The Shining City Upon a Hill

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Job growth could surpass 1 million in April hiring boom as economy roars back

• April hiring was strong, and some economists expect more than 1 million jobs were added.
• The economy has been booming and job creation is also expected to run at a higher level for the next several months.
• If hiring surpasses 1 million positions in April, it would be the first time the economy has added that many jobs since last August.

HAHAHAHA!!!! Where do they get this shit? I know I commented on this before.....if you remember......but it needs an update!

BREAKING: Unemployment Rate INCREASES, Numbers ‘Way Worse Than Expected’. Talk Of Inflation Grows.


The economy appears to be struggling under President Joe Biden, according to new jobs report that was released on Friday morning.

--CNBC: Hiring was a huge letdown in April, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by a much less than expected 266,000 and the unemployment rate rose to 6.1% amid an escalating shortage of available workers. Dow Jones estimates had been for 1 million new jobs and an unemployment rate of 5.8%.


--BLOOMBERG: The numbers are out, and on the top line they are way worse than expected. Something seems very off: only 266,000 jobs created in April, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1%, according to the report.

--A separate report from CNN warned that “if you haven’t felt [inflation] yet, it’s coming.”

“You can expect higher prices for toilet paper, diapers, soft drinks, plane tickets, a tank full of gas,” CNN Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans said. “Whirlpool is raising prices of some of its appliances by up to 12%.”


Seems the old saying, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." applies here!
Biden is not doing anything good for our country, and this is just one sector he's failing in miserably.

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107 days and the Sky is Falling
Hilarious

Sorry Amigos Biden Kickingg Ass
Getting Shit Done

[Phil B.]

Voters Not Very Confident in Biden’s Ability to Deal With Terrorism Threat - Rasmussen Reports(R)

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 30% of Likely U.S. Voters say they are Very Confident in Biden’s ability to deal with terrorist threats to the United States. Another 16% say they are Somewhat Confident that Biden is able to deal with terrorist threats. Twelve percent (12%) are Not Very Confident and 40% are Not At All Confident in Biden’s ability to deal with terrorist threats. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

So 46% percent have confidence in Biden when 52% do not.

yup another failure and the jobs reports is just as bad.

#SayNoToJoeandtheHo

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President Joe Biden touched down in Lake Charles on Thursday afternoon, May 6, to promote his plan to revitalize infrastructure and create millions of jobs in America.


The trip is part of the president's Getting America Back on Track Tour.

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In his speech today, President Biden will lay out his plan to invest in working families and infrastructure while creating jobs, and strengthening the economy.

Biden stood in front of the Calcasieu River Bridge to talk about his American Jobs Plan which will include $115 billion for roads and bridges, and hundreds of billions of dollars more for upgrading the country's electrical grid and water infrastructure.

A part of that infrastructure investment in Louisiana includes the 70-year-old Calcasieu River Bridge which, as of it's last inspection, was reportedly in "poor" condition.


Louisiana has begun to move forward with a bridge replacement project using a combination of state and federal funding. A public-private partnership will be financed through bridge tolls.

The White House says the additional federal investment from the American Jobs Plan will help reduce tolls or advance unfunded project elements.

In Louisiana, 1,634 of the state's 12,853 bridges are classified as structurally deficient. Repairs have been identified on 3,251 bridges at an estimated cost of $6.9 billion.

The White House gave Louisiana a D+ grade overall for its infrastructure.

President Biden will also speak on the economic impact these investments will have on working class Americans. The White House says that nearly 90 percent of the infrastructure jobs created by the American Jobs Plan would not require a college degree.

During his speech, Biden was be joined by Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter, Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, and Governor John Bel Edwards. Biden discussed the tax code which, as a part of the American Jobs Plan, would reportedly return tax levels to where they were in the 1990's.

Following his speech, Biden departed Lake Charles for New Orleans at 2:30 p.m. In New Orleans he will tour the Carrollton Water Plant.

