History for April 11

History for April 11 - On-This-Day.com:
Oleg Cassini 1913 - Fashion designer, Ethel Kennedy (Skakel) 1928 - Wife of U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Joel Grey 1932 - Singer (Katz), dancer, actor ("Cabaret"), actress Jennifer Grey's father 


Louise Lasser 1939 - Actress ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "Slither"), Peter Riegert 1947 - Actor ("The Mask"), Jim Lauderdale 1957 - Country singer, songwriter 


1783 - After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on March 13, the U.S. Congress proclaimed a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.


1901 - Construction on the Empire State Building was completed. The building was dedicated and opened on May 1, 1931.


1945 - During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.


1947 - Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major-league history. He played in an exhibition game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.


1961 - Israel began the trial of Adolf Eichman, accused of World War II war crimes.


1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.


1980 - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.


1984 - China invaded Vietnam.

Trey Gowdy Just Sent A Brutal Wake-Up Call To Every Single Democrat - There's No Escaping

Trey Gowdy Just Sent A Brutal Wake-Up Call To Every Single Democrat - There's No Escaping:

"Democrats have routinely downplayed the events which occurred that day, especially Hillary Clinton. Clinton famously yelled, “what difference, at this point, does it make?” during her appearance before the committee in 2015, despite being secretary of state at the time of the debacle.

Gowdy further detailed the purpose of the committee in a statement on his congressional blog."

How High Are Beer Taxes in Your State?

How High Are Beer Taxes in Your State? | Tax Foundation:
"Tax treatment of beer varies widely across the U.S., ranging from a low of $0.02 per gallon in Wyoming to a high of $1.29 per gallon in Tennessee.
Check out today’s map below to see where your state lies on the beer tax spectrum."

UK Equalities Chief Who Popularised The Term 'Islamophobia' Admits: 'I Thought Muslims Would Blend into Britain... I should Have Known Better'

UK Equalities Chief Who Popularised The Term 'Islamophobia' Admits: 'I Thought Muslims Would Blend into Britain... I Should Have Known Better':
The former head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, has admitted he “got almost everything wrong” on Muslim immigration in a damning new report on integration, segregation, and how the followers of Islam are creating “nations within nations” in the West.

Phillips, a former elected member of the Labour Party who served as the Chairman of the EHRC from 2003-2012 will present “What British Muslims Really Think” on Channel 4 on Wednesday. 
An ICM poll released to the Times ahead of the broadcast reveals: 

• One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house;
• 39 per cent of Muslims, male and female, say a woman should always obey her husband;
• 31 per cent of British Muslims support the right of a man to have more than one wife;
• 52 per cent of Muslims did not believe that homosexuality should be legal;
• 23 per cent of Muslims support the introduction of Sharia law rather than the laws laid down by parliament.

Over One Year Later, State Department Finally Turns Over Records; Committee Still Waiting for Others | Select Committee on Benghazi

Over One Year Later, State Department Finally Turns Over Records; Committee Still Waiting for Others | Select Committee on Benghazi:

“It is deplorable that it took over a year for these records to be produced to our committee, and that our Democrat colleagues never lifted a finger to help us get them. Shame on them and everyone else who has demanded this committee to give up before gathering all of the facts. This investigation is about a terrorist attack that killed four Americans, and it could have been completed a lot sooner if the administration had not delayed and delayed and delayed at every turn. For example, the committee still does not have records we requested over a year ago, and we are still waiting for some witnesses to be made available for interviews "

Everything is racist..... pay up!------Dartmouth Sorority cancels Kentucky Derby party over 'racial connotations'

Dartmouth Sorority cancels Kentucky Derby party over 'racial connotations' - Washington Times: "Every year Dartmouth College’s Kappa Delta Epsilon (KDE) sorority hosts a Kentucky Derby-themed party in the spring, but this year, the sorority cancelled those plans after students claimed the soiree was racist.
The sorority traditionally held the invite-only party the same weekend as the famous Kentucky Derby horse race.
In 2015, a group of campus Black Lives Matter protestors rallied outside the party, calling the event racist and elitist, and accusing the sorority of “recreating an Antebellum South atmosphere on the Ivy league campus,” The College Fix reported.
Protesters held signs declaring “black rage” and repeated chants of “What is Derby? It’s the face of genocide,” and “What is Derby? It’s the face of police brutality.”
Now, according to campus newspaper The Dartmouth, the sorority has voted to rebrand the party, changing the theme from Kentucky Derby to Woodstock. 
Nikol Oydanich, KDE vice president, said that after speaking to last year’s protesters and other individuals in the Afro-American Society, the sorority decided to change its theme because of its “racial connotations.”
“[It is] related to pre-war southern culture,” she told The Dartmouth. “Derby was a party that had the power to upset a lot of our classmates.”
“We realized that if anyone on campus felt uncomfortable or upset with the theme, then we obviously shouldn’t have it,” said KDE social chair Jehanna Axelrod.
The first Kentucky Derby horse race was held in 1875, 10 years after the Civil War ended."

