Now that the government is going to be partially shut down over the spiteful Democrats and their refusal to fund the border wall that is essential to curtail illegal immigration, a paraplegic veteran’s GoFundMe page that allows individual donors to kick money into the kitty to fund the wall continues to grow.
As of this writing on Saturday morning, the ““We The People Will Fund The Wall” campaign has surpassed $14 million and continues to climb as patriotic Americans continue to make a symbolic gesture against a corrupt Congress and its corporate paymasters who rely on a limitless supply of illegal aliens for cheap labor and to keep wages suppressed.
Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage started the GoFundMe account with the expressed intent of “giving the people the power.”
Top US Economist Stephen Moore relayed his comments to the Gateway Pundit on the Fed’s recent rate hike and their efforts to crash the Trump economy.
Moore’s comments are below:
In one of the most remarkable Abbott and Costello routines in modern times, the economic wizards at the Fed again raised interest rates on Tuesday. Their cracker jack logic for doing so is to steer America on a course toward recession so they have the tools in hand to end the recession that THEY themselves created. Can anyone tell us who’s on first?
Worse, this Fed move doubles down on its blunderous interest rate rise in September. President Trump turned out to be exactly right: the central bank pull back on money would slow growth and crush the stock market in order to combat nonexistent inflation.
The Fed had already reduced the monetary thrust that it provides to the economy 8 times since December 15, 2015, by raising its Fed Funds interest rate from 0.25% to 2.25%. Each time, the Fed claimed that it needed to guard our economic airliner from inflationary “overheating” – as if its job is to prevent too many people from working and making sure that pay checks aren’t rising too quickly.
Unfortunately, if you cut engine power too far on a jetliner, it will stall and drop out of the sky.
On Wednesday, December 19, despite the numerous market-based alarms that were sounding in the cockpit, Chairman Powell and his co-pilots on the FOMC voted to raise the Fed Funds rate to 2.50%. This sucks more dollars out of the economy at a time when the world demanding more dollars – thanks to Trump’s Tax cutting and deregulation policies.
Chairman Powell has been entirely tone deaf to the financial markets he seeks to protect. The Dow Jones Industrial average, which had risen by 382 points on hopes that the Fed would listen to President Trump and stop cutting power, plunged by 895 points after the 2:00 PM announcement, and closed the day down 352 points (1.49%). Poof, trillions of dollars of wealth vanished.
Since its peak on October 3, which, not coincidentally, was right after Chairman Powell gave a speech suggesting that the Fed might be through tightening money, the Dow has fallen by more than 3,500 points [now 4,500]. Market fears about his bad judgment have cut the value of all U.S. stocks by about $4.5 trillion, which is enough to buy 16,000 Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
The Fed economists use twisted logic that the economy is “strong enough” to absorb the rate hikes – which is simply an admission that their policy will slow growth.
And for what purpose? Since the last rate hike the economy has slipped into an anti-growth deflationary cycle with commodity prices – oil, copper, cotton, lead, steel, silver among others – falling by about 10 percent. The new Fed policy is sure to accelerate the deflation and farmers, ranchers, coal miners, oil and gas drillers will get further crunched by the dollar shortage.
Can someone at the Fed Temple please explain how falling commodity prices indicates inflation? Inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.
The commodities index is about the only read-out that a monetary pilot truly needs. And, right now, the CRB Index is blaring “Pull up! Pull up!”
Mr. Powell warned of a slowing economy in 2019 – but he failed to acknowledge that the headwinds the economy is facing are the drag the Fed is itself creating.It was almost as if the Fed believes there is some weird Puritan-like virtue to slowing down the investment, employment and wage-growth spurt Trump policies have created.
What is to be done now? Trump wants to fire the Fed chairman though it is doubtful he has the authority to do that. Much better for Mr. Powell to do the honorable thing and admit that his policies have had disastrous economic and financial consequences and resign.
If not this, at least Mr. Powell should hold an emergency meeting of the Federal Reserve Board and immediately cancel the rate hikes. Better yet, the Fed should announce ways to inject money into the dollar-starved economy.
For much of the past two decades, America’s economic problems of slow growth and flat wages were due to the drag of fiscal and regulatory mistakes. Now at the very moment in time when we FINALLY have a president who is slashing tax rates and regulations and is making America a much more business-friendly nation, the Fed’s monetary policy has come unhinged.
