On the recordJuly 21, 2010
the Senator from Vermont speaks in very clear words. When he says this debate is about whose side are you on, he could not be more on target. We have a situation where we know that when President Obama took office and the Democrats were increasing their majority, we inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression. Those are not just words; that is a fact. We inherited the worst deficit ever, because under the Republicans, the hugest tax cuts ever to people earning more than $1 million a year, $1 billion a year, went right on the credit card; two wars went right on the credit card; nothing paid for. Then at the end of George Bush's term, when we started to see jobs being lost, 700,000 jobs a month, that is when we took over, and we took some tough votes. We said to the American people: We are going to focus like a laser beam on jobs and this economy, and we are going to get back on our feet. Yes, we are going to tackle that deficit.
