Bill Clinton: “Because we're going to cut $16 billion out. Because a $100 million courthouse is not as important to raising incomes as…”

“Because we're going to cut $16 billion out. Because a $100 million courthouse is not as important to raising incomes as the school-to-work program to give young people who don't go to 4-year universities a chance to get good training, or as a program for women and infants to make sure they're properly nourished, or as a program to let our young people work in their communities and earn money to go to college. It just doesn't compute. There's nowhere near--you know, special interest road projects, nine in one congressional district, are not as important as giving our teachers the training they need to make sure our students reach world- class standards in education. The judgments are wrong. If we're going to get serious about continuing the spending cuts and continuing the cuts in the deficit, moving this thing to balance, we cannot afford to choose pork over people. It is a very simple choice, and it has nothing to do with partisan politics. And if they will fix it, we can have a bill.”