Cockpit warnings have been sounding for months, not only from the markets, but from President Trump and many other growth economists – including ourselves. We are now suffering the financial ramifications of this “pilot error” on the part of Chairman Powell.
Time for a new pilot at the Fed.
Last week before the corrupt Fed announced a quarter percent rate increase and more rate increases into the future, Moore told Bulls and Bears that the officials at the Federal Reserve should all be fired for economic malpractice.
Stephen Moore: The Fed has been way too tight. They made a major blunder three months ago with raising the rates. It’s caused a deflation in commodity prices. And I will say this, David, if the Fed raises interest rates tomorrow they should all be fired for economic malpractice.
Stephen Moore is right.
The DOW reached another all-time high on October 3rd reaching 26,829. It was up for the 103rd time since Donald Trump was elected President and 46% since the November 2016 election.
This was clearly too much for the Fed’s Powell who then scared investors with his message that he will raise rates well into next year.
1/8th of the US economy is gone thanks to the Federal Reserve.
$4.5 Trillion in Wealth has been erased!
The Fed has increased rates 8 times for President Trump in 2 years after providing the Obama Administration 0% rates for 7 years straight!
Stop the Fed and Jerome Powell now! Powell must resign now!
President Trump Releases Video on Border Security as Shutdown Takes Place – Call this a Democrat Shutdown
by Jim Hoft December 22, 2018
President Trump cut a video last night demanding border security and pleading with Democrats for their votes. Trump stood by his promise to close the government if there were not the votes for border security.
Democrats stood firm. They believe they will rewarded for their open border policies. They know the liberal media is in their pocket.
And President Trump knows that even with 92% negative coverage he still has the support of the American public.
This could be a disastrous play by Chuck and Nancy.
Countries have the right to protect their border.
Democrats disagree.
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Consumer sentiment rose in December to a level so high for 2018 only two other periods have beat it in the past fifty-eight years, according to the University of Michigan.
“If the current expansion lasts past mid-2019, as is likely based on current data, it will become the longest expansion ever recorded,” the Friday University of Michigan release stated.
U.S. Consumer sentiment hits top three highest periods of the past 58 years according to University of Michigan pic.twitter.com/goaFGB4LZL
December consumer sentiment hit 98.3 percent, according to University of Michigan numbers released Friday. The number represents a 2.5 percent increase since last year and the highest level since the year 2000.
Only two periods of time, 1964-65 and 1997-2000, were higher than it was in 2018, which has hit a Sentiment Index average of 98.4. The University of Michigan explained the two prior period highs “correspond[ed] to the two longest prior expansions since the mid 1800’s.”
“While the plunge in stock prices has recently garnered the most attention in the national press, consumers have focused more on their concerns about income and job prospects,” the release stated. 70 percent of those surveyed “anticipated no increase in unemployment in the year ahead.”
Only 12 percent expressed concern over falling stock prices as a primary economic concern. The release went on to state, “it has been news of changing job and income prospects that have been of the greatest concern to consumers.”
Michelle Moons is a White House Correspondent for Breitbart News — follow on Twitter @MichelleDiana and Facebook
In an extraordinary investigative piece on how ballot-harvesting works by Steve Miller, published on Real Clear Investigations, we learn an amazing amount of information about how ballot-harvesting works and why it’s so closely connected to election fraud, skewing elections in directions they normally wouldn’t go. The must-read piece is focused on how Texas is dealing with the seedy issue, enforcing the law, prosecuting more than twice as many cases of electoral fraud as California, even hampered as Texas is by weak penalties for violators. But a little detail stands out much deeper into the piece: ballot-harvesting, which is at the root of considerable fraud of all kinds, is a practice specifically borrowed from Latin America, with an impressive Latino analyst, K.B. Forbes, who has electoral experience in both countries, citing Mexico. Here’s the passage:
The practice has its roots in Latin America, said K.B. Forbes, a political consultant and Hispanic activist who has served as an elections observer in Sonora, Mexico. ”In the Latin culture, they have colonias, which is ‘little colony,’ literally,” he said. ”In these, they sometimes have the equivalent of a precinct boss, and that’s how people move up. The [politiqueras] deliver the vote and when the candidate moves in, the theory is that they get a good post inside the government.”
