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Tim Ryan: I think that is the perfect example. Those are facts. We did not make it up. Those are facts on how the Clinton…

On the recordJuly 25, 2006
I think that is the perfect example. Those are facts. We did not make it up. Those are facts on how the Clinton administration versus the Bush administration handled illegal immigration. But look, if you are just the average Joe and you are sitting in the cheap seats watching politics in America, that is not all you see, is the failure to address the illegal immigration problem. You have watched over the past 5 years, Katrina, in which our FEMA, the Republican appointed members of the emergency management system here in the United States of America, had five or six days, knowing that a hurricane was coming to the Gulf States, and we got the kind of response that we got go. You look at Iraq. You look at not when the statues fell, but look afterwards, and you see it has been an utter and complete failure. Utilities and all the electricity, all at below pre-war levels. Our army right now, two-thirds of our army is not combat ready. Two-thirds. That is atrocious. And when you look at lack of investment in alternative energies, and the median wage is down 4 percent, all of the increases in college tuition, all these things, if you are just watching this from afar and you see millionaires getting tax breaks and average Americans struggling to get ahead and falling behind every single paycheck, you have to at some point say, aren't you taking the country in the wrong direction? Aren't you taking us down the wrong road? Real quick, Mr.…
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