Robert Ehrlich said "Maybe the answer is in the 1996 elections. I simply do not know. But is it not interesting how these quotes are so similar? A proposal that obviously failed miserably in 1990, they used the same rhetoric against the tax cuts contained in the Contract With America, and now, most disturbing to me and I think to you, is now the offshoot of class warfare. You see class warfare here, and the American people recognize class warfare when they see it. That is all they see. I know the gentleman wants to discuss it. I know the gentleman wants to comment on my point, which is now that with Medicare in the budget, we not only have class warfare, we have the offshoot, generational warfare. 'Let's turn the generations and not just the classes against each other.' That is the most unfortunate aspect of this national debate occurring today." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 9, 1995

Maybe the answer is in the 1996 elections. I simply do not know. But is it not interesting how these quotes are so similar? A proposal that obviously failed miserably in 1990, they used the same rhetoric against the tax cuts contained in the Contract With America, and now, most disturbing to me and I think to you, is now the offshoot of class warfare. You see class warfare here, and the American people recognize class warfare when they see it. That is all they see. I know the gentleman wants to discuss it. I know the gentleman wants to comment on my point, which is now that with Medicare in the budget, we not only have class warfare, we have the offshoot, generational warfare. 'Let's turn the generations and not just the classes against each other.' That is the most unfortunate aspect of this national debate occurring today.

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Robert Ehrlich

Maryland

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of class and generational warfare in the context of Medicare and tax cuts.

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