Carol Shea-Porter: “a while ago the President of the United States looked out in front of a very elite crowd and said to all of them: Some…”

“a while ago the President of the United States looked out in front of a very elite crowd and said to all of them: Some people call you the elite. I call you my base. You know, we should have listened a little more carefully because he really wasn't kidding. They were his base. The President has said ``yes'' to them ever since. Yes to Big Oil. Yes to Big Pharmacy. Yes to anything they want. Yes to tobacco companies. Yes to their tax cuts. And no to the middle class and no to the poor except for one yes. Yes, you can pay for them. And so the President of the United States, with his helpers on the other side, have made it extremely difficult for the middle class and the poor not only to pay for their energy bills, not only to pay for all the other essentials, but now to take their children to the doctor or to the hospital. What is wrong with us that we are having an argument about whether children should be insured and how many children should be insured? I'm a former social worker. Every single day of my life I had stories, tragic stories, stories that should embarrass all of you that you're standing here fighting against these children, and how hard it was for these families to get their prescriptions, how hard it was for them and how they had to decide exactly at what temperature do you take a child to the doctor, at 101, 102 or 103 degrees, because we don't have the money, and so we're not going to take our child to the doctor unless we absolutely must.”