That brings up California, where ballot-harvesting is perfectly legal, and normal voters have to wonder how the heck that happened. Ballot-harvesting has been a disaster for Republicans in California, with all conservatives now shut out from any representation in once red Orange County. Most congressional elections there showed Republican candidates in the lead on election night in the last midterm, but all of them flipped to Democrats as the Democrat-led ballot-harvesting brought in votes and votes and votes from supposed precincts, harvested by their political operatives, until the result went the other way. (This, by the way, didn’t happen in districts where Democrats held a small lead. Nothing flipped in their cases, and ballots did not keep rolling in.)
If ballot-harvesting is a practice imported from Mexican politics, what does that say about California politics, whose legislators would embrace Mexican electoral practices over the U.S. standard? As I mentioned earlier, Mexico has been called “a perfect dicatorship” by none other than Nobel Prize-winning literary lion Mario Vargas Llosa, owing to the continuous power of the Mexican Partido Revolucionario Institucional (or PRI), which, up until a decade or two ago, had a hammerlock monopoly on Mexican politics, winning every single election in what was then a one-party state. That’s a system so bad that people emigrated illegally from that country to get away from it. Now, the cultural practice is right there waiting for them in California, albeit, virtually nowhere else.
And like the PRI’s Mexican electoral practice of ballot-harvesting, it’s noteworthy that the ruling Democrats of California also are famous for doling out the goodies to the loyal voters. They’ve promised amazing things to California’s illegal alien population, with the latest thing free heath care. California’s insurance commissioner, the respected non-partisan Steve Poizner, was, conveniently, ballot-harvested out of office after an election-night lead several days after the midterms by utterly leftist Democrat Ricardo Lara, who openly declared his support and big plans for free health care for illegals. He’s tried it before in the Legislature, and now he’s going to do it through the Executive. California’s incoming governor, of course, is all in for the goody-slinging. In Mexico, they used to pass out bags of beans for votes. In California, the prizes are considerably higher, and they go well beyond free health care. I’ve already noted the weird similarities between how California is run and PRI-style politics here.
Any wonder California is going way out of its way to welcome illegal aliens? ”You’re all welcome here,” as Gov. Jerry Brown famously said. California already hosts a quarter of the nation’s illegals, and with middle-class families now moving out due to high living costs and punitive taxation, the California PRI likes new bodies coming in who have a lot of needs, which keeps the congressional seats numerous and the federal funds flowing.
It all makes a normal person wonder about the weird closeness of California officials and their Mexican counterparts, too. Newsom has already paid a visit to Mexico to discuss the caravan with the Mexican government in Mexico City (not Tijuana, where he would have gotten an earful from the generally conservative and more dissident-oriented Tijuana locals), and he has declared he plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the U.S. border. With his party now embracing the PRI’s style of governance and having some unnaturally close ties to Mexican officials (I’ve seen it myself at Los Angeles functions as a guest of the Mexican government), it looks like a growing merger of Mexican and California politics.
Mexico knows how bad the system is, and its citizens did rebel against it with a Trump-like leftist president, Andrés Manuel López-Obrador, who won on a vow to end corruption. One can safely take that as a sign that Mexicans are trying to move away from that kind of politics, which would include ballot-harvesting. California, on the other hand, is moving toward it, embracing what Mexico is trying to reject. That speaks pretty poorly for the sorry state of affairs in California. It’s great only for the rulers and those they patronize, until the money runs out.
Until then, clarification about California’s Mexico borrowings needs to stand as an incentive to other states about what not to do.
In an extraordinary investigative piece on how ballot-harvesting works by Steve Miller, published on Real Clear Investigations, we learn an amazing amount of information about how ballot-harvesting works and why it’s so closely connected to election fraud, skewing elections in directions they normally wouldn’t go. The must-read piece is focused on how Texas is dealing with the seedy issue, enforcing the law, prosecuting more than twice as many cases of electoral fraud as California, even hampered as Texas is by weak penalties for violators. But a little detail stands out much deeper into the piece: ballot-harvesting, which is at the root of considerable fraud of all kinds, is a practice specifically borrowed from Latin America, with an impressive Latino analyst, K.B. Forbes, who has electoral experience in both countries, citing Mexico. Here’s the passage:
The practice has its roots in Latin America, said K.B. Forbes, a political consultant and Hispanic activist who has served as an elections observer in Sonora, Mexico. ”In the Latin culture, they have colonias, which is ‘little colony,’ literally,” he said. ”In these, they sometimes have the equivalent of a precinct boss, and that’s how people move up. The [politiqueras] deliver the vote and when the candidate moves in, the theory is that they get a good post inside the government.”