The White House says that the Carrollton Water Plant is an example of a water purification plant that will benefit from the American Jobs Plan's water infrastructure investment.

The plan is proposing an investment of $111 billion to improve water infrastructure by replacing lead service lines across the country.

He is set to depart New Orleans for Joint Base Andrews around 5:40 p.m.

Governor Edwards and Biden are also set to discuss hurricane recovery, infrastructure, and the American Rescue Plan.

Biden's last visit to Lake Charles was in 2010 when he was vice president to promote efforts for the area to recover from Hurricane Rita in 2005. He also visited in 2006 as a senator.

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Voters Not Very Confident in Biden’s Ability to Deal With Terrorism Threat - Rasmussen Reports(R)

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 30% of Likely U.S. Voters say they are Very Confident in Biden’s ability to deal with terrorist threats to the United States. Another 16% say they are Somewhat Confident that Biden is able to deal with terrorist threats. Twelve percent (12%) are Not Very Confident and 40% are Not At All Confident in Biden’s ability to deal with terrorist threats. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

So 46% percent have confidence in Biden when 52% do not.

yup another failure and the jobs reports is just as bad.

#SayNoToJoeandtheHo

If you actually read what you posted it states that 56% have a least some confidence.("not very confident" is still a little confident). Thanks for posting this.

[Phil B.]

Local Officials Furious After Biden Admin Transfers Nearly 100 COVID-Positive Illegal Immigrants from Border to Interior State

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora, Colorado, experienced its largest COVID-19 outbreak to date after nearly 100 migrants were moved to the detention center last month and tested positive for the coronavirus.
Ninety-seven of 200 migrants who were transferred to the facility from the southern border during April tested positive for the virus, ICE spokeswoman Alethea Smock told The Denver Post.
Smock said that most of the migrants had come from a Customs and Border Protection facility where coronavirus testing had been compromised because of the flood of people crossing the border.

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman called the incident “incredibly irresponsible.”
“Under no circumstances should COVID-positive detainees be brought to the Aurora ICE facility,” the Republican mayor said.

“They need to be tested at the border and if they test positive for COVID they need to be quarantined, according to CDC guidelines, before they are allowed to be transferred.”
Smock couldn’t confirm if the detainees had been tested before they were moved, but she said they were tested and isolated when they got to Aurora.

“Medical center staff took the necessary steps to quickly isolate the exposed detainees, provide proper medical care and prevent further spread of infection within the facility to detainees already in residence,” she said.
The Aurora ICE facility has seen several small outbreaks since March 2020.

“The primary goal of the disease control measures implemented at the facility is to mitigate the impact of the new positive detainees admitted to the facility and reduce the risk of further transmission,” a medical epidemiologist at the Tri-County Health Department, Dr. Bernadette Albanese, said.
Over 170,000 migrants crossed the border in MARCH ALONE and many of them came from countries that are still experiencing high infection rates, The New York Times reported.

Border Patrol did not test the migrants for COVID-19 except for when they showed obvious symptoms, due to a lack of time and space for testing, according to the government.

Coronavirus testing is postponed until migrants are released into local communities, cities and counties after the migrants spend days in close spaces with other strangers.
“People who were on the bus or in the cell with people who tested positive are going to test positive,” Mark Lane, who runs the San Diego Minority Humanitarian Foundation, said.

“Uber drivers, taxi drivers and people like us, people who are not fully vaccinated, are getting exposed. Today I took two guys who were released and put them in a T.S.A. line with 500 people on it.”
Interim Border Patrol chief for the Tucson Sector John Modlin said it takes 90 minutes to three hours to process each migrant, and testing would add an additional 20 minutes.

“That’s 20 minutes times a thousand people,” Modlin said.
“The Border Patrol does not want to get in the business of testing or inoculating people.”
Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado said that if the Biden administration does not have the resources, it needs to stop transferring people further into the country.

