2019 February, week 1 -- jgo economic news bits

2nd month of the 1st quarter of the 30th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer-Trump economic depression

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* repeal vile, hateful, unconstitutional national socialist ObummerDoesn'tCare + Ryan&McConnellDon'tCare (do NOT replace it)

* reform regulation and taxation of charities (differentiate genuine charities from political campaign organizations and crony socialist cabals) and encourage, without subsidizing, mutual benefit associations

* cut immigration/green cards/LPR visas to no more than 175K/year (about what John F. Kennedy thought was reasonable)

* cut O + L + H guest-work visas to no more than 5K/year (total)

* cut F student visas to no more than 10K/year (total) and OPT to 500/year for a term of no more than 3 months

* end visa waivers (everyone must pass a conscientious background investigation, regardless of country of birth or citizenship or most recent residence)

* fence/wall the borders

* terminate/eliminate permission to work from exchange / student exchange / cultural exchange visa programs (you can put on plays, pageants, dance, music, local craftsmanship & industry demonstrations, but not settle in to jobs in hotels, resorts, USA industries, craftsmanship, agriculture, etc.)

* phase out unconstitutional Medicaid & Medicare over 3 years

* phase out the unconstitutional Socialist Insecurity Abomination over 5 years

* end government subsidies for hospitals (and the attached strings)

* end government subsidies for scientific research (except for defense which should cover defense against biological warfare & epidemics)

* repeal regressive income extortion (i.e. repeal 16th amendment; replace with national retail sales tax with hard-cap constitutional top rate of 9.875% structured as a levy on the states)

* revoke the charter of the CFPB and repeal the rest of Dodd-Frank

* revoke the charter of the Federal Reserve System and establish a stable, hard money

* repeal direct election of senators (repeal 17th amendment)

* repeal the unconstitutional Federal Firearms Act and its amendments

* de-fund and repeal the charters of CPB/NPR/PBS

* de-fund the national endowments for arts and humanities and AFI

* de-fund the racist eugenicist Planned Parenthood

* de-fund SBA

* de-fund Export-Import Bank, World Bank, IMF, Asian Development Bank, USAID

* cut foreign aid

* repudiate biased, injust WTO, GATS/TiSA

* re-negotiate or statutorily repudiate/reset GATT & NAFTA

* totally de-fund UN, withdraw membership, and evict them and all their evil spawn from NY and the USA

* cut federal Department of Educationism back to statistical reporting of graduations, diplomas, degrees, and rates thereof (NCES)

* cut Department of Energy by one-third to one-half

* set normal import tariff/duties/taxes to a maximum cap of 9.875%, and MFN to a cap of 8%, dumping penalties to at most 50%, and fraud penalties to at most 120%, eliminate exemptions to bring back burden to between 40% & 65% of all goods and services imported into USA with the aim of reaching an overall weighted average rate of 8%-12.5%

* adopt honest Country of Origin Label requirement for all imports to USA, requiring readable percentage of origin content for up to top 10 places of origin of parts & materials

* beef up export bans and restrictions for national security and to fight intellectual property robbery and fraud

* cut or eliminate HUD, HHS, NIH, CDCP, NSF; limit and focus their funding and work on constitutional functions & objectives

* cut or eliminate federal highway trust funds & DoT FHA Intelligent Transportation Systems & Amtrak

* repeal Anti-Impoundment Act
 

So, let us join the chorus in calling for immediate resignations of:

Robert B. Aderholt, Pete Aguilar, Lamar Alexander, Mark E. Amodei, »Kelly Ayotte,

Don Bacon, »Xavier Becerra, Michael Bennett, Jaime Herrera Beutler, Corry Bliss, Richard Blumenthal, Cory Booker, John Boozman, »Barbara Boxer, Sherrod Brown,

Ken Calvert, Maria Cantwell, Andre Carson, Bill Cassidy, Joaquin Castro, »Jason Chaffetz, Jim Clyburn, »Cochran, »Mike Coffman, Tom Cole, »Chris Collins, Susan M. Collins, »Conyers, Chris Coons, »Bob Corker, John Cornyn, Ryan A. Costello, »Carlos Curbelo, »John Abney Culberson,

Danny K. Davis, de Blasio, Diana de Gette, Rosa de Lauro, »Jeff Denham, »Charles Dent, Ted Deutch, Mark de Saulnier, Mario Diaz-Balart, Sean Duffy, Dick Durbin,

