75% of U.S. Children are Ineligible for Military Service, Reasons Ranging from Health, Drugs, Criminal Records & Lack of Education. 23% fail Basic Entrance Exams Into U.S. Military; 73% of blacks, 53% of Hispanics and 29% of white children are born OUT of Wedlock!

75% of U.S. Children are Ineligible for Military Service, Reasons Ranging from Health, Drugs, Criminal Records & Lack of Education. 23% fail Basic Entrance Exams Into U.S. Military; 73% of blacks, 53% of Hispanics and 29% of white children are born OUT of Wedlock! 

By Marc Chamot

We’re losing our KIDS! It’s American Nightmares that won’t go away; this country is deteriorating right in front of our EYES folks. It's NOT all teachers' fault, it's TIME we get tougher with inept parents, they've got to take some responsibilities for their kids and for this disaster. 

According to recent USA Today’s editorials, unwed births keep climbing, and the kids are not all right

“What's the matter with kids today? A great deal more than you might realize.

One-third is overweight or obese. Nearly a third drop out or can't finish high school in four years. All told, 75% are in such a poor state that they are ineligible for military service for reasons ranging from health to drugs to criminal records to lack of education.

Last month came bad news about the rest: 23% of those who try to enlist fail the basic entrance exam.

Dismayed military leaders and education reformers are quick to blame failing schools, and they're right. But there's a deeper issue in play as well — one that gets far too little attention.

In 2009, 41% of children born in the USA were born to unmarried mothers (up from 5% a half-century ago). That includes 73% of non-Hispanic black children, 53% of Hispanic children and 29% of non-Hispanic white children. Those are not misprints.

Some children of unmarried parents, of course, turn out just fine, particularly if the parents are economically secure or in committed, long-term relationships, or if the single parent is particularly strong and motivated. And as married parents will tell you, wedlock does not guarantee untroubled kids.

Even so, evidence is overwhelming that children of single mothers — particularly teen mothers — suffer disproportionately high poverty rates, impaired development and low school performance.

A long-term study by researchers from Princeton and Columbia universities who've followed the lives of 5,000 children, born to married and never-married mothers in 20 urban centers, is the latest to reach that conclusion, and it sheds light on the reasons.

A large majority of the never-married mothers had close relationships with a partner when their child was born. But by the time the child was 5, most of the fathers were gone and the child had little contact with him. As many of the mothers went on to new relationships, the children were hampered by repeated transitions that did more harm to their development.

These "fragile families" are not a new phenomenon. In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a Labor Department official and later a prominent senator, rang alarm bells when unmarried births in the black community were nearing 24%. (The rate among white mothers was about 3% then.) But his paper on the subject ignited a furor, particularly among fellow liberals and civil rights leaders, who charged him with racism and blaming the victim.

Today, the 1965 numbers look quaint. Yet despite the soaring statistics, the problem never gets the profile it deserves.

Many on the right focus on marriage as the answer, and surely that is a big part of it. Single-parent success stories aside, reduced commitment is no virtue. On the left, the tendency is to see poverty as the villain, and just as surely, fighting its causes is also part of the answer. So is improving schools.

But so far, no one's answers seem to be working. Even as school programs have cut into teen pregnancy rates, more babies are being born to unmarried women in their 20s. In 2009, for the first time since the Census began tallying marriages, the proportion of never-married Americans ages 25 through 34 exceeded those who had been married.

There are no easy ways to reverse these trends. Anything that promotes stability in children's lives can help. But this much is clear: When 41% of babies born in the USA have unwed parents and most children reach adulthood with serious problems, more attention must be paid.”

Another view on kids: Focus on early education

“Sad, but true: Most young adults in the U.S. cannot qualify for military service, and one major reason lies with our troubled educational system.

OUR VIEW: When unwed births is 41%, it's just not right

Approximately three of every ten high school students fail to graduate on time with a diploma, according to the latest research cited by Education Week. Even more alarming, a recent Education Trust report shows that among high school graduates, 23% seeking to enlist cannot pass the military's basic exam for reading, math and problem-solving.

While there are other disqualifying factors for military service — such as being overweight or having a criminal record — a poor education could be the biggest obstacle of them all.

From a national security perspective, the situation is so serious that nearly 200 retired generals and admirals are calling on Congress to consider major educational reform, with a special emphasis on increased investments in high-quality early education.

Why early education? Because research shows that these high-quality programs are the most cost-effective way to provide children with the skills they need to succeed in school and later in life. Getting a positive, early start can help at-risk kids, many from single-parent households, overcome obstacles such as high dropout rates and teenage pregnancies.

Two examples:

•A continuing long-term University of North Carolina study, started in 1972, found that at-risk children who participated in an early education program were two-and-a-half times more likely to be attending a four-year college at age 21 than those who did not participate.

•A similar study by the HighScope Educational Research Foundation found that at-risk children in a Michigan preschool program were 44% more likely to graduate from high school than those not attending. Every dollar invested produced up to $16 in savings over the long term, largely from lower corrections costs and savings in education.

In taking up education reform, Congress should support a shift away from the traditional K-through-12 approach toward a system that incorporates high-quality early learning so children are ready to learn when they enter kindergarten.

Otherwise, our dropout crisis could well become a national security crisis.”

California Senator Leland Yee Gets Pro-American & Patriotism Confused with Racism & WikiLeaks; first Tunisia & Now Egypt are More Examples of U.S. FAILED Foreign Policies:

California Senator Leland Yee Gets Pro-American & Patriotism Confused with Racism & WikiLeaks; first Tunisia & Now Egypt are More Examples of U.S. FAILED Foreign Policies:

By Marc Chamot

Former San Francisco Supervisor and current California Senator, Leland Yee, by now, must be looking for a cave or dig the biggest hole to hide in. 

And he’s probably booking for the next space shuttle to take him far away from earth, to save him from the big mess he created upon himself.

The problem with Leland Yee, he confuses “patriotism,” with Pro-Americans who want to control runaway legal immigrations, illegal immigrations and protect the English language with “racism.”

When he took on Sarah Palin last year and also tried to dilute the English language in California, and now by taking on Rush Limbaugh, he must have discovered that right leaning Americans, Tea Party types are furthest away from being “fringe.” His liberal left-wing politics and views needlessly opened him up towards a whole lot of hate and anger.

