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?â€
In response, Ryan described the H-2B visa expansion as “a very small, discrete provision.â€
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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He needs primaried no matter what. If primaries he will respond with conservative talk. Then afterwards if he wins he’ll return back being just like McStain, if not worse. He needs to go. He had a chance to start with a splash, but instead plopped into the water like a little turd.
The cheap products and services are more important to most Americans than anything else -- including American jobs, moral principles, etc.
OH’s gain is WI’s loss; or is it WI’s gain is OH’s loss, just some gop-e mess unknown to the general public.
I think this Wisconsinite is more corrupt than stupid, but maybe not, maybe both. Where is Joe McCarthy when we need him?
When they get hungry, they'll get up off their couch and find a job even if it is part time or seasonal. Either that, or they'll move in with their baby momma and sponge off her welfare checks. Or they'll sell drugs on the corner and eventually get blown away by the opposition or sent to jail where they will get more free sh!t from the government.
But why further subsidize sloth and bring in aliens (many of whom will soon catch on and end up on welfare too) to do jobs able-bodied Americans can do if they only had the gumption to put away their free ObamaPhones and pick up a shovel as an honest means to fill their bellies?
Right, Paul. That’s what your K-Street donors told you while they were changing your diapers.
it was still $3.35 when I left the states :p
Please add me to the H1-B-ish *PING* list.
No difference. They both just tolerate you as a member of a silent crowd scene on the second Tuesday of every other November.
Is that why they gave you a bunch of bread for Xmas Paul ? If they are hiring foriegn workers they are not American companies.
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...says Ryan.
Well if you pay them more you will get more of them to work. Packing and canning and tourism jobs are not difficult to do, you don’t need years of training. AND YOU DON’T NEED TO BRING IN FOREIGNERS TO FILL THEM. INVEST IN AMERICANS.
Ryan lacks credibility.
Let’s see..with foreign workers they can evade federal taxes, hire cheap slave labor... But import democrat voters.. money for votes.. Ryan, you are a thief.
The Dems have spines.
And balls
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