Kendrick Meek: “I just want a point of clarification. The folks that are going to suffer under these cuts, they do not make political…”

“I just want a point of clarification. The folks that are going to suffer under these cuts, they do not make political contributions. Their only contribution is their vote to send a Member of Congress up here. I do not know when I go to these health care centers and they say, well, we had to cut 10 employees, we cannot even meet the people from the community that are coming in and need our help because the budget has been cut. It is the evolution of taxation. We make the cuts up here and then the States, they return the favor to the local folks, and they cannot do what they are supposed to do. The folks that are being cut and dealt with and manhandled by the majority on this, they do not make contributions to anyone. They cannot afford to. These are the people that are punching in and punching out every day. I think it is important that everyone understand the proposal that the majority is talking about now will do nothing but weaken the country. That is the bottom line. That is what it does. I want to make that point of clarification because even when I check my campaign reports, there are not a lot of Medicaid recipients there saying, we are writing a fat check to the Congressman. They cannot write $10 to the Congressman because they are too busy trying to pay for gas and the heating oil.”