apologies for being a posting piggy, but things are sure happening fast

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...-ends-h2b-expansion/

GOP leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, have quietly ended an unpopular 2015 program to annually outsource another 198,000 blue-collar jobs to lower-paid foreign workers.

The quiet reversal by Ryan comes as President-elect Donald Trump moves forward with his very popular campaign promises to curb outsourcing of U.S. jobs via legal and illegal immigration, free-trade and guest-worker programs.

The new 2017 budget document, dubbed the “Continuing Resolution,” does not include a provision created in December 2015 by Ryan which allowed companies to outsource up to 198,000 extra jobs to foreign workers via the so-called “H-2B” guest worker program.

The long-standing H-2B program allows companies to annually bring in 66,000 foreign workers instead of hiring Americans. The program provides the companies with cheap seasonal workers, minimizes the need for companies to recruit and train Americans, and it also cuts the salaries paid to full-time American workers, say advocates.

Ryan’s December 2015 language expanded the visa program by saying that foreign H-2B workers would not count towards the annual 66,000 limit if they had worked for a H-2B employer during the prior three years.

In effect, the “returning worker exemption” covertly quadrupled the size of the H-2B program from 66,000 visas per year up to 264,000 visas per year. That is an increase of up to 198,000 outsourcing visas each year.

The H-2B visa program is one of many guest-worker programs — including the white-collar H-1B, OPT and L-1 visa programs, the J-1 summer-worker programs and the H-2A agriculture program – that import at least 700,000 guest workers each year. The programs are so large that at least 1 million white-collar guest-workers live and work year-round in the United States.

Under Obama, the federal government annually imports at least one million legal immigrants, plus almost one million temporary white-collar guest workers and blue-collar guest workers for jobs sought by Americans. Those two million new foreign workers — plus the roughly eight million illegal immigrants in jobs — compete against the four million young Americans who begin looking for jobs each year. That wage-cutting competition shifts roughly $500 billion per year from wages and salaries into company profits, boosting investors and Wall Street, but reducing productivity growth and creating a huge population of government-dependent poor people in the United States.

I think it may be time to pull my money out of the retirement trust fund where I hid it from the Obama economy. The market is looking temptingly good once again!

Yet another reason NOT to trust Ryan.

Pimp of opportunity....

I'm in Nashville traveling for work and reviewing this thread at the end of the day and smiling broadly. I am loving how the progressive wall is being battered down - and how flimsy this has proven to be. I cannot wait until Jan. 20th!

Side note - the security here looks to be carrying M4 carbines around which I for one appreciate. Not sure why Nashville merits this - but the TSA & Security here seems to be pretty damn efficient compared to the other airports I hit...

As per President elect Donald Trump FB page.

President-Elect Donald J. Trump Intends to Nominate Linda McMahon to Serve as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration

(New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate Linda McMahon to serve as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, a cabinet-level position.

"My America First agenda is going to bring back our jobs and roll back the burdensome regulations that are hurting our middle class workers and small businesses.

Donald J. Trump

When all of the liberals woke up around noon today they were surely fuming to see Donny on the cover of TIME.

More nazi and hitler crap from Tina Fey:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-h...nity-seventh-grader/

When do these idiots just get embarassed to the point where they shut up? Or at least make sense??

Read the article and her quotes. It makes absolutely no sense. Its like a colon full of random thoughts crapped out of her piehole.

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Originally posted by colomtn:
As per President elect Donald Trump FB page.

President-Elect Donald J. Trump Intends to Nominate Linda McMahon to Serve as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration

(New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate Linda McMahon to serve as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, a cabinet-level position.

"My America First agenda is going to bring back our jobs and roll back the burdensome regulations that are hurting our middle class workers and small businesses.

Donald J. Trump

I hope she takes those petty bureaucrats to the mat.

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Originally posted by entropy:
More nazi and hitler crap from Tina Fey:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-h...nity-seventh-grader/

When do these idiots just get embarassed to the point where they shut up? Or at least make sense??

Read the article and her quotes. It makes absolutely no sense. Its like a colon full of random thoughts crapped out of her piehole.