Leland Yee is one mouthy Chinese American and a state senator, who likes to call his opponents with different views as RACISTS, especially when he doesn’t agree with their conservative leaning ways, and he uses the power of the California state senate to investigate and go after those people.

Let’s not forget that Leland Yee is also among many Asian American Chinese, who like to call “white” folks in private, as “Westerners” a common Asian derogatory term for Europeans.

Now that he’s brought all the heat upon himself, he can’t stand it and he’s running for his life.

So Lee is using his Leland Yee for Mayor of San Francisco website to initiate petitions to boycott Rush Limbaugh advertisers.

On Leland Yee for Mayor Website; “Limbaugh stated on air that during his appearance at the White House,“Hu Jintao was just going ching chong, ching chong cha.”

It’s our responsibility to stop him and make sure there are consequences to his bigotry. 

I ask you to join me in condemning Mr. Limbaugh’s remarks. Demand he apologize and pressure his advertisers to do the right thing. Sign our petition, join our boycott.” 

It’s that very same Leland Yee, who practically tore down a state U.C. college for hiring Sarah Palin as speaker.

Leland Yee “sure isn't feeling the love these days. Since his probe into CSU's speaking fees for Sarah Palin, the Democratic state senator from San Francisco says he's been inundated with homophobic and racist messages. [Tip to California Watch]

But for Yee, mean rants from the public -- and sharing them with the press -- are familiar territory. In 2008, Yee and LA Assemblyman Ted Lieu challenged LPGA's English policy. Yee authored a language rights bill the following year. The reaction was neither kind, nor, ironically, grammatically correct. 

One caller said:

"Hi. I just read an article, here in L.A. about Mr. Leland Lee, about the English and all the language. You know what? This is United States of America. If he doesn’t like it, tell him to go back to China. He's an immigrant. This is the United States, we speak English." (Listen to the entire call).

What's so special about the recent spate of invectives? According to Yee:

"In the eight years that I've been at the capitol, I have not seen -- at least directed at me -- this amount of hate and what's surprising to me is how open people are about those messages."

Yee released some of those nasty calls and faxes, which we've altered. To hear and see the messages in their full, unedited glory, check California Watch.”

Leland Yee also called Tea Party activist’s proposal for ballot measure to control out of control illegal immigrations in California, and then Lee reacted viciously with editorials, like “obscene, racist and repulsive.”  “Once again, local Tea Party activists want to push a xenophobic initiative on our community that would devastate California and this is NOT the first time they have turned to the obscene use of RACE-BAITING as means to promote their causes and they employed anti-Semitic posters for their events last year.”

And about those anti-Semitic posters Lee was talking about? They were LIBERAL plants to smear Tear Party activists, some Medias have stated these facts, but Lee chose to ignore it and bring it up again to smear the Tea Party.

Leland Yee is just another of California’s sick liberal left-wing whackos, who wants to shut down opposition, and that’s why most Americans don’t give a darn about Lee’s personal problems with the American people.

Egypt’s the biggest headlines around these days. I’m Libertarian, and I personally sympathize for all Egyptians and they deserve their own freedoms and democracy, in spite of the United States.

Egypt was another prime example of failed U.S. foreign policies. When is America going to practice what they preach? We preach about democracy, but we go bent out supporting despots and dictators around the globe who follow OUR interests, but we ignore the will and welfares of their citizens.

It’s time to put up or shut up. I have no doubt WikiLeaks had everything to do with the Middle East turmoil’s. And there’s no doubt, the Internet age has created global hungers for freedom and democracy all over, and the battles have just begun.

If Egypt’s government falls, I hear a whole lot of concerns Israel’s future and I do not believe supporting despots, over the interests of the people is good reason. I believe Israel should slowly engage peacefully, with whoever is going to be in charge of the new Egypt.

I don’t think Egypt is going to be as RADICAL as some people think. The only anger I see towards America in the people’s removal attempts of Hosni Mubarak, it's the $1.7 billion we send to Mubarak’s Egypt, to help finance his military every year.

If you all think this is third world phenomena’s, think again folks, it can happen just about anywhere, mainly where peoples are economically depressed and oppressed or plainly ignored, it can happen in China, Russia and even in the United States of America, believe me, you.  

Washington, We Have a Problem; Obama’s State of the Union Address Ignores Current Unemployment Fixes & Outsourcing of Manufacturing JOBS Abroad:

Washington, We Have a Problem; Obama’s State of the Union Address Ignores Current Unemployment Fixes & Outsourcing of Manufacturing JOBS Abroad:

By Marc Chamot

Jobs Dilemma: Washington, we have a problem. We've got too many unemployed Americans and so far no solutions. The presidential State of the Union Address showed our nation is in deep, deep, political trouble.

President Obama in his speech the other day, ignored the real problem, the current unemployment disaster that has befallen upon our nation.

USA Today came out with an article, about Americas unemployed. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll “of unemployed Americans, most of those surveyed have lost any optimism they will find a job soon or end up with work they really want to do. Two-thirds struggle to pay their bills. Nearly half have had to deal with such major personal problems as moving to cheaper housing or fighting depression. 

The Great Recession has swelled an unhappy clan of Americans: the unemployed.  That's what his audience wants to hear. Americans name unemployment as the most important problem facing the nation; the economy in general ranked second.

There have always been people looking for work, but not since the government began to keep records have there been so many jobless, and never before have they been out of work for such extended periods of time. The unemployment crisis entering its third year has hit Americans in every age group, at every education level and in every region of the country.

Unemployment benefits provide only a modest safety net. In the survey, 21% say they receive benefits, and 11% say they received them in the past. The other two-thirds haven't received any jobless benefits, either because they didn't apply or weren't eligible. "We're all scared," says Alice Fisher of Peru, Ind., who was called in the poll. "I know I'm scared."

She lost her job at a local manufacturing firm when it moved most of its production facilities to Mexico. At 59, she has enrolled in a college in hopes of improving her job prospects by learning computer skills, though the first week of classes left her feeling discouraged and overwhelmed.

Who is America’s unemployed?