Number of State Employees Who Make $100,000+ Up 50 Percent Under Snyder

Number of State Employees Who Make $100,000+ Up 50 Percent Under Snyder [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"When Gov. Rick Snyder took office in 2011, 927 people on the state of Michigan's payroll made $100,000 or more. 
By 2015, the number of six-figure employees had increased by 55 percent to 1,437.
One of the largest increases was in the number making $126,000 or more, which is where state government's highest salary category begins.
In the 2010-11 fiscal year, there were 165 state employees who were paid that much. 
By 2015, the number had almost doubled to 310 (up 88 percent).
The average state employee salary last year was $57,171.
While the vast majority of state employees are included in the annual state report listing these figures, some in the six-figure group may not be included because they are paid by unconventional means.
In particular, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the agency in charge of state business subsidies, pays its people with a mix of state tax revenue and money from negotiated payments from Indian casinos that have been earmarked to the agency.
The MEDC has 19 employees who are paid $100,000 or more, led by its director, Steven Arwood, who gets $267,000. 
That number is down from 52, in 2014."

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Hillary Clinton Declares ‘Not Even Remotest Chance’ She’ll Be Charged in Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com

Hillary Clinton Declares ‘Not Even Remotest Chance’ She’ll Be Charged in Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Though Clinton has repeatedly tried to dismiss the matter as a security review, FBI officials told Fox News the matter is a criminal investigation because the FBI doesn’t do routine security reviews.

“I will tell you sitting here in the Bronx, we are moving forward,” Clinton said. “The Republicans’ fondest wishes will not be fulfilled.”"

VA Bosses In 7 States Ordered Wait Time Records Falsified

VA Bosses In 7 States Ordered Wait Time Records Falsified – DennisMichaelLynch.com:
"More than 100 facilities investigated, and 29 people disciplined for improper scheduling and falsifying records.
USA TODAY — Supervisors instructed schedulers to falsify patient wait times at Veterans Affairs’ medical facilities in at least seven states, according to newly released investigation reports from the department’s inspector general.
VA whistle-blowers say schedulers still are manipulating wait times. Shea Wilkes, co-director of a group of more than 40 whistle-blowers from VA medical facilities in more than a dozen states, said the group continues to hear about it from employees across the country who are scared to come forward.
The manipulation gave the false impression that the facilities in Arkansas, California, Delaware, Illinois, New York, Texas and Vermont were meeting VA performance measures for shorter wait times.
The reports detail for the first time since the Phoenix VA wait-time scandal in 2014 how widespread scheduling manipulation was throughout the VA.
Investigators previously have said manipulation was “systemic” but they did not identify which facilities had problems and how serious they were.
The investigations found that employees at 40 VA medical facilities in 19 states and Puerto Rico regularly “zeroed out” veteran wait times, which masked growing demand as new waves of veterans returned from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as Vietnam veterans aged and needed more health care. 
In some cases, the system encouraged manipulation even without explicit instruction from supervisors."

Low tax-supported debt gets Nebraska a No. 1 ranking

Low tax-supported debt gets Nebraska a No. 1 ranking - Omaha.com: Money:
"Most people probably don't imagine the vicinity of South Sioux City, Neb., as the national leader in responsible government finance, but it is, according to financial publication Barron's.
This week, Barron's named Nebraska the best state in the country when it comes to managing government budgets. 
Iowa was second and South Dakota third — making the tri-state corner near South Sioux City the nation's garden spot when it comes to savvy government finance.
“Nebraska has virtually no tax-supported debt and the country's lowest unfunded pension obligation,” Barron's wrote.
“It is notable for having a 'cash-balance plan,' a cross between a traditional pension and a 401(k) plan that has been adopted by companies including IBM.
This cuts financial obligations relative to regular pensions.
Other states are looking at the idea.”
A lot of it comes down to the fact that you can't lose at a game you refuse to play:
Low state debt is the law in Nebraska. 
The Nebraska constitution prohibits the state from having more than $100,000 of bond debt.
“I am thrilled we are ranked No. 1,” Gov. Dave Heineman said in an interview.
“We don't spend money we don't have.”...

