this is why congress approval rating is so low. it is not a toy, speaker. biden is just clapping the whole time encouraging him. that s what biden does though. if that s all congress did, the approval rating would be through the roof. good point. diane, i go to you first so we can get the substantive part of the conversation out of the way. i think it is funny he started off saying americans don t expect government to solve every problem, and then proposed a government solution to just about any problem you can think of. anything from job creation to green energy. he is even proposing a law to make sure women and men get paid equally. boo. and not that it is not a lottable goal, but he went through a laundry list of things people complain about 1k then tried to about, and then tried to propose government help.
recent downturn was a housing crisis created reckless government policies and the idea that more taxes and more government spending is a way to help middle class taxpayers that s an old idea failed every time it has been tried. more government isn t going to help you get ahead it s going to hold you back. many believe that rubio is on the short list for presidential contenders possibly in 2016. that brings us to syndicated columnist and fox news contributor charles krauthammer. he says the response offered a right contrast to president obama s vision of more government. when reagan was inaugurated within 10 minutes he said government isn t the solution it s the problem. that was the theme with rubio s speech and really an ideological contrast. he is a man of government represents the party of government. every issue he raised in his speech had a government solution
he talked about the efforts to change entitlement reform and tax reform and really get the country moving again. we ll bring back our panel, juan williams, columnist for the hill, nina eastton, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. when reagan was inaugurated he said within ten minutes government isn t the solution, it s the problem. and that was the theme of the rubio speech and set sort of ideological contrast. obama is a man of government, he represents the party of government of the every issue he raised in his speech had a government solution, a program, a partnership, you know, some new initiative spending essentially and i think what rubio did, he took it on as a sort of if i have s philosophical level and says it s not the way our country works, it comes from the private sector and made that case point by point. i m not sure it worked as
change entitlement reform and tax reform and really get the country moving again. we ll bring back our panel, juan williams, columnist for the hill, nina eastton, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. when reagan was inaugurated he said within ten minutes government isn t the solution, it s the problem. and that was the theme of the rubio speech and set sort of ideological contrast. obama is a man of government, he represents the party of government of the every issue he raised in his speech had a government solution, a program, a partnership, you know, some new initiative spending essentially and i think what rubio did, he took it on as a sort of if i have s philosophical level and says it s not the way our country works, it comes from the private sector and made that case point by point. i m not sure it worked as rebuttal.
economy and social welfare system. this is something that is missing from the debate, because with we need productive workers and the only place to get them right now is through immigration. so, i think that republicans will understand that. beyond that, really, we are not calling for a bigger government solution at all, and quite the contrary. we think that market forces ought to dictate immigration, and right now for both farm worker jobs, tourism jobs as well as high-tech jobs, there are not enough americans filling the jobs. we saw what happened when alabama sent a bunch of illegal immigrants back, the crops died on the vines, and otherwise, high-tech jobs are exported to foreign country, because we don t have enough high skilled workers to fill those jobs, and we have to fix those issues and