Another Billionaire for Poverty . . . Your Poverty.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Sunday that U.S. immigration reform is “one of the biggest civil rights issues of our time.”
Shit. Now illegal and legal immigration is a fucking "Civil Right".
The 29-year-old billionaire, who has recently taken a more active role in calling for immigration reform, made the comment on ABC’s “This Week.” And he was immediately challenged by the interviewer, who suggested many Americans would likely disagree that providing a path to citizenship for some of the 11 million people living in this country illegally is a civil rights issue.
“There are a lot of misconceptions about that,” Zuckerberg responded. “A lot of them came here because they just want to work. They want to help out their families and they want to contribute,” reports Fox News.
Zuckerberg recently founded the group FWD.us with other Silicon Valley leaders “to promote policies to keep the United States and its citizens competitive in a global economy,” according to its website.
FWD.us’ key points include securing borders, the path to citizenship and support for issuing more H-1B visas.
The group argues the change will “attract the world’s best and the brightest workers.”
However, skeptics argue that allowing U.S. employers to "temporarily" hire more educated foreign workers for skilled jobs or “specialty occupations” in such fields as technology and engineering allows companies like Facebook to hire lower-paid immigrants over college-educated Americans.
Americans Need Jobs Billionaire assholes like Zuckerberg want to import and legalize countless millions of new workers from foreign nations to compete with Americans for a limited number of jobs and drive wages down. . Both political parties join with Zuckerberg in this madness. The Democrats in order to recruit new poor voters and the GOP to serve their Masters in the business community looking for cheap labor. Both parties could care less about the under and unemployed American citizen.
Real Unemployment is 23% The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate (the blue line) reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. .
The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.
Roger Daltrey, The Who frontman, says that he is angry that Labour's mass immigration policies have taken jobs from his friends
This sounds so, so familiar. - Politicians around the world are all the same. They want to pay back their backers in the business community by allowing nearly unlimited immigration in order to drive down wages. The native born citizens are usually called "racists" for daring to want to be employed in the nation of their birth instead of handing over their jobs to immigrants.
Roger Daltrey, the lead singer of The Who, says he will never forgive Labour for their mass immigration policies as he says they “destroyed the jobs of my mates”.
The musician, who once supported the party, says that they have let down his generation by allowing an influx of workers which resulted in jobs being undercut because of “stupid thinking on Europe”.
. It is the immigrants who get wrongly blamed for the problems, Daltrey says, when actually it was a political mistake which caused them.
"I will never, ever forgive the Labour party for allowing this mass immigration with no demands put on what people should be paid when they come to this country. I will never forgive them for destroying the jobs of my mates, because they allowed their jobs to be undercut with stupid thinking on Europe, letting them all in, so they can live 10 to a room, working for Polish wages,” he told the Sunday Times magazine reports the UK Telegraph.
Roger in the olden days.
“I've got nothing against the Poles at all, but that was a political mistake and it made me very angry. And the people who get it in the neck are the immigrants, and it's not their fault."
He refused to rule out voting for Nigel Farage in the election, saying that at the moment he does not who will get his support.
Daltrey, 69, grew up in working class Shepherd's Bush, west London, and is fiercely proud of his roots.
He has spoken out about the impact of immigration on the British working classes before, claiming two years ago that the coalition did not “have the balls” to tackle the problem.
This time his attack is aimed directly at Labour and the European Union, the bureaucracy of which he says that he “can’t stand”, adding: “It’s detrimental to the whole place”.
The singer also criticised politicians over their use of social networking sites, particularly Twitter, asking how they find the time to come up with mundane postings when they should be concentrating on running the country.
“I find it really worrying that politicians tweet. That really worries the fuck out of me,” he said.
“They should be sitting there thinking about doing a good job rather than telling us what they had for breakfast or what colour suit they're wearing.”
Modern technology has taken the joy out of life, he says, and we got more done before the invention of smartphones.
“We're just busy doing nothing now”, said Daltrey, who runs a trout fishery at his home in East Sussex. “We've got no time to contemplate, no time to dream.”
