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Kendrick Meek: “Quickly, I just want to make sure Americans understand, be very quick, you need to look at your children and you need to…”

On the recordOctober 2, 2003
Quickly, I just want to make sure Americans understand, be very quick, you need to look at your children and you need to look at your grandchildren. The administration is saying ask no questions. They are spending their future away. If your child's class size is 30, now look for it to being 50 because this government will continue to cut back so local governments will be in deficit spending. Right now the States are $70 billion in deficits and that will continue. So I am not looking forward to doing things on a credit card. I am looking forward to doing things the way we are supposed to do and govern, and when I hear the President say we need to fight the war on terror in Iraq and not here, being in Iraq has nothing to do with fighting the war on terror in the United States.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida

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Addressing the impact of government spending on future generations and the war on terror.

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