Kendrick Meek: “I oppose very strongly the Republican fairness and deficit reduction bill. It is an oxymoron, because there is no…”

“I oppose very strongly the Republican fairness and deficit reduction bill. It is an oxymoron, because there is no fairness in this bill. Neither does it reduce the deficit. The Republican majority's bill, which is said to reduce the deficit, is not doing it. You are just moving old wine around in new bottles, that is what you are doing, taking money from here and putting it over there. It is an old shell game. Each one of us who has been around long enough will know that. I am a senior citizen. You are helping senior citizens one way and taking it away in another. Look what is happening with health care for senior citizens. No matter how much money we are giving them, if there is no health delivery system, we are still not helping them. A lot of things they are doing here is made up of smoke and mirrors all put together in a consortium of fooling the American public that they are really doing something for them, when they are really not. What they are doing, we have a spectrum here, where we have on one side the very poor, in the middle we have the middle class, and then we have the upper class. Do Members know who is getting all the money? The upper class. The poor middle class people in the middle are being left out. These cuts in vital programs are going to fund these tax cuts, things they are taking away from average Americans.”