Political Quotes

“since 2000 this Congress has racked up more than $3 trillion in additional new debt, and by the year 2008, we will cross the $4 trillion mark. Why? It is trying to do something that no other Congress and no other President has ever tried in American history. It is trying to fight two wars with four tax cuts. This Congress has served as an ATM machine to the special interests, showering them with billions of tax breaks and tax shelters and handouts of the hard-working tax dollars of the American people. Yet suddenly our Republican friends are finding themselves as fiscal hawks. In fact, right now the House is working to slash more than $50 billion from education, health care, environmental programs, all that are important investments for the American people. Why? So they can do another $70 billion in tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent in America. At the same time that these so-called fiscal conservatives are complaining about the deficit, they are trying to add a total of another $100 billion in tax cuts to the special interests. I ask my colleagues, are these the right choices for the American people? We are now paying $445 billion to date for the war in Iraq, $20 billion to rebuild Iraq. We just have a spanking new dam in Mosul, Iraq, with all of the levees, yet we cut the Corps of Engineers here in the United States, which affected the levee in New Orleans. In fact, we built 110 primary health care centers in Iraq, vaccinated 3.2 million children in Iraq.…”