Patricia Schroeder: “the conventional wisdom is that Democrats do not talk about values, and so I guess the assumption is we do not have…”

“the conventional wisdom is that Democrats do not talk about values, and so I guess the assumption is we do not have values. Well, maybe we have not talked about values because we felt we were voting our values, and we felt that voting our values was a whole lot more relevant than talking values. What do I mean by that? I think the value of education is one of the most fundamental values there is to every American family. Any American family who gets their child into the schools that they want to go in and see them go forward, it is like winning the lottery. It is better than winning the lottery, because you are what your children become. Yet the people on the other side who love to talk values are gutting this educational value. They are gutting it by cutting $3.3 billion out of educational funding, going right at that basic math skills, right at basic reading skills and at drug-free schools. Those are the core of how we build a good public school system. They would rather build B-2 bombers. Mrs. Speaker, something is wrong.”