That brings up California, where ballot-harvesting is perfectly legal, and normal voters have to wonder how the heck that happened. Ballot-harvesting has been a disaster for Republicans in California, with all conservatives now shut out from any representation in once red Orange County. Most congressional elections there showed Republican candidates in the lead on election night in the last midterm, but all of them flipped to Democrats as the Democrat-led ballot-harvesting brought in votes and votes and votes from supposed precincts, harvested by their political operatives, until the result went the other way. (This, by the way, didn’t happen in districts where Democrats held a small lead. Nothing flipped in their cases, and ballots did not keep rolling in.)
If ballot-harvesting is a practice imported from Mexican politics, what does that say about California politics, whose legislators would embrace Mexican electoral practices over the U.S. standard? As I mentioned earlier, Mexico has been called “a perfect dicatorship” by none other than Nobel Prize-winning literary lion Mario Vargas Llosa, owing to the continuous power of the Mexican Partido Revolucionario Institucional (or PRI), which, up until a decade or two ago, had a hammerlock monopoly on Mexican politics, winning every single election in what was then a one-party state. That’s a system so bad that people emigrated illegally from that country to get away from it. Now, the cultural practice is right there waiting for them in California, albeit, virtually nowhere else.
And like the PRI’s Mexican electoral practice of ballot-harvesting, it’s noteworthy that the ruling Democrats of California also are famous for doling out the goodies to the loyal voters. They’ve promised amazing things to California’s illegal alien population, with the latest thing free heath care. California’s insurance commissioner, the respected non-partisan Steve Poizner, was, conveniently, ballot-harvested out of office after an election-night lead several days after the midterms by utterly leftist Democrat Ricardo Lara, who openly declared his support and big plans for free health care for illegals. He’s tried it before in the Legislature, and now he’s going to do it through the Executive. California’s incoming governor, of course, is all in for the goody-slinging. In Mexico, they used to pass out bags of beans for votes. In California, the prizes are considerably higher, and they go well beyond free health care. I’ve already noted the weird similarities between how California is run and PRI-style politics here.
Any wonder California is going way out of its way to welcome illegal aliens? ”You’re all welcome here,” as Gov. Jerry Brown famously said. California already hosts a quarter of the nation’s illegals, and with middle-class families now moving out due to high living costs and punitive taxation, the California PRI likes new bodies coming in who have a lot of needs, which keeps the congressional seats numerous and the federal funds flowing.
It all makes a normal person wonder about the weird closeness of California officials and their Mexican counterparts, too. Newsom has already paid a visit to Mexico to discuss the caravan with the Mexican government in Mexico City (not Tijuana, where he would have gotten an earful from the generally conservative and more dissident-oriented Tijuana locals), and he has declared he plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the U.S. border. With his party now embracing the PRI’s style of governance and having some unnaturally close ties to Mexican officials (I’ve seen it myself at Los Angeles functions as a guest of the Mexican government), it looks like a growing merger of Mexican and California politics.
Mexico knows how bad the system is, and its citizens did rebel against it with a Trump-like leftist president, Andrés Manuel López-Obrador, who won on a vow to end corruption. One can safely take that as a sign that Mexicans are trying to move away from that kind of politics, which would include ballot-harvesting. California, on the other hand, is moving toward it, embracing what Mexico is trying to reject. That speaks pretty poorly for the sorry state of affairs in California. It’s great only for the rulers and those they patronize, until the money runs out.
Until then, clarification about California’s Mexico borrowings needs to stand as an incentive to other states about what not to do.
Among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s responsibilities are approval and regulation of pharmaceutical drugs. In short, its responsibility is to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs. In the performance of this task, FDA officials can make two types of errors — statistically known as the type I error and type II error.