♦81% are actively looking for a job
♦62% haven’t received unemployment benefits
♦60% predict they’ll have to settle for a job they don’t want
♦49% predict they won’t find a job in the next four weeks
♦40% manage to pay their bills, but with difficulty
♦25% most recently worked in the service sector
♦23% have moved to less expensive housing
♦21% have sought medical help for stress or other major health problems
♦16% have been looking for work for more than a year
♦16% have applied for more than 50 jobs”

Sadly to say, President Obama’s State of the Union Address was all show, and no real substances for jobs creations.

Obama talked about investing in jobs for the future, but unfortunately there were no immediate solutions for jobs creations, for the 15 million unemployed and millions more of the underemployed. I was even more troubled by GOP/Republicans, they looked confused and obviously they have no plan for jobs creations either.

Okay folks, let me put it bluntly, I’ve never seen such disgraceful acts of political hypocrisy and showboating coming from our politicians in time of economical disasters in our country.

Is it me or what? I was reading the body languages coming from both political parties and it wasn’t pretty at all. While I was listening to President Obama speak, I was keeping an eye on House Speaker John Boehner’s reactions to the president’s speech.

What I saw coming from Speaker Boehner, it’s the same old grand GOP. When Obama talked about eliminating billions of taxpayer subsidies going to oil industries, (four billion dollars to be exact,) using the money for green job creations, when other congressmen started clapping their hands, Speaker Boehner frowned and didn’t clap his hands.

The body language I got from Boehner’s actions, his Party is still stuck with big business and special interests and is into subsidizing Wall Street.

Then Obama talked the talk about creating new industries for jobs, getting off dependencies of foreign oil, with renewable energies and invest more into education and so forth. Here’s the problem I have with President Obama, what’s the point of creating new industries in America, when they are actively leaving the country, or being outsourced for cheaper labor? This is the elephant in the room, these politicians want to ignore.

Case study in Obama hypocrisy; recently, GM to invest $540 million in engine plant in Mexico “The Mexican subsidiary of US automaker General Motors said on Thursday that it planned to invest $540 million to manufacture two types of low-emission engines at its plant in Toluca.

The project will create 500 direct and 500 indirect jobs, and it will allow the plant to produce engines featuring new technologies that consume less fuel and operate more efficiently, the automaker said in a statement.”

All of the president’s proposals and ideas are decades ahead our time, what do we do in the meantime? There’s was nothing to help alleviate current high unemployment. There are no doubt the parties are way out of touch with every day Americans and the unemployed.

What we didn’t hear in President Obama’s speech, the constant outsourcing of jobs to China, Mexico and abroad. Obama’s a hypocrite; when Democrats were in power; they could have done something about the 4 billion dollars subsidies going to the oil industries, but they didn't.

When GOP/Republicans get ready to cut deficit costs, I wonder if Americans will stand by seeing their welfare being cut, while Wall Street and the oil industry’s receiving 4 billion dollars.

San Francisco Korean-American & City Supervisor Jane Kim, Refuses to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Says “words are not accurate for state of nation:”

San Francisco Korean-American & City Supervisor Jane Kim, Refuses to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Says “words are not accurate for state of nation:”

By Marc Chamot

Edited February 3rd 2011, Note: I erroneously stated Jane Kim Chinese, she's Korean American.

Newly elected board of supervisors Asian/Korean American, Jane Kim, doesn’t want to recite the pledge of allegiance, nor does she place her right hand over her heart. She says, “Words are not accurate for state of nation, with liberty and justice for all.” Kim says the nation is just not there yet.

“I don’t believe we are a nation with liberty and justice for all — yet,”

Say what? We’ve got a first African American U.S. presidency and we’ve got Asian Americans like the yang-yang in American politics and this ding bat and imbecile has the gall to say, “words are not accurate for state of nation?”

We always thought some San Francisco politicians were ready for the nut house, 5150’s, loony bins and mental wards, but this one’s got to beat the cake.

And oh yes folks, Jane Kim is hard core supporter of illegal immigrants and sanctuary city issues. To her, if we don’t give illegal border crosser and ports of entry violators from Asia amnesties, then were pretty crappy nations.

Maybe she ought to go back to Hu Jintao’s China or North Korea and pledge the allegiance over there.

Tell this imbecile what she really is; Contact info:

Supervisor Jane Kim
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
City Hall, Room 244
San Francisco, Ca.  94102-4689
(415) 554-7970
Jane.Kim@sfgov.org

Aides: April Veneracion, Sunny Angulo & Viva Mogi

San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance says; “words are not accurate for state of nation”

All the voices of the members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors can be heard opening meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance — all but one.

Newly elected Supervisor Jane Kim stands with her colleagues, but does not speak the words. Nor does she place her right hand over her heart during the recitation. She is the only one of the 11-member board who doesn’t say the pledge.

Kim’s objection to the pledge, she says, is that the ideals it speaks of are not reality, specifically its conclusion, which says “with liberty and justice for all.” Kim says the nation is just not there yet.

“I don’t believe we are a nation with liberty and justice for all — yet,” Kim told The San Francisco Examiner on Tuesday. “So a lot of my work is motivated by wanting to be a part of achieving that ideal.”

Kim said the question of whether she should recite the pledge is something she’s thought about since high school. “It’s a very personal decision for me,” said Kim, who represents District 6.

District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who sits next to Kim during the meetings, doesn’t have any problem with Kim’s silence. “To me, it’s a way about reminding myself about our country and the liberties and democracy that we enjoy,” he said. “But there are many, many ways of reminding ourselves of why we love our country.”

Kim says her refusal to say the pledge should in no way be a judgment of her patriotism. “I think I am very loyal the country,” she said. “I’ve expressed my patriotism through my years of doing organizing work, being a civil-rights lawyer and being a public servant now.”

The act of saying the pledge is part of the Board of Supervisors Rules of Order: “The President shall lead the Board and the audience in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.” There is no rule about whether members actually have to say it. Not reciting it is considered one’s right to freedom of speech.

The Pledge of Allegiance is no stranger to controversy. It has sparked a number of heated debates, including whether students can be forced to say it, and the addition of the phrase “under God.” Kim’s predecessor, Chris Daly, would say the pledge but not utter the words “under God.”