»Keith Ellison, »Emanuel, Joni Ernst, Anna Eshoo, Adriano Espaillat, »Esty,

»John Faso, Diane Feinstein, Brian FitzPatrick, »Jeff Flake, Charles J. Fleischmann, Jeff Fortenberry, »Al Franken, »Rodney P. Frelinghuysen,

Cory Gardner, »Dolly Gee, Lindsey Grahamnesty, Kay Granger, Charles Grassley, Tom Graves, Al Green, »Gene Green, Michelle Lujan Grisham, »Luis Gutierrez,

Andy Harris, Kamala Harris, Alcee Hastings, »Orrin D. Hatch, »Dean Heller, Jim Himes, »Ruben Hinojosa, Steny Hoyer, Will Hurd,

Johnny Isakson, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Pramila Jayapal, Hakeem Jeffries, »Evan H. Jenkins, Ron Johnson, David P. Joyce,

Tim Kaine, Marcie Kaptur, »John Kasich, John Katko, Robin Kelly, Ro Khanna, Peter T. King, Amy Klobuchar, »Stephen/Steve Knight,

»Leonard Lance, James Lankford, Al Lawson, Patrick Leahy, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Zoe Lofgren, »Mia Love, »Michelle Lujan-Grisham,

»Michael Madigan, Thomas Massie, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Jerry McNerney, Gregory W. Meeks, »Mikulski, John R. Moolenaar, Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, Chris Murphy,

Gerrold Nadler, Grace Napolitano, »Bill Nelson, Dan Newhouse,

Steven Palazzo, »Erik Paulsen, Nasty Pelosi, Mark Pocan, Rob Portman, David Price,

Mike Quigley,

Tom Reed, »David Reichert, Pat Roberts, Martha Roby, Harold/Hal Rogers, »Thomas J. Rooney, »Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mike Rounds, Marco Rubio, John Rutherford, »Paul Ryan,

Adam B. Schiff/Shiftless, Schmuckie Schumer, »Pete Sessions, Michael K. Simpson, Chris Smith, Elise Stefanik, Chris Stewart, Steve Stivers, Eric Swalwell,

»Scott Taylor, Bennie Thompson, John Thune, Thom Tillis (with staffer Daniel Keylin), »David Trott,

Fred Upton,

David G. Valadao,

Mark Warner, Maxine Waters, Frederica Wilson, Steve Womack, »Rob Woodhall,

»Kevin Yoder, »David Young;

Zuckerberg, Young, Weaver, Wasson, Vestberg, Tesija, Steyer, Soros, Slater, Schulman, Rometty, Robbins, Otis, O'Rourke, Northam, Nooyi, Murdoch, Muilenburg, McAdam, Laguarta, Keeth, Hinojosa, Healey, Haythornthwaite, Larry Ellison, Cook, Carrion, Bloomberg, Bezos, Bertolini, Banga, Archambeau, Adamczyk, all Alphabet/Google/YouTube executives (Bock, Brin, Hogue, Murillo, Naughton, Page, Pichai, Porat, Schmidt, Walker...), the whole 9th circus... and they should move in shame into remote caves smaller than 200 square feet each for an ascetic life of repentance.

 

 
 
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2019 February, week 1 - jgo economic news bits

2nd month of the 1st quarter of the 30th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer-Trump economic depression


 
 

Friday

Freitag

Yom Shishi

Venerdi

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)

It has been 742 days since president Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, and congress & oath-breaking judges are still blocking visa/immigration & border security reforms, & repeal of evil, unconstitutional, privacy-violating, national socialist ObummerDoesn'tCare.   Cut student, refugee, asylum, exchange, guest-work, green card visas.   Establish standards.   Conduct conscientious background investigations on visa applicants.   Terminate visa waivers.   Fence/wall all USA 🇺🇸 land-borders and improve ports to better track who enters and exits and when.

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
John Carney _Breitbart_
304K jobs were added in January; December revised down from 312K to 222K; about 103.3M are not employed
Big pictures at tops of web articles are annoying.   MSFT JavaScript is still evil.   Pop-ups are evil; pop-ups that bring up ads when you click on the close X are worse.   Therefore, web-weavers who insert them are evil, and perhaps they should not only be fired but deported or exiled.

