Barney Frank was pulling no punches
Barney Frank was the featured speaker at the JRR Dinner in Houston Texas. He started out the speech amusingly giving tribute to Donald Trump.
Anyone who has listened to Barney Frank knows that he is a rather funny guy. He is however thoughtful and serious.
“It is true we have a bilingual problem in America,” Barney Frank said. “Not enough of us are.” I’ve always wondered why more have not challenged the anti-intellectualism of pushing for English only. “We are the only country in the world where the average highly educated person,” Frank continued. “only speak one language. It is a cultural defect. It is an economic defect. And it is an example of how wrong headed they [GOP] are.”
Barney then moved on to immigration. He pointed out that immigrants are a self-selected group of energetic, entrepreneurial, risk taking people from other countries that decided to settle in America. In fact he said the fact is that lazy people do not emigrate. It is the lazy ones who stay home waiting from money from the ones that emigrate.
Barney Frank then started talking about the Republican chaos. “They complain about government regulation and they have a point,” Frank said. “Because reasonable Republicans are now subject to regulations under the federal Endangered Species Act. We have seen that this week. They are reaping what they have sown.”
Frank then described how they got into their state of chaos.
“For years Republican leaders have been telling the people who vote in their primaries that government is a bad thing,” Barney Frank said. “They have demonized them. They have said ‘Be afraid of your government’. They have persuaded the operational vote in the Republican primaries that government is a bad thing. And now that is biting them in the backside because they now are incapable of producing the leaders who can govern. It’s true in the presidential primary.”
The quality of the video is not the best but Barney Frank’s entire address is worth listening to.