Posted on 08/05/2013 9:26:59 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republican budget chief Rep. Paul Ryan is the target of a new home-state TV-ad by an anti-immigration group.
The $200,000 radio and TV ad campaign starts Monday, and is timed for the August recess when Ryan is expected to be at home, defending his calls for an immigration bill that would boost the inflow of low-skill and high-skill workers, despite Americans’ declining wages and high unemployment rates.
“Congressman Paul Ryan says we have a labor shortage in Wisconsin. That’s right, a labor shortage,” says the ad, produced by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
“Tell that to the 12 percent unemployed in Racine, the 10 percent unemployment in Milwaukee, the 9 percent unemployment in Janesville. Thousands are looking for work, yet Ryan supports a plan that could double immigration, grant amnesty to illegal aliens, and bring in millions more foreign workers to take jobs,” the ad says,
“Does Congressman Ryan think Wisconsin workers are not good enough to get the work done? Help us stand with the American worker.”
The ad illustrates the groups’ focus on immigrants’ impact on jobs rather than the much-debated issue of border security, which has been given much attention by politicians, advocates, lobbyists and journalists.
“Congressman Ryan needs to explain to thousands of Wisconsin workers… why he wants to increase immigration in order to avert a labor shortage that clearly does not exist,” said a statement from Dan Stein, FAIR’s president.
“Wisconsin has 210,000 unemployed workers. Does Congressman Ryan think they’re not good enough to get the job done?”
The ad follows Ryan’s increasing public push for a major immigration rewrite.
“We have been listening to the American people,” he told CBS Aug. 4. “So what we’re going to do is take a step-by-step approach to get immigration right, not a big massive bill but separate bills so people know what’s in these bills,” he said.
“We need to fix our legal immigration system [because] people come to this country based on family relations, not based on skills,” he said.
Ryan can afford to lose some voters to the ad-campaign — he won his November 2012 election with 60 percent of the vote.
But criticism of Ryan has increased partly because he is lobbying his fellow Republican legislators to vote for an immigration rewrite that is unpopular with much of the Republican base, just as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio rallied support for the Senate’s immigration rewrite, which passed in late June.
Also, Ryan has met several times with a Wisconsin progressive group, Voces de le Frontera, that has campaigned for an amnesty, and against border security, the E-verify verification system, and deportations of illegal immigrants.
“We treat people with fairness and respect by giving them a path to citizenship with a probationary visa,” Ryan told the groups’ members during a May 8 meeting in Racine.
Spin: “TV-ad by an anti-immigration group.”
Truth: “TV-ad by an anti-illegal alien amnesty group.”
Well, I don’t care what kind of group is against Ryan’s appeasement plan, I am too.
What I want to know is: “Am I just a complete clueless dumbass who doesn’t know sh!t from shinola about listening to someone who SAYS conservative stuff running for office (Ryan, Rubio, et al)?” How can I be that wrong, so terribly wrong from just 7-8 months ago.
Am I just a dumbass, or do these so-called conservative icons just lie their ass off?
WRT politicians of any stripe. When in doubt always refer to the old adage:
Q: “how do you know when a politician is lying?”
A: when their lips are moving.
Yeah, I know that, but that usually happens, especially with Senators after two or three terms. They get to liking that country club and buttlicking by media when they ‘break’ with that hardcore conservative group. They learn how to lie effectively, etc.
I’d have never expected such a duplicitous turnaround from Ryan or Rubio, especially Rubio....a damned lying snake.
Notice how Ryan does not address the 200,000 people in his own state who
Have lost their jobs? How could bring in more illegals help the unemployed
in his own state?
Conservatives tend to take others (who call themselves conservatives) at their word.
I heard Glenn Beck this morning talking about embracing George Bush fully and completely in his run for the Presidency
......and then about 2006..7 going 'uh oh, something's not right with him'......
...and that's when Bush started selling us out......no doubt his plan all along.
We just wanted to believe him.....and 9/11 2001 probably obfuscated (to us) his future plans against us.
Ya gotta love this story, best thing I've heard in a while. Who is supporting this ad, and how do we sign up?
Sluggin' it out against both the "Republican" management and the DemoRat Treason Organization for going on 35 years now.
Thanks!
NSA is not only listening to you and me but to ryan and rubio as well. (lower case intended to show disrespect)
Fly into Reagan National Airport sometime. There’s usually a Congressman or Senator on the plane.
You’ll know because of all the staffers also on the plane will kiss their behind as they walk past. Once you get into the airport it really picks up.
They even do it in the bathroom as the Senators are pissing.
Gaffer, I don’t know how old you are but I can tell you one of the benefits of mature age is greater wisdom. I have wisdom now, have prayed for it and received it in spades as a blessing.
I saw the phony Ryan last year and tried to point it out to folks on FR. But the few Ryan fans kept on going about how great he was. My warnings were ineffective.
The flipside of wisdom is frustration. When you become wise and can clearly see things as wisdom indicates, you can become very frustrated at those without wisdom.
So I see both happening in you. Wisdom is settling in on you, frustration is rearing itself in you as well.
The best way to be is quiet and responsive. When the clueless, unwise or inexperienced turn to or glance at you for wisdom, quietly explain. If they pay no heed, don’t show frustration, show calm. They will come back to you. Eventually they will listen to you.
If I had my way there would be two dormitories, one for the Senate and one for the House. These SOBs would be locked in at night by the Sergeant at Arms from both. They’d ride a frigging short yellow bus to work and eat in a military mess hall. Their paychecks would be mailed home to their wifes or mothers. If they had to go home for a visit, they’d be escorted to in in handcuffs until they are buckled in their seats. I don’t like them, I don’t trust them. One damned bit.
ryan may just be a friggin’ dim and not just a liberal republican.
LLS
Good. Feel the heat, Ryan and Rubio. You guys have chosen to follow down the well-worn McCain path of how to lose your base.
And to be clear, if there are over 10 million illegals Ryan wants to be given lawful work papers, on average, 200,000 of them will be in Wisconsin, where they will compete with the already unemployed 210,000 Wisconsinites.
Yep. What about those who were working, not on the Govt dole, but lost their
jobs. Who speaks for those legal Americans?
Thanks for the link, and I hope whoever does contribute remembers to give to FR as well. JimRob has never pressed the matter to anyone, but remember that this is all privately funded and we need to help keep it alive.
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