Kendrick Meek: “I am a senior citizen. I am here to say to senior citizens throughout this country, wake up, better smell the coffee.…”

“I am a senior citizen. I am here to say to senior citizens throughout this country, wake up, better smell the coffee. They are getting ready to make some very drastic changes here in this Congress that will affect you. So you have better call them, write them, and talk them to slow this train down. I realize that a balanced budget is needed to control the runaway spending in this country, but as it is currently drafted, they are going to balance the budget on your backs, senior citizens. You have felt the toil of this country for all of these years. You paid taxes all of these years. Now they are going to cut Medicare, they are going to cut Medicaid, they are going to cut Social Security. Do not let them fool you. There should be truth in packaging here so you can see the package that is being put together, so you can know what the cuts are. Do not be fooled by what you are hearing about a balanced budget. Sure, it is good, but it is not what you can see that is going to hurt. Look at the massive cuts in Medicare. They are using the Constitution to change the fiscal policy. Let them do it. That is what they are elected to do, to cut. Why use the Constitution to do that? Wake up, call them write them, whatever is within your voice, because the budget will be balanced on your back.”