It’s great fun watching critics of President Trump twist themselves into pretzels in order to denounce him. They evidently don’t mind making fools of themselves by doing a 180-degree reversal of previous positions simply because Trump is now doing what they formerly supported, so it must be wrong.
As President Donald Trump announced his decision Wednesday to withdraw the nation’s 2,000 troops from Syria, a bipartisan cadre of opinion-havers attacked him as recklessly abandoning allies in the region and jeopardizing America’s influence over foreign affairs.
One newspaper was particularly harsh: The Times.
Quickly after Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced his resignation (in part as a protest against Trump’s decision on Syria) Thursday, America’s paper of record quickly produced a scathing editorial, proclaiming “Jim Mattis Was Right.”
“Who will protect America now?” The Times asked.
But the Times took an opposite position earlier:
[A]lmost a year ago, on Jan. 19, 2018, that same editorial board raked the president over the coals for even daring to continue America’s policy of military adventurism.
The Times expressed concern that more American troops beyond the 2,000 initially deployed could soon be sent overseas in a mission without any clear goals.
“Syria is a complex problem. But this plan seems poorly conceived, too dependent on military action and fueled by wishful thinking,” The Times said.
While on Thursday The Times worried that leaving Syria could leave the Kurds vulnerable to Turkey, at the beginning of 2018, the paper also believed that the U.S. would be setting up a clash between the minority group and a NATO ally.
“Turkey, which views the Kurds as an enemy, has threatened a cross-border assault. All of this raises the grim possibility that American troops will clash with Turkey, a NATO ally,” The Times wrote last January.
Nowhere in Thursday’s editorial does The Times ever point to an alternative timeline for withdrawal for American forces in Syria. Such an omission is quite startling, considering last January the paper’s chief criticism of sending forces to the region was setting up just another forever-war in the Middle East.
Even more clownish is Max Boot. Roger Kimball makes well deserved fun of the bitter NeverTrump, who, like his Washington Post colleague Jennifer Rubin, is willing to change his position on an issue once Trump agrees with it.
Predictably, the neo-con fraternity has its collective knickers in a twist over Mattis’s announced departure. Max Boot, who is always good for a laugh these days, epitomized the angst in some recent tweets. ’Jim Mattis is gone,’ he said in one. ’God help America. And the world.’ But then it has been obvious for some time that for Max the criterion of a good decision is that it was not taken by Donald Trump.
For example, when the President announced a couple of days back that he was withdrawing American troops from Syria – thus taking another step towards fulfilling his campaign promise to extricate America from needless foreign entanglements – Max skirled that the decisions was ‘a giant Christmas gift to our enemies.’ But one wag pointed out that it was not so long ago that Max said the opposite, insisting ‘Trump can’t do anything right – we don’t need troops in Syria.’ Okee-doke. I am not sure if that is Walt-Whimanesque [sic] logic (‘Do I contradict myself? Very well I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes’) or something out of the more recondite precincts of Hegelian dialectic where, the sage of Berlin told us, ‘X = not-X.’ Whatever the explanation, Max’s pirouettes do put us on notice about what to expect from those NeverTrump quarters.
The only explanation for this sort of thing is derangement – TDS.
This is the guy who first rose to national political prominence because he opposed the Iraq War. Amazing how irreparably Trump has warped brains. https://t.co/71808SKTzv
The most bizarre aspect of Rachel @Maddow‘s deep anger over troop withdrawal from Syria is that she wrote an entire book in 2012 denouncing illegal US Endless War without congressional approval – exactly what Syria is. I interviewed her about it here: https://t.co/Zg7K1a3bUyhttps://t.co/js74z4iGUN
It’s great fun watching critics of President Trump twist themselves into pretzels in order to denounce him. They evidently don’t mind making fools of themselves by doing a 180-degree reversal of previous positions simply because Trump is now doing what they formerly supported, so it must be wrong.
As President Donald Trump announced his decision Wednesday to withdraw the nation’s 2,000 troops from Syria, a bipartisan cadre of opinion-havers attacked him as recklessly abandoning allies in the region and jeopardizing America’s influence over foreign affairs.
One newspaper was particularly harsh: The Times.
Quickly after Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced his resignation (in part as a protest against Trump’s decision on Syria) Thursday, America’s paper of record quickly produced a scathing editorial, proclaiming “Jim Mattis Was Right.”
