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JEB: AMNESTY BILL ‘SO HUGELY IMPORTANT’ EVEN THOUGH MIDDLE CLASS ‘GETTING SQUEEZED’
Breitbart ^ | February 18, 2015 | By Tony Lee

Posted on 02/18/2015 1:57:42 PM PST by Jim Robinson

On Wednesday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush reiterated that immigration reform is “hugely important” for America even though the country’s middle class, as Bush acknowledged, is getting more squeezed.

“Immigration reform for our country is so hugely important. Race is not a national identifier in this country. We’re 34 flavors. We’re as diverse as diverse can get,” Bush said during a question-and-answer session after his foreign policy address at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “And that is a huge strength looking over the horizon right now, where multiculturalism kind of creates pockets of despair in Europe in many cases.”

Bush, who has been praised by top GOP 2016 donors for leading on the amnesty issue, said “the United States has this potential of being young and dynamic again” and, “if Europe embraced that similar kind of approach, I think that they could see some economic growth as well.”

But his response to an audience member’s question on the “permanency of poverty” displayed that his support for massive comprehensive amnesty legislation may make it tougher for Americans to move up the economic ladder.

Bush addressed the “stickiness of poverty” and the dramatic increases in innovation and “exponential increases in automation” that are making many more jobs obsolete. Senators like Alabama’s Jeff Sessions (R-AL) have also addressed how automation increasingly threatens American workers. Bush said the increase in automation “is a huge challenge” for policymakers, especially since America’s policies “have worked to provide material benefits to people in poverty,” but “they haven’t worked to lift them out” of poverty and allow Americans in poverty to have “the capacity to achieve earned success.”

Bush spoke about the “permanency of poverty,” ...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; bush; gope; jeb; jebbush; terrischaivo; traitor
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To: Lurkinanloomin
They want to steal our country.

They already have, we are trying to get it back and Jeb is working for those that stole it.

81 posted on 02/18/2015 3:38:45 PM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. $.98-$.89<$.10)
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To: Beowulf9
When do we vote on the candidates?

When they decide whom they will let us choose from.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." Mark Twain -

82 posted on 02/18/2015 3:40:37 PM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. $.98-$.89<$.10)
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To: Jim Robinson

Well, my hubby lost his job 2 weeks ago at 68 years old. Yeah, Jeb, we are officially squeezed. Really irked me as I watched illegals parading out of Wally World with multiple cartloads of food and stuff. I was there to pick up my last prescription on my used to be insurance plan.


83 posted on 02/18/2015 3:43:55 PM PST by dforest
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To: Steely Tom

I read somewhere today that Apple is trying to clean up it’s slave labor. They could bring the jobs here to the USA and let children work in the factories. Not American children but you know Mexican so it would be ok.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2014/12/20/apple-blamed-for-slave-labor-again/


84 posted on 02/18/2015 3:44:44 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Al Gore made a fortune being on the Apple board and getting free stock.

NY Times Investigation Confirms That Apple’s Factories In China Are Basically Slave Labor Camps
http://uproxx.com/technology/2012/01/ny-times-investigation-confirms-that-apples-factories-in-china-are-basically-slave-labor-camps/


85 posted on 02/18/2015 3:46:05 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Jim Robinson

More instruction from the ruling class.


86 posted on 02/18/2015 3:50:52 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Jim Robinson

Hey, peasants — everything he says is all too “nuanced” for us to understand.


87 posted on 02/18/2015 3:51:08 PM PST by Borax Queen
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To: minnesota_bound
Al Gore made a fortune being on the Apple board and getting free stock.

NY Times Investigation Confirms That Apple’s Factories In China Are Basically Slave Labor Camps

That's the sort of thing that can end a Republican presidential candidate's career in a single afternoon, if it comes out.

And it always comes out.

88 posted on 02/18/2015 3:52:00 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Hostage

He trashed Hillary, but there is footage of her bestowing that silly award on her days after Benghazi.


89 posted on 02/18/2015 3:56:47 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: Jim Robinson

JEB: “I’m happy to accept your votes, and the SEIU’s and the US Chamber of Commerce’s money!”
“But guess which one of you gets the back of my hand.”

John Elliot Boosh appealing to the middle class for support is like Colonel Sanders asking the chickens for help in moving.


90 posted on 02/18/2015 4:01:04 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’ve got your “reform” right here!!

Shut up Jeb.

Reform? Okay, seal the border and deport everyone caught here that aren’t citizens. Arrest ANYONE that hires them. Take away their FEIN and they can’t do business.

Worked for Eisenhower.


91 posted on 02/18/2015 4:09:21 PM PST by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I will be voting for other offices, and writing in Cruz is a good idea. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.


92 posted on 02/18/2015 4:10:40 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Jeb- dumber than a box of rocks!


93 posted on 02/18/2015 4:13:06 PM PST by RginTN
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To: manc

This is happening all over the country.


94 posted on 02/18/2015 4:32:15 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: manc

Your son had better figure out that he’ll probably never get a job. My 34 yo son has been laid off several times because of recurring medical problems that are now resolved. He can’t even get a job working fast food because they’d rather have illegals working there; cheaper.

Lots of guys his age are in the same boat; even those who have technical training, experience and degrees are falling off the map because H1Bs take their places and they have to train the Apu who is replacing them.

Thank you democrat party, GOPe, Chamber of Commerce, and a big Fuck You to the Bushes one and all.


95 posted on 02/18/2015 4:41:31 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: nascarnation

You’re probably right. In 2012 I just couldn’t bring myself to vote for Romney. I think I made a protest vote for the Libertarian...or was it the Rastafarian? Oh, wait, didn’t the Rastafarian win that one? LOL!


96 posted on 02/18/2015 4:49:13 PM PST by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: MeganC

CBS news did a piece on Jeb tonight. His own team couldn’t have done a better promo piece. And they cited some poll saying he and Huckabee are the front runners. And they listed Jeb’s team, same neocons as W’s and his fathers team, with Baker at al. Better get used to it.


97 posted on 02/18/2015 4:49:37 PM PST by Rennes Templar
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To: butterdezillion
If Jeb wins the nomination I sit out this election. First time ever.

I've tried to explain this to my Republican (RINO) friends. They just keep saying 'he's better than Hillary'. Sad.

98 posted on 02/18/2015 5:13:36 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Jim Robinson

There were two Adamses, two Roosevelts, and two Bushes already. Nobody gets three. Was there even a second Lincoln? Enough. Next the Kennedys will want a second one, and then the Clintons, and then they’ll all be pushing for a threefer.


99 posted on 02/18/2015 5:30:25 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Jim Robinson

As if it were possible, Jeb seems to get worse every day. Or at least once a week for sure.


100 posted on 02/18/2015 5:58:38 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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