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Ryan says no immigrant workers needed for 10 years
Daily Caller ^ | 1/28/14 | Neil Munro

Posted on 01/28/2014 9:26:56 AM PST by jimbo123

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1 posted on 01/28/2014 9:26:56 AM PST by jimbo123
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“We will have labor shortages in — not right now — but in the near future, in, say, a decade,” he predicted during a taped appearance at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in San Antonio.

I thought Paul Ryan actually knew some economics. There is no such thing as a labor shortage. If a business needs workers they increase the wage to entice people to work for them. What Ryan is really saying is the Chamber of Commerce does not have to worry about offering higher wages because Ryan would bring in foreigners to work at lower wages.

2 posted on 01/28/2014 9:30:14 AM PST by C19fan
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I appreciate him saying so. I just don’t believe him when he does.


3 posted on 01/28/2014 9:31:05 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Nice to know that Ryan is so prescient that he can foresee what is going to happen in 10 years.


4 posted on 01/28/2014 9:35:59 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: jimbo123; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; Wisconsinlady; JPG; ...

Paul Ryan speaking on immigration in Texas.

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5 posted on 01/28/2014 9:36:34 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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Guess what? They’re going to come anyway.


6 posted on 01/28/2014 9:37:23 AM PST by dfwgator
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Labor shortage??? Ask the 9 million who quit looking for a job you mouth breathing moron.


7 posted on 01/28/2014 9:37:29 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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I thought Ryan was intelligent, boy was I mistaken.

What I don't get is how they define a "labor shortage". Maybe some specialized professions may need workers , when that happens we can allow more people with those skills in. But, to say that we'll need masses of unskilled third world immigrants in the near future is laughable. We have about a 15% (actual) unemployment rate. How does importing new progressive voting dependents solve that?

Let's say there really was a labor shortage of unskilled workers, what would that mean? Businesses would have to increase wages and benefits in the short term to attract people. Doesn't that help the American middle class? If the shortage persisted, companies would find ways to innovate, either new machines, or new methods of doing things or some combinations. Either way people would be paid according to what they produce.

This country became an economic powerhouse in the 19th century when we had labor shortages, due to westward expansion. The union movement didn't really take off until the early 20th century, when we had mass immigration. That coincides with the rise of progressivism. Personally I'd prefer the labor shortage economy.

8 posted on 01/28/2014 9:40:40 AM PST by YankeeReb
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But the Democrats still need immigrant voters so let's just tear the door off the hinges.
9 posted on 01/28/2014 9:40:55 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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Guess that tells me who his donors are. Corporate interests are the puppet masters, Ryan is just a tool.


10 posted on 01/28/2014 9:43:10 AM PST by patriotsoul
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. . . " not for another ten years . . . "

Young Mr Ryan is a sprout. This of us who were around in 86 have heard this line of crap before. Sure, sure - this is it!, we'll never need to give amnesty again! This is a one time deal! "".

HOLD FAST !

11 posted on 01/28/2014 9:44:00 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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12 posted on 01/28/2014 9:44:18 AM PST by jimbo123
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+ 1. - post of the day - spot on


13 posted on 01/28/2014 9:44:58 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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In ten years we will be experiencing the effects of the latest wave of automation, like driverless vehicles and Watson type AI. There will be no labor shortages.
14 posted on 01/28/2014 9:47:53 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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He can write a bill with an intervertant mistake allowing them access to everything without restrictions, but he will promise to correct it later. It worked out well for the vets right?


15 posted on 01/28/2014 9:49:27 AM PST by chiefqc
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Between the first quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2013, the native-born population accounted for two-thirds of overall growth in the working-age population (16 to 65), but none of the net growth in employment among the working-age has gone to natives.

The overall size of the working-age native-born population increased by 16.4 million from 2000 to 2013, yet the number of natives actually holding a job was 1.3 million lower in 2013 than 2000.

The total number of working-age immigrants (legal and illegal) increased 8.8 million and the number working rose 5.3 million between 2000 and 2013.

Even before the recession, when the economy was expanding (2000 to 2007), 60 percent of the net increase in employment among the working-age went to immigrants, even though they accounted for just 38 percent of population growth among the working-age population.

Since the jobs recovery began in 2010, about half the employment growth has gone to immigrants. However the share of working-age natives holding a job has remained virtually unchanged since 2010 and the number of working-age natives without a job (nearly 59 million) has not budged.

The decline in the share of natives working, also referred as the employment rate, began before the 2007 recession. Of working-age natives, 74 percent had a job in 2000; by 2007, at the peak of the last expansion, just 71 percent had a job, and in the first quarter of 2013, 66 percent had a job.

The decline in employment rates for working-age natives has been nearly universal. The share of natives working has declined for teenagers and those in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s from 2000 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2013. The decline has been especially pronounced for workers under age 30.

Like age, there has been a decline in work for all educational categories. The employment rate for native high school dropouts, high school graduates, those with some college, and those with at least a bachelor's degree declined from 2000 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2013.

The number of adult natives with no more than high school education not working is 4.9 million larger in 2013 than in 2000, the number with some college not working is up 6.8 million, and the number with at least a bachelor's degree not working is up 3.8 million.


16 posted on 01/28/2014 9:49:30 AM PST by kabar
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huh? And yet you are pushing to let criminals become citizens, odd.
Personally, I wish he would shut up. He is nothing that he portrayed himself to be, when push comes to shove.


17 posted on 01/28/2014 9:53:45 AM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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What a joke. We don’t need immigrants for the next 10 years?!? There are billionaires and millionaires (the 1%) who want into the USA. Is he actually saying we don’t want their money and their jobs?


18 posted on 01/28/2014 10:04:10 AM PST by impimp
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19 posted on 01/28/2014 10:05:28 AM PST by Democrat_media (Obama ordered IRS to rig 2012 election and must resign)
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They aren’t immigrant workers. They’re immigrant leeches and RAT vote-slaves.


20 posted on 01/28/2014 10:07:56 AM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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