Watch Out! Crackdowns on Employers Who Hire Illegal Immigrants Growing, With Special Audit Office Designed to Bolster Verification of Company Hiring Records:

Watch Out! Crackdowns on Employers Who Hire Illegal Immigrants Growing, With Special Audit Office Designed to Bolster Verification of Company Hiring Records:

By Marc Chamot

But first, San Francisco’s got two of the biggest liberal morons running law enforcement. They are complaining about Secure Communities, a federal law to get undocumented criminals off the streets. After a recent arrest of undocumented Japanese national, who was a victim of domestic abuse got snagged by ICE.

The program conflicts with San Francisco’s long standing sanctuary policies, which has protected illegal immigrants who have been arrested, but not charged or charged with a misdemeanor.

This is typical liberal buffoons out in San Francisco, when they don’t like federal immigration laws, they want to do away with it or simply stop enforcing.

Unfortunately this unnamed person was the subject of local Medias and now, some key San Francisco law enforcement heads are upset over the law and want to opt out.

Sheriff Michael Hennessey came off with his off the wall comments, “it’s the worst rollout of a federal program since Susan B. Anthony Dollar” and acting police chief, Jeff Godown’s “the SFPD is not in the immigration business, would I opt out of it? The answer is yes.”

Who are these morons who want to dictate federal laws they like or don’t like, regardless thinking for the safety and welfares of the community?

Okay folks, the pro-illegal aliens groups worry that stuff like this, will deter undocumented immigrants from calling the police in case they are in trouble. I say BULL! I’m saying they are here illegally in the first place and that’s the risk they are taking for hiding from ICE, yes this unnamed subject had orders for deportation, ignored it and went on the lam.    

Here’s more good news on the illegal immigration front and here’s another good reason as to why President Obama’s ratings may go up even more; Crackdown on Illegal Workers Grows  “The Obama administration plans to intensify a crackdown on employers of illegal immigrants with the establishment of an audit office designed to bolster verification of company hiring records.

In an interview, John Morton, chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, said the Employment Compliance Inspection Center would "address a need to conduct audits even of the largest employers with a very large number of employees." The office would be announced Thursday, he said.

Mr. Morton said that the center would be staffed with specialists who will pore over the I-9 employee files collected from companies targeted for audits.

In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2010, ICE conducted audits of more than 2,740 companies, nearly twice as many as the previous year. The agency levied a record $7 million in civil fines on businesses that employed illegal workers.

Enforcement activity during the Bush administration focused on high-profile raids in which thousands of illegal immigrants were arrested and placed in deportation proceedings. Relatively few companies and their executives were prosecuted.

In contrast, the Obama administration has made employers the center of its immigration policy with "silent raids." Critics say the policy has penalized small employers while failing to target larger employers.

Mr. Morton said the new center would have the "express purpose" of providing support to regional immigration offices conducting large audits. "We wouldn't be limited by the size of a company," he said.

The audits, which have affected garment makers, fruit growers and meat packers, result in the firing of every illegal immigrant on a company's payroll. Companies say this has hurt them, especially as they can't attract American workers even during an economic downturn.

Last year, for example, Gebbers Farm, an agricultural concern in Brewster, Wash., dismissed an estimated 550 workers—about a quarter of the local population—after ICE told the company a number of its employees' hiring documents were suspect. The company declined to comment for this article.

Tom Roach, an immigration attorney in Pasco, Wash., said a client lost more than half of his workforce last year owing to an audit. "He had paid every nickel of taxes on them," he said. But the employees had presented social-security cards that the landscape company couldn't discern were fake, said Mr. Roach.

Small business owners, in particular, say they don't have the ability to police their workers. They also fear discrimination suits, as some companies have experienced, for demanding additional documents from workers whom they suspect are in the country illegally.

Angelo Paparelli, an immigration attorney in New York and southern California, said: "We need to take employers out of the business of performing government functions, like playing immigration police."

"Ultimately, it is in a company's best financial interest to proactively comply with the law now rather than to face potential fines or criminal prosecution for noncompliance in the future," an ICE spokeswoman said.

Mr. Morton said ICE was also seeking to expand a program enabling businesses to work with the federal government to ensure they are employing people authorized to work in the U.S. Called IMAGE, or ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers, the voluntary program includes training and assessments to help a company guard against hiring illegal employees.

Mr. Morton will also announce Thursday that Tyson Foods, Inc., which employs 100,000 people and has fought immigration troubles in the past, has joined the program, agreeing to an audit of "a certain portion of existing records." The poultry processor, which says it has already taken steps to maintain a legal workforce, also agreed to establish an internal auditing process, Mr. Morton said.

Mr. Morton suggested Tyson could pave the way for other big companies to join the program. Tyson faced federal human-smuggling charges in a high-profile trial that resulted in acquittal in 2003.

"We...believe this partnership will enhance our ability to collaborate with government officials on immigration-related matters," said Tyson Chief Human Resources Officer Ken Kimbro.” Source: The Wall Street Journal

Obama has no choice about it, it's either creating jobs for the massively unemployed, or risk a national rebellion. Even though this story has been largely ignored by the Medias, I think BIG employers who like to use undocumented aliens, they’d better think twice about it. 

47.5 Million Americans in the Poor House, Expanded Federal Jobless Benefits, New/Improved Tax Credits for Workers and Expanded Food Stamps, kept 4.5 Million Folks OUT of Poverty in 2009.

47.5 Million Americans in the Poor House, Expanded Federal Jobless Benefits, New/Improved Tax Credits for Workers and Expanded Food Stamps, kept 4.5 Million Folks OUT of Poverty in 2009.

By Marc Chamot

So where should we cut federal funding? Definitely NOT here! Maybe look into the frauds and waste being spent on U.S. military, and elsewhere. And Maybe look into the excessive high salaries paid to unionized federal workers along with their budget busting pensions, that is where we NEED to start looking, it’s a good start.

While it’s official: Obama’s job stimulus program failed; “the House Ways and Means Committee recently released a report titled “It’s Official: On Unemployment and Jobs, Democrats’ 2009 Stimulus Was a Huge Failure.”

The Ways and Means report provides a number of striking reminders about the predictions the White House made in January 2009 while urging the passage of their $814 billion Keynesian spending bill. 

By January 2011, the stimulus bill was supposed to have lowered the unemployment rate to 7 percent.

It now stands at 9.4 percent, and the report notes that “the unemployment rate would be 11.3 percent if it included all the ‘invisible unemployed’ — American workers who have simply given up looking for work.” 