Estimated jobs dearth/insufficency/shortage:
    total aggregate jobs dearth=25.3M;
    men about 25.3M;
    women about 300K;
    blacks about 9.2M;
    Asians about 3.8M.

Employed/(Civilian Non-Institutionalized Population 16 years and older) == 〖Employed/CivPop〗:
    total aggregate 60% (best=64.9%; worst=53.7%);
    men 65.5% (best=86.2%; worst=62.1%);
    women 54.9% (best=58%; worst=29.7%);
    black 57.9% (best=61.4%; worst=47.8%);
    white 60.2% (best=65.5%; worst=53.7%);
    Asians 62% (best=65.6%; worst=58.7%);
    Hispanic/Latino 63.2% (best=66.4%; worst=52.1%).

Average duration of un-employment (19.2 weeks) is 33.7 weeks better than worst on record, 1.7 weeks worse than best on record.   Median duration of un-employment (8.3 weeks) is 17.5 weeks better than worst on record, 4.7 weeks worse than best on record.  

But the average duration of un-employment for those seeking full-time work (20.3 weeks) is 24.4 weeks better than the worst ever, and 10.2 weeks worse than the best ever, while the median duration (8.9 weeks) is 7.9 weeks better than the worst ever and 15.9 weeks worse than the best ever.  

For those with less than the equivalent of a HS diploma, the employment/population ratio is 42.3%; 2.2 below the best on record (44.5%) and 7.7 percentage points better than the worst on record (34.6%).     For those with the equivalent of a HS diploma, the employment/population ratio is 55.4%, 2.3 percentage points better than the worst on record, and 8.1 percentage points below the best on record.     For those with some college/university, the employment/population ratio is 63.0%, 0.5 percentage point better than the worst on record, and 10 percentage points below the best on record, and fairly stable.     For those with the equivalent of a bachelor's degree, the employment/population ratio is 72.0%, 0.7 percentage points better than the worst on record, and 7.8 percentage points below the best on record.
employment/unemployment graphs 📈
by industry ⚙ ⚖ 👷 🗞 📚 🎥 🏗 🏭
by occupation 👨‍💻 👨‍⚖️ 👩‍🌾 👨‍🍳 👨‍🔧 👨‍🏭
graphs of education statistics 👨‍🎓
graphs of visa statistics 🛂
native (👶🇺🇾) & foreign-born (👽🇺🇳) employment/population graph 📈
foreign-born (👽) as percentage of civilian, non-institutionalized population 16 years and older graph 📈
jobs dearth (based on historical employed/population ratios) 📈
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2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
John Miano _Center for Immigration Studies_
president Trump's reversal to support displacement of USA 🇺🇸 citizen workers
proposed regulation
John Miano: CIS: president Trump could ameliorate bodyshop/guest-work cess-pool by shortening terms of guest-work visas, eliminating or limiting extensions/renewals
Quora: what were the factors behind the demise of Wang Laboratories?

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
John Binder _Breitbart_
GM bringing in guest-workers & off-shoring while dumping some 14,700 USA 🇺🇸 citizen employees
Big pictures at tops of web articles are annoying.   MSFT JavaScript is still evil.   Pop-ups are evil; pop-ups that bring up ads when you click on the close X are worse.   Therefore, web-weavers who insert them are evil, and perhaps they should not only be fired but deported or exiled.

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Simon Kent _Breitbart_
Mohammedan muftis/mullahs/ulamas say they will never ever denounce initiation of force & fraud by Muslims, claim it is inappropriate for judges to delve into violent crimes committed in the name of Islam
Big pictures at tops of web articles are annoying.   MSFT JavaScript is still evil.   Pop-ups are evil; pop-ups that bring up ads when you click on the close X are worse.   Therefore, web-weavers who insert them are evil, and perhaps they should not only be fired but deported or exiled.
The Religion of Peace

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
the immorality & inconsistency of Illiberal Leftist/ Dem/ Red/ Regressive/ Fascist/ Collectivist Kamala Harris

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
DHS caught more student visa + "Curricular Practical Training" (CPT) scamsters in sting
"...tackle the genuine [academic credential/] visa mills, where things are not that simple; where there are rich and canny individuals with lawyers [on retainer] breaking the immigration law in more subtle ways.   The DHS unit charged with such things, the sleepy Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), has not actively killed off an existing visa [& academic] visa mill in a long long time."