Destroying travel-----TSA: Beefed up airport security could roil summer travel lines

TSA: Beefed up airport security could roil summer travel lines - POLITICO
"...TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger told reporters Friday that the agency has significantly stepped up its visible presence after the Brussels blasts, just one effort to deter would-be copy cats from targeting U.S. airports and train stations.
...It will also mean more random bag checks, particularly for bigger luggage, and additional inspections of cars and taxis coming into the airport.
Combine the random checks with what’s expected to be longer security lines, and passengers could be staring down a frustrating summer travel experience.
“This is one of the busiest or highest volume travel years we’ve ever seen,” Neffenger said, adding that travel has increased about 8 percent on average over last year.
“I care about lines, it’s not that I don’t … [but] we have to do our jobs. 
...Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) took Neffenger to task, criticizing TSA for not doing enough to screen airport workers.
Nelson said the Atlanta airport worker gun smuggling ring uncovered in December 2014 and more recently, bombs snuck onto commercial planes overseas, make it imperative that TSA push airports to tighten up access and screening for their employees.
“Atlanta, Miami and Orlando,” have thorough worker vetting in place, Nelson said.
“What about the rest of the 297 airports nationwide?”...

Report: Extradition of Romanian Hacker During Clinton Email Probe No ‘Coincidence’ | TheBlaze.com

Report: Extradition of Romanian Hacker During Clinton Email Probe No ‘Coincidence’ | TheBlaze.com:

"The extradition of Romanian hacker “Guccifer” to the U.S. during the course of the FBI’s criminal investigation into former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email use is “not a coincidence,” an “intelligence source close to the case” told Fox News.

“Guccifer,” whose real name is Marcel Lehel Lazar, allegedly accessed the email account of Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton confidant. This hack is how Clinton’s use of a personal account during her time as secretary of state first came to light."

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History for April 10 - On-This-Day.com

History for April 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Commodore Matthew Perry 1794, Lew Wallace 1827 - U.S. novelist ("Ben Hur"), William Booth 1829 - Founder of Salvation Army, author ("In Darkets England") 


Joseph Pulitzer 1847 - Publisher, his will left $2 million for a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism, Harry Morgan 1915 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), Steven Seagal 1951 - Actor ("Out for Justice") 


1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.


1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.


1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes.

1938 - Germany annexed Austria after Austrians had voted in a referundum to merge with Germany.


1941 - In World War II, U.S. troops occupied Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.


1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA.


1992 - Outside Needles, CA, comedian Sam Kinison was killed when a pickup truck slammed into his car on a desert road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.


1996 - U.S. President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their late stages.

Chrysler Announces 1,300 Layoffs in Michigan - Breitbart

Chrysler Announces 1,300 Layoffs in Michigan - Breitbart:

"The announcement comes on the heels of decisions from both GM and Ford to close plants in Michigan and move manufacturing and jobs to Mexico.

Earlier this week Ford Motor Co. announced it was planning to spend $1.6 billion on new facilities in Mexico.

Ford’s announcement came only a few months after GM announced similar plans, in its case a plan to spend a whopping $5 billion on building new facilities in Mexico."

No, Gays and ‘Transgenders’ Are Not Being Bullied. They Are The Bullies

No, Gays and ‘Transgenders’ Are Not Being Bullied. They Are The Bullies. | TheBlaze.com
This week, Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi signed a religious liberty bill protecting businesses and individuals from being forced to participate in gay marriages.
The legislation also fortifies the rights of business owners to keep their bathrooms segregated by sex, as all business owners have done up until 4.5 seconds ago.
Meanwhile, a few weeks earlier, North Carolina signed a now infamous bill that will require men to pee in rooms with other men, and women in rooms with other women. 
Again in keeping with the reasonable and totally normal policies that have been in place everywhere in America for the entirety of your life and your grandparents’ lives.
...But the left is not accustomed to being disobeyed in such a manner, which explains the utterly shocked and stunned reaction from leftists across the country to these two pieces of legislation.
While the vicious attacks against Mississippi over their bill are just beginning, the outrage over the “anti-trans” law in North Carolina has reached apocalyptic volumes.

