Posted on 08/24/2017 12:35:49 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Rep. Tim Ryan (D., Ohio) said Thursday that the Democratic Party is headed in the right direction after its November loss, but can no longer only be the "party of redistribution of wealth."
MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist asked Ryan if he felt the Democratic Party learned its lesson from the 2016 presidential election loss after seeing blue states go red.
Ryan said he believes Democrats are "taking steps in the right direction," and what they need to do is focus on the American job market and economy right now.
"We have to say, look, we're the party to be able to handle the economy in the 21st century," Ryan said. "We have the convergence of so many different elements happening right nowglobalization, automation, artificial intelligence, all of these different other opportunities within the economy right now."
Ryan said, however, that neither political party has tapped into that potential for economic growth. He hopes his party can make that move going forward.
"What I want the Democratic Party to be is to be a party that can set an agenda to try to deal with those issues that will drive up wages, help people to be able to afford college and health care and all the rest," Ryan said.
Ryan also said he does not believe government should be hostile to business, and it can create a balancing act where it increases the progressive tax code while also simplifying the tax code and lowering the corporate tax rate.
Ryan said the ultimate goal is to create new wealth in this new economic environment.
"We can't just be the party of redistribution of wealth," Ryan said. "We've got to be the party of creation of wealth."
“We can’t just be the party of redistribution of wealth,” Ryan (D) said.
Interesting admission.
That the democrats are:
communists
socialists
leftists
Oh but Timmy THAT is all the Democrat Party is and you should be ashamed to be a Democrat.
Also,
If the democrats stop giving out Washington Free Bacon, then who will vote for them?
Everyone loves Bacon! And free?
Previously a dem might have said "We ARE the party that WILL handle the economy ... " Now they don't even try to hide it anymore. They are using the MSM to coach other dems. Incredible.
3/5 of his base wants to string him from a lamppost for saying that.
THAT’S the Dems’ main problem.
Oh, they aren't. The Rat party is also the party of fraud, deceit, corruption, open-borders, voter fraud and the destruction of the Constitution.
He should leave the Dem party.
We already redistribute tons of wealth. What he means is, ‘we can no longer be the party of promising to redistribute more and more wealth’
Oh don’t worry, Tim. The Repuglicants will pick up the slack.
Right direction? Like the Titanic?
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Note to Ryan.......there are no good Democrats.
0 for 4 in contested House races—you are on a roll!
Sorry Timmy. That ship has sailed. Your party is full blown Marxist now.
The Democrats are not just about redistribution of wealth. Racial hatred and division are just as important to the Democrat party as redistribution of wealth is.
You're not, Tim - you are also the party of abortion and deviant sex. So there's that.
Following Hillary's loss, they then lost 4 special elections. They're headed in the right direction for further losses.
Well there is the genocide and gulags for those who resist the violations of personal liberty and constitutionsl guatantees but even Stalinists weren’t dumb enough to be up front honest about those features
....Ryan said he believes Democrats are “taking steps in the right direction,....
Those steps being hatred, class envy, character assassination, lies, innuendo, misinformation, destruction of property, moral equivalency, erasure of history,
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