The rent a mob CEO urges Congress to expose who funds the fake demonstrations he orchestrates. He is asking members of Congress to pass a “Transparency in Political Demonstration Act” that would expose the groups hiring demonstrators to attend events around the U.S. Adam Swart is the head of Crowds on Demand, a company that, according […] The post Crowds-on-Demand CEO Wants Congress to Expose Funding Sources of His Protests appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked President Donald Trump this week if the affordability issue was a factor in the elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City. “More than anything else, it’s a con job by the Democrats,” Trump said, before going on to harangue the media and instruct the Republican Party to tell voters prices are down. Now, I stand behind few in my contempt for legacy media, but it’s far more likely that the average voter thinks prices are high because they’ve actually been in a supermarket during the past year. Yet, Trump officials have apparently landed on a strategy of gaslighting consumers. This was tried not very long ago. The Joe Biden administration constantly waved away “transitory” inflation. No issue did more damage to the administration. “Grocery prices are actually down significantly under Trump,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said on CBS News last weekend. Inflation, as Hassett knows, has been tempered but is still compounding. We’re doing better than historic 9% year-to-year increases we saw during the Democrats’ self-destructive mishandling of the post-COVID-19 economy. But 3%-plus on top of those spikes isn’t going to placate many. Trump averaged 2.46% inflation during his first term, when prices had been relatively stable for years. Back in 2022, Democrats let their ideological preferences trump political prudence by ignoring warnings from economists about pushing through the Inflation Reduction Act during a hot economy. Indeed, Biden told Americans that the price tag for the bill was “zero.” His advisers, when they weren’t mocking inflation worries as a “high-class problem,” made the preposterous case that more spending would mitigate the problem. It didn’t. One MIT Sloan study found that government spending was responsible for 42% of the 2022 inflation spike. Biden never recovered. Hitting consumers with billions in sales tax increases in the guise of tariffs over the last year isn’t a much better strategy for Trump. Most economists predicted that tariffs would contribute to price hikes, and yet Trump’s love of protectionism trumped pragmatism. The president has been pulling back on his historic tariffs since Liberation Day, though plenty have already contributed to economic uncertainty and inflation. “You’re going to see some substantial announcements over the next couple days in terms of things we don’t grow here in the United States,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who also claimed prices were down, promised on “Fox & Friends” this week. Wait, did the administration just learn about comparative advantage? Because tariffs were allegedly instituted to help American workers and industry. Fruit prices have gone up. Ground beef prices have spiked 13%. Coffee has jumped 19%—66% higher than in 2019. Americans like these things. Rather than admit it was a mistake, Trump has taken a page from Biden by blaming “gouging” and big greedy corporations for inflation. This strategy never works, either. Remember that one of the other arguments for tariffs was that revenue would bring down the debt. The United States federal debt accelerated to its highest level ever last quarter, reaching $38 trillion. Trump has not cut any spending. That also threatens inflation. At the same time, Trump has launched a relentless campaign to convince the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates for more easy money. On top of that, the president wants to dump billions of tax revenues from tariffs back into the economy via $2,000 checks to middle- and low-income Americans—even as Washington keeps borrowing. Some people might fall for this kind of populist ruse. It’s short-sighted economically as we know from the last time Washington helped spike inflation by mailing out checks. There’s no magic bullet to bring down prices. The president can only do so much. One thing he can do is no harm. But even if voters are wrong, no politician has ever convinced the electorate to change their minds about the economy. Wide majorities in virtually every poll now say their grocery, utility, health care, housing and fuel costs have all gone up during the past year. Most of them are feeling the aggregate cost of inflation. Gaslighting them is political suicide. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Gaslighting Americans on Inflation Is a Bad Idea appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Everything you interact with is now built by people who don’t understand you, and your kids are pushed out of the job market.From the front lines of corporate tech, I can confirm what many Americans already suspect: The H-1B program has produced a workplace disaster. It has compromised security. It has degraded the quality of everyday software. Worst of all, it has crushed the job prospects of American workers.We don’t need to accept a corporate-designed future in which our industries no longer employ us and the products no longer serve us.I’ve spent more than a decade inside corporate tech. In that time — especially after COVID — the number of Americans on my left and right has steadily dropped. Meanwhile, offshore offices multiply and more foreign workers arrive under visas. And they’re not doing low-stakes tasks. They’re building internal portals for insurance companies, managing databases that store your medical records, and writing the code behind your bank and utility apps.Look at the results. Your bank’s mobile app crawls. Basic online bill-pay feels like an endurance test. Everyday American services — airlines, grocery chains, utilities — deploy software that barely works. The root cause sits in boardrooms across the Fortune 500: fire Americans, import cheaper labor, and call it efficiency. Why pay an American engineer $150,000 when an H-1B worker costs $100,000 and can be deported for missing an unrealistic goal?Here’s the pattern I’ve watched repeat across company after company.An H-1B hire climbs the ladder to director or vice president. He earns that rise largely by finding “inefficiencies,” which usually means firing Americans. He then pushes leadership to open more H-1B slots or to contract with a “consulting firm” staffed almost entirely from abroad.Executives applaud because the invoices are low and the offshore teams rarely say no to any request, no matter how impossible. And when the savings look good enough, leadership shutters the American division altogether and replaces it with an “innovation center” in Bangalore. Look at the savings!The American worker who survives this gets a grim reward: meetings at 6 a.m. to accommodate India Standard Time, an office filled with co-workers who share neither language nor culture, an org chart dominated by unfamiliar and unpronounceable names, and a career path with no upward mobility. And that’s if the worker is fortunate enough to have a job at all. Bleak.The numbers paint an even darker picture. According to the Cengage Group’s 2025 Employability Report, only 41% of 2024 college graduates found full-time work related to their fields. In 2025, that number fell to 30%. Some analysts blame AI, but the claim doesn’t survive contact with reality. A recent MIT report found that despite $30-$40 billion in corporate spending on AI tools, 95% of organizations show no return on that investment — even though nearly half of office workers already use AI in some form.RELATED: The H-1B system is broken. Here’s how to fix it. Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty ImagesIf AI were truly replacing white-collar workers at scale, why did these same corporations ask the federal government to approve 141,207 H-1B visas in 2024?The truth is simpler: Importing cheaper, compliant labor remains the easiest way for corporate leadership to cut costs, pad bonuses, and build bigger homes in Southlake — while American workers pay the price.America is not obligated to subsidize its own replacement. We don’t need to accept a corporate-designed future in which our industries no longer employ us and the products no longer serve us. The American middle class built the modern technology economy. It should not be pushed aside so that executives can chase savings that hollow out the country one layoff at a time.Enough.

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