The report also said that the stimulus was supposed to create 3.7 million jobs by now, for a total of 137.6 million jobs in the American economy. Currently, there are 130.7 million jobs. Since the stimulus’ passage, 47 of the 50 states have lost jobs; overall, the private sector has seen 1.8 million jobs disappear.” Source: Examiner.com

We all knew this was a failure from the start. We NEED to go back to “Made in America” it’s what kept America "employed" and strong!

I certainly hope this is what President Obama should be speaking in the State of the Union, on Americas’ Poverty and Recovery program. “In 2008, the first year of the Great Recession, the number of Americans living in poverty rose by 1.7 million to nearly 47.5 million. 

While hugely painful, that rise wasn’t surprising given the unraveling economy. What is surprising is that recent census data show that those poverty numbers held steady in 2009, even though job loss worsened significantly that year.

Clearly, the sheer scale of poverty — 15.7 percent of the country’s population — is unacceptable. But to keep millions more Americans from falling into poverty during a deep recession is a genuine accomplishment that holds a vital lesson: the safety net, fortified by stimulus, staved off an even more damaging crisis.

Congress should take a good look at those numbers, and consider that lesson carefully, before it commits to any more slashing and burning.

The latest poverty figures are from the census “alternative” data, developed in the 1990s to count income and expenses that the “official” data omit. For example, the official measure counts only cash income to gauge poverty (defined as $21,756 for a family of four in 2009).

The alternative figures cited above, which closely follow criteria from the National Academy of Sciences, include noncash federal benefits, like food stamps (and set the poverty line at $24,522 for a family of four). That gives a truer picture of a family’s economic status.

What analysts have found is that the antipoverty effect of government intervention in 2009 was profound. Calculations by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning research group, show that specific stimulus provisions — including expanded federal jobless benefits, new and improved tax credits for workers and bolstered food stamps — kept 4.5 million people out of poverty in 2009. Only Social Security and the earned income credit did more to fight poverty.

The results are likely to be roughly similar in 2010 because most of the 2009 law was continued last year. The portents going forward are not good.

Federal aid is being scaled back, even though growth is not yet robust enough to make a sizable dent in unemployment. Late last year, Republicans blocked the extension of a successful stimulus program that had created 250,000 subsidized jobs for young people and low-income parents.

They claimed the stimulus was an expensive failure, even as they pressed to renew the high-end Bush tax cuts. As part of the tax-cut deal, President Obama and Congress agreed to extend federal jobless benefits in 2011, but the checks will be $25 less a week than under the stimulus.

That reduction could push an estimated 175,000 more people into poverty in 2011. The deal also included a one-year payroll tax cut that will benefit most workers, but it is less helpful to the lowest-income workers than a now-expired tax break in the stimulus.

With 14.5 million people still out of work, and more than 6 million of them jobless for more than six months, reducing federal help now will almost ensure more poverty later. That would impose an even higher cost on the economy and budget because ever poorer households cannot spend and consume.” Source: New York Times

President Obama should mention in his speech about states responsibilities in jobs creations also. He needs to tell Jerry Brown to get off his duff and get on with it.

Do you want to know the truths folks? States have the responsibility in jobs creations too, along with the federal government. States like California, one of the most unemployed in the nation, and with no job growths and prospects for anybody.

If Governor Jerry Brown wants to really turn California’s jobs situation around, he’d better drop those draconian and insane environmentalists, with their phony cap and trades policies, and their strict regulations on carbons.

Brown better stop chasing away major employers with their unfriendly taxations and excessive fees, where no one wants to do business in California.

Take a look at Texas for example, while California was busy chasing away and killing solid functioning taxpaying businesses. And while California’s unemployment rose for the past three years, Texas was busy creating 1 million new jobs, without those insane archaic policies.

What part of “Affordable” They don’t understand? Obama, Democrats & GOP/Republicans Missing the Boat on Healthcare, Negotiating Lowest Prices for all Americans:

What part of “Affordable” They don’t understand? Obama, Democrats & GOP/Republicans Missing the Boat on Healthcare, Negotiating Lowest Prices for all Americans:

By Marc Chamot

There’s no question about it, when President Obama and his party, went against the grains of populists and popular beliefs, it was very damaging indeed for presidential ratings.

The warning signs were all over a year ago, when Massachusetts Scott Brown and other Republican governors like Chris Christie, who was all swept into office on anti-Democratic tickets. Those messages went totally ignored until after the 2010 midterms.

What most people don’t realize, just because this President is moving towards center, it means a whole LOT more than just moving to center, it means listening to popular demands.

By moving towards center, it means, Obama’s listening to populists and majority of Americans point of views, instead of pushing agenda driven politics favoring the few over majority concerns, something we saw a lot during Obama’s first two years in office.

By now, President Obama and U.S. congress must be realizing that most Americans are FED up with agenda driven politics coming from the two parties, those favoring policies for special interests and the select few, at the expense over the majority and it has gone too far.

Is President Obama finally getting the popular/populist message?

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why, Obama Approval Ratings going Up to 49 Percent “Mr. Obama's approval rating is below where it was in the first half of last year, when a majority of Americans said they approved of his job performance. But it is improved compared to October, when his approval rating was 45 percent and his disapproval rating 47 percent.

By point of comparison, Mr. Obama's 49 percent approval rating is ten points lower than that of President George W. Bush at the midpoint in his first term, according to past CBS News polls. It is higher than presidents Clinton (45 percent), Reagan (41 percent) and Carter (42 percent), but lower than presidents George H.W. Bush (84 percent), Nixon (56 percent), Kennedy (74 percent) and Eisenhower (70 percent).

The president gets high marks for dealing with the shootings in Tucson, with 64 percent approving of his handling of the situation. But on the issue that Americans say is paramount - the economy - his approval rating is just 41 percent and 52 percent disapprove of his performance on the economy. 

Mr. Obama also has net negative ratings on handling the budget deficit, job creation and foreign policy.

Still, Americans feel positive about the rest of the Obama presidency: Fifty-seven percent say they are optimistic about the next two years of the Obama administration, compared to 36 percent who say they are pessimistic.”