“The system doesn’t have the resources at this point to test folks and to treat them — so let’s stop transferring people between facilities,” he told The Denver Post.
Coffman added that bringing in infected detainees endangers Aurora’s community and “puts the lives of all of the detainees in this facility unnecessarily at risk.”

Like the Biden admin gives a HOOT who it endangers.... it's all about optics with them.... and the optics are starting to show that Biden and his cronies can't handle the job at hand.

[Phil B.]

[QUOTE=bsm2;1761824]President Joe Biden touched down in Lake Charles on Thursday afternoon, May 6, to promote his plan to revitalize infrastructure and create millions of jobs in America.
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yes push more spending. Spend Spend Spend us into debt that our great grand kids won't be able to pay off.

now you stated Biden visited the border.. I call bullshit provide PROOF of it.

[Phil B.]

Biden's DOJ Is Now Getting Involved with the Arizona Election Audit

The Biden administration on Wednesday expressed concerns about ballot security and voter intimidation as the Arizona state Senate authorizes a private audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
In a letter to Republican state Sen. Karen Fann, the Justice Department raised “two issues of potential noncompliance with federal laws” related to the audit.
“The first issue relates to a number of reports suggesting that the ballots, elections systems, and election materials that are the subject of the Maricopa County audit are no longer under the ultimate control of state and local elections officials, are not being adequately safeguarded by contractors at an insecure facility, and are at risk of being lost, stolen, altered, compromised or destroyed,” Justice Department official Pamela Karlan wrote.

Karlan also said the methods used by the group running the audit, Cyber Ninjas, raise concerns about “potential intimidation of voters.”

A statement of work released by Cyber Ninjas said the firm has been working to “identify voter registrations that did not make sense, and then knock on doors to confirm if valid voters actually lived at the stated address,” according to Karlan.

Karlan said the statement of work also indicates that Cyber Ninjas will select at least three precincts in Maricopa County with “a high number of anomalies” in order to “conduct an audit of voting history.”
“Voters may be contacted through a ‘combination of phone calls and physical canvassing’ to ‘collect information of whether the individual voted in the election’ in November 2020,” Karlan wrote.

“We would appreciate your response to the concerns described herein, including advising us of the steps that the Arizona Senate will take to ensure that violations of federal law do not occur,” the letter concluded.
The letter was sent one day after KNXV-TV reported that Cyber Ninjas was requiring volunteers to sign a non-disclosure agreement in order to participate in the audit.

In 2016, former President Donald Trump won Maricopa County (which encompasses the Phoenix metropolitan area) over Democrat Hillary Clinton by approximately 44,500 votes, or 2.8 percent of the vote.
In 2020, President Joe Biden won the county by about 45,100 votes, or 2.2 percent of the vote.
Despite Biden’s victory, Republicans carried every countywide office in Maricopa, save for sheriff (which was held by the incumbent Democrat), including flipping the county recorder and winning the open treasurer seat.

Biden won Arizona overall by 10,457 votes (0.3 percent), the closest margin of any of the swing states that went for him.
Despite numerous allegations of voting irregularities, no court has ruled that fraud affected the results of the 2020 election.

A news release from the Arizona Senate Republicans in late March said the audit will include scanning all 2.1 million paper ballots cast to look for irregularities, conducting a full manual recount, investigating the registration rolls to ensure only eligible voters voted and performing a forensic audit of the electronic voting machines and systems used.
The audit was originally slated to be completed by May 14. However, Arizona Senate audit liaison Ken Bennett, who served as Arizona’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2015, has signaled it may go longer.
Arizona GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward — who is not involved in the audit, but is monitoring its progress — said in a video posted on Twitter on Sunday, “They want to do it, and they want to do it right.”
“This audit is to actually give the Arizona voting public assurance that our elections are secure, fair and honest,” she said. “Who doesn’t want that?”

[Phil B.]

More on the optics the Biden admin is playing with the border crisis.


