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Paul Ryan Defends Immigration Bill: "We're Going To Have Labor Shortages"
RealClearPolitics ^ | Wednesday June 19, 2013

Posted on 06/19/2013 6:23:25 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Edited on 06/19/2013 6:29:42 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WIS.): Not now, but in the future we're going to have labor shortages. We have 10,000 people retiring each and everyday in America when the Baby Boomers retire.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: amnesty; illegals; immigration; invasion; paulryan; rubio; ryan
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To: ansel12

+1


121 posted on 06/19/2013 7:52:55 PM PDT by Pelham (Deportation is the law. When it's not enforced you get California)
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To: Bigtigermike

That’s the argument the euros fell for a few years: “The immigrants will do the jobs that the kids we didn’t have won’t do.”
Now the euro-surro ‘kids’ are surly, hostile, welfare dependents.
Besides, red States have a positive birth rate.
Go pound sand, Ryan, you libertarian screwball. Along with your open borders buddies.


122 posted on 06/19/2013 7:53:47 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: central_va
I never heard someone call computer programmers low skilled.

Me neither. Reminds me of those aptitude test questions that say: "Which of these doesn't belong in the list".

123 posted on 06/19/2013 7:56:36 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: Stentor
When nothing makes sense, follow the money. These crooks are on the take.

You couldn't be more correct. The nation and its national identity are being sold. We are squat. Big chicken, big hotel, big agra, big leaf blower, big sheetrock... they all count more than you or me, and in a few short decades the country will be unrecognizable.
124 posted on 06/19/2013 7:56:58 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Bigtigermike

125 posted on 06/19/2013 7:59:01 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Bigtigermike
We have 23% unemployment now (shadowstats.com) and Ryan is worried about labor shortages 10 years from now?!!!!

Ryan cost us senate seats with his focus on cutting entitlements in the middle of an economic downturn. The GOP needs to dump him and marginalize him.

I do appreciate that he at least tried to balance the budget. But he went about it completely wrong. The way to balance the budget is to fix the economy. Get some of the industries that we offshored back and put Americans back to work. This could be done by raising import tariffs.

At the very least import tariffs should be equal to the impact of taxes on domestic producers. But really the tariffs should be higher than that to offset the impact of low wage countries like China.

It's not just China's currency manipulation. The wage differential is the big difference. They keep their consumer base poor by soaking up all of the dollars earned through taxes so that the communist government controls where those dollars are spent. And they aren't spent on trade goods. They are spent on our debt and buying our industries.

126 posted on 06/19/2013 7:59:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

The policy outcomes have already been decided and not by us. We would have gotten some version of the ACA regardless of who won in ‘08 or ‘12. We’re probably going to get some version of amnesty regardless. It’s just that unlike the Soviet Union our politburo is invisible.


127 posted on 06/19/2013 8:00:21 PM PDT by garbanzo (Welcome to the jungle, it gets worse here every day)
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To: Bigtigermike
Not now, but in the future we're going to have labor shortages.

Send them all home and then bring them back when they are needed.

128 posted on 06/19/2013 8:02:50 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: Delta Dawn

Not quite. They will still be very attractive to employers because they aren’t covered by Obamacare rules. So employers don’t have to pay Obamacare or Obamacare fines for them. That makes them very attractive employment wise, even more attractive than US citizens.

You are correct about the bill not fixing anything but I’m sure it will set up the need for another wave of illegals with the promise of amnesty in the future.


129 posted on 06/19/2013 8:11:05 PM PDT by Waryone (Trust the Lord not your own understanding. Acknowledge Him. He will direct your path.)
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To: Bigtigermike; All

Ryan has crossed over into delusional.


130 posted on 06/19/2013 8:13:42 PM PDT by x1stcav (Federal employees are parasites.)
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To: ansel12; Williams
"That was another fake Romney position that he adopted for the campaign."

How can we ever forget Romney's mighty etch-a-sketch.

131 posted on 06/19/2013 8:15:01 PM PDT by Waryone (Trust the Lord not your own understanding. Acknowledge Him. He will direct your path.)
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To: Monty22002

Nothing will help blacks or the whiteswho live on welfare or anyone else living on Uncle’s teat until ALL welfare is CUT OFF ENTIRELY. All phony disability, HUD, AFDC, WIC, food stamps, energy assistance and on and on has to be eliminated. Stopped. Cut off.

Sink or swim, work or be hungry.

It has to happen.


132 posted on 06/19/2013 8:17:18 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Bigtigermike

Doesn’t a labor shortage require a few jobs?


133 posted on 06/19/2013 8:18:10 PM PDT by meyer (When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
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To: Bigtigermike
Actually we DO NEED an immigration policy that works...

But it's nothing like what these dumbasses are talking about.

134 posted on 06/19/2013 8:19:37 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Life is a bitch. If it was easy, we would call it a slut)
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To: Bigtigermike

Labor shortages coming?

After 5 years of record breaking unemployment why not wait to see if it really materializes.


135 posted on 06/19/2013 8:26:59 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Free Stuff, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: Mr. K

I consider them Government workers already - the Government is paying them to sit on their collective arses.


136 posted on 06/19/2013 8:42:50 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: headstamp 2

Correct...carpenters, dry wallers, cement workers...etc are getting screwed by the illegal invasion.


137 posted on 06/19/2013 8:49:11 PM PDT by entropy12 (Even tho Obama is now a lame duck, with 2014 House majority, he will be a dangerously socialist!)
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To: central_va

computer programmers is a separate line of work in my post.
They are not unskilled, there are just too many of them in the world.


138 posted on 06/19/2013 8:50:24 PM PDT by entropy12 (Even tho Obama is now a lame duck, with 2014 House majority, he will be a dangerously socialist!)
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To: Bigtigermike

a soviet era economic central planner couldn’t have said it better. any true conservative would have known better.


139 posted on 06/19/2013 9:04:06 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: SpaceBar

RCP doesn’t seem to be real clear on this. Why has this guy come out with such off the wall statements? Do WTP trust this news source...do WTP trust anyone, any longer. Not unless we’ve drunk the kool aid Just another face in the crowd. Paul, for shame. But, better now than later. Perhaps your losing was actually a blessing in disguise. Time will tell


140 posted on 06/19/2013 9:04:56 PM PDT by V K Lee
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