Political Quotes

“So what we have here is we have a third party looking at what's going on and saying the emperor has no clothes; that, in fact, if we continue the current policy with Medicaid--which, as the gentleman well knows, roughly doubles the number of people eligible for the safety net program under the Affordable Care Act--we will not only bankrupt the Medicaid program, future generations will no longer have the ability to be confident that Social Security will be there when they retire, that Medicare will be there when they retire. The ratings agencies, whether it's Moody's, Standard and Poor's, all the various rating agencies will look at us and say: you don't have the ability to pay the interest back on your debt. We know when that bill was passed, we know what happened. We know the cornhusker kickback. We know what went on--the buying and selling of votes at the expense of future generations and the ability of the Federal Government to keep their promises to future generations--the promises of Medicare, Medicaid, again, Pell Grants, K-12 education. The gentleman showed a slide that showed a 3 percent increase in the cost--an average of 3 percent in the States' budgets--the cost of Medicaid over the past only 3 years before the President's health care bill kicks in. Well, as the President may know, 3 percent doesn't sound like much, but in Maryland that's a $1 billion increase. That's an increase we can't afford.…”