Plight of Laid-Off American Workers Nothing to Celebrate

American employees throughout the wage scale are hurting. Small-business homeowners throughout the nation are combating for his or her survival. Younger folks face extra uncertainty than ever about their futures and talent to place meals on the desk.

As we head into Labor Day weekend, I wish to supply a pleasant reminder from the “America First” proper to the Beltway Republican message machine and the Trump marketing campaign’s social media professionals: Now isn’t the time to be cheerleading for pandemic profiteers, tech billionaires, and “woke capital” globalists who’re hooked on low-cost international labor and abhor American sovereignty. In response to one evaluation by Oxfam, 17 out of the highest 25 most worthwhile U.S. companies — together with Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Fb, Pfizer and Visa — are projected to rake in $85 billion extra in 2020 than in earlier years as upward of 40 million Individuals are out of labor.

SwampCons hold touting the “booming inventory market” and “report” S&P 500 highs. President Donald Trump himself bragged final week, “NASDAQ has damaged the report, I feel 16 instances already, throughout a pandemic.” He additionally warned Republican Nationwide Conference viewers that Joe Biden is dangerous for our “retirement” nest eggs and “401(okay)s.” True sufficient. However what in regards to the tens of hundreds of thousands who’ve misplaced their jobs and those that haven’t even had the possibility to start out placing away any financial savings?

Furthermore, why ought to any “Make America Nice Once more” populists wave pom-poms for Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google/Alphabet and Fb? The founders, prime executives and elitist workers of those Silicon Valley companies — the highest 5 corporations within the NASDAQ index — hate America, sabotage U.S. employees via advocating for mass migration, Black Lives Matter and antifa anarchy, they usually overtly disparage and discriminate towards Trump-supporting prospects.

In abnormal instances, I was a type of dependable voices touting the “free market,” “invisible hand” and miracles of American capitalism over “socialism.” However our present situation isn’t one among “restricted authorities conservatism” vs. “large authorities socialism.” As I’ve illustrated all summer season lengthy, we reside in a bloody state of anarchotyranny. The lawless reign whereas large enterprise collectively allies itself with the mob to reap income on the expense of the law-abiding.

Again in February, I reported to you on the parable of the American employee scarcity by spotlighting greater than 50 tales of tens of 1000’s of current U.S. employee layoffs in tech and different high-skilled industries. Among the many U.S. companies and establishments chargeable for shedding, changing, offshoring, and outsourcing tens of 1000’s of American jobs:

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Wayfair, TripAdvisor, LogMeIn, Inc., Zume Pizza, VMWare, Shutterfly, Intel, Comcast, Xilinx, 23andMe, NortonLifeLock, AT&T, Macy’s, Walgreens, Uber, Lyft, UCSF Medical Middle, Baptist Well being, Sysco, WeWork, American Household Insurance coverage, Tennessee Valley Authority, Amway, UPS subsidiary Coyote Logistics, Comcast, Lime, Hen, Unicorn, Getaround, Cerner, Oracle, Samsung US, Edmunds.com, Textron Aviation, Morgan Stanley, Spirit AeroSystems, Mozilla, UiPath, Plexus, Cisco, Ancestry.com, Clover Well being, State Avenue Company, Anthem, Transamerica, Verizon, MassMutual, Disney, Carnival, Abbott Labs, EmblemHealth, Harley Davidson, Cargill, Eversource Power, Greatest Purchase, Southern California Edison and Qualcomm.

Six months later, report layoffs are piling up.

—Final week in California, VMWare, downtown San Jose’s Hilton Lodge, Veritas, Blackhawk Nation Membership, Hole, Chartwells and Silver Creek Sportsplex in San Jose all introduced a whole lot extra Bay Space layoffs.

—Among the many corporations confirming new COVID-related everlasting layoffs reported by The Wall Avenue Journal: GM Resorts Worldwide, Stanley Black & Decker Inc. and Coca-Cola.

—American Airways Group Inc. and United Airways Holdings Inc. are threatening to ax greater than 53,000 employees except they get new federal bailouts. Frontier Airways signaled almost 400 layoffs in Colorado.

—Even because it crowed about report quarterly gross sales, Salesforce handed out pink-slip notices to 1,000 of its workers.

—Regardless of promising to not lower employees within the midst of the COVID chaos, Morgan Stanley, Financial institution of America Corp. and Wells Fargo are actually all contemplating doing simply that.

—In Florida, greater than 1,900 resort workers are dealing with layoffs or momentary layoffs at Loews Inns and Co and Marriott.

—Telecom big Cisco plans to put off an unspecified variety of employees amid enterprise troubles.

—Manufacturing big 3M slashed 1,500 jobs at first of the month.

—Walmart laid off shedding a whole lot of workers in its logistics, actual property and retail location planning departments over the previous two months.

—A whole bunch of well being care employees have been laid off in Prepare dinner County, Illinois, Cape Cod, the College of Texas Medical Department Well being system, Lynwood Hospital in Los Angeles and Minnesota’s state hospital system.

Bear in mind these laid-off employees when Beltway crapweasels come again from their Labor Day vacation to foyer for extra imported international farmworkers, work permits for unlawful immigrant DREAMers, H-1B tech visas, extra international medical doctors and different medical professionals, Silicon Valley tax breaks and Fortune 500 bailouts.

I repeat: There is no such thing as a American employee scarcity — solely a scarcity of politicians who really put American employees first.

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