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Andrew R. Arthur _Center for Immigration Studies_
Mexico government 🇲🇽 ends fast-track "asylum" visas
2019-01-02: Mark Alexander: Patriot Post: USA 🇺🇸 security debates: Obummer, Clinton, Pelosi, Feinstein, Waters all live behind walls (picture)

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Wayne Allyn Root _News Max_
employment improvements may spell doom for Illiberal Leftist/ Dem/ Red/ Regressive/ Fascist/ Collectivist candidates in 2020 as they race to flood USA 🇺🇸 with illegal 🦹 alien 👽 voters

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
"Ms. Smallback" _News with Views_
the Clinton Crime Family Foundation case study hearing (part 2) [meet the Giustra Crime Family Foundation, deep-state DoJ's repeated loss/misplacement of evidence]

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Mark Levin
leftist racists; power-mad leftist extortionists
itunes

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Dan Bongino
episode 907: another illiberal leftist conspiracy theory collapses
omny.fm
bongino.com
James Langord: Washington DC Examiner: USA pay-rolls increased by 304K despite temporary partial federal government shut-down
Dan Bongino: deported illegal alien arrested again just inside USA border
Chuck Ross: Daily Caller: new evidence refutes Adam Schifftless's conspiracy theory
Dan Bongino: Donald J. Trump ii chides Adam Schifftless
Jeff Carlson: Epoch Times: Bill Priestap, who was supposed to be over-seeing investigations of Clinton Crime Family & president candidate Trump, was excluded from key meetings & decisions
Alex Pappas: Fox: Illiberal Leftists/ Dems/ Reds/ Regressives/ Fascists/ Collectivists fuming because president Trump nominated other than oath-breaking leftist extremists (i.e. non-leftists) to vacant seats in 9th circus

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Daniel Horowitz
episode 349: CBP has been turned into bed & breakfast with clinic; Yuma county AZ sheriff Leon Wilmot
itunes

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Steve Deace
episode 23: have Illiberal Leftists/ Dems/ Reds/ Regressives/ Fascists/ Collectivists damaged their 2020 election prospects;   Shannon Joy
itunes

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Bill Cunningham
super-mutants!
itunes

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Sean Hannity
Ann McElhinney & Phelim McAleer on infanticide

2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
Bob Tisdale _Watts Up with That_
estimated aggregated average global surface temperature: early 20th century warming period; 81 models vs. 81 models & 81 models vs. data

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2019-02-01 (5779 Shebet 26)
10 commandments ✝/ aseret/asereth ha dibrot ✡

613 mitzvoth/taryag mitzvot ✡
ChaBaD: 613 mitzvoth/taryag mitzvot ✡

7 laws of Noah

Natural Law
✝ Golden Rule ✠, Hillel's Judaism while standing on one foot ✡, and similar brief ethical rules of thumb
Natural Rights vs. legal privileges

The Libertarian Principle: No individual or group of individuals may morally initiate physical force or fraud against others.   Anyone who does initiate the use of physical force or fraud is unethical and criminal.
Objectivist tree 💲
Existence
Consciousness Identity
ReasonPurposeSelf-Esteem
  Rationality     Independence     Integrity     Honesty     Justice     Productiveness     Pride  

🤠 Gene Autry's CowBoy Code 🤠
1. The CowBoy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take un-fair advantage.
2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.
3. He must always tell the truth.
4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
6. He must help people in distress.
7. He must be a good worker.
8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.
9. He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws.
10. The CowBoy is a patriot.

13 attributes of mercy
"Thus saith the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel; remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from My people, saith the Lord GOD. Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah..." --- Ezekiel/ יחזקאל/ Yechezqal 45:9-
"Now this is the mitzvoth, the statutes, and the ordinances, which HaShem your God commanded (Moshah/Moses/Musa) to teach you, that you might comply-with/execute/carry-out/fulfill/do them in the land to which you go to possess... Hear, oh Israel; HaShem our God, HaShem is unique. And you must love HaShem your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words, which I command you this day, must be in your heart; and you must teach them diligently to your children, and must talk about them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the path, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you must bind them like a sign on your hand (so you will often see them), and as a sign on your fore-head between your eyes (so others with you will often see them). And you must write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates (so those who enter or pass by will see them)." --- Deuteronomy/ דברים/ deberim/debrim/words 5-6
 
