Charles Rangel: “there certainly was a lot of emotion in the speech given by the chairman; but I suspect in this time of the year where…”

“there certainly was a lot of emotion in the speech given by the chairman; but I suspect in this time of the year where so many people are concerned about our sick, our poor and our disabled, that rather than being moved by the rhetoric of the Republicans, we might take a deep breath and find out who is on our side as Democrats. I know that the poor and the aged and disabled do not have much of a political voice, but somehow in this holiday season the spiritual leaders probably understand this a little better than some of us. These are the charitable organizations that reach out, Catholic Charities, the Jewish Council Against Poverty, the Protestant Council. Each and every day they run soup kitchens and try to assist people, especially mothers that have no one in the household to assist them in raising their children. Any specialist will tell you, if you do not give a kid the right start, you do not give them a chance to get to school, and cut the resources from under him to get an education, it is not just why can they not do it my way or why did he not get an inheritance. It is a question of where do these kids end up.…”