Patricia Schroeder: “I am very proud to take the well today wearing this ribbon which was given to me by the Girl Scouts, because the Girl…”

“I am very proud to take the well today wearing this ribbon which was given to me by the Girl Scouts, because the Girl Scouts today are asking adults to wear this ribbon and be the best that they can be. I think that that is a good motto for all of us as Americans. We probably ought to do it everyday, but this is a special day and I, as an ex-Girl Scout and a mother of a Girl Scout, am very, very proud to be here and be talking about that. So I got to thinking, well, now, if you took this and applied it to the Federal Government in Washington, why do people get so frustrated with this and what would 'be the best we could be' mean at the Federal level? Well, it seems to me that one of the things that we don't do at the Federal level is model what the average family does at their kitchen table. At the average family kitchen table when times get tough, the last thing they do to make budget ends meet is cut the children. They will try to hold the children harmless from budget cuts absolutely as long as possible, and yet this week, the first thing we are going to do as we try to find the first round of budget cuts, and these are just for big tax cuts and they are for disaster relief in California, we are going to cut children.”