I want to have that full-throated debate and discussion both in Congress and in the public -- 75 percent of the public does want a balanced ...
Ensuring that no senior citizen goes hungry is an important goal for our country.
Should we not ask these questions, whether or not there is someone else to provide or what the means of the people are before we give these ...
I still can't get over how we're going to spend more money and we're going to save money by spending more money.
You can't just say that we're going to spend $2 billion, why not spend $4 billion or why not spend $10 billion to save more money?
I don't see anybody coming forward to any of these committees saying, 'oh, the problems are getting better, the war on poverty is really wor...
Some of us believe more in the ability of government to cure problems and some of us believe more in the ability of private charity to cure ...
These are fundamental questions and not idle questions, in the sense that we have to ask these questions because we're out of money.
The consequences of malnutrition are devastating.
Actually, I think there were originally Meals on Wheels programs that were private and relied on private funding from churches and other gro...
The GAO recently issued a report finding that there are over 70 duplicate programs, 70 duplicate Federal programs, dealing with nutrition.
You have to ask yourself, if you had $100 who would you give it to?
Should the government be the first one lining up so the kids can get the million dollars that granddad has?
We all have sympathy. We just have different ideas of how to go about addressing the sympathy.
Perhaps the $2 billion we spend on OAA, if we subsumed that into another program and didn't spend it, that might be saving money.
I would also probably ask if you've got a million dollars in the bank.
We should ask if private charity is also capable of feeding the hungry and do government programs crowd out private charity?
We must ask ourselves, if government is capable of ending poverty for seniors why haven't we succeeded?
