Jay Dickey: “I would like to respond to three different accusations that have been made. The middle class understands what the…”

“I would like to respond to three different accusations that have been made. The middle class understands what the members are saying about who the rich are. It is anyone who works and pays taxes. It is the middle class that we are trying to help. If we are helping the middle class and we are helping other people, they want to be helped, and the heck with whether or not other people are being helped also, so they are not being fooled. Better training comes for our young people in businesses, where they need to be accountable in their consequences. We do not need to start our kids on a welfare program by teaching them they are doing something when they are not. Abstract training is not any good. We know that. One hundred sixty-one million dollars was attempted to be restored in the subcommittee for Head Start. We need to stop talking about this particular provision, because not one vote on those restorations came from the liberals on that subcommittee, not one vote. They voted to keep programs that they think of as higher priority than Head Start, so we ought to stop the talk.”