Posted by Tina
The latest jobs numbers were out yesterday with some shocking revelations. Under the economic policies of the Obama administration American women have been replaced by foreign workers and are the biggest losers in the jobs market. The situation becomes even more dire when you consider many of these women have children and are living in poverty.
Progressives cheer for free flow immigration, even illegal immigration. How is this position justified in such a lousy economy with so many American people unable to find work because their jobs have been given to foreigners?
The progressive left tell us that expansion of government programs is the solution. Obamacare was the big band-aid that was supposed to make life on the bottom all better but it does nothing to return the job opportunities they’ve lost to foreign workers. Over time the punishing regulations will insure jobs continue to be scarce for American women. Here are the stats provided at the link above:
9.041 million foreign-born women held jobs in December of 2007 compared to 10.028 million today – or a gain of roughly 1 million jobs.
In contrast, 59.322 million U.S.-born women held jobs in December of 2007 compared to 59.258 million today – or a loss of nearly 64,000 jobs.
The solution to this problem is immigration and border control and a thriving economy made possible by lowering tax rates and regulatory reform.
Isn’t it amazing that America, once the most liberated nation on earth, has to learn this lesson from Canada:
Federal agencies pile on new rules without touching the old ones. We could take a cue from Canada, the first country in the world to require that for every new government regulation, an old rule be removed.
The cost of government overreach to Americans continues to go in the wrong direction, with businesses and citizens getting crushed in the process.
The most recent edition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) survey of federal regulations, Ten Thousand Commandments, estimate these government rules and intervention cost us Americans – citizens and businesses – $1.88 trillion in lost economic productivity and higher prices each year. That’s a staggering $14,976 per household, more than the average family spends on health care, food and transportation.
We must elect someone for president that understands these problems and can push Congress to do the right thing for the American people. We need reforms in the tax code, reforms on border control, reforms in immigration law, and regulatory reform to create an abundance of jobs, better pay, and a dollar that buys more for every single household in America. The man or woman for the job stood on the Republican stage last night…there is no alternative.