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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Report: Obamacare killed 300,000 jobs, 10,200 companies, $19B in wages

A new report certain to spur quicker GOP action to kill Obamacare finds that it has crushed small businesses forced to participate and robbed employees of $19 billion in wages in 2015.

What's more, the American Action Forum analysis found that Affordable Care Act regulations have cost 295,030 jobs and killed 10,130 small businesses that year.

A similar report on Obamacare's regulatory impact in 2014 put the price at $22 billion in lost wages.

Based on federal data, the report said, "We found that since the ACA became law, among small businesses, the rise in premiums has been associated with $19 billion in lost wages, 10,130 fewer business establishments, and nearly 300,000 lost jobs, with seven states losing more than 10,000 jobs, all results consistent with our previous research. Given the premium spikes in some states, 17 percent to 47 percent, it is not difficult to understand how the labor market reacts to the significant increase in health care costs. In fact, regulators predicted many of these increases when they....

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Dominic Puopolo, Arrested For Threatening Trump, Once Testified against 9/11 Terrorist

Mounir el Motassadeq before his
sentencing at a court in 2007
Hamburg, Germany.

A Miami Beach police report released Wednesday identified the suspect as 51-year-old Dominic Puopolo. Jail records show Puopolo is being held without bail on state charges of threatening harm against a public servant. Court records do not list a lawyer for him.

The police report says Puopolo on Monday posted a video on his Twitter account stating that he would “be at the review/inauguration and I will kill President Trump, President-elect Trump” while in Washington.

This is The Same Dominic Puopolo that confronted convicted terrorist Mounir el Motassadeq in 2007 in Hamburg Germany.

Upon Mr. Motassadeq's sentencing, he turned to Dominic Puopolo and said:

“I understand your suffering,” Mr. Motassadeq said, according to The Associated Press. “The same thing is being done to me, my kids, my parents, my family; my future is ruined.”

Mr. Puopolo, a 40-year-old computer consultant from Miami Beach, Fla., whose mother was on one of the planes flown into the World Trade Center, replied that Mr. Motassadeq would be free one day.

2017 Nugshot

2007 - Dominic J. Puopolo, joint plaintiff
in the retrial of 30-year-old Mounir El Motassadeq from Morocco

New York Times Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/world/europe/09germany.html

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Clock Boy Gets His Due...

Obama Pardons A Fellow Commie Terrorist

Obama is determined to suck until the end. With only a few days left in his presidency, he commuted the sentence of tranny traitor Chelsea Manning, but he also let a communist terrorist out of prison, because f*ck the law and the United States. These presidential pardons absolutely define who Obama is: an America-hating socialist who thinks the “victimhood” of minorities outweighs the rule of law or common decency.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Obama has commuted the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, which might not mean much to most people. When you learn about who this man is and what he did, it’s downright infuriating that Obama let this scumbag out of jail.

Rivera was a member of Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that sought to liberate Puerto Rico by attacking the US. These assholes were responsible for 100 bombings that killed 6 people in the 1970’s. Rivera was a bomb maker and instructor for the group.

In 1977 Lopez was arrested after his apartment was found stocked with TNT and other bomb making materials. According to the court records, Rivera was…

…personally involved in bombing and incendiary attacks across the country for at least five years…has been a prime recruiter for members of the underground terrorist group, and has been a key trainer in bombing, sabotage and other techniques of guerilla warfare. He has set up a series of safehouses and bomb factories across the country, the searches of which have uncovered literally hundreds of pounds of dynamite and other forms of high explosive, blasting caps, timing devices, huge caches of weapons and stockpiles of ammunition, silencers, sawed-off shotguns, disguises, stolen and altered identity documents, and the proceeds of the armed robberies of locations such as a National Guard Armory, Chicago’s Carter-Mondale Re-Election headquarters, radio and communications companies, as well as a variety of stolen vehicles.

Rivera confessed to everything he was charged with, but claimed the US had no right to prosecute him. He was tried and convicted of seditious conspiracy, use of force to commit robbery, interstate transportation of firearms and ammunition to aid in the commission of a felony, and interstate transportation of stolen vehicles. He was given a 55-year sentence in federal prison.

in 1988 Rivera was convicted of trying to escape by plotting with supporters to blow his way out of prison. He was given an addition 15 years.

There is no getting around it, Oscar Lopez Rivera is a terrorist who caused chaos and carnage. Unlike other leftist heroes, he doesn’t even try to pretend he is innocent. He has admitted to everything he did and is...

Representative Darrell Issa has reintroduced his H-1B "reform" bill from last session. As I described last fall, this bill is carefully crafted to do absolutely nothing.

Rep. Issa's press release describes the bill this way:

The legislation would help close a loophole in the nation's high-skilled immigration system being used by these companies to bring in cheaper foreign labor from abroad. It would raise the salary requirement for the positions to $100,000/year (up from $60,000/year currently) and eliminate the Masters Degree exemption. By raising the salary to a level more in-line with the average American salary for these positions, it would help cut down on abuse and ensure these positions remain available for companies who truly need them.

Many news outlets have translated this as meaning the bill raises the minimum wage for H-1B workers. Industry lobbyists make the same claim as well.

In fact, the bill does no such thing.

The reality is Rep. Issa's bill only increases the minimum wage for an alien to be classified as an "Exempt H-1B Nonimmigrant." That classification is part of the lobbyist-written tangle in the H-1B statutes.

Under Issa's bill, employers will still be able to pay H-1B workers at the 17th percentile and they will still be able to use those workers to replace Americans with impunity.

It takes no effort at all to write a provision that says you cannot replace Americans with H-1B workers. It takes a lot of skill to write a bill that does absolutely nothing while making it look like...