Eva M. Clayton: “you can take each dollar that the majority plans to spend on the wealthy through their tax break and spend it on older…”

“you can take each dollar that the majority plans to spend on the wealthy through their tax break and spend it on older Americans through Medicare and still have moneys to balance the budget come the year 2002. One wonders why there is such an insistence by the majority to take from the poor and give to the wealthy. When one examines the record, you see a consistent pattern. That consistent pattern says if you are a pregnant woman, you are out of luck, and if you are an infant baby, certainly you do not count, and if you are from rural America, you can be ignored, and if you are poor, you do not matter, and if you are a senior citizen, you are too late. This weekend we will celebrate Mother's Day. Mothers have always taught us, and we are reminded on Mother's Day, get your priorities right. How we spend our moneys and where we spend our moneys says a lot about us. It says what is important. It says to America that those who spend more than $200,000 certainly are of more consequence than those who earn less. It says to America that mothers do not count. It says to the working America we have nothing at all to celebrate this Mother's Day.”