we will pass on to our children in the very near future, at about the end of 4 years from now, a debt-to-GDP ratio which is unsustainable
It will again. But it needs leadership.
If you do not deal with the long-term imbalances, our country is going to look like a Banana Republic.
the right answer is not zero with respect to the housing crisis and the financial sector.
If we are not the best educated people in the world, we cannot long expect to be the most powerful country in the world.
the proposal here is to expand in health care and put in place $636 billion in new spending
what we are really doing here is giving them a government that is not sustainable or affordable
you are creating a situation which is probably untenable for our children because of the size of that debt
This is not going to be solved with one step. There are going to have to be many significant steps taken for us to be rebuilding for recover...
I am very concerned about the second 5 years.
I do not want to be part of any papering over or slipping by or not facing up to... a fundamental threat to the economic security of the cou...
Wouldn't it be better to cut that so-called stimulus bill in half?
We have got a big problem, maybe $2 trillion or more with bad assets.
I have now voted twice for the TARP money because I thought President Bush needed it and I thought President Obama needed it.
I am still stunned that the President would ask us to spend $1 trillion.
let's not let humility prevent us from acting, because the course we are on is completely and utterly unsustainable.
we are not even close. I do not think on the last analysis we are in the top 20 in health care outcomes.
Better outcomes, less cost.
