Tom Tancredo: “I imagine this happens with several other States too when we look at a reduction in budgets for any entity, especially…”

“I imagine this happens with several other States too when we look at a reduction in budgets for any entity, especially schools. Every time somebody would talk about a potential budget cut for the schools, everybody would stand up and say, if you do this, we will not be able to buy chalk; if you do this, we will not be able to provide transportation to the kids. They would use every imaginable sort of hot button issue they could think of knowing full well that would never actually come to that point; but they know that people would say, oh, well, of course, if you cannot buy chalk, we cannot do this. When we talk about all the things that would happen if we pass this .3 percent budget cut and our colleagues suggest that the hospitals have to give money back, all the veterans issues that our colleagues bring up would have to end up being cut. Remember, of course, that we are not talking about mandatory spending. The mandatory spending that the gentleman refers to, especially in veterans, has absolutely nothing to do with this amendment, talking about discretionary spending.”