“Who will protect America now?” The Times asked.
But the Times took an opposite position earlier:
[A]lmost a year ago, on Jan. 19, 2018, that same editorial board raked the president over the coals for even daring to continue America’s policy of military adventurism.
The Times expressed concern that more American troops beyond the 2,000 initially deployed could soon be sent overseas in a mission without any clear goals.
“Syria is a complex problem. But this plan seems poorly conceived, too dependent on military action and fueled by wishful thinking,” The Times said.
While on Thursday The Times worried that leaving Syria could leave the Kurds vulnerable to Turkey, at the beginning of 2018, the paper also believed that the U.S. would be setting up a clash between the minority group and a NATO ally.
“Turkey, which views the Kurds as an enemy, has threatened a cross-border assault. All of this raises the grim possibility that American troops will clash with Turkey, a NATO ally,” The Times wrote last January.
Nowhere in Thursday’s editorial does The Times ever point to an alternative timeline for withdrawal for American forces in Syria. Such an omission is quite startling, considering last January the paper’s chief criticism of sending forces to the region was setting up just another forever-war in the Middle East.
Even more clownish is Max Boot. Roger Kimball makes well deserved fun of the bitter NeverTrump, who, like his Washington Post colleague Jennifer Rubin, is willing to change his position on an issue once Trump agrees with it.
Predictably, the neo-con fraternity has its collective knickers in a twist over Mattis’s announced departure. Max Boot, who is always good for a laugh these days, epitomized the angst in some recent tweets. ’Jim Mattis is gone,’ he said in one. ’God help America. And the world.’ But then it has been obvious for some time that for Max the criterion of a good decision is that it was not taken by Donald Trump.
For example, when the President announced a couple of days back that he was withdrawing American troops from Syria – thus taking another step towards fulfilling his campaign promise to extricate America from needless foreign entanglements – Max skirled that the decisions was ‘a giant Christmas gift to our enemies.’ But one wag pointed out that it was not so long ago that Max said the opposite, insisting ‘Trump can’t do anything right – we don’t need troops in Syria.’ Okee-doke. I am not sure if that is Walt-Whimanesque [sic] logic (‘Do I contradict myself? Very well I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes’) or something out of the more recondite precincts of Hegelian dialectic where, the sage of Berlin told us, ‘X = not-X.’ Whatever the explanation, Max’s pirouettes do put us on notice about what to expect from those NeverTrump quarters.
The only explanation for this sort of thing is derangement – TDS.
This is the guy who first rose to national political prominence because he opposed the Iraq War. Amazing how irreparably Trump has warped brains. https://t.co/71808SKTzv
The most bizarre aspect of Rachel @Maddow‘s deep anger over troop withdrawal from Syria is that she wrote an entire book in 2012 denouncing illegal US Endless War without congressional approval – exactly what Syria is. I interviewed her about it here: https://t.co/Zg7K1a3bUyhttps://t.co/js74z4iGUN
A previously deported illegal alien allegedly murdered a 51-year-old American while on a 24-hour “reign of terror” shooting and crime spree, according to Tulare County, California law enforcement officials.
Gustavo Garcia, a 36-year-old illegal alien, shot and killed 51-year-old Rocky Paul Jones of Visalia, California on December 17 at a gas station. Police said surveillance footage revealed Garcia and Jones spoke briefly before the killing, but that the two did not know one another.
During a news conference, according to the Fresno Bee, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said Garcia carried out a “reign of terror” and “had no regard for human life” before dying in a car accident in the midst of a police chase.
“These were not chosen targets, which makes it more dangerous,” Boudreaux said. “This person was targeting anyone that got in the way. He equally was not deterred by the acts of law enforcement. He was a violent person.”
Jones leaves behind one daughter and his family has set up a GoFundMe account to help raise money for his funeral expenses. Their goal is to raise $10,000.
Rocky Jones, 51-years-old, was killed by a previously deported illegal alien on December 17, according to police. (Photo via KMPH)
“Rocky Jones was a very giving, loving, and unselfish man,” Jones’ family wrote on the GoFundMe fundraising page. “He was a dad, son, grandpa, uncle, cousin, and friend to many. Sadly, his life got cut short on December 17th, 2018.”
