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Paul Ryan’s Christmas Warning: American Companies Will Shut Down Without More Foreign Workers
Breitbart.com ^ | 23 Dec 2015 | Julia Hahn

Posted on 12/24/2015 10:13:32 AM PST by Rockitz

In a Tuesday morning interview with radio host Bill Bennett, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) defended his omnibus bill’s controversial expansion in the H-2B visa program, which would allow foreign workers to fill blue-collar American jobs, by arguing that if the provision were not included, American companies would be forced to shut their doors.

Bennett pressed Ryan on the details of the H-2B visa expansion, slipped 700-pages into Ryan’s 2,009-page omnibus spending bill—asking Ryan directly, “Do you believe there are not enough Americans to fill these jobs?”

In response, Ryan described the H-2B visa expansion as “a very small, discrete provision.”

Despite the nation’s high levels of unemployment and stagnating wages, Ryan continued on to assert, without offering evidence in support of his claim, that corporations are facing a shortage of labor, which rendered the provision necessary. Ryan said:

The reason that this was passed is because there was some seasonal surge jobs that they can’t find local workers to fill, like the seafood packaging industry in Chesapeake Bay. You have seafood season, you need people to package those things, to can them. In the North, we have the summer tourism industry. What it is is there’s seasonal industries where they can’t find local people to do the jobs: kids are already in college or things like that where you have a surge in workers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: amnestywhore; cheaplaborexpress; corporatewelfare; eddiemunster; foreignworkers; gope; h2b; paulryan; primaryryan; speakerofthehouse; speakerryan
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Sellout! FUPR!
1 posted on 12/24/2015 10:13:32 AM PST by Rockitz
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To: Rockitz

The real solution is to disband the minimum wage.


2 posted on 12/24/2015 10:14:27 AM PST by XEHRpa
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To: ConservingFreedom

Ping!


3 posted on 12/24/2015 10:14:42 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

Can we at least try it and see if they really do shut down?


4 posted on 12/24/2015 10:15:22 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Trump/Cruz 2016 or the other way around.)
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To: Rockitz

Ditto!


5 posted on 12/24/2015 10:16:15 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Rockitz

Boy I sure am glad I voted or.........

What’s the reason again?
I’m still getting piles and piles of Obamaism....


6 posted on 12/24/2015 10:16:25 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Rockitz

resign, you POS


7 posted on 12/24/2015 10:16:45 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (If you're "offended" by "Merry Christmas" then you have bigger issues than that)
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To: Rockitz

Time for this Assclown to go!!!


8 posted on 12/24/2015 10:17:26 AM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Rockitz

Our government will shut down due to asshats like this disgraceful RINO.


9 posted on 12/24/2015 10:18:05 AM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Rockitz

This bearded butt boy turncoat is just mocking the people who put him in office.


10 posted on 12/24/2015 10:18:53 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Rockitz
WRONG: Your donations will.

Fixed it.

11 posted on 12/24/2015 10:19:00 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Rockitz

Ly yen A hole...


12 posted on 12/24/2015 10:19:05 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Rockitz

Voodoo economics! If these companies were really interested in hiring Americans they would compete by paying more. But they aren’t interested and want govern the bailouts in the form of cheap foreign labor brought to America. These companies aren’t interested in American economic growth.


13 posted on 12/24/2015 10:19:08 AM PST by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Rockitz

They won’t shut down, but they might move due to the unfavourable regulations and tax levels.


14 posted on 12/24/2015 10:20:10 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Rockitz

Remember we are supposed to vote for the GOP no matter what.

Can someone tell me the difference between the GOP and the Dems?


15 posted on 12/24/2015 10:21:09 AM PST by eekitsagreek
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To: Rockitz

It’s time to primary Ryan !


16 posted on 12/24/2015 10:21:51 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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Ryno: "American Companies Will Shut Down Without More Foreign Workers"

The House of Representatives should Shut Down Without More limited/Constitutional government Congressman.

17 posted on 12/24/2015 10:22:14 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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To: Rockitz

He’s a @#$%ing idiot.

America will shut down if we don’t have jobs for our own citizens.

This POS can rot.


18 posted on 12/24/2015 10:22:29 AM PST by boycott (--)
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To: Rockitz
Of course Paul Ryan and the rest of his Rino corps support unlimited immigration so that their corporate overlords can pay as low a wage as possible so as to maximize profits. Then again, rhetorical questions: should not true economic freedom include the freedom to pay as low a wage as possible? Is anything that constrains the free entry of labor into a market so as to increase wages unwanted government intervention? Should unlimited immigration be a conservative economic principle?
19 posted on 12/24/2015 10:23:07 AM PST by buckalfa (I am feeling much better now.)
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To: Rockitz

I want to know how much Paul Ryan’s net worth was when he entered Congress and how much it is today. These asses are being paid off and we just let it happen. I want him gone. And I think if a viable challenger comes along, if everyone, who is as mad as I am, gives that person $20. We’ll ream him.


20 posted on 12/24/2015 10:23:17 AM PST by Hildy
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