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* require "None of Those Listed" (NoTL) or "None of the Above" (NOTA) as a candidate for every elective office (magistrate, judge, dog-catcher, city council, county commission, governor, state legislature, congress, president); if NoTL gets a plurality of the votes, hold a new election a week, fortnight, month later with none of the previously listed candidates eligible to appear on the ballot or have votes counted
* repeal, extirpate, eradicate vile, hateful, unconstitutional national socialist ObummerDoesn'tCare + Ryan&McConnellDon'tCare (do NOT replace it/them) & the 2009 Obummer mega-porkulus requiring privacy violation of every patient
* repeal, extirpate, eradicate vile, hateful, unconstitutional Communist Corpse
* revoke late-2011 alterations because they nullify the already far too weak FERPA school & college & university student privacy provisions, encourage nationwide integration of personal, private data for long-term longitudinal abuse (bio-sensors, eye-focus/attention tracking & recording, location tracking); restore Privacy Act of 1974 restrictions against federal, state, local government agents demanding Socialist InSecurity Numbers, & clarify felony & civil penalties for every government agent & official & agency/office/department for each instance, each individual whose privacy is/was thus violated, & requiring permanent deletion of every associated record
* 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 when the USA was significantly less over-crowded)
* 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 eliminate CPT & OPT (encourage more apprenticeships/internships, co-ops for USA citizens)
* 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; start by increasing benefit eligibility age;
* 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)
* 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%
* 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 National Firearms Act and its amendments
* cut federal extortion by at least 2%, cut spending by at least 10% ("mandatory", "discretionary", "on-budget", "off-budget"), & each super-function, function, micro-function, object, etc.)
* 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
* 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/ Impoundment Control Act of 1974
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Employment/unemployment data, federal government mal-spending & over-spending, currency debasing, price inflation & graphs for 2025 April
employment dearth men = 26.593Million
employment dearth women = 4.597Million surplus (i.e. in surveys, about 50%-52% of women have said they would prefer to be full-time home-makers/ parents... but are engaged in paid employment to attempt to keep up with inflation/cost of living)
employment dearth total (m + f) = 21.996M to 27Million
employment dearth "blacks" = 9.475M
employment dearth "Asians" = 4.082M
employment dearth "whites" = 51.961M
employment dearth for "Hispanics"/"Latinos" = 10.774M
The aggregate employed ÷ population ratio (the work rate or employment rate) is at 60%, up slightly from last month, down from the record best since 1948 of 64.9%, & up from the previous record worst of 51.3%; while the all time record best for men was 88.2%.
estimates of jobs dearth/insufficiency/short-fall/shortage for men (by "race" &/or ethnicity)
For men, the aggregate employed ÷ population ratio (the work rate or employment rate) is at about 65%, down from the record best of about 88.2% in 1929 January, 81.3% in 1939 January, 81.6 in 1948 January. 80.8% in 1949 January, & up from the record worst of about 57.1%.
For "blacks", the aggregate employed ÷ population ratio is at 58.5%.
For "Asians", the aggregate employed ÷ population ratio is at 63.8%.
For "whites", aggregate employed ÷ population ratio is at 59.9%.
For "Hispanics"/"Latinos", aggregate employed ÷ population ratio is at 64%.
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For "black" men, the employed ÷ population ratio (employment rate or work rate) is at about 61.744%, up from last month.
For "Asian" men, the employed ÷ population ratio is at about 71.69%, up from last month..
For "white" men, the employed ÷ population ratio is at about 65.044%, up slightly from last month.
For "Hispanic"/"Latino" men, the employed ÷ population ratio (employment rate or work rate) is at about 71.015%, up slightly from last month.
