Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I am just wondering if you all talk at all in your meetings about the degrading effect that is having on our society.
I think that, you know, I do not think there is any question that you would be the biggest dove, if you will, since World War II.
But that piece of it is not very complicated. It is only about eight words, and so that is not complicated.
I thank you for the hearing.
We need to promote a society that promotes accountability and responsibility, and we are getting away from that.
Penalizing people for working is not compassionate. We need to rethink and restructure the way we administer our social safety nets so that ...
entitlement spending is most of the problem we have, is it not, with spending and deficit
federally mandated Medicaid was soaking up money that I would like to put in higher education.
I am talking about the specific proposal to reduce spending on entitlement programs over the next 10 years.
He is the President of the United States. He is supposed to lead.
So what I would like, respectfully, to see from the President is a plan to do what his own debt commission said we needed to do, which is to...
entitlement spending is going to soak up all the money that all of you are worrying about over the next 5 years.
He has not put forward a plan to deal with entitlement spending.
we really wouldn't have a problem, would we?
$4 trillion over 10 years.
Sequestration needs to happen. Bottom line, it needs to happen, and that is the deal we struck to raise the debt limit.
