Political Quotes

“Can we imagine a family where the income of two children at $30,000 who are being taxed to give benefits to a childless couple making $28,000, can we imagine the mother and father telling their children we cannot go to McDonald's tonight because we had to pay more taxes to give more benefits to a childless couple that is making $1,000 less than we are. What does the family get who goes to work every day and is struggling to support their children? What do those people get? They do not want food stamps. They do not want housing. What they want is an opportunity. And what we aim to do is to give opportunity to those people trying to climb out of welfare. We are trying to give benefits to those people who desperately need it. We are trying to help those people who cannot help themselves. But do my colleagues know who else we are very concerned about? Low income working Americans who give more and more and get less and less back. They are the forgotten Americans in this country. Those Americans are struggling every day to support their children, and all they ask for is an opportunity. That is what this budget is all about, rewarding those people who get up every day and go to work, and all they ask for is a chance, and more of their money back in their paychecks for them to spend on their children. That is what is right.”