“With a heavy heart, I ask for your help to raise enough money to help relieve the financial burdens left on Rocky’s family,” a family member wrote.
Garcia was previously deported from the U.S. in 2014 by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Before his first deportation, the illegal alien had a criminal record going back to 2002 where he was charged with crimes like illegal possession of a firearm.
Garcia was hit with three federal immigration violations as well before returning to the sanctuary state of California after being deported. California protects and shields illegal aliens from deportation, even those with past criminal records like Garcia.
In addition to murdering Jones, police said the illegal alien also shot a farm worker in the chest while he was on a ladder picking fruit. The man is expected to recover from the shooting.
Immediately following the shooting, police said Garcia robbed a nearby gas station. Garcia walked into the convenient store, surveillance footage reveals, and fired multiple shots at the ceiling. The illegal alien demanded more than $2,000 in cash. Garcia robbed the store with another Hispanic male whom police are still searching for.
After the armed robbery, Garcia attempted to shoot and kill a woman after he followed her to her car at a Motel 6, police said. Garcia did not know the woman and she sustained non-life threatening gunshot wounds on her arm and chest.
Following the Motel 6 shooting, police suspect the illegal alien was involved with an assault nearby and potentially is connected to a homicide that occurred in the region. Police said Garcia also fired gunshots at a Shell gas station at the time.
Garcia, police said, went over to his ex-girlfriend’s home in the middle of the night and fired multiple gunshots in the house. The woman and her children escaped, though Garcia was able to flee before police arrived at the scene.
In the early morning, police were able to locate and stop Garcia but the illegal alien ran into an orchard and held three farm workers at gunpoint before stealing their car which he then fled from police in.
During a two-minute police chase, Garcia drove on Highway 65 in the opposite direction with California Highway Patrol telling the Fresno Bee that the suspect “attempted to strike vehicles” in the process. The car accidents caused by the illegal alien have left four California residents in the hospital, including one who is in critical condition.
The illegal alien, during the police chase, fired shots at police officers who returned fire in response. Garcia crashed the car, ejected himself, and died at the scene. No police officers were injured from the chase.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
HUGE! President Trump Discussed Ditching Disastrous Fed Chair Powell – After He Tanked US Economy by $4 Trillion – Wiped Out 1/6th of Market
by Jim Hoft December 22, 2018
SINCE OCTOBER JEROME POWELL HAS SINGLE-HANDEDLY DISMANTLED THE US ECONOMY.
Since his careless comments and promises to continue rate hikes in his October 3rd speech the economy has plunged 4,500 points — 1/6th of the US economy has been wiped out.
The Trump tax cuts at year end 2017 set the economy on fire. The US stock markets set numerous records. So the Fed had to step in and kill the economy and punish the Middle Class or President Trump would get re-elected in 2020.
The Fed announced this past Wednesday afternoon that they will increase rates again and will also increase rates next year. The Dow immediately dropped 720 points in 10 minutes. The DOW was down at one point by 894 points!
Holy crap!! Somebody get this guy off the stage! Dow drops 894 points since Fed Chairman Powell took the stage!! pic.twitter.com/SKdEZkZFpt
The Dow Jones has dropped nearly 4,500 points since the Fed’s Jerome Powell’s insidious comments in early October to guarantee interest rate increases from now till infinity.
The DOW reached another all-time high on October 3rd reaching 26,829. It was up for the 103rd time since Donald Trump was elected President and 46% since the November 2016 election.
This was clearly too much for the Fed’s Powell who then scared investors with his message that he will raise rates well into next year.
Over $4 Trillion in Wealth has been erased!
As a result of Fed Chief Powell’s actions, Americans have watched their 401k’s dissolve into thin air.
In 2015 about 54 million Americans had 401k saving accounts. This list has no doubt increased with the increase in working Americans since Donald Trump was elected President as more Americans are working today than ever before. Since many households have only one person in the work force the number individuals with 401k’s touches between a third to a half of all Americans. All of these people are watching the Fed’s Powell destroy their life savings.
At the end of 2017 more than 168,000 people with 401k’s were reported as millionaires under Fidelity’s management – an all time high. That list has no doubt dwindled after Powell’s latest actions.