Rep. Cuellar Says Border ‘Not Under Control’ and Biden Administration Playing ‘Shell Game’ With Optics

A Texas Democrat who has been critical of the White House’s immigration policies said in separate interviews on Fox News and MSNBC that aired Thursday that “the border is not under control” and that the Biden administration is playing a “shell game” by shifting unaccompanied minors “from one tent to another tent.”
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said in an interview on “NBC Nightly News” that recent photos showing far less crowded housing conditions for unaccompanied migrant children in Border Patrol custody in Donna, Texas, paint a misleading picture of the border crisis.

“What they’re doing now is they’re moving the kids from the Border Patrol tents over to next door to the HHS facility. With all due respect, it’s all a shell game,” Cuellar said, referring to facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Cuellar made similar remarks in an earlier interview with Border Report, when he said, “all they’re doing is they’re moving kids from one tent to the other tent and saying, ‘Oh, they’re not in the Border Patrol [custody].’”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which operates the Border Patrol facilities, says the children are in HHS custody but declined to disclose the location, according to Border Report.
Officials at DHS didn’t immediately respond for comment.

The agency said the recent photos “demonstrate the tremendous progress that DHS and its partners have made to safely and efficiently transfer these children out of CBP custody and into the care of HHS.”
Photos released May 4 by the Biden administration show the Donna facility nearly empty, in contrast to photos released in March that showed throngs of youths being packed tightly into the facility.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says unaccompanied minors are spending less time in federal processing facilities.

“The amount of time children spend in [Border Patrol] custody is down 75 percent, from 131 hours at the end of March to under 30 hours now,” Psaki told reporters this week.
Republicans have blamed President Joe Biden’s messaging on immigration as well as a rollback of some Trump-era policies for the surge of illegal immigration and crowding at border facilities.


In March, immigration agents apprehended over 172,000 individuals seeking to illegally enter the United States. According to the latest report by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 351,800 encounters were made in the first three months of 2021, compared to 107,700 during the same period in 2020.
The Biden administration has blamed the influx of illegal immigrants on seasonal factors and the crowding at facilities on a “broken” immigration and asylum system inherited from the Trump administration, a narrative Psaki once again pushed at the May 4 briefing.
“After four years of an immigration system rooted in destructive and chaotic policies, President Biden is taking the challenge head on and is building a fair, orderly, and humane immigration system,” she said.
Cuellar disputed the notion that the system was “broken” in an interview on the “Fox News Rundown” podcast that aired Thursday.

“To say that the whole system was broken down, I would disagree,” Cuellar said, adding that he disagreed with some Trump-era policies, like the child separation policy. But he criticized the Biden administration for doing away with the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, dubbed the “Remain in Mexico” policy. Experts have told The Epoch Times that former President Donald Trump’s MPP program effectively ended the Obama administration’s “catch and release” protocol given to U.S. border officers and significantly reduced the number of migrants arriving at the southern border in 2019.
“The Migrant Protection Protocols program, I think that one, instead of just getting rid of that, I think we should have repurposed that,” Cuellar said.

“Or even the agreements we had with Central America and Mexico that got taken away and now they’re trying to do something else, trying to reach some sort of agreement. We should have not gotten rid of those agreements. We should have repurposed those agreements,” Cuellar said.
The Biden administration in February suspended Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, as part of Biden’s bid to undo his predecessor’s immigration policies. The so-called “safe third country” agreements, signed in 2019 by the Trump administration and the Central American nations, require would-be refugees to first apply for asylum in those countries before applying in the United States.
In April, the Biden administration signed deals with Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala to tighten their borders in an attempt to stem the flow of migration, later promising to provide aid to so-called Northern Triangle countries in a bid to ameliorate the often dire living conditions there that drive people to leave their homes in search of a better life in the United States.

The White House recently announced $310 million in emergency aid to Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, collectively known as the Northern Triangle, and Biden has proposed a broader $4 billion aid package over the course of four years that would tackle the “root causes” of migration, like poverty, corruption, and crime.
Critics have argued it won’t do much to stem the flow of migration to the United States.
“It’s magical thinking to believe that anything the U.S. government does can eliminate the need for many families in this region to make choices involving migration,” said Michael Clemens, the director of migration, displacement, and humanitarian policy and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, in remarks to Vox.