...Anyway, the next step in this North Carolina “controversy” was inevitable.
Dozens of massive corporations began putting pressure on North Carolina to scrap the law.
Mayors of major American cities banned travel to the state, prohibiting people from going to a place in order to protest North Carolina’s attempt to prohibit people from going to a place.
...It is the seemingly total lack of kindness, magnanimity, and rationality displayed by many in their camp that necessitates this sort of legislation.
If gays would simply respect the beliefs of Christian business owners, and if “transgenders” would simply respect the privacy of women and children, there would be no need for laws forcing the matter. 
But here we are.
And it’s not the fault of Christians and conservatives that we arrived here.
On the contrary, it’s the fault of the very people now whining about being persecuted.
Here’s the reality: gays and “transgenders” are not being victimized, nor are they are being martyred, oppressed, bullied or otherwise put upon. 
You can walk through Mississippi and find nary a business with a “We Won’t Serve Gays” sign hanging in the window.
You can travel down to North Carolina and not find a single instance where a government agent showed up at a so-called transgender’s house and instructed him to take off his wig and blouse.
For the most part, these people are free to do what they want and be who they are — or, in the case of “transgenders,” who they aren’t.
The only caveat is that the half dozen “transgenders” in North Carolina have to do what every other human in North Carolina has to do, and what most humans in the civilized world have to do, and share public restrooms with people who share their anatomy.
In Mississippi, gays can get married, as per the royal decree of the Supreme Court, but if they happen to stumble upon a baker or photographer who’d rather not participate in the event, they simply must find someone else.
That’s it.
In other words, they are just being asked, and now being forced, to display the faintest modicum of tolerance and respect for their fellow citizens..."

Environmental Inquisition Targets Think Tank for "Climate Denial"

Environmental Inquisition Targets Think Tank for "Climate Denial" | Foundation for Economic Education:
The campaign to attach legal consequences to supposed “climate denial” has now crossed a fateful line:
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today denounced a subpoena from Attorney General Claude E. Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands that attempts to unearth a decade of the organization’s materials and work on climate change policy.
This is the latest effort in an intimidation campaign to criminalize speech and research on the climate debate, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore. ...
The subpoena requests a decade’s worth of communications, emails, statements, drafts, and other documents regarding CEI’s work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information. It demands that CEI produce these materials from 20 years ago, from 1997-2007, by April 30, 2016.

CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman said the group “will vigorously fight to quash this subpoena. It is an affront to our First Amendment rights of free speech and association.” More coverage of the subpoena at the Washington Times and Daily Caller.
A few observations:

• If the forces behind this show-us-your-papers subpoena succeed in punishing (or simply inflicting prolonged legal harassment on) groups conducting supposedly wrongful advocacy, there’s every reason to think they will come after other advocacy groups later. Like yours. 
• This article in the Observer details the current push to expand the probe of climate advocacy, which first enlisted New York AG Eric Schneiderman and then California’s Kamala Harris — into a broader coalition of AGs, with Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands just having signed on. More than a dozen others, such as Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, seem to be signaling support but have not formally jumped in. More here: Peggy Little, Federalist Society.
Much more!

BOOM: Franklin Graham Announces 'Hypocrite Of The Year' Award - Liberals Want To Keep This Quiet...

BOOM: Franklin Graham Announces 'Hypocrite Of The Year' Award - Liberals Want To Keep This Quiet...:

"In a Facebook post Wednesday, Graham wrote, “PayPal gets the hypocrite of the year award! This company says they’re not coming to North Carolina because the legislators and Gov. Pat McCrory have passed a law to protect women and children against sexual predators by not allowing men to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms.”

The North Carolinian went on to explain the source of the hypocrisy by quoting Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., who represents a district near Charlotte. “PayPal does business in 25 countries where homosexual behavior is illegal, including 5 countries where the penalty is death, "

Sweden: A Beggar on Every Corner

Sweden: A Beggar on Every Corner

• For the last few years, Sweden has been overwhelmed with Roma beggars from Romania and Bulgaria. Recently, the government estimated that there are now around 4,000 in Sweden (population 9.5 million).
• "We do not fool anyone. We just benefit from the opportunity." — Bulgarian beggar in Sweden who said he "owned" five street corners.
• 

  "If the begging is profitable, they stay miserable.... [Giving money] improves the acute situation. At the same time, it contributes to making the bigger issue permanent -- the misery.... It will not help the Roma, but it gives you a chance to feel like a good person. ... The basic concept of racism is precisely that we as westerners and Swedes are far superior (smarter) and that the Roma are inferior (dumber). If this... is not racist then I do not know what is. ... One could add that the image is inverted among Roma. They consider themselves superior and smart, while the gadjo (non-gypsies) are stupid, naïve and gullible." — Karl-Olov Arnstberg, Swedish ethnologist
• "It is our very strong recommendation not to give money to beggars. It turns the panhandling into an occupation... To give [money] encourages a life with no future; moving from country to country does not solve their problems." — Florin Ivanovici, director of the Life and Light Foundation, Bucharest, Romania.