A Polish food shop in Colliers Wood, South London. . Some 545,000 Polish passport holders now live in the UK, compared with 75,000 in 2003, the year before Poland joined the EU.
Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. "More human than human" is our motto. Blade Runner
The Droids are Taking Our Jobs
We are looking at a brave new world of a massive and permanent unemployment of countless millions of people and ever increasing poverty caused by computers, the Internet and robotics.
In China more than 60 percent of the enterprises surveyed have reduced production line employees by at least 10% using robotics. While 16 percent of the firms have cut their production jobs by more than 30%.
Best of all, robots do not form unions, take vacations or want pay raises.
Zhejiang province is to invest 500 billion yuan ($82 billion) over the next five years to encourage manufacturers to adopt more robots to overcome the short supply and high cost of labor.
The program is underway and will help at least 5,000 companies a year, a source with the investment division of the Zhejiang Economic and Information Commission told China Daily, without giving details.
Replacing humans with robots is the most effective way to tackle the labor shortage and rising labor costs, the commission said reports China Daily.
From 2005 to 2012, average labor costs in Zhejiang, a hub for private manufacturing enterprises, almost tripled from 14,847 yuan to 41,370 yuan a year, with an annual increase of nearly 16 percent. In a survey conducted by the commission in May, 75 percent of respondents said rising costs were the main reason for switching to robots.
Robot Hamburger Maker Even fast food jobs are rapidly being abolished by technology. No longer will they say, “He’s going to end up flipping burgers.” Because now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs. Alpha machine from Momentum Machines cooks up a tasty burger with all the fixins. And it does it with such quality and efficiency it’ll produce “gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.” (singularityhub.com)
As factories used more robots, the proportion of surveyed enterprises with labor shortages dropped from 80 percent last year to 56.4 percent. The survey was based on replies from 515 enterprises that have introduced robot workers.
More than 60 percent of the enterprises surveyed have reduced production line employees by at least 10 percent, while 16 percent of the firms have cut their production jobs by more than 30 percent.
Meanwhile, robot workers have helped these factories improve productivity by more than 10 percent. . If such a strategy is adopted by large enterprises throughout the province, the labor shortage will be reduced by 700,000 workers, saving 29 billion yuan in labor costs a year, the commission said.
Li Gang, president of the robotics sector in China at ABB, a leading supplier of industrial robots, said China has become a "world factory", but with increasing awareness of health and safety the manufacturing sector faces challenges in the workplace.
"Replacing workers with robots in dangerous and unhealthy working environments and using them for more creative jobs will be an inevitable choice for China's manufacturing sector," Li said.
He was speaking at a forum during the 15th China International Industry Fair in Shanghai last week.
Li said robot sales in China accounted for 21 percent of the world's total in 2012, and he estimates that the country will become the largest robot market in the next year or two.
The Republican Party's Corporate Masters have gathered to pressure House Republicans to cave on immigration in order to increase their profits.
With over 90 million people not in the workforce, with record food stamps, poverty and under employment, corporate America wants 30 to 40 millions new workers legalized and/or imported into our economy.
Editor's Note - My wife's company outside of Los Angeles is an example of the screwing of the American worker. All of the American citizens on the 3rd floor were fired and their jobs sent to the Philippines. On the 1st floor all of the American citizens were "phased out" and the entire floor is now filled with temp agency tech workers imported from India. My wife and the few Americans left on the 2nd floor await their fate . . . and the screwing of America goes on and on.
The Democrats are fully on board with impoverishing American citizens by legalizing and importing 30 to 40 million citizens of foreign nations as new workers. Now the business community is pushing the GOP to join in on the fun. Don't worry they say. We will pony up all the campaign money you need in case of an election challenge.
In a public statement released post-government shutdown on Oct. 23, the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition (EWIC) wrote that it thinks Congress should focus on immigration reform efforts before the end of the year.
“Now that Congress can refocus after the showdown over the budget and debt ceiling, we are hearing calls from both sides of the aisle to go back to immigration reform,” EWIC wrote. “The Essential Worker Immigration Coalition (EWIC) is looking forward to continuing to work with the House of Representatives as it deliberates the important issue of immigration reform,” reports Breitbart News.
