fullspinzoo wrote:
You really have no clue do you? No wonder everybody ignores you. When you insult somebody why don't you use something that resembles fact rather than just a bunch of useless bulls**t????? BTW, Obama spent $847 Billion on a worthless failure known as a stimulus pkg. He insisted there would be "shovel ready jobs". There were none. Complete failure. And now 3 years into Trump's term and a booming economy, Obama wants to take credit for it. How arrogant.....and moronic. Will Obama be trying to take credit for Trump's successes in his 3rd term??? You people are either arguing that the economy is not that great or trying to take credit for the "boom". Will you guys make up your mind? You can't have it both ways. And what LJ really means is STFU!!!!! but she's too polite.
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perfect example of the stupidity of this presidency, and there policies.
Snowflake
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney surprisingly announced to an audience in England that the U.S. is “desperate” for immigrants to fuel the nation’s economic growth, The Washington Post reported.
“We are desperate — desperate — for more people,” Mulvaney told an audience of several hundred Wednesday at the Oxford Union, according to a recording obtained by the Post.
“We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we’ve had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants.” He emphasized that they must enter the country in a “legal fashion.”
Representatives of several industries, especially agriculture, have complained that it’s difficult to find people to fill available jobs, stalling growth. But those complaints, and Mulvaney’s remarks, directly contradict President Donald Trump, who insisted last year during a visit to the southern border: “Our country is full. Can’t take you anymore . . . so turn around.”
The Trump administration has been working to slash both legal and i*****l i*********n. Immigrant visas — for people following a legal process to enter the U.S. — have been cut more than 25% since 2016, according to State Department figures.
Mulvaney, however, insisted that, despite Trump’s “anti-immigrant” reputation, he actually wants more foreign workers.
Farms, in particular, have faced struggles finding American workers to fill manual labor jobs amid the crackdown on immigrants.
Trump promised to resounding applause last year at the annual farm convention in New Orleans that he would “make it easier” for immigrant farmworkers to come into the country. “You need these people,” he said.
Farmers are still struggling to find labor — and to weather Trump’s devastating trade wars. Farm bankruptcies jumped 24% last year. Nearly 40% of U.S. farm income this year will be provided by government insurance and taxpayer subsidies.
Though Trump repeatedly characterizes immigrants as a drain on the U.S.economy, that’s not supported by data analyzed by several organizations. Foreign-born workers contribute roughly $2 trillion to the economy annually, according to a 2017 study in the journal The National Academies of Science.
In the same speech, Mulvaney criticized Republicans for letting Trump ratchet up the federal debt.
“My party is very interested in deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House,” he said, the Post reported. “The worst thing in the whole world is deficits when Barack Obama was the president. Then Donald Trump became president, and we’re a lot less interested as a party,” Mulvaney complained