Political Quotes

“What we have decided is we just do not have the same sense of urgency. And let me add one other point that I lost in here is that today there was a story, I think in the Wall Street Journal again, that States have borrowed more money this year than at any time in the last 50 years for the States, greater I think in times by a magnitude of 3 in borrowing more money, and again they are making cuts again at the same time, the most severe cuts in the areas of health care and education; and we are basically mandating they have to meet certain obligations, not giving them the assistance and resources they need to meet those obligations. What are those obligations? They are in the area of health care where we have a health care crisis; 42 million Americans who work full time without healthcare. We do not have an agenda or plan to help them meet that obligation. We have not had a raise in the Federal level in the Pell grant to help people go to college. In over 4 years, the tuitions on average are going up 9, 10 percent this year. So we have put not only a burden on our States and our Governors, our State legislatures, to fund requirements that we pass here, most importantly we are putting demands and further burdens on middle-class, hard-working families who are trying to raise their kids right, with the right sense of values and get on to college so that they can succeed in life, and yet we are not giving them the resources they need.”