Tim Ryan: “You have people getting indicted left and right. You have contractors and administrators in the government stealing…”

“You have people getting indicted left and right. You have contractors and administrators in the government stealing money. I will give you one story that is both full of corruption and cronyism. An administrator in the U.S. Government who is in Iraq, who is in charge of $87 million in contracts, gets caught taking kickbacks of a couple hundred thousand dollars. That is corruption. In the 1990s he was convicted of fraud, and they put him in anyway because he was the friend of the proper person he needed to be friends with. That is cronyism, and the whole process of not being able to administer the public dollars in an efficient and effective fashion is incompetence. The American taxpayers work very hard and they send the money down to us, and they trust us to spend that money in a way that will benefit the government and the safety and security of the United States. To put $87 million in the hands of a crook is not only incompetent, but it is wrong and it highlights their inability to govern. They control the House and the Senate and the White House. They have been in charge for years of all three branches. They have had the opportunity to implement their Republican agenda on taxes, on poverty, on college tuition, on foreign policy, on everything. It has been a miserable failure across the board. Quite frankly, I think it is an insult to the American people because we do not live under a dictatorship. We live in a democracy, a representative government.…”