Tim Ryan: “There is no doubt about it, and here is where not only the Dow is not growing at the clip we need it to, this is where…”

“There is no doubt about it, and here is where not only the Dow is not growing at the clip we need it to, this is where the tax cuts are going. And I think we have to make this point. We talk about health care and education, and the Democrats have talked about how we have reformed those systems, not talking just throwing money at them, but we need new innovative progressive ways of educating our kids and delivering health care. The Democrats have a plan to do that. These are good investments. The gentlewoman was talking about the millions of kids who do not have health insurance and how people in her community are smart enough to know we need to do that. Those kids end up in the emergency room much sicker than they would be if they had some preventive care. What we are advocating for is to make sure we provide this kind of care for those kids, to make sure we save the taxpayer money in the long run. So as this is probably our last 30-something for 2005, Happy Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Merry Christmas.”