Political Quotes

“last week the Associated Press reported that Iraqis are paying 5 cents a gallon for gas in Iraq, 5 cents. Why are Iraqis getting such a good deal? Because the American taxpayer is subsidizing the Iraqis to the tune of $167 million a month, approximately $500 million over 3 months. Here in the United States on average Americans are paying over $2 a gallon for gas, up approximately 50 cents since the beginning of the war in Iraq. Fill up a car with gas, a little north of $50; yet in Iraq to do the same costs you about a dollar, what would cost us here $50. We are subsidizing them, the American taxpayer, to the tune of $167 million a month. Here in the United States, what have we done? Nothing. I am not against building and rebuilding Iraq after the war, but I am opposed to providing Iraqis with a better opportunity than we provide Americans, and I am not just talking about gas prices. Take health care. They have health care. We have opened up 150 health clinics and hospitals throughout Iraq, providing 100,000 with prenatal and infant coverage costing Americans taxpayers $1 billion. In the United States, 44 million Americans are without health insurance; 33 million Americans work full-time without health care; 10 million American children are without health care. What do we do? In the area of jobs, in Iraq we provide universal job training. In the United States, under the President's budget we cut $238 million from job training programs.”