Political Quotes

“So I appreciate this more than you know, and there is a line threaded throughout your entire question about the way they are going about doing this from so many Agencies. First, they are trying to kill certain Agencies--the Department of Education, which they can't legally do. USAID, they can't legally do. We created that--the article I branch of government. But on some of these other Agencies like Social Security, where you started, we know it is: Ready, fire, aim. And actually the ``aim'' part never happens. They are savagely cutting personnel and organization after organization. Seniors, thousands of them, are already writing in about the undermining of service. The Wall Street Journal article we read last night said that the customer service at Social Security is going from bad to worse and painted horrific pictures that are putting seniors in crisis, not to mention the closing of Social Security centers in rural areas, where people have to now drive hours and hours and hours. And so at the FAA, it was one of the early outrages that they fired people that they then realized they needed and tried to find some way to pull some of them back. And you and I both know the way they talk about government workers--a large percentage of them are veterans--the way they demean and degrade them, the way they accuse them of being parts of corruption, fraud, or fat, when the stories we have been reading of what some of these folks do is extraordinary.…”