Oh I missed this this time around! Will catch up on the thread....
Shucks...that’s PT no Est time....so I haven’t missed it!
Where can we watch it ..??
Nice.
We can rate it.
The questions and comments by Cruz failed to address some major issues. We need entitlement reform that Cruz seems to believe we can save SS, Medicare, etc. thru growth. With 71% of the federal budget on automatic pilot, i.e., SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, food stamps, debt servicing costs, etc, and the fact that the costs of the entitlement programs will more than double over the next 20 years with the retirement of the baby boomers.
We are an aging society. Our debt is being driven by the entitlement programs. You cannot grow your way out of the problem. Nor can you cut so-called discretionary federal expenditures to any real extent to be meaningful. We must reform entitlements period. The reforms are going to be hard and painful. They are also politically unpopular, which is why it is not being done.
Immigration, legal and illegal: No discussion of legal immigration. We bring in 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants a year and 640,000 legal guest workers annually. Is it any wonder that our labor participation rates are at a 38 year low and that fewer native born Americans are working now than in 2000 despite the fact that two-thirds of the increase of the working age population is due to the native born. Immigrants are taking American jobs and depressing wages.
No discussion of how Cruz would deal with illegal aliens and secure the border, including visa overstays. AFP does not want anything discussed on immigration that is negative. And Cruz stayed away from mentioning it also, no doubt understanding his audience.
From my personal experience with AFP, they want to keep the flow of cheap, exploitable foreign labor going. They are hurting the American worker and destroying the American Dream. AFP is a big contributor to these politicians, including Cruz who supports a major increase in our guest worker programs.
Summary: A disappointing interview with Cruz dancing to the tune paid for by the corporate elites.