Among other groups, the EWIC represents the National Council of Chain Restaurants (NCCR). According to the group’s website, its board includes a who’s who of fast food restaurant executives.
For instance, NCCR’s chairman is Chip Kunde of Darden Restaurants--which owns brands like the Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Longhorn Steakhouse, Seasons 52, the Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Eddie V’s, and Yard House. Other members include:
Vice Chairman: Mary Schnell of Wendy’s
Treasurer: Cicely Simpson of Dunkin’ Donuts
Secretary Lynn Liddle of Domino’s Pizza
Past Chairman: Mike Starnes of Denny’s
Board members: Donald Balfour of Waffle House, Steve Hilton of McDonald’s, Craig Prusher of Church’s Chicken, James Richardson of White Castle, Patrick Sheehy from Cracker Barrel, Mark Simpson of Texas Roadhouse, Dan Colegrove of DineEquity, Inc., which owns IHOP and Applebee’s, and Joe Taylor of Brinker International, Inc., which owns Chili’s and Maggiano’s brands
Chairman Emeritus: Steve Brigandi of Jack in the Box
Conservative Socialism The politicians double cross the American people and line the pockets of their corporate allies with cash with an endless flow of cheap imported labor. After all, it is only "fair" to legalize 30 million new workers to compete directly with American citizens for the limited number of jobs. . As a bonus, businesses rake in the money when they provide "free" Obamaphones and when EBT card money is spent in their stores. For businesses more poor people means more money in their accounts. . Conservative Socialism. Using taxation the wealth is re-distributed through the state's welfare system and into the pockets of Corporate America.
The EWIC argued that despite unprecedentedly high unemployment rates, the industries it represents somehow need more workers. According to the September report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in America stands a 7.2 percent and has not dropped below 7 percent since President Barack Obama took office.
“There is currently no effective process by which lesser skilled essential workers can immigrate legally other than a guest worker in a seasonal or temporary period position,” EWIC wrote in its statement. “Our American-born workforce will increase only 1% over the next 10 years. The restaurant industry alone projects a need for 15% more workers. There are simply not enough American-born workers to fill the jobs we expect to be created by a vibrant economy in the coming years.”
House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has publicly stated he wants a conference committee with the Senate bill. "A lot of people are saying, just pass the Senate bill," Ryan said in July. "That's not what the House is going to do. I think we can make it better.”
Other industry groups the EWIC represents include:
American Health Care Association
American Hotel & Lodging Association
American Immigration Lawyers Association
American Meat Institute
American Nursery & Landscape Association American Staffing Association
Associated Builders and Contractors
Associated General Contractors of America
Federation of Employers & Workers of America
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
ImmigrationWorks USA
Independent Electrical Contractors International Franchise Association
National Apartment Association
National Association of Home Builders
National Association of Manufacturers National Club Association
National Multi Housing Council
National Retail Federation
National Roofing Contractors Association Professional Landcare Network
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
Small Business Workforce Alliance
EWIC is hardly the only group representing fast food restaurants pushing for amnesty. The National Restaurant Association (NRA) has participated in the campaign to lobby the House of Representatives as well.
The New American Dream Just keep reloading my EBT card please.
Boycott Domino's Pizza With America sinking into a giant shit-hole of poverty and under and unemployment we have corporate American pressuring Congress to fuck overthe American people and legalize 30 million new workers in order to drive down wages.
A huge 12.2% "official" unemployment rate in Europe
While 23% is the real unemployment in the U.S.
Pressure is mounting on the European Central Bank to boost activity in the euro area after the latest figures showed a fresh rise in unemployment, and inflation dropping sharply to a four-year low.
The jobless total for the 17 nations that use the single currency rose by 60,000 in September to 19.4 million – the 29th consecutive monthly increase. Unemployment is a million higher than in September 2012 and up by almost four million since the spring of 2011.
Analysts said the labour market in the euro area had yet to stabilise despite the return of modest growth in recent months.
Jobless rates range from 4.9% in Austria and 5.2% in Germany to 26.6% in Spain and 27.6% in Greece, with unemployment in Italy rising to a record high of 12.5% in September. The jobless total in France also rose, up by 34,000 in September and by almost 250,000 in the past year.