NILF (102.574M) + CLF16+ (170.622M = Employed (164.043M) + UEASW (6.58M) + NILF (102.574M) = CivPop16+ ( 273.197M)
not in labor force by BLS definitions (NILF)
civilian labor force 16 years and older (CLF16+)
un-employed & actively seeking work by BLS definitions & approved methods (UEASW)
civilian, non-institutionalized population 16 years old and older (CivPop16+ = CNIP16+ = sometimes abbreviated CivPop)
Employed + UEASW = 164.043M + 6.58M = 170.622M
"civilian labor force" 16 years old and older (CLF16+) = 170.622M
Employed = 164.043M (up 631K from previous month, up 868K from 2 months ago, up 197K from 3 months ago, up 1.053M from 4 months ago, down 162K from 5 months ago, down 482K from 6 months ago, down 108K from 7 months ago, up 698K from 8 months ago, down 690K from 9 months ago)
not in labor force by BLS definitions (NILF) = 102.574M (down 362K from previous month, down 140K from 2 months ago, up 979K from 3 months ago, up 593K from 4 months ago, up 579K from 5 months ago, up 209K from 6 months ago, up 419K from 7 months ago, up 1.171M from 8 months ago, down 510K from 9 months ago)
un-employed & actively seeking work by BLS definitions & approved methods (UEASW) = 6.58M (down 662K from previous month, down 330K from 2 months ago, up 105K from 3 months ago, up 1.015M from 4 months ago, down 256K from 5 months ago, up 77K from 6 months ago, up 107K from 7 months ago, down 891K from 8 months ago, down 270K from 9 months ago)
Not Employed = UEASW + NILF = 6.58M + 102.574M = 109.154M (down 457K from previous month, down 692K from 2 months ago, down 35K from 3 months ago, up 1.994M from 4 months ago, up 337K from 5 months ago, up 656K from 6 months ago, up 316K from 7 months ago, down 472K from 8 months ago, up 901K from 9 months ago)
employed part-time for economic reasons = 4.496M (down 404K from previous month, down 266K from 2 months ago, up 231 from 3 months ago)
employed part-time for non-economic reasons = 23.426M (up 228K from previous month, up 50K from 2 months ago, up 823K from 3 months ago)
employed part-time = 27.922M (down 176K from previous month, down 216K from 2 months ago; up 1.054M from 3 months ago)
employed full-time (including temp gigs) = 136.121M (up 807K from previous month; up 1.084M from 2 months ago; down 857K from 3 months ago, up 1.313M from 4 months ago, up 230K from 5 monts ago, down 945K from 6 months ago)
un-employed & actively seeking part-time work = 1.096M (down 251K from previous month, down 17K from 2 months ago, up 33K from 3 months ago)
un-employed & actively seeking full-time work = 5.484M (down 411K from previous month, down 312K from 2 months ago, up 71K from 3 months ago)
The number being gigged/ temped/ contingently employed/ on short-term contract/ consulting/ scrabbling, the number seeking real/ "traditional" long-term employment and the number of real/ traditional long-term jobs employers are seeking to fill are not reported.
BLS does not track the numbers gigged, temped, bodyshopped, on contract, contingent or consulting positions who would prefer "real", "traditional", long-term employment... though about once every 15-25 years someone writes an article for the _Monthly Labor Review_.
Men constitute 48.778% of the civilian, non-institutionalized population 16-years or older; women 51.222%; "blacks" 13.074%; "Asians" 7.054%; "whites" 75.876%; "Hispanics"/"Latinos" 18.738%.
In 1850 (the year before the anti-immigrant, anti-Irish immigrant, anti-Catholic American Party, later called the Know Nothings) was founded, USA population foreign-born was 9.68%; in 1860, 13.16%; in 1870, 14.44%; in 1880, 13.3%, by which time the USA frontiers were no more & we had begun to "in-fill", i.e. crowd, and thus should have begun trimming back immigration & student & guest-work visas; in 1890, 14.77%;
in 1900, the percentage of population foreign-born was 13.6%; in 1910, 14.7%; in 1920, 13.2%; in 1930, 11.6%; in 1940, 8.8%; in 1950, 6.9%; in 1960, 5.4%; in 1970, 4.7%; in 1980, 6.2%; in 1990, 7.9%; in 2000, 11.1%; in 2001, 11.38%; in 2002, 11.5%; in 2003, 11.7%; in 2004, 11.8%; in 2005, 12.1%; in 2006, 12.1%; in 2007, 12.6%; in 2008, 12.5%; in 2009, 12.2%; in 2010, 12.9%; in 2011, 13%; in 2012, 13.1%... 14.3% (47M) in 2022 April... projected by census bureau to be 15.2% by 2030, 16.1% by 2040.
foreign-born, non-institutionalized population 16 years old and older (both citizens & non-citizens) = 49.669M
native, non-institutionalized population 16 years old and older = 223.528M
civilian, non-institutionalized population 16 years and older (CivPop16+) = 273.197M
foreign-born as percentage of CivPop16+ = 18.18%
natives as percentage of CivPop16+ = 81.82%
percentage of foreign-born, non-institutionalized population 16 years and older who are employed = 64.1%
percentage of native, non-institutionalized population 16 years and older who are employed = 59.2% (down from record high of 88.2% in 1929 January, 81.3% in 1939 January, 81.6 in 1948 January. 80.8% in 1949 January, & up from the record worst since 2007 of about 51.2% during the Wuhan disease hysteria lock-downs).
2025-05-02 (5785 Ayr 04)
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newly-released e-mail messages show that the politicized, deep statist FBI were targetting Trump officials for obeying, faithfully-enforcing the laws
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