On Tuesday of this week top economist Stephen Moore said if the Fed raises rates on Wednesday they should all be fired. Moore was right.
Most Americans may not know that it is the Fed that has created this market selloff. By firing Powell the President would communicate to Americans the real cause of their life savings being decimated. Also, firing Powell would send a message to the Fed and lawmakers not to steal from working American men and women (any more than they already have)!
By raising rates the Fed lowered every American’s net worth while increasing the amount of US debt interest payments on American tax payers for decades to come. Each interest rate increase increases the interest payments on the US debt and now Powell’s efforts equal a half a trillion dollars in additional annual debt interest payments alone.
But now there is great news for Christmas!
President Trump is discussing firing Powell before he completely destroys the US economy.
What great news for Christmas!
Via reporter Jennifer Jacobs.
BREAKING: Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell as his frustration has intensified after this week’s interest-rate increase and months of stock-market losses.
Advisers close to Trump aren’t convinced he will try to do it, but say he wants to.
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Amid all the back and forth about who the biggest deporter is among presidents, and whether deportations are up or down under President Trump, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has released some impressive numbers: 256,000 deportations of immigration lawbreakers, mostly for committing additional crimes beyond the initial border break, in 2018.
Sweeping raids across the United States has seen violent gang members apprehended by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, with more 256,000 illegal aliens deported in 2018 alone, according to reports. Pedophiles, child abusers, and violent gang members are among those deported by ICE this year, including 95,360 illegal aliens living in the U.S and 160,725 caught by Border Patrol crossing into the country. The most notable deportations are the 95,000 illegal aliens living throughout the interior of the country.
That’s more than 701 per day, in a 365-day year. Picture what 701 looks like in a crowd, and the scope of the deportations looks clear.
This, to be pessimistic, tells us a lot about how many immigration lawbreakers are out there, including ones who commit crimes here and haven’t been caught.
But it represents a 5% rise in deportations of illegal aliens, an 11% rise in deportations of illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes and a whopping 85% rise in deportations of known gang members, with all figures in comparison to 2016, President Obama’s last year in office.
That suggests progress. The gang deportations suggests that President Trump and his homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, are pretty serious about getting rid of these plagues on society.
Here’s something else that’s worth noting: Breitbart News has just come out with news of a new study showing that mass deportation is deterring MS-13 gang expansion in the U.S. That means less imported crime and more livability for America’s law-abiding citizens.
Obviously, someone is putting U.S. citizens’ interests over the interests of non-law-abiding foreigners, particularly committed criminals. No, it’s not everything, but it’s an encouraging change.
Making America Great Again? Just say “thanks, Trump!”
Amid all the back and forth about who the biggest deporter is among presidents, and whether deportations are up or down under President Trump, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has released some impressive numbers: 256,000 deportations of immigration lawbreakers, mostly for committing additional crimes beyond the initial border break, in 2018.
Sweeping raids across the United States has seen violent gang members apprehended by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, with more 256,000 illegal aliens deported in 2018 alone, according to reports. Pedophiles, child abusers, and violent gang members are among those deported by ICE this year, including 95,360 illegal aliens living in the U.S and 160,725 caught by Border Patrol crossing into the country. The most notable deportations are the 95,000 illegal aliens living throughout the interior of the country.
That’s more than 701 per day, in a 365-day year. Picture what 701 looks like in a crowd, and the scope of the deportations looks clear.
This, to be pessimistic, tells us a lot about how many immigration lawbreakers are out there, including ones who commit crimes here and haven’t been caught.
But it represents a 5% rise in deportations of illegal aliens, an 11% rise in deportations of illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes and a whopping 85% rise in deportations of known gang members, with all figures in comparison to 2016, President Obama’s last year in office.
That suggests progress. The gang deportations suggests that President Trump and his homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, are pretty serious about getting rid of these plagues on society.
Here’s something else that’s worth noting: Breitbart News has just come out with news of a new study showing that mass deportation is deterring MS-13 gang expansion in the U.S. That means less imported crime and more livability for America’s law-abiding citizens.
Obviously, someone is putting U.S. citizens’ interests over the interests of non-law-abiding foreigners, particularly committed criminals. No, it’s not everything, but it’s an encouraging change.
Making America Great Again? Just say “thanks, Trump!”
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