Unemployment among the under-25s rose by 22,000 in September to 3,548,000 – nudging up youth jobless rate to 24.1%. In France, the youth jobless rate jumped from 25.6% to 26.1%, while in Italy it increased from 40.2% to 40.4%.
23% Unemployment in the USA
Alternate Unemployment Charts
The U.S. seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. .
The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.
The American middle class is being devoured before our very eyes by technology and robotics.
As much as I slam Obama as the Food Stamp King, the food stamp issue started long before he appeared. Food stamps are only a symptom of the problem. Food stamps are the new normal.
We are not out of work because the economy is bad. The economy is bad because we are out of work.
It amazes me the more I study this story. If you listen to the so-called "experts" in the main stream media, you will believe that what happened to the global economy only happened starting in the latter part of 2008. They are way off base. For many years we have been seeing a slow motion job implosion of the Americans economy driven by the Internet, robotics and outsourcing.
A huge part of the food stamp explosion is millions of jobs being eliminated by robotics, the Internet and outsourcing to Asia and Latin America.
EBT cards are the modern version of the old Roman bread and circuses to keep the permanently unemployed mobs fed and entertained so they would not rise up against the political system.
The number of people enrolled in SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka "food stamps") has doubled to 47 million people in the past ten years. Perhaps more disturbingly, the number of people on the program increased during a period of economic growth, something that has never happened before.
Poverty used to fall in tandem with the jobless rate, reducing the need for food stamps but the researchers found poverty did not decline as the economy grew in the mid-2000s -- and in the recovery following the Great Recession, the number of people receiving food stamps kept rising.
The assumption has always been a stronger labor market would reduce the need for food stamps, the economists said, but the new trend suggests rising employment might no longer be enough.
SNAP is also being expanded in several states to include food from restaurants. Gift baskets that include both food and non-food items are also eligible to be purchased with SNAP.
The government is encouraging enrollment—and reliance—on their programs. EBT Bingo games occur in Rhode Island to enroll residents in the program.
China helped create the Food Stamp Explosion When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, tariffs were lowered, and it became very profitable for American companies to relocate production to China’s sweatshops. . Millions of American jobs were lost, and those former workers have piled up on the food-stamp rolls. Experts say the cause of the ongoing crisis is trade imbalances created by then-President Clinton about 20 years ago when he granted China most-favored-nation trading status --- when he negotiated World Trade Organization membership for China.
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
And the situation is even worse than it appears.
Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
They're being obliterated by technology.
Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived. Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/robot-wars-in-china-bugger-flipping.html#rmIlzyAFl702EfvB.99
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
And the situation is even worse than it appears.
Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
They're being obliterated by technology.
Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived. Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/robot-wars-in-china-bugger-flipping.html#rmIlzyAFl702EfvB.99
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
And the situation is even worse than it appears.
Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
They're being obliterated by technology.
Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived. Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/robot-wars-in-china-bugger-flipping.html#rmIlzyAFl702EfvB.99
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
And the situation is even worse than it appears.
Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
They're being obliterated by technology.
Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived. Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/robot-wars-in-china-bugger-flipping.html#rmIlzyAFl702EfvB.99
The Middle Class - Busted & Betrayed
While both parties fall all over themselves to legalize and import citizens of foreign nations, the jobs held by American citizens are being abolished by the millions.
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
And the situation is even worse than it appears.
Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say experts who study the labor market. What's more, these jobs aren't just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren't just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived.
"The jobs that are going away aren't coming back," says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author of "Race Against the Machine." ''I have never seen a period where computers demonstrated as many skills and abilities as they have over the past seven years."
The global economy is being reshaped by machines that generate and analyze vast amounts of data; by devices such as smartphones and tablet computers that let people work just about anywhere, even when they're on the move; by smarter, nimbler robots; and by services that let businesses rent computing power when they need it, instead of installing expensive equipment and hiring IT staffs to run it.
Whole employment categories, from secretaries to travel agents, are starting to disappear.
