good way.

 

 

Case in point, Hardee’s fast food franchise has installed, under a pilot program in various locations, self-serving kiosks

Independent Journal by Parker Lee

The new kiosks, which are automated and “self-order,” have reportedly already been installed in dozens of locations.

Tom Lindblom — chief technology officer of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Hardee’s — explains:

“Our target market of young, hungry millennials, as well as younger and older customers, love the new ordering kiosks. The self-ordering kiosk gives the customer a fun, interactive and user-friendly way to control their order….”

Continue Reading – Hardee’s Has a Devastating Response to Obama’s Minimum Wage Hike

 

Hardee’s is but one of the many fast food franchises installing self-order kiosks, which have been well received by consumers.

On a personal note from one who lives in a sanctuary state, I cannot wait. I have had too many encounters with the fast food worker on the other side of the counter or drive-through window cannot understand a word I am saying because I do not have a foreign accent. Hello? Wth????

The Progressive argument for a $15 per hour minimum wage is officially moot.

 

 

 

After making it to the top, billionaire Steyer wants to make life tougher for Americans

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Elitist, Green Energy, high costs, Job Loss, Progressives, Tom Steyer

Watchdog, Author Dustin Hurst

NEW ORLEANS — Sitting in a cavernous Mercedes-Benz Superdome in front of green builders and central planners, billionaire and climate crusader Tom Steyer denounced the pursuit of wealth once people have enough of it.

Easy enough for him to say.

Steyer, sandwiched between Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley and author Paul Hawken at last week’s 2014 Greenbuild conference in New Orleans, told the thousands gathered on the football field that wealth isn’t his main driver in life.

“I’ve never been driven by money,” Steyer said. “I mean, it may seem funny for someone who was a businessperson for 30 years and an investor.”

For the next minute or so, Steyer pontificated on the meaning of life and the merits of pursuing healthy family relations and working toward a common good.

Debating the merits of one’s life choices at a posh green conference in one of the nation’s biggest party cities might come easy for the billionaire, who jets around the country pushing his green agenda.

Such a discussion might not be had in homes and apartments of Americans struggling to recover after the Great Recession, everyday people who depend on low heating and fuel costs to survive. Weightier issues, like how to pay the power bill or put food on the table, might prevail.

Yet, Steyer and his climate pals like O’Malley want to make energy more expensive for ordinary Americans. For example, look no further than the Maryland governor, whose aggressive green agenda caused Marylanders’ energy bills to skyrocket.

Or, consider the job losses occurring under the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s strict power-plant regulations announced earlier this year. The United Mine Workers, who endorsed President Barack Obama in 2008 but sat out in 2012, estimates the new rules will cost more than 75,000 jobs by 2020 and 152,000 by 2035.

And those are just the direct jobs — miners, rail operators and others. Apply the economic multiplier to the losses and the results could be catastrophic, especially for states heavily dependent on coal production.

The rules, union chief Cecil E. Roberts said in a prepared statement, endanger retirees who need their companies to fully fund pensions and health benefits.

“That puts hundreds of thousands more — mostly senior citizens living on already-low fixed incomes — squarely in the crosshairs of this rule,” Roberts warned….

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Reprinted with permission, Watchdog, Author Dustin Hurst , Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity.

 

LINKS:
http://watchdog.org/180277/steyer-green/
http://franklincenterhq.org/

Employees of Small Businesses Salaries Reduced By Est. $1,000 Per Annum under Obamacare

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Economy, Higher Premiums, Job Loss, Obamacare, Reduced Wages, Small Businesses, UNEMPLOYMENT

 

The impact of the Affordable Care Act on small business earnings and employment continues to wreak havoc across America.

According to a report by the American Action Forum (AAF), the salaries of employees working for small businesses that employ 20 to 99 employees were reduced $22.6 billion annually due to Obamacare regulations and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

In addition, due to rising premiums and regulations under the ACA more than 350,000 small business jobs have disappeared on a national scale, “with five states losing more than 20,000 jobs.”

Excerpts:

For businesses with 50 to 99 workers, we found that a one percent increase in total premiums has been associated with a 0.109 percent decrease in average weekly pay since the ACA. So a 19.8 percent increase in total premiums is associated with a 2.2 percent decrease in average weekly pay. This is consistent with past research from the Journal of Labor Economics, suggesting a double-digit increase in premiums reduced wages by 2.3 percent. Accordingly, our results suggest that the average weekly pay of $831 in 2013 was 2.2 percent lower than it would have been absent the ACA, costing workers $18.70 per week.^[11] Moreover, if employees work all year, our results suggest that ACA regulations are costing them on average $935 annually….

For businesses with 20 to 49 workers, we found that a one percent increase in total premiums has been associated with a 0.031 percent decrease in average weekly pay since the ACA. This suggests that the 19.8 percent increase in total premiums since the ACA is associated with a 0.6 percent decrease in average weekly pay. Moreover, we also found that in businesses with 20 to 49 employees before the ACA a one percent increase in total premiums was associated with a 0.077 percent increase in weekly pay. Thus, if the ACA had never become law, the 19.8 percent increase in total premiums since 2009 would have been associated with a 1.5 percent increase in weekly pay. So our results indicate that on net, the average weekly pay of $771 in 2013 was actually 2.1 percent lower than it would have been without the ACA, costing workers on average $16.55 per week. To put that in perspective, if employees work year round, they are losing about $827.50 on average due to ACA regulations….

Nationwide the employer mandate costs workers of small businesses with 50 to 99 employees at least $10.8 billion annually and workers of small businesses with 20 to 49 employees at least $22.6 billion annually.

You can view the full report here or below.

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LINK:
http://americanactionforum.org/research/ObamaCares-Impact-on-Small-Business-Wages-and-Employment