Nobody knows exactly how many of them there are, but for the last few years Sweden has been overwhelmed with Roma beggars from Romania and Bulgaria. 
In 2014, the newspaper Sydsvenskan reported that an estimated 600 Roma beggars lived in the country; a few months ago, the government-appointed "National Coordinator for Vulnerable EU Citizens," Martin Valfridsson, found that there are now around 4,000. 
You see beggars sitting outside virtually every store, not just in the big cities, but also in small rural villages. 
In the far north of Sweden, at gas stations in the middle of nowhere, patrons are greeted by beggars saying "Hello, hello!" while holding out their paper cups. 
Not long ago, begging was considered eradicated in Sweden. 
In 1964, the law of 1847 against begging for money was abolished -- the welfare state was considered so all-encompassing that there were no longer any poor people; therefore the law was obsolete. No one would ever have to beg anymore. 
The people who, for some reason, could not work and support themselves were taken care of via various social welfare programs. Swedes who grew up in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s had never seen a street-beggar in Sweden.

US Air Force deploys B-52 bombers in Middle East to combat Islamic State | Fox News

US Air Force deploys B-52 bombers in Middle East to combat Islamic State | Fox News:

"The U.S. Air Force has deployed B-52 long-range bombers to the Middle East for the first time since the Gulf war ended over 25 years ago to begin striking the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, officials said Saturday.

The U.S. Air Force Central Command said in a statement that an unknown number of B-52s will be based at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The U.S.-led coalition’s Combined Air and Space Operations Center (CAOC) responsible for running the air war against ISIS is also based there.

The U.S. Air Force pulled its B-1 bombers in February and sent them back to the U.S. for maintenance. At the time, senior U.S. military leaders said there would be no capability gap.

But the number of bombs dropped on ISIS fell to an eight-month low in February, according to statistics published by the U.S. Air Force."

Lunch video-----Syrian warns Europe about the migration invasion

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Advocates Admit $15 Minimum Wage ‘May Not Make Sense,’ but Offer a Glimpse of Motivation for Hike | TheBlaze.com

Advocates Admit $15 Minimum Wage ‘May Not Make Sense,’ but Offer a Glimpse of Motivation for Hike | TheBlaze.com:

"California Gov. Jerry Brown and other advocates of hiking the minimum wage to $15 per hour have conceded that the pay increase might not be the best way to help workers, causing questions about the sincerity of the “Fight for 15” movement.

“Economically, minimum wages may not make sense,” Brown told the Sacramento Bee before signing the wage increase for his state. The governor followed suit with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who did the same last week."

Worthy read-Science is not unbiased----------The sugar conspiracy

The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie | Society | The Guardian:
In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health.
But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. 
How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
...“If only a small fraction of what we know about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive,” wrote Yudkin, “that material would promptly be banned.” The book did well, but Yudkin paid a high price for it.
Prominent nutritionists combined with the food industry to destroy his reputation, and his career never recovered. 
He died, in 1995, a disappointed, largely forgotten man.

Good guy. He's not alone-----Here’s the Struggle You Don’t See Fox News’s Neil Cavuto Going Through When You Watch Him on TV

Here’s the Struggle You Don’t See Fox News’s Neil Cavuto Going Through When You Watch Him on TV:
"...And his struggle to maintain good health hasn’t exactly been a secret.
He battled advanced non-Hodgkins lymphoma (cancer) in the late 1980s, and in 1997, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
The effects of MS can be so severe that many who have it are unable to continue working, and Cavuto admits that the symptoms can be unpredictable and quite severe:
“I’ve heard MS described as a mercurial menace in that it can rob senses and muscles indiscriminately, anytime and anywhere.
It’s a disease that doesn’t much care about what you’re doing when one, or several, of its infamous exacerbations hits.
All I know is it hits hard, and to this day, I never seem quite ready when it does. 
Over the years, it has literally taken the legs right out from under me.
There are times when I can’t walk, other times when I am walking as if I’m dragging an anchor, as I’m trying to ‘be’ an anchor.”
...“Its vagaries are as weird as their fallout is fast. Mid-shows, I’ve been blinded, literally, as my vision is all but blacked out.
Adjusting to that alone took years.
I’m now at the point I no longer use a TelePrompTer at all, not because I’m smooth, but because I have no choice.
I’ve taken to memorizing scripts and bullet points, even guests’ points of views and myriad of segment facts, so I’m ready for anything, any time.
These weren’t choices I wanted to make; these were choices I ‘had’ to make..."