The AP's key findings:
For more than three decades, technology has reduced the number of jobs in manufacturing. Robots and other machines controlled by computer programs work faster and make fewer mistakes than humans. Now, that same efficiency is being unleashed in the service economy, which employs more than two-thirds of the workforce in developed countries. Technology is eliminating jobs in office buildings, retail establishments and other businesses consumers deal with every day.
Technology is being adopted by every kind of organization that employs people. It's replacing workers in large corporations and small businesses, established companies and start-ups. It's being used by schools, colleges and universities; hospitals and other medical facilities; nonprofit organizations and the military.
The most vulnerable workers are doing repetitive tasks that programmers can write software for — an accountant checking a list of numbers, an office manager filing forms, a paralegal reviewing documents for key words to help in a case. As software becomes even more sophisticated, victims are expected to include those who juggle tasks, such as supervisors and managers — workers who thought they were protected by a college degree.
Technology is replacing workers in developed countries regardless of their politics, policies and laws. Union rules and labor laws may slow the dismissal of employees, but no country is attempting to prohibit organizations from using technology that allows them to operate more efficiently — and with fewer employees.
More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas
The droids are taking our jobs An Oxford University study concluded that 47% of all
Touch Screens at McDonalds Abolish Jobs. McDonald's and the Japanese sushi chain, Kura, just installed 7,000 touch-screens throughout Europe, eliminating the need for workers to take customers' orders. Kura, for its part, has been able to fully eliminate cashiers from their workforce.
. “The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.” ― Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
GOP Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has been in hiding during the government shutdown and Obamacare debate. It appears he has been using his time off to find ways to legalize up to 30 million or more illegal aliens to compete directly with Americans for jobs.
Some GOP donors will withhold money from Republicans who obstruct "reform".
I have long felt that Congressman Paul Ryan (R - Wisconsin) was simply another turd that managed to float to the top of the Congressional bowl.
It appears I was right yet again, and it is time to flush.
Ryan was AWOL during the entire budget-Obamacare insanity. That alone tells you all you need to know about him. But it looks like he spent his free time trying to figure out how to legalize and/or import 30 million plus illegals to compete with Americans for jobs.
“Republican Representatives Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida have been working on legislation that includes a process by which immigrants here illegally could ‘get right with the law’ and eventually become citizens,” the New York Times’ Eric Lipton and Ashley Parker wrote on Friday in a piece about immigration reform.
Several Republican executives and donors who are part of a lobbying blitz coming to Capitol Hill next week said they were considering withholding, or had already decided to withhold, future financial support to Republican lawmakers they believe are obstructing progress on immigration.
“I respect people’s views and concerns about the fact that we have a situation in the United States where we have millions of undocumented immigrants,” said Justin Sayfie, a lawyer from Florida who said he helped Mitt Romney raise more than $100,000 for his presidential campaign last year, in addition to helping other Republican candidates. “But we have what we have. This is October 2013. And the country will be better off if we fix it.”
Politico reported on Friday that the Speaker and other House GOP leadership figures are privately saying they do not expect a vote on immigration measures this year, publicly they say they want to hold a vote on something on the floor of the House.
Fucking Insanity Poverty and food stamps are at record highs. There is massive under and unemployment. Countless jobs are still being outsourced to Asia. And nimrods like Paul Ryan want to legalized tens of millions of new workers and drive down wages.
No federal employees at all. The only “federal” connection is that the Cliff House pays a fee to operate on government land, and that fee had been paid. They had the right to operate.
The forced closing of the restaurant by the Democrat Party has put out of work all the servers, bus boys, cooks and support staff.
Let's bottom line it. Our Comrade President does not give a fuck if the laid off employees are able to feed themselves, feed their children or pay their rent.
People's Republic of California - Most of the news about the “Shutdown Theater” — unnecessary closures ordered by the Obama administration to purposely maximize the pain of the government shutdown — has focused on the Washington, DC area, but the epidemic of artificial Potemkin Suffering has now struck the West Coast as well.
San Francisco’s Cliff House, a privately owned and very profitable restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was suddenly and unexpectedly ordered closed today, “because” the building sits on federal land. This, despite the fact that the Cliff House racks up $11.5 million in annual sales and is one of the most profitable independent restaurants in the nation reports PJ Media.
