Because they don’t care, it’s all meaningless to these politicians.
Like every other time the man opens his mouth—this sounds like a canned campaign speech—and as is often the case, has little to do with the original question. I used to admire this guy when he was FIRST ELECTED years ago...but NOW What a GOPe SELLOUT!!!!
Here is the exchange:
Ryan: There should be no daylight between us, that’s my point. On those workers you’re talking about, let’s deal with welfare, let’s get the people who are in America, who are able-bodied adults, who aren’t working or looking for work, let’s get them into the workforce before we talk about other issues. Let’s get poverty reduced by moving people from welfare to work and let’s have tax reform that doesn’t reward companies for moving overseas, but that keeps companies here in America.
Let’s clean up our tax laws so that Disney doesn’t make moves like that. We’re losing the biggest publicly held company in Wisconsin to Ireland, in part because of our tax laws. So, this is a huge part of our agenda, which is, how do you get American jobs, American growth for American workers, so we have faster economic growth, higher wages. And how do we get our own people from welfare to work, and secure the border, and do these things we need to do get higher wages, better incomes, and, oh by the way let’s prevent a debt crisis and take on the entitlements that are going to give us a debt crisis.
Ryan allowed a catch-all spending bill to the floor that included a contentious expansion of the H-2b visa program in December, violating an explicit pledge he made not to touch immigration as speaker so long as Barack Obama is president.
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