On the recordJune 23, 2011
Not only do they talk about these choices over and above the senior community, but they've made it clear that their negotiations at the table begin and end with this destruction of Medicare while protecting subsidies for Big Oil and to include the tax breaks for millionaires. That, you know, is very clear. That is the directive. That is part of a line drawn in the sand on negotiations, which makes it very difficult, because what it tells us is that they're willing to put at risk the full faith and credit of these United States on the line. And we know we have just struggled to crawl out of a situation, a recession that's found 8.2 million jobs lost in America. We're just climbing that hill to recovery, and they're willing to put the full faith and credit of the United States at risk and perhaps, most likely, cause a new economic calamity.
