From NYT.

https://www.breitbart.com/econ...mazon-and-uber-gigs/

NYT Compares Biden’s Promised ‘Green Jobs’ to ‘Grueling’ Low-Wage Amazon and Uber Gigs

Now they tell us. That is, now they are telling us that “green jobs” won’t be such good jobs after all.

We get this blunt assessment from the New York Times

just last year the presidential campaign of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris pledged:

"Our response to climate change can create more than 10 million well-paying jobs in the United States that will grow a stronger, more inclusive middle class enjoyed by communities across the country, not just in cities along the coasts."

But what, according to the Times, is the real deal about the Green New Deal? On July 16, under the headline, “Building Solar Farms May Not Build the Middle Class,” a news article delivered the bad news about good jobs:

"On its current trajectory, the green economy is shaping up to look less like the industrial workplace that lifted workers into the middle class in the 20th century than something more akin to an Amazon warehouse or a fleet of Uber drivers: grueling work schedules, few unions, middling wages and limited benefits."

We might pause over some of those words: “Amazon warehouses…Uber drivers.” Not quite the stuff of the American Dream. You know, the American Dream that powered the upward rate of homeownership in the middle of the last century, from 43 percent in 1940 to 64 percent in 1970.

Yet today, working Americans—the folks who once might have looked forward to middle-class-making blue- and white-collar jobs in factories—are confronting a bitter reality. As the Times story continued, “There’s a nagging concern among worker advocates that the shift to green jobs may reinforce inequality rather than alleviate it.”

To be sure, the news isn’t so bad for Times readers themselves because few, if any, of them are looking for regular work in factories. Instead, Times readership tends to be wealthy and white collar. As the liberal New Republic noted two years ago, the median income for Times subscribers is $191,000

Now we can ask: Why the wide gap between the good-jobs promise and the looming bad-jobs destiny? The Times points to f’rinstance: In the past, electricity came from utility plants, typically fired by coal, oil, or gas. These plants were locally constructed, using local companies and local labor—including, of course, lots of skilled labor.

By contrast, the Biden administration wants more power to comes from solar, which means solar panels—80 percent of which are made in China. (The U.S.-made share of the world market for panels is in the low single digits).

So we can see: If we rush to install solar panels in the U.S., they will have to come from overseas, most likely China . Which is to say, the jobs for Americans will be as low-value-added solar-panel installers, not high-value-added solar-panel manufacturers.

To get a better sense of the impact of tech (and related finance) companies on the job market, we might consider findings from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, showing the long-term decline of wages as a percentage of national income, from 51.6 percent in 1970 to 43.4 percent in 2019—that being the latest year for which data are available. To put those numbers another way, over the last half-century, the share of national income going to wages fell by 15.9 percent.

Yes, that’s right: Working Americans of all classes have seen their share of the national wealth fall by almost a sixth. And now, if the Times is to be believed, that skid could continue.

more at link

I like Sky News and listen to it regularly. Why do I have to go to the other side of this fucking planet for unbiased current events?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmINVi5BKuk

^^^ If you haven't realized it yet, the Democrats don't give a shit about the environment. What they are doing is engaging in economic and class warfare against the middle class and red states. They have already decimated manufacturing and the coal industry, and now they are after the petroleum industry once again. Illegal immigration has killed construction wages. Oh, and agriculture is next - "no you can't raise cattle anymore, it's too inefficient and cow farts cause global warming".

Kill manufacturing, kill coal, kill oil, kill natural gas, kill ranching = kill the red states and republican base. Put them all in poverty and get them on the dole. And the WuFlu conveniently helped them kill small businesses along the way.

With no Republican voters, they will get the single party rule they want so badly.

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I doubt if this guy can find the winky window in his underwear.

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Who is pulling the strings?

This is a globalist effort. What is happening here is exactly what we saw happening in western Europe over the last several years. We are being flooded with non-Americans from all over the globe. Not only are central and south Americans pouring in, but we are getting them from asia, the ME, and northern Africa. This is not a mistake or a, accident from the democRATs; this is a globalist attack on our sovereignty and national identity.

One thing is for certain - this isn't going to fix itself.

“My butt’s been wiped” - Joe Biden 25 July 2021
At least that’s what it sounds like.