Fox News Poll: Obama Falling below Expectations at Two-Year Mark  “A 53 percent majority thinks Obama is falling below expectations, up slightly from 50 percent at the end of his first year in office (January 2010). More than twice as many now say the president is missing the mark as in the early days of his term, when 23 percent said he was falling below expectations.

And while most voters -- 61 percent -- remain dissatisfied with the way things are going today, that’s a significant improvement from the 79 percent who felt that way in early 2009, days before President Obama took office.

By a 51-42 percent margin, more voters say they would vote for someone else if the 2012 presidential election were held today than would support re-election of President Obama.”

With a 51-42 percent negative re-election margin for 2012, there’s still a whole lot of work that President Obama needs to improve to help those negative numbers up, so to get re-elected.

There’s no doubt what’s driving his approval figures back up are President Obama’s aggressive strategies in finding ways to get the economy and jobs back on track and it’s admirable for his efforts.

The president’s tougher dealing with China’s President, Hu Jintao is a good start and even congress has jumped into the anti-China fray.

We all know rising China is destroying American jobs and economy, they are destroying America, while our politicians are sitting idly, doing nothing. But whatever concessions were made with China, can we trust Hu Jintao to keep his words? And if he doesn’t; are WE still going to bend over and kiss his rear end as we’ve been doing for all these years?

There are still other unfinished aspects of American life President Obama is still ignoring. Securing the dangerous Mexican border for starters; if this president wants to improve on his approval ratings even better, he MUST work with GOP/Republicans to shut the border down, and Obama’s got to improve those chaotic healthcare Democrats passed last year.

We ARE not obligated by government to BUY COSTLY health insurance and taxpayers are UNDER no obligations to foot the bill, for costly healthcare and to help line up billions of dollars for the greedy medical industry.

WHAT I’m still not seeing from GOP/Republicans and President Obama, are solutions towards addressing high costs of Medicine, pharmaceuticals and the medical industries. Negotiating costs is the missing equation that made Obamacare very unpopular to most folks. Democrats and GOP/Republicans are avoiding negotiating with the costly industry and reforming the medical industries like the plague.

Most Americans don’t want to pay any MORE for healthcare and insurance; they want medical costs across the board reduced, period.

Why can’t Americans get a system like the VA, Veteran’s Administration’s care for military veterans? Everything is negotiated for the best deals around. Many doctors in the VA system are students at local University medical schools, along with their MD supervisors and all this is to help KEEP costs down.

The VA negotiates for the best deals on prescription drugs and so forth to keep costs even lower. Just because GOP/Republicans want to regulate Democratic lawyers with tort reforms, to help bring public healthcare costs down 30%, this isn’t enough to bring affordable healthcare for all Americans. After this was all over and done with, we could have had affordable premiums for Americans.

We could have gone the nonprofit route, like the very successful Kaiser Permanente Medical systems.

They negotiate for the best and lowest prices with the medical industry too. No one offers the best rates for affordable healthcare than Kaiser Permanente!

Fast Facts about Kaiser Permanente

Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plans, serving more than 8.6 million members, with headquarters in Oakland, Calif. It comprises:

·   Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

·   Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their subsidiaries

·   The Permanente Medical Groups.

At Kaiser Permanente, physicians are responsible for medical decisions. The Permanente Medical Groups, which provide care for Kaiser Permanente members, continuously develop and refine medical practices to help ensure that care is delivered in the most efficient and effective manner possible.
Kaiser Permanente’s creation resulted from the challenge of providing Americans medical care during the Great Depression and World War II, when most people could not afford to go to a doctor. Among the innovations it has brought to U.S. health care are:

·   prepaid health plans, which spread the cost to make it more affordable

·   physician group practice to maximize their abilities to care for patients

·   a focus on preventing illness as much as on caring for the sick

·   an organized delivery system, putting as many services as possible under one roof

Are our politicians in the pockets of pharmaceuticals and the medical industry? Then why no American politician seems or wants to answer this proverbial question. Why are Canadians and Mexicans getting prescription drugs at fraction the costs of Americans? Because they negotiate for their people!!

The way healthcare is set up now and the way it’s been for years, it has been a very profitable system for the medical and insurance industries, who in turn have been lining up the pockets with money for U.S. politicians, while remaining highway-ROBBERIES in cost and expenses for most Americans.

If it’s all put in the proper perspective, yes, affordable healthcare is possible for everyone, if politicians stop being lazy, and start negotiating for Americans.  Yes it can work!

Travis Corcoran a Blogger & Businessman LOSES Gun Licenses for his “One Down, 534 to Go” Rants Over AZ Shootings & Hawaiian Governor, Neil Abercrombie Can’t FIND Obama’s Hospital-Generated Birth Certificate:

Travis Corcoran a Blogger & Businessman LOSES Gun Licenses for his “One Down, 534 to Go” Rants Over AZ Shootings & Hawaiian Governor, Neil Abercrombie Can’t FIND Obama’s Hospital-Generated Birth Certificate:

By Marc Chamot

I’m not a Birther, but then why is President Obama still giving them more fodders for more doubts about his true citizenship?

Do you all remember that new crazy Democratic Hawaiian governor? Neil Abercrombie, the guy who made fits and swore up and down, he would find Obama’s birth certificate and put a stop to all this Birther nonsense.  

Well, whoops! Governor Abercrombie can’t seem to find Obama’s true birth certificate. This was reported on Drudge a couple days ago; "Hawaiian Gov. Neil Abercrombie suggested in an interview published that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health.

Abercrombie told the Honolulu Star Advertiser he was searching within the Hawaii Department of Health to find definitive vital records that would prove Obama was born in Hawaii, because the continuing eligibility controversy could hurt the president's chances of re-election in 2012.

Donalyn Dela Cruz, Abercrombie's spokeswoman in Honolulu, ignored again today another in a series of repeated requests made by WND for an interview with the governor.

Toward the end of the interview, the newspaper asked Abercrombie: "You stirred up quite a controversy with your comments regarding birthers and your plan to release more information regarding President Barack Obama's birth certificate. How is that coming?"

In his response, Abercrombie acknowledged the birth certificate issue will have "political implications" for the next presidential election "that we simply cannot have."

Suggesting he was still intent on producing more birth records on Obama from the Hawaii Department of Health vital records vault, Abercrombie told the newspaper there was a recording of the Obama birth in the state archives that he wants to make public.