Not only that, but sending economic aid could even spur more people in Central America to leave their homes.
Clemens’ research with Princeton Ph.D. candidate Hannah Postel, as cited by Vox, found that foreign aid that focused on economic development was, in fact, associated with increases in emigration from poor Northern Triangle countries as the aid was insufficient to improve living conditions significantly enough to make people want to stay, but provided sufficient resources for them to decide to undertake the long trek north.

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Biden's DOJ Is Now Getting Involved with the Arizona Election Audit


The Biden administration on Wednesday expressed concerns about ballot security and voter intimidation as the Arizona state Senate authorizes a private audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
In a letter to Republican state Sen. Karen Fann, the Justice Department raised “two issues of potential noncompliance with federal laws” related to the audit.
“The first issue relates to a number of reports suggesting that the ballots, elections systems, and election materials that are the subject of the Maricopa County audit are no longer under the ultimate control of state and local elections officials, are not being adequately safeguarded by contractors at an insecure facility, and are at risk of being lost, stolen, altered, compromised or destroyed,” Justice Department official Pamela Karlan wrote.

Karlan also said the methods used by the group running the audit, Cyber Ninjas, raise concerns about “potential intimidation of voters.”

A statement of work released by Cyber Ninjas said the firm has been working to “identify voter registrations that did not make sense, and then knock on doors to confirm if valid voters actually lived at the stated address,” according to Karlan.

Karlan said the statement of work also indicates that Cyber Ninjas will select at least three precincts in Maricopa County with “a high number of anomalies” in order to “conduct an audit of voting history.”
“Voters may be contacted through a ‘combination of phone calls and physical canvassing’ to ‘collect information of whether the individual voted in the election’ in November 2020,” Karlan wrote.

“We would appreciate your response to the concerns described herein, including advising us of the steps that the Arizona Senate will take to ensure that violations of federal law do not occur,” the letter concluded.
The letter was sent one day after KNXV-TV reported that Cyber Ninjas was requiring volunteers to sign a non-disclosure agreement in order to participate in the audit.

In 2016, former President Donald Trump won Maricopa County (which encompasses the Phoenix metropolitan area) over Democrat Hillary Clinton by approximately 44,500 votes, or 2.8 percent of the vote.
In 2020, President Joe Biden won the county by about 45,100 votes, or 2.2 percent of the vote.
Despite Biden’s victory, Republicans carried every countywide office in Maricopa, save for sheriff (which was held by the incumbent Democrat), including flipping the county recorder and winning the open treasurer seat.

Biden won Arizona overall by 10,457 votes (0.3 percent), the closest margin of any of the swing states that went for him.
Despite numerous allegations of voting irregularities, no court has ruled that fraud affected the results of the 2020 election.

A news release from the Arizona Senate Republicans in late March said the audit will include scanning all 2.1 million paper ballots cast to look for irregularities, conducting a full manual recount, investigating the registration rolls to ensure only eligible voters voted and performing a forensic audit of the electronic voting machines and systems used.
The audit was originally slated to be completed by May 14. However, Arizona Senate audit liaison Ken Bennett, who served as Arizona’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2015, has signaled it may go longer.
Arizona GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward — who is not involved in the audit, but is monitoring its progress — said in a video posted on Twitter on Sunday, “They want to do it, and they want to do it right.”
“This audit is to actually give the Arizona voting public assurance that our elections are secure, fair and honest,” she said. “Who doesn’t want that?”

... this whole Arizona search by Trump supporters for election fraud is "coco for coco pops!" The venue is going to evict the Cyber Ninja workers on May 17th as the space was pre-booked at that time for another event. The workers are searching for traces of bamboo in the ballots as the conspiracy theory claims that the ballots were printed in China and altered.