Political Quotes

“On the 29th of September, 1.4 million Americans will go to the mailbox looking for their paycheck. They are the young people who serve in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Marines. It will not be there because the same people who claim to be for national defense, the same people who claim that there is this huge surplus out there, have seen to it that they are not going to get paid until two days later, October 1. That is so there can be an accounting gimmick and their pay counts against next year's budget and not this year's budget. Now, if one is a Congressman and they make about $130,000, waiting 2 extra days for their pay is no big deal but if one is an E-4 with a child and a wife waiting that extra weekend to buy the Pampers or the baby formula, it is a big deal. So the same folks who did this are saying we have over $100 billion to give away in tax breaks, 90 percent of which is going to the richest Americans, but we do not have enough for someone if they serve in the Armed Forces, and we are going to delay their pay. That is how much we think of them. It gets even worse. If one served their Nation honorably, they were promised health care for the rest of their life if they served 20 years. Those same people who show up at the base hospitals they are being told, we are sorry, there is not enough money to take care of them; they are to go out and fend for themselves on Medicare; but there is $120 billion in tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.”