Closed a 2nd Time
On Monday, October 7, with little fanfare, Cliff House’s owners Dan and Mary Hountalas decided to defy the government’s closure order and instead re-open for business, to the delight of the hundreds of tourists and locals who dine there every day.
The famed Cliff House restaurant has been forced to shut its doors for the remainder of the federal government shutdown, after it defied orders by reopening earlier this week.
How does the government save money by shuttering a profitable business? And a private one at that? . There are no federal employees at the Cliff House restaurant; a receptionist still manning the phones there today confirmed that all employees are paid by the restaurant’s owners, not by the government.
As the Cliff House’s own Web site notes, the restaurant is a “concessionaire” operating a business on Federal land — in this case, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which encompasses much of the Pacific shoreline along San Francisco and Marin counties — which means it is a private business which pays a fee to operate on government property.
A California Classic Since 1858 Cliff House has had five major incarnations since its beginnings in 1858. That year, Samuel Brannan, a prosperous ex-Mormon elder from Maine, bought for $1,500 the lumber salvaged from a ship that foundered on the basalt cliffs below. With this material he built the first Cliff House. . The growth of Golden Gate Park attracted beach travellers, in search of meals and a look at the sea lions sunning themselves on Seal Rocks just off the cliffs, to visit the area. The 1896 Cliff House survived the 1906 earthquake with little damage, but burned to the ground on the evening of September 7, 1907, after existing for only 11 years. The modern Cliff House features two restaurants, the casual dining Bistro Restaurant and the more formal Sutro's.
An Oxford University study concluded that 47% of all
U.S. jobs will be eliminated by technology.
By Gary;
Armageddon is here and no one has noticed yet.
I have blogged about this subject over and over, but the media and the politicians remain clueless about the tidal wave of economic anarchy coming right at us.
A new study by Dr. Carl Frey and Dr. Michael Osborne of Oxford University concluded was that 47 percent of all U.S. jobs could be automated within the next 20 years.
The U.S. economy will never produce enough jobs for everyone ever again says the new study.
Entire industries and all of their employees have virtually vanished. Try to find a video or record store for example.
The automation of half the nation’s jobs will occur in two phases, the study says: The first wave will affect (and is affecting) jobs in transportation/logistics, production labor, administrative support, services, sales, and construction.
The second wave — propelled by artificial intelligence — will affect jobs in management, science, engineering, and the arts.
For employers, there are a whole host of advantages that come with replacing human workers with technology. Robots and computers never complain, they never get tired, they never need vacation, they never show up late, they never waste time on Facebook, they don’t need any health benefits and there are a vast array of rules, regulations and taxes that you must deal with when you hire a human worker.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
Are droids taking our jobs?
Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating -- jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through recent labor data to say: We ain't seen nothing yet.
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots
The riots set to music. Bitchin! Poor video quality. Keep it on a small screen. But to the point, the riots show our future as millions of permanently unemployed "have nots" will riot endlessly over real or imagined economic or social issues.
"We never get paid for our jobs." The combination of the Internet, robotics and computers is eliminating jobs faster than they can be created. But the insane politically correct politicians of both parties cannot wait to import and/or legalize countless millions of foreigners to compete directly against American citizens for a limited number of jobs. . Also see our article: "Terminator Robots - War without Warriors"
Here are some of the issues we face with robotics, computers, Internet and outsourcing.
The Collapse of the Consumer Economy - The economy of much of the world is based on buying shit with do not need with money we do not have and going deeper into debt.
As technology permanently eliminates jobs, people will no longer have money to buy all the crap the corporations tell us we "must" have in order to live.
With fewer and fewer workers-consumers, there will be a slow motion collapse of the economy from which there is no recovery.
Eternal Poverty - With technology abolishing jobs from bank tellers to travel agents to video stores to auto assembly lines we are looking at a world with eternal poverty.
Goodbye Tax Money Robots and computers neither pay taxes into the system nor consume products to strengthen the economy. But they do abolish jobs.