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  "«‷Social‴ ‷scientists‴» conceive of [positive] ‷results‴ as things like economic growth, life expectancy, crime rates, or peace.   But politicians habitually equate ‷results‴ with passing legislation [for good or evil] and spending money [wisely, wastefully, exorbitantly, constitutionally, un-constitutionally]." --- Bryan Douglas Caplan 2007 _The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies_ pg160  

 
 

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Samstag

Yom Shabbat

Sabato

2019-02-02 (5779 Shebet 27)

It has been 743 days since president Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, and congress & oath-breaking judges are still blocking visa/immigration & border security reforms, & repeal of evil, unconstitutional, privacy-violating, national socialist ObummerDoesn'tCare.   Cut student, refugee, asylum, exchange, guest-work, green card visas.   Establish standards.   Conduct conscientious background investigations on visa applicants.   Terminate visa waivers.   Fence/wall all USA 🇺🇸 land-borders and improve ports to better track who enters and exits and when.

2019-02-02 (5779 Shebet 27)
Neil Munro _Breitbart_
evil loser Yebbie Booosh praising president Trump's apparent turn against USA 🇺🇸 citizen workers, worsening of H-1B bodyshopping
Big pictures at tops of web articles are annoying.   MSFT JavaScript is still evil.   Pop-ups are evil; pop-ups that bring up ads when you click on the close X are worse.   Therefore, web-weavers who insert them are evil, and perhaps they should not only be fired but deported or exiled.

2019-02-02 (5779 Shebet 27)
Laurie Roth _News with Views_
NY governor Andrew Cuomo celebrates infanticide, un-constitutional & vile statute

2019-02-02 (5779 Shebet 27)
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  "There were not large numbers of barbarian invaders in any province; all raw figures are guess-work, but historians generally propose up to 100K for major ruling groups like the OstroGoths or the Vandals, and around 20K-25K for the adult males who made up their armies, in provinces whose ‷indigenous‴ populations numbered in the millions. Putting together the ethnic flexibility of so many of the actors of the period, the Romanizing images of so many of our texts, and the small demographic impact of the invaders -- 1 in 10 [10%]? 1 in 20 [5%]? 1 in 50 [2%]? -- it is easy to imagine that they had no effect at all on ‷social‴ practices of each province." --- Chris J. Wickham 2009, 2010 _The Inheritance of Rome: An History of Europe from 400 to 1000_/_The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000_ pp101-102  

 
 


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Congressional candidate fund-raising, expenditures, and debt
 

USA Over-Population Clock
World + USA Over-Population Clocks
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population density
countries by population density
USA states and counties by population density
World Atlas: states by population density
UK Office for National Statistics: population
 

  "For those associated with the Communist-dominated CIO, there were also political issues involved.   The official party line was that the war raging in Europe was still a bourgeois struggle and the ‷working class‴ had nothing to gain by getting involved.   The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact hadn't made the Soviet Union Hitler's ally exactly, but Stalin and his Communist followers had no desire to help Britain or its Dominion allies win.   As labor historian Max Kampelman has shown, the Communists' goal was to halt or at least hamper the [USA] war effort, and strikes were one way to do it.   The first was at the Vultee air-craft plant in San Diego. It was easy to see why the CIO targeted Vultee.   It was run by the Communist-[opposing, Raw] Deal-defying Tom Girdler of Republic Steel, who had put the plant under the supervision of an assembly-line whiz named Henry Woodhead.   Woodhead had perfected his craft under Felix and Albert Kahn's brother Julius, stamping out factory components for Truscon Steel like steel window sashes and air-plane hangar doors, as well as high-way guard-rails and wire mesh for re-inforcing concrete.   At Vultee, he installed an over-head conveyor line, the first ever in an aviation plant, and used mass-production stamping methods for the air-plane parts.   In no time he was building trainers for the Army Air Corps and Vengeance dive-bombers for the British.   Then in November the Vultee workers, led [incited] by 2 CIO ‷organizing‴ brothers, struck against having to continue their $0.50-per-hour wage in spite of the new work...   The fact was, Communist-led unions were determined to strike, whatever their wages.   Knudsen didn't know that, however, and took the impasse hard...   it was the unions who were putting on the brakes -- slowing war production before Pearl Harbor, Knudsen later calculated, by as much as 25%." --- Arthur Herman 2012 _Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War 2_ pp140-141 (a fine addition to any library)  

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