Abercrombie did not report to the newspaper that he or the Hawaii Department of Health had found Obama's long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate. The governor only suggested his investigations to date had identified an unspecified listing or notation of Obama's birth that someone had made in the state archives.”

Oh by the way, when I searched the topic in search engines, not a single major media outlet carried the story. No, I’m not a Birther, but I do have some questions about it.

I see it as a big problem for Obama, and so does he, by his sudden coddling with Republicans. Is he shifting towards the middle because he wants to, or is he doing it for fear of being omitted from ballots in most Republican states; if states do decide he’s not qualified to run again in 2012? I do predict we will see some state actions towards this issue, within the next year or so.

Was Travis Corcoran a big idiot, one who couldn’t control his emotions and anger or what? Travis Corcoran is a Massachusetts businessman, and a licensed gun owner, who used his blog to lash out threats to the U.S. congress right after the Gabrielle Giffords Arizona tragedy.

Unfortunately and sadly for Travis Corcoran, may have lost everything including his business and clienteles over his stupid rants on his blog. Police confiscated all his guns and took away his gun licenses in the process.

Police Seize the Firearms of Heavy Ink President After Reading ComicsAlliance Story, “after reading the recent inexcusably irresponsible blog post from Travis Corcoran, the president of the online comics retail store Heavy Ink, lauding the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona and encouraging the shooting of other politicians, we recently wrote an editorial condemning his actions and encouraging comics fans to consider whether they wished to continue giving him their business.

We expected some controversy, comments with angry political rhetoric, and blowback from outraged creators, all of which occurred. What we didn't expect? That the police would read our article, and then confiscate all of Corcoran's firearms and ammunition and notify the federal authorities.

In a post on his blog, Corcoran continued to comment on the shooting by taking the bold stance that while you are in the process of assassinating those 534 political leaders, it is important to aim very carefully so that you do not kill random people around them, as that would be wrong.

It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot "indiscriminately". Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone.”

I can understand the anger that Libertarians like Travis Corcoran has been going through, but unfortunately using his blog to INSTRUCT someone, to go out and get the rest of 534 congressmen, without hurting innocent people while doing it, this is just totally horrid and horrible.

I hear it from some friends scattered in the Midwest. I’m told “people are waiting in the hills for the shootings to start and they’ll come down firing.”

Look folks, I’ve been blogging for over three years, and I’ve been vein popping mad at times towards our worthless politicians, but it took a whole lot of self control not to blow up and fall apart on my postings. But the reality of things and the real danger behind the Travis Corcoran’s of America and he’s not alone with his heartfelt anger towards our U.S. congress.

Americans are much smarter now and they know that U.S. congress EMPOWERS the American president. It takes congress to help push unpopular agendas through for a president. Americans are no longer blaming the U.S. president as much and many Americans see most policy failures have been coming from the U.S. House and U.S. Senate for the past decades.

There’s no doubt in my mind our U.S. Congress have tarnished their relationships with millions of Libertarian Americans like myself, and many are gun owners.  

As the economy gets worse, as more Americans are out of work, as benefits become depleted and if congress doesn’t come up with any solutions to reverse the disasters they CREATED, this U.S. Congress is going to have tough job ahead to diffuse the public anger and resentments, they’ve created throughout the years.

Robert Reich, the Man behind Implementations of Jobs Killing NAFTA; the Killings of American Private Sectors, Blue Collar JOBS & Middle-class, Wants to SAVE Costly Taxpayer Subsidized Government Benefits/Jobs with more Big LIES:

Robert Reich, the Man behind Implementations of Jobs Killing NAFTA; the Killings of American Private Sectors, Blue Collar JOBS & Middle-class, Wants to SAVE Costly Taxpayer Subsidized Government Benefits/Jobs with more Big LIES:

By Marc Chamot

Herr Robert Reich isn’t the brightest star in the universe. Another of Cal Berkeley’s loony and leftist University professor came out with another idiotic Op-Ed piece, criticizing GOP/Republicans for scapegoating costly public employees and their unions.

This happened in the heels of another Cal’s loony, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, linking the Arizona shooting tragedy on racism towards illegal immigrants.   

The most liberal university in America and the most twisted.

We’re supposed to be listening from a man, who used to be former Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, the man who was behind implementations of 1994/1995 NAFTA, and the one guy who opened paths to destroy America’s private sector’s blue collar labor and the middle-class.

Herr Reich hasn’t done enough to ruin private sector jobs, so now he wants to save growing costly government union jobs and benefits at taxpayers’ expense.

In Herr Reich’s most recent drug induced piece, carried by most liberal newspapers around the country, is laden with contradictions and nonsense. In Public employees are GOP's scapegoats, “but now the right is going after public employees.

Public servants are convenient scapegoats. Republicans would rather deflect attention from corporate executive pay that continues to rise as corporate profits soar even as corporations refuse to hire more workers.

They don't want stories about Wall Street bonuses, now higher than before taxpayers bailed out the Street. And they'd like to avoid a spotlight on the billions raked in by hedge-fund and private-equity managers whose income is treated as capital gains and subject to only a 15 percent tax because of a loophole in the tax laws designed specifically for them.

It's far more convenient to go after people who are doing the public's work - sanitation workers, police officers, firefighters, teachers, and social workers, federal employees - to call them "faceless bureaucrats" and portray them as hooligans who are making off with your money and crippling budgets. The story fits better with the Republican's Big Lie that our problems are due to a government that's too big.

Above all, Republicans don't want to have to justify continued tax cuts for the rich. As quietly as possible, they want to make them permanent.

But the right's argument is shot through with bad data, twisted evidence and unsupported assertions.

The Republican trick is to compare apples to oranges - the average wage of public employees with the average wage of private-sector employees. But only 23 percent of private-sector employees have college degrees; 48 percent of government workers do. Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.

Compare apples to apples, and you'd see that over the past 15 years, the pay of public-sector workers has dropped relative to private-sector employees with the same level of education. Public-sector workers now earn 11 percent less than comparable workers in the private sector, and local workers 12 percent less. (Even if you include health and retirement benefits, government employees still earn less than their private-sector counterparts with similar educations.)

Here's another whopper: Republicans say public-sector pensions are crippling the nation. They say politicians have given in to the demands of public unions that want only to fatten members' retirement benefits without the public noticing. They charge that public-employee pension obligations are out of control.

