been. especially for the heritage foundation. the weekends when organizations release bad news on a friday with the hope we ll all just forget it over the weekend. the heritage foundation today accepted the resignation of jason ridgewine. he is the co-author of the now infamous heritage study which kicked off this week to great fanfare, a post that argued a reform bill would cost a whopping $6.3 trillion. from the words of ridgewine, it represents the fiscal costs of house holds after amnesty. the heritage foundation thought the study could sink the heritage bill, that is, until republicans who supported the bill summarily conducted the study calling it politically and wild ld overblown, but it turned out the most controversial thing about the study wasn t the number, it was the past writings of the co-author of jason ridgewine. the wonkblog actually went back and pulled ridgewine s diss
magazine. he testified in front of the judiciary committee in february, great to have you here. thanks for having me. sorry to unload the creep. you know, i m trying to look at this as an opportunity. i m trying to look at it as an opportunity where every conservative and every republican in this country will say we do not agree with that. we do not stand by that report. we want an actual fair common sense solution to a problem. i actually hope the heritage foundation keeps him. i hope they keep him and hope every republican and conservative person says that does not represent me. do you think the heritage foundation has been playing an actual leading role in the opposition to reform? they ve been trying to. they ve been trying to. numbers hide as much as they reveal. i m all for people having their opinion. this is america, that s wonderful. you are not entitled to your own facts. i read 6$6.3 trillion. not in that report ways the
and he he testified in front of the jew dish kwlar committee in february. great to have you here. sorry to unload the creep. i m trying to look at this as an opportunity. i m trying to look at it as an opportunity where every conservative and republican in this country will say we do not agree with that. we do not stand by that report. we want an actual fair common sense solution to a problem. i hope the heritage foundation keeps him. i hope they keep him and i hope every republican and conservative person says that does not represent me. do you think the heritage foundation has been playing a leading role in opposition to immigration reform. they have been trying to. numbers hide as much as they reveal. i m all for people having their opinion. this is america. that s wonderful, but you are not entitled to your own facts. i read that $6.3 trillion.
thanks for having me. sorry to unload the creep. you know, i m trying to look at this as an opportunity. i m trying to look at it as an opportunity where every conservative and every republican in this country will say we do not agree with that. we do not stand by that report. we want an actual fair common sense solution to a problem. i actually hope the heritage foundation keeps him. i hope they keep him and hope every republican and conservative person says that does not represent me. do you think the heritage foundation has been playing an actual leading role in the opposition to reform? they ve been trying to. they ve been trying to. numbers hide as much as they reveal. i m all for people having their opinion. this is america, that s wonderful. you are not entitled to your own facts. i read $6.3 trillion. not in that report ways the immigration policy center right here that said people like me paid $11.2 billion in state and
governesses. there was this study we talked about it came up with a ridiculous study number, because of the cost of the bill being $6.3 trillion. there s a civil war among conservatives over comprehensive immigration reform. it was revealed the co-author of the report had written a harvard dissertation that flirted with gnarly eugenic kwlds of the iq acheechls of different racial groups about hispanics immigranting being unable to achieve iqs of whites. really explosive stuff. this is an interview with someone from the heritage foundation who went on i think on radio today. take a listen. are you standing by this his