The title is: Tina Fey: Trump ‘Can’t Muster the Dignity of a Seventh-Grader’


and this is the photo that accompanies it:


Yeah, that's 'dignity' for you.

Heads are exploding over the pick for EPA:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/...-environment-agency/

He's a "climate change denier"? Ooooh, a heretic.

The CEO of Ford is on the Trump train. He has no plans to move to Mexico and incur Trump's 35% tariff. He does want Trump to sweeten the pot however.



Ford Willing to Work With Trump If Policies Are Right: CEO

Ford Willing to Work With Trump If Policies Are Right: CEO
by Keith Naughton, John Lippert, and Jamie Butters

Ford CEO: We're Ready to Work With Trump on Policy

Ford Motor Co. was a target of Donald Trump’s criticism on the campaign trail for building cars in Mexico, and now that Trump will be president, Ford said it’s willing to work with him to keep jobs in the U.S. -- provided Trump puts the right policies in place, according to the automaker’s chief executive officer. “We will be very clear in the things we’d like to see,” Mark Fields said in an exclusive interview Friday at Bloomberg offices in Southfield, Michigan.
Among them, according to Fields: currency-manipulation rules to promote free and fair trade, tax reform and safety guidelines for autonomous vehicles.

Fields said Ford plans to lobby the new president to soften U.S. and state fuel-economy rules. They hurt profits by forcing automakers to build more electric cars and hybrids than are warranted by customer demand, he said.
“In 2008, there were 12 electrified vehicles offered in the U.S. market and it represented 2.3 percent of the industry,” Fields said in the interview. “Fast forward to 2016, there’s 55 models, and year to date it’s 2.8 percent.”

No Market

This isn’t exactly a formula for success, he said. “At the end of the day, you’ve got to have customers, so obviously there would be pressure on the business if there’s not a market,” he said. The No. 2 U.S. carmaker was one of the companies that Trump singled out on the campaign trail for sending production to Mexico. The Republican threatened to slap a 35 percent tariff on cars that Ford builds south of the border and ships back to the U.S.


Smile Ford Boards the Trump Train (TFW)
The CEO of Ford is on the Trump train. He has no plans to move to Mexico and incur Trump's 35% tariff. He does want Trump to sweeten the pot however.

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Ford Willing to Work With Trump If Policies Are Right: CEO - Bloomberg

Ford Willing to Work With Trump If Policies Are Right: CEO
by Keith Naughton, John Lippert, and Jamie Butters

Ford CEO: We're Ready to Work With Trump on Policy

Ford Motor Co. was a target of Donald Trump’s criticism on the campaign trail for building cars in Mexico, and now that Trump will be president, Ford said it’s willing to work with him to keep jobs in the U.S. -- provided Trump puts the right policies in place, according to the automaker’s chief executive officer. “We will be very clear in the things we’d like to see,” Mark Fields said in an exclusive interview Friday at Bloomberg offices in Southfield, Michigan.
Among them, according to Fields: currency-manipulation rules to promote free and fair trade, tax reform and safety guidelines for autonomous vehicles.

Fields said Ford plans to lobby the new president to soften U.S. and state fuel-economy rules. They hurt profits by forcing automakers to build more electric cars and hybrids than are warranted by customer demand, he said.
“In 2008, there were 12 electrified vehicles offered in the U.S. market and it represented 2.3 percent of the industry,” Fields said in the interview. “Fast forward to 2016, there’s 55 models, and year to date it’s 2.8 percent.”

No Market

This isn’t exactly a formula for success, he said. “At the end of the day, you’ve got to have customers, so obviously there would be pressure on the business if there’s not a market,” he said. The No. 2 U.S. carmaker was one of the companies that Trump singled out on the campaign trail for sending production to Mexico. The Republican threatened to slap a 35 percent tariff on cars that Ford builds south of the border and ships back to the U.S.


After the Nov. 8 election, Trump phoned Executive Chairman Bill Ford to discuss the carmaker’s plan to move manufacturing of the Lincoln MKC sport utility vehicle to Mexico from a plant in Louisville, Kentucky, Fields said. The discussion helped convince Ford to keep building the Lincoln in the U.S. Trump influenced the decision “because of what he’s talking about in terms of his economic policies, whether it’s tax reform or otherwise,” Fields said.

