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Joe Walsh on TechnologyRepublican presidential primary challenger (former IL Rep.) |
Walsh: I believe in American ingenuity and American innovation. You're not stopping automation, and it is a good thing. It's making the American economy more efficient. Our manufacturing sector is actually a hell of a lot more productive now with fewer workers. So what does government need to do? Help retrain those workers. Because you can't stop the market. You've got to keep the market changing. It'll lead to good things. But government's got to play a role as the American economy goes through these seminal moments where we move from one industry to another.
Q: Can the states take care of it?
Walsh: States can take care of it but the federal government's got to play a role here too. This is a major transformation in our economy. The federal government along with state governments have got to devote resources to train all of these displaced workers.
Opponent's Argument for voting No:
[Rep. Waxman, D-CA]: This bill will cripple National Public Radio, public radio stations, and programming that is vital to over 27 million Americans. We are now voting to deny the public access to one of our Nation's most credible sources of news coverage. This bill does not save a penny. This legislation does not serve any fiscal purpose, but it does serve an ugly ideological one. This legislation is not about reforming NPR. It is about punishing NPR. It is vindictive, it is mean-spirited, it is going to hit the smallest stations in rural areas particularly hard. Public radio is indispensable for access to news that's hard to get, especially where broadband service is limited.