Jim Cramer: Amnesty Advocates Don't Care About American Workers
Jim Cramer: Amnesty Advocates Don't Care About American Workers
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http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver...0x100-tlee.png On Meet the Press Sunday, CNBC host Jim Cramer suggested that members of the permanent political class that are zealously pushing comprehensive immigration reform do not care about American workers.
"David, don't you find it interesting that the dogma is now post-Clinton, pro-immigration at a time when we have a much larger supply of labor than we need, and pro free trade," Cramer said on Meet The Press to host David Gregory. "Even though we are supposed to be greenhouse gas-oriented, we know where those jobs go. Those jobs leave this country to countries that can pollute all they want. I’ve always wanted to know why the Democrats didn’t say, 'You know what, we need the defense against the countries that take our jobs and pollute all over.'"
"But we don't care about that. What we care about is when workers come to this country from other countries they get jobs. Why don't we care more about our people?" asked Cramer.
Gregory, who has been criticized for being a mouthpiece for Washington's permanent political class, immediately changed the subject to discuss the stock market.
"Let me move on and turn the page here with just a matter of remaining time, the stock market," Gregory said. "How bullish are you in 2014?"
The Congressional Budget Office determined that comprehensive immigration reform, which includes more ways for foreign workers to flood the labor market in addition to amnesty for all of the country's illegal immigrants, would lower the wages of American workers.
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Jim Cramer on Immigration: 'Why Can't We Take Care of Americans?'
Monday, 13 Jan 2014 03:38 PM
By Bill Hoffmann
newsmax.com
The United States needs to focus on getting jobs for American citizens, instead of hiring immigrants and making deals with other nations for cheap labor, according to Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's "Mad Money."
"Can we just help people get jobs who live here? We have so many problems in our country," Cramer told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"To me, this is so basic. We obviously should be taking care of our own. We're Americans. Like, why can't we take care of Americans? And how did that get to be bad?
"Like, I'm trying to figure it out? How did it get to be bad that we should be thinking about the people who were here first before we start worrying about the people coming in?
"Tell me how the people coming in create jobs?"
Cramer challenged current U.S. policy on two hot-button issues.
"These ideas of unlimited free trade with the Chinese and unlimited immigration have somehow become good and I question that …
By questioning that, there's a lot of people who are going to gun for me, but, at a certain point, we can't care. We have to look ourselves in the mirror."
Cramer, who also co-hosts CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" and is author of the new book, "Jim Cramer's Get Rich, Carefully," says no one ever questions the "orthodoxy" of immigration.
"We all decided immigration's great. We have a series of trade deals that we've made with trading partners, including … major countries – Korea, Mexico – where we've gotten completely pantsed," Cramer said.
"We've just done terribly. None of these places do we ever have hope of even having a surplus. They've all used our markets as dumping grounds, but free trade is another religion….
"We ought to be rethinking things because we're not creating jobs and maybe there's something bigger at work than the minimum wage and the unemployment benefits."
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