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So this country is growing like we haven t grown. it s not a matter of we can either talk about that or talk about immigration and the border. why can t it be both? it should be both and. and they are related. one of the reasons, i believe, that working class wages has stagnated and in the past and are now accelerating, blue collar wages are now rising even faster than white collar. they are both doing great. hispanics are doing better than whites. one of the key reasons is we re not flooding the country with a million illegal workers a year. that s not just national security policy. it s terrible economic policy. getting control of the borders is very much linked to our economic prosperity. i can see how you can make the case. you can make an economic case and a lot of the candidates are. the president believes something different is compelling. i really think we have to give it some air because he s making ....
The economy, we ve had 7 million jobs created in the last four years, et cetera, et cetera. that s his positive riff. the economy is obviously recovering. it s recovering slower than we would like because the government is cutting back. but the point is wages for americans have simply not grown. i don t believe that s the president s fault. that s a trend that s existed for a very long time where have your growing corporate profits and flat wages and growing inequality. the president has proposals on capitol hill. congress has done nothing with them. i m not say they go would chang everything but right now with congress doing nothing, we not making any progress on this critical issue. people feel the fact that wages simply haven t grown. i agree. ....
Am. i m an american first. and that what it comes down to. i m not out here for the party, i m here to represent the people in the 9th district. so the system we have in place right now you have to run as a republican or democrat. as an independent or libertarian unfortunately or fortunately the parties haven t grown. trying to run as an independent will be difficult so i have to use the system available me to make it happen. megyn: president obama s statement that you have to spread the wealth around became an albatross on the president s neck. do you feel that the president has lived up to that ideology? absolutely. universal healthcare that got passed. he wants to for us or i to give to whoever the federal government need it at the time. that doesn t necessarily mean they are needy. ....