No Incentives

Ford received no incentives for keeping Lincoln MKC production in Kentucky, though the automaker never planned to close that Louisville plant, which also builds the Escape SUV that outsells the Lincoln version by 12 to 1. Ford already makes the Lincoln MKZ sedan and the Fusion family car in Mexico. It’s building a new $1.6 billion small-car factory in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, which will create 2,800 jobs there by 2020. Ford still plans to move its Focus compact and C-Max hybrid to Mexico from a Michigan factory.

Trump also criticized the Carrier unit of United Technologies Corp. after the company said it would move production to Mexico, cutting 1,400 jobs in Indiana. Trump and Carrier unveiled a deal Thursday in which the maker of furnaces and air-conditioners will get $7 million in state incentives to keep the work in Indiana. Despite the agreement, about 1,100 Carrier employees in the Indianapolis area will lose their jobs.

Fields said the automaker’s situation is different than Carrier’s. The small cars Ford is moving out of the Michigan factory are being replaced by two other models “and not one job is being displaced,” Fields said.

Different Than Carrier

“Our position is very different than the Carrier position,” Fields said. He added that he didn’t know whether Trump would carry through with his campaign pledge to impose the tariff on Ford’s Mexican-built cars, but he said he doubted it would be applied to just one company. “It would be imposed on the entire industry, not just singling out a single company,” Fields said. “When you look at the production and supply chains and how they’re integrated between the three countries” -- Mexico, Canada and the U.S. -- “putting a tariff on that would have a negative impact on all the economies.”

Since 2010, nine global automakers, including General Motors Co., Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, have announced investments of more than $24 billion in Mexico, where wages are 80 percent lower than in the U.S. Annual auto output in Mexico may more than double this decade, from 2 million to 5 million vehicles, according to the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ford has said it’s just the fifth-largest producer of vehicles in Mexico while it’s the top automotive manufacturer in the U.S. The company said it’s added nearly 28,000 jobs in the U.S. over the last five years. Ford employs 85,000 workers in the U.S. and 8,800 in Mexico. The day after the election, General Motors announced it would end the third shift at assembly plants in Ohio and Michigan in January. The automaker is eliminating almost 2,100 jobs because consumers prefer trucks and sport utility vehicles over the small cars built at the two factories.

Fields said Ford would now continue its dialogue with Trump. The auto industry may seek clean-air credits for self-driving cars, which could reduce fuel consumption and emissions by helping traffic move more smoothly. Despite the regulatory uncertainty, Fields said Ford has made no change in its plan to invest an additional $4.5 billion in electrified vehicles by 2020, and to install this technology in 40 percent of its nameplates.

Ford wants to continue to help boost fuel economy and lessen the industry’s environmental impact, because the company acknowledges climate change as a serious threat, Fields said. By 2035, the growth in electric vehicles could erode as much as 10 percent of global gasoline demand, Alan Gelder, vice president of refining, chemicals and oils markets at consultant Wood Mackenzie Ltd., said in an interview.

The automaker has cut profit forecasts twice in the last three months. In September, Ford reduced its 2016 profit prediction by $600 million, to $10.2 billion from at least $10.8 billion, due to rising recall costs. Last month, it trimmed the 2017 profit outlook for its credit unit by $300 million, to $1.5 billion, because declining auction values for used cars would hurt results.
Ford shares have gained 6.6 percent since Trump’s election.

Every thing Trump has done has made Obama less relevant and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...ets-hearing-44027368

Michigan's presidential recount was halted Wednesday after three days, assuring Republican Donald Trump's victory in the state, when a federal judge said he'll abide by a court ruling that found the Green Party candidate Jill Stein couldn't seek another look at the vote.

Meanwhile, the fate of Stein's request for a recount in Pennsylvania must wait at least until a federal court hearing on Friday, just four days before the Dec. 13 federal deadline for states to certify their election results.