President Joe Biden took one question from reporters when he returned to the White House this afternoon after *another* weekend in Delaware but we have no idea WTF he said at the start of the exchange.

Link

Well, a little truth for a change. Refreshing.

Joe really disses female reporters.

I’m sure Grandpa Joe or his handlers ordered DOJ to do this, can’t upset his puppeteers now

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped charges against five members of the Chinese military whom federal prosecutors previously accused of lying to obtain visas to get jobs and a doctoral spot at United States universities.

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Joe really disses female reporters.

It’s ok, at least he doesn’t have mean tweets.

Daddy talking about punishment for smoking crack.

^^^

I'm gonna have to steal that and spread it around some more...he he he

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Imagine someone playing that clip surreptitiously on a cell phone or Bluetooth hijacking it at a press conference; that hypocrite Biden would likely lose his mind on the spot

That's assuming bidet has one.

'There's a new sheriff in town': Biden says government has ignored US-made products for too long in 'Made in America' speech - then confuses Obama and Trump in 'Freudian slip'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...d-America-55-60.html

President Joe Biden vowed on Wednesday to increase accountability for federal agencies to buy products that have a 60 per cent or higher threshold of components made in America, insisting there's 'a new sheriff in town.'

Biden said that the hit on 'Buying American' at the federal level is hitting U.S. companies is a 'double whammy' because '55 per cent is not high enough and second, contractors don't have to tell us the total domestic content of their products, they just have to tell us they hit the threshold. And nobody's checking.'

'Well they've got a new sheriff in town,'the president said Wednesday following a tour of Mack Trucks manufacturing facility in Macungie, Pennsylvania. 'We're going to be checking.'

'Oh I'm serious,' he added. 'I'm deadly earnest.'

The president finished the event with a 'Freudian slip' where he said he was vice president under President Donald Trump in 2009.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...g-trip-to-singapore/

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called out anti-Asian American discrimination in the United States during a trip to East Asia this week to reassure allies and partners.

“Our partnerships draw strength from our shared belief in greater openness, and our belief that people live best when they govern themselves. Now, our democratic values aren’t always easy to reach. And the United States doesn’t always get it right,” he said.

“We’ve seen some painful lapses, like the unacceptable and frankly un-American discrimination that some Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have endured in my country in recent months,” he said.

The Biden administration has made diversity a key focus at the Pentagon. Austin is the first African American secretary defense, and the first defense secretary to hire a senior adviser on human capital and diversity, equity, and inclusion issues.

Reports of anti-Asian hate crimes have risen 149% in the U.S.’s 16 largest cities over the past year, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino. The biggest increase has happened in Democrat-run and dominated New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston. Democrats and establishment media, however, have attributed the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes to President Donald Trump, citing his blaming of China for the coronavirus.

Austin argued that calling attention to the discrimination was a virtue.

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maybe Austin should have played a few of the videos we have all seen of who is attacking Asian Americans

Now Joe claims to have driven an 18 wheeler. Must be that summer job when he was playing for the Washington Redskins.

Forty-eight-year political veteran President Biden raised eyebrows on Wednesday when he claimed to have driven an 18-wheeler truck — a claim the White House struggled to defend.

Biden was visiting a Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania when he made the claim to have driven the massive trucks before, which require a special kind of license.

"I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man," Biden said on Wednesday in a video posted to Twitter. "I got to."
There is scant evidence that Biden has ever driven an 18-wheeler truck.

When asked if the president had ever driven such a truck, a White House spokesperson pointed to a December 1973 article from the Wilmington Evening Journal that showed Biden rode in an 18-wheeler on a 536-mile haul to Ohio.

Fox News pressed the spokesperson about the president’s claim – noting that riding in a truck is not the same as driving one – at which point the president's spokesperson pointed to a United Federation of Teachers post that touched on Biden driving a school bus in the past as a summer job.

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The majority of school buses, on average, "have two axles, with the bigger models having two wheels on the front axle and four wheels on the dual axle, for a total of six wheels," according to SchoolBusFleet.com.

Fox News pressed again about the president’s claim, pointing out that a school bus is not the same as an 18-wheeler truck, but did not receive a response by publishing time.

LINK: https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ms-driven-18-wheeler

It was a Tonka

Mack trucks is owned by Volvo. Volvo is trying to buy itself back from Geely Automobile Holding Limited a limited liability corp (Chinese).