Some reforms do need to be made. Loopholes that allow public-sector workers to "spike" their final salaries in order to get higher annuities must be closed. And no retired public employee should be allowed to "double dip," collecting more than one public pension.

But these are the exceptions. Most public employees don't have generous pensions. After a career with annual pay averaging less than $45,000, the typical newly retired public employee receives a pension of $19,000 a year. Few would call that overly generous.

And most of that $19,000 isn't on taxpayers' shoulders. While they're working, most public employees contribute a portion of their salaries into their pension plans. Taxpayers are directly responsible for only about 14 percent of public retirement benefits. 

Many public workers aren't covered by Social Security, so the government isn't contributing 6.25 percent of their pay into the Social Security fund as private employers would.

Yes, there's cause for concern about unfunded pension liabilities in future years. They're way too big. But it's much the same in the private sector. The main reason for underfunded pensions in both public and private sectors is investment losses that occurred during the Great Recession. Before then, public pension funds had an average of 86 percent of all the assets they needed to pay future benefits - better than many private pension plans.

The solution is no less to slash public pensions than it is to slash private ones. It's for all employers to fully fund their pension plans.

The final Republican canard is that bargaining rights for public employees have caused state deficits to explode. In fact, there's no relationship between states whose employees have bargaining rights and states with big deficits. 

Some states that deny their employees bargaining rights - Nevada, North Carolina and Arizona, for example - are running giant deficits of over 30 percent of spending. Many that give employees bargaining rights - Massachusetts, New Mexico and Montana - have small deficits of less than 10 percent.

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just as all employees do. They shouldn't have the right to strike if striking would imperil the public, but they should at least have a voice. They often know more about whether public programs are working, or how to make them work better, than political appointees who hold office for only a few years.

Don't get me wrong. When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else. And they are right now. Pay has been frozen for federal workers and for many state workers across the country as well.

But isn't it curious that when it comes to sacrifice, Republicans don't include the richest people in America?

To the contrary, they insist that the rich should sacrifice even less, enjoying even larger tax cuts that expand public-sector deficits. That means fewer public services, and even more pressure on the wages and benefits of public employees.

It's only average workers - both in the public and the private sectors - who are being called upon to sacrifice.

This is what the current Republican attack on public-sector workers is really all about. Their version of class warfare is to pit private-sector workers against public servants. 

They'd rather set average working people against one another - comparing one group's modest incomes and benefits with another group's modest incomes and benefits - than have Americans see that the top 1 percent is now raking in a bigger share of national income than at any time since 1928, and paying at a lower tax rate. And Republicans would rather you didn't know they want to cut taxes on the rich even more.”

Number one, what does Reich care if CEO’s make too much money? Taxpayers don’t foot CEO’s salaries, they pay for those costly government employees benefits.

Number two, GOP/Republicans aren’t the only ones going after costly public pensions and their benefits, so are Democrats. Number three, the private sectors, the corporations he’s talking about, are the majority of hires and they deserve to have those tax breaks. Those tax breaks gives corporations opportunities to hire even more workers.

And number four; taxpayers are under no obligation to be paying arms and legs to finance expanding greedy government employees’ pensions and their benefits, period.

The private sector has been decimated and left millions of Americans still unemployed, while jobs imbalances between the private sector and government are spreading further apart. 

While government is growing, the private sector’s declining and liberals like Reich, want to put all obligations on the remaining taxpayers to help finance their schemes, which are borderline, insane!

Here’s more PROOF on Robert Reich’s liberal LIES. In liberal San Francisco, a liberal Democrat, not GOP/Republican, realizes the facts of costly government employees. 

Here are the hard FACTS that Herr Robert Reich refuses to accept; Supervisor Elsbernd sets sights on reviving pension reform “Two months after voters rejected a controversial pension-reform initiative that divided The City, a San Francisco supervisor says he plans to place another measure on the ballot to contain retirement costs.

Supervisor Sean Elsbernd said Friday he plans to introduce a pension-reform charter amendment in the coming weeks for the November ballot. He disclosed his plans days after discovering The City’s project annual pension contribution unexpectedly rose by $20 million to $375 million for the next fiscal year.

“If we are not able to get this under control, there will be massive, massive layoffs,” Elsbernd said. “This part of the budget comes first and continues to eat into our ability to provide the services demanded of us by our constituents.”

Elsbernd would not reveal details of his pension-reform proposal, but said he would avoid mistakes that led to the defeat of Proposition B on Nov. 2.

Prop. B would have required city workers to pay more into their pensions and more for their dependents health care benefits. Labor organizations spent more than $1 million to defeat it.

Elsbernd said his pension measure would not touch health care benefits. He said he will also consult with labor leaders, something Public Defender Jeff Adachi, the mastermind of Prop. B, didn’t do.

Elsbernd said if he couldn’t get support from his board colleagues to put his measure on the ballot, he’d resort to the initiative process. Elsbernd collected signatures to place a successful measure on the November ballot to eliminate the guarantee Muni operators are at least the second-highest-paid transits workers in the nation.

“I’ve proven I can pass measures,” he said.

Labor leaders have said they are open to discussing pension changes.

“We are open to all kinds of options up to and including a ballot measure if it had real reform that preserves benefits,” said Nathan Ballard, the spokesman for labor unions representing city workers. Ballard said there are ongoing talks between labor, business leaders and city officials to “arrive at a consensus solution.”

On Tuesday, city officials learned the pension costs are going to be about $20 million more than expected after a financial report on the retirement fund was completed.

Next fiscal year, The City is expected to contribute $375 million — a $100 million increase from this year — toward pension costs, according to the city controller. That is about 18 percent of The City’s payroll.

Elsbernd said that even if pension-fund investments make huge gains, in three years pension costs will be more than one-quarter of The City’s overall payroll.

“It will be the equivalent of having two San Francisco General Hospital budgets on our books, about $650 [million] to $700 million on the books, where just five years ago it was zero,” Elsbernd said.”

So Robert Reich’s argument is totally unsubstantiated and not credible, it’s full of hot air and nonsense.

Anybody who gets a college degree from Cal should be on a watch list as most ignorant, and even high school graduates are more in tune with things around them, than most Cal Berkeley professors and their graduates. How embarrassing for them all!