Not only poverty, but the poor knowing there is no hope of any kind of jobs ever returning and a way to escape poverty. Countless millions will look at a permanent minimalist future of food stamps, government provided housing and Obamaphones.
No Taxes - Machines do not pay taxes. As human workers rapidly vanish and the consumer economy collapses you will see tax income to government treasuries fall.
Increasingly there will be less and less tax money to support everything from the military down to road repairs, police and fire.
The Collapse of Social Security - Every thinking person knew from day one that the Social Security system was a phony Ponzi scheme. It needed endless new workers to pay into the system to keep the benefits flowing.
Now we have reached that point where there will be only a fraction of the workers needed.
Money Printing - The magic word of the day is G-O-L-D. Simple math says tax revenue will decrease and demands on the treasury will increase.
The governments of the industrialized world will turn to their old friend the printing press to get the money they need to pacify the masses of unemployed with EBT cards and housing.
Can an Economic Armageddon be Stopped?
Better minds than mine will have to kick around this issue.
But there is one area I can see. For businesses there are economic benefits in abolishing jobs and going over to computer-robotics. Saving on labor is always #1.
I can see the day coming where governments will try to tax businesses for replacing workers with robotic technology and put in place tariffs against foreign goods and services driven by robotic technology.
The old political lines of Left & Right will be shattered when faced with an economic implosion of unprecedented dimensions.
If you are planning to be alive in 20 to 30 years I suggest you dig your cave deep, deep into the mountain to avoid the coming clusterfuck.
. The Fight Club Economy. The classic cult movie Fight Club rips into the insane corporate advertising driven consumer culture as both destructive to our lives and unsustainable. We may soon be living the words of Tyler Durden as our economy tanks.
Tyler Durden: We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
Tyler Durden: Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all going down, man. So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns.
With massive American poverty, food stamps, under and unemployment, GOP Congressmen are working on a plan to create a visa program allowing even more workers into the country.
Democrats want to import poor voters. Republicans bow down to their corporate masters and work to import cheap labor to drive down wages.
If you are an American citizen you are fucked no matter who you vote for,
Immigration overhaul legislation has been dormant in the House for months, but a few Republicans are working behind the scenes to advance it at a time the Capitol is immersed in a partisan brawl over government spending and President Barack Obama's health care law.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has been discussing possible legal status for the estimated 11 million immigrants (actually 30 to 40 million) living in the U.S. illegally. He's also been working with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a fellow Virginia Republican, on a bill offering citizenship to immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
GOP Reps. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, and Ted Poe, R-Texas, are working on a plan to create a visa program allowing more lower-skilled workers into the country reports ABC News.
Goodlatte and the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, hold out hopes for floor action by late October on a series of immigration bills that already have passed their committees.
"I would think that would be the next agenda item in the queue after we're done with this mess," McCaul said this past week, referring to bitter divisions over the health law, the level of government spending and the growing federal debt.
The attention of House GOP leaders seems certain to remain squarely focused on the fiscal disputes until they are resolved, leaving immigration on a back burner for some time to come. But lawmakers and outside advocates insist that three months after the Democratic-led Senate passed a sweeping immigration bill, the issue is showing signs of life in the Republican-run House.
"Despite the appearance that would suggest everyone in Washington is focused on one thing, work is going on on other issues beneath the radar," said Tamar Jacoby, head of ImmigrationWorks USA, a coalition of small businesses that supports comprehensive immigration legislation.
"Moving immigration forward remains a priority, but right now there's no firm timetable," said Doug Heye, a spokesman for Cantor.
Goodlatte would allow immigrants here illegally to obtain legal work status, and from there, they could use the existing routes to citizenship: marrying a U.S. citizen or getting sponsored by an employer or U.S. citizen relative.
Depending on how it's structured, Goodlatte's approach could ultimately result in citizenship for perhaps as many as 7 million immigrants now here illegally.
Unemployed? The politicians could care less. Americans want jobs to feed their children, but both Republicans and Democrats want endless waves of new immigrants to be imported to compete for natives for a limited number of jobs.
Real unemployment is 23% . The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. .
The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.
