Political Quotes

“the budget that we have just received today does some interesting things. One thing that it does without any dispute--there is no reason to debate this--is that senior citizens on an average will spend $900 per year more for health care costs. Every year they can expect to lose about $900--in fact, if they can, and most of them cannot--they will have to pay that much more money for health care costs. As I have said to my friend from Massachusetts, there is no crisis today that there was not last December. Suddenly, there is a crisis now. Suddenly, they want to start talking about Medicare and not talk about the rest of health care costs. Mr. President, this year health care costs in America will go up over $100 billion. We will not have any better health care as a result of that. We have to be concerned about health care generally and not Medicare particularly. Mr. President, this rhetoric that we have heard and encompassed in this budget about Medicare reform is nothing but a smokescreen for tax cuts. There is a proposal in this Republican budget that we have for tax cuts. It is camouflaged, and says any savings we get we will apply to the tax cut. I think any savings we get we should help these senior citizens that are having their Medicare bills increased. I think we should talk about young people who cannot go to school, or go to college. That is where the money should go, not for tax cuts for the wealthy.”