Kathy Castor: “I have also been combing through the Presidential budget proposal. One of my hometown newspapers said that the…”

“I have also been combing through the Presidential budget proposal. One of my hometown newspapers said that the Presidential budget should begin with these words: "Once upon a time," as in a fairy tale. I am a mom with two young daughters at home. We do a lot of reading at night and try to get the homework done. We will do reading of fairy tales. This, what the White House has sent over, is a political fairy tale. Unfortunately, it is going to hurt a lot of folks. It is going to hurt a lot of our constituents back home. Oftentimes we talk in such technical terms in government. When we talk of Medicaid and people say Medicaid, sometimes they get Medicaid and Medicare mixed up. Medicaid, these are pregnant women, infants, children in families earning about $25,000 a year, foster kids, medically needy adults, a lot of our senior citizens in nursing homes. So when you hear there are Medicaid cuts, I would like us to really put a face on that and say they are going after the most vulnerable in this country, infants, poor kids, foster kids and seniors in nursing homes. Also the budget sent over from the White House will hurt our seniors. The White House proposes to cut Medicare.”