Hillary’s State Department Pressured Haiti Not To Raise Minimum Wage to $.61 An Hour

Hillary’s State Department Pressured Haiti Not To Raise Minimum Wage to $.61 An Hour
In Haiti, people work for peanuts.
Slave wages.
Less than $5 per day, but they supply the U.S. with tons of affordable clothing from big-name brands like Levi’s, Hanes and Polo.
Haiti’s big advantage, compared to Asia, is their proximity to us, and thousands of Haitians are employed in the textile industry in part because of that.
When Haiti passed a wage raise from $.24 per hour to $.61 per hour, American companies were predictably outraged.
U.S. companies, especially the clothing manufacturers, outsource their manufacturing to places like Haiti specifically because they can get away with paying slave wages.
They would only support a minimum wage increase to $.31 per hour, and decided to get the U.S. Department of State involved to try and pressure Haiti’s government to keep the wage raise down.
This took place in 2011, and Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State. 
...In 2012, everyone from Clinton herself, to celebrities like Ben Stiller and Sean Penn, gathered at the opening of a new industrial park in Haiti.
In 2015, Hillary said this about it :
“We had learnt that supporting long-term prosperity in Haiti meant more than providing aid. So we shifted our assistance to investment to address some of the biggest challenges facing this country: creating jobs and sustainable economic growth."
...the U.S. government interfered with a foreign, sovereign government for the benefit of rich American corporations. 
This particular instance happened under a Secretary of State who promised jobs, but probably didn’t let on that those jobs would pay next to zilch. 
Investing is good.
It’s better than aid, but we’re half-assing it there, all in the name of profit.”

Takers always gonna take-----White Folks Gonna Have To Give Up Stuff, Sacrifice - For Black Lives Matter

White Folks Gonna Have To Give Up Stuff, Sacrifice - For Black Lives Matter | RickWells.US
With arguments consistent with those of the race-baiters Hussein Obama and Eric Holder, Black Lives Matter co-founder Marissa Johnson blames white people for everything that’s wrong with her life. 
When she can’t deal with reality it’s because her reality is too hard.
There are lots of white people going hungry; her life seems to be much easier than theirs.
She doesn’t want a real reality, she wants a separate, on demand, “more fair reality,” crafted for her by a redistributive Marxist government.
White People Are To Blame And This Commie Wants To Take Their Stuff
...The over-acting agitator asks, “Do you know what I’d give to live in a world where I didn’t have to say black lives matter? 
Do you know how horrific it is to grow up as a child in a world that so hates you that you have to literally say to other people, ‘my life matters?’”
She mocks a response of the “white people” saying that every life matters and then complains that blacks are being shot in the streets or being rounded up and mass incarcerated.
...She spells it out, saying, “What it’s gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually got to give up something,” bringing out her first smile of the interview.
She continues, saying, “You have to actually sacrifice yourself.
You have to be willing to give up the things that you currently benefit from..."

Chris Matthews Asks Sanders Supporter If She Knows Who Will Pay for His Free College Tuition ‘for Everybody’ Idea. Watch Her Stunning Answer. | Video | TheBlaze.com

Chris Matthews Asks Sanders Supporter If She Knows Who Will Pay for His Free College Tuition ‘for Everybody’ Idea. Watch Her Stunning Answer. | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"“He’s talking about free tuition at the University of Wisconsin, wherever the campus is,” Matthews said Tuesday. “Free for everybody, free at University of Michigan, free Berkeley, free Penn State, free for every state university, and I keep asking myself, ‘Where is all that enormous amount of money coming from?’ And do you think he has a way of getting that money?”

“Of course he does,” Lawton replied. But after she continued further, Matthews apparently wasn’t satisfied.

“You say ‘we,’ but who is going to pay for it, who?” Matthews asked."