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official bio of Scott Pruitt

https://www.ok.gov/oag/Media/About_the_AG/

Scott Pruitt was elected the Attorney General of Oklahoma in November 2010. As attorney general, he is dedicated to fighting corruption, safeguarding Oklahoma’s vulnerable citizens, championing public safety measures to reduce violent crime and and protecting the interests of the State of Oklahoma and its citizens.

Pruitt established Oklahoma’s first federalism unit to combat unwarranted regulation and overreach by the federal government .

He is a national leader in the cause to restore the proper balance of power between the states and federal government, having served two terms as president of the Republican Attorneys General Association.

Pruitt filed the first lawsuit challenging the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and is a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda .

Before being elected attorney general, he served eight years in the Oklahoma State Senate where he was a leading voice for fiscal responsibility, religious freedom and pro-life issues. Pruitt and his wife, Marlyn, have been married 25 years and have two children, McKenna and Cade.

More joining the Trump Train.

United States Steel would like to accelerate its investments and hire back laid-off employees now that Donald Trump will be occupying the Oval Office, CEO Mario Longhi told CNBC on Wednesday.

"We already structured to do some things, but when you see in the near future improvement to the tax laws, improvements to regulation, those two things by themselves may be a significant driver to what we're going to do," he said in an interview with CNBC's "Power Lunch."

In addition, the belief that the U.S. economy can grow at least 3.5 percent also adds to what the company can do, Longhi noted.

"I'd be more than happy to bring back the employees we've been forced to lay off during that depressive period," he said, which could be close to 10,000 jobs.

Shares of the Pittsburgh-based company have soared about 80 percent since Trump's stunning victory on Nov. 8. Investors appear to be betting on increased infrastructure spending, which the president-elect has promised, as well as further restrictions on China-produced steel.

Corporate America is also cheering Trump's promises of less regulation. Longhi said regulation has a role to play, but believes it "has to be done smartly."

"When you get into some situations where we're being asked to control some substances in water that are far lower than what nature naturally offers, that's irrational," he said.

"There was a point in time in the past couple years that I was having to hire more lawyers to try to interpret these new regulations than I was hiring … engineers. That doesn't make any sense."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/07...k-jobs-ceo-says.html

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Reports coming in that Trump selected Gen. John Kelley (ret.) as the next head of Homeland Security. A sight better than the one we have now I'd say.

http://www.oann.com/trump-to-p...meland-security-cbs/

This will probably be the first time we got someone heading up homeland security that has actually fired a gun.

Never heard of him but the reports I'm reading are nothing but praise for the guy. Trump pledged to defend America & make it safe again. I see Mattis & Kelly as putting some “can do” behind those words pertaining to the safety of the nation.

quote:

Originally posted by sdy:
Michigan's presidential recount was halted Wednesday after three days, assuring Republican Donald Trump's victory in the state, when a federal judge said he'll abide by a court ruling that found the Green Party candidate Jill Stein couldn't seek another look at the vote.

Meanwhile, the fate of Stein's request for a recount in Pennsylvania must wait at least until a federal court hearing on Friday, just four days before the Dec. 13 federal deadline for states to certify their election results.

quote:

Originally posted by olfuzzy:
Every thing Trump has done has made Obama less relevant and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

And that's just it.
Could Obama look any smaller or matter less?
It's like he's a nobody anymore.

This has got to grate on him, being the me me me type person he is.

Reporter Asks Trump about Dreamers; Trump Reads Article about MS13 Atrocities


Speaking to a Time reporter in the dining room of his Trump Tower apartment, the President-elect, according to the profile “promptly stops the interview in its tracks,” and said “let me go upstairs for one second and get you a newspaper article.”

Trump returned moments later holding a copy of Newsday’s Nov. 28 edition which featured a front-page story headlined “Extremely Violent Gang Faction.”

....

According to the Newsday story, sources described the newcomers as hailing from Central America and as an “extremely violent group of about a dozen members of the MS-13 street gang.”

...

“They’re coming from Central America. They’re tougher than any people you’ve ever met,” Trump said. “They’re killing and raping everybody out there. They’re illegal. And they are finished.”

Good for Trump. Fight liberal emotional garbage with emotional facts.


Luke 22:36 (Jesus speaking to his disciples said) "...if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one."