Tim Ryan: “There is no doubt about it. You have been down to Guantanamo. I was down to Guantanamo last week. You know, we have…”

“There is no doubt about it. You have been down to Guantanamo. I was down to Guantanamo last week. You know, we have soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are the people who are going to come back and use the VA system. And just to wrap up the VA portion of our program, some people may be sitting at home and may be saying, well, maybe we just do not have enough money, maybe we just do not have the resources to provide for the veterans. And I want to show this graph, which the last graph was just too jammed up; there were a lot of words on there. But I think this is just where we are at. Permanent tax cuts way on the left. What is the cost in trillions of dollars over the next 10 years? We are going to spend $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years to make the tax cuts permanent. We are going to spend $800 billion to make the tax cuts permanent for the top 1 percent; $800 billion for people who make $400,000; $500,000; $600,000; $700,000; $800,000; $900,000 a year, over a million dollars a year, not begrudging people who make a lot of money, God bless you, but we are going to spend $800 billion giving them their tax break, and we are only going to spend $300 billion on veterans. And all we are asking for here is a billion dollars for the next year, or $2.7 billion for 2006, and $3 billion or $4 billion maybe for 2007. We are giving $800 billion away to the top 1 percent of the people who live in the country. We cannot come up with $3 billion for our veterans?…”