Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, the majority started this country on a ride a few years ago, and the signposts along the way are fairly clear. We have a record-high deficit, hundreds of billions of dollars; we have a record trade deficit; we have a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures; we have 3 years in a row of historic highs in personal bankruptcies. And yet, they suggest that we should operate on the same forecast that they were operating on when they started out on this trip, when they said we had 10 years of surpluses coming our way, trillions of dollars; and we can afford to give the wealthiest among us a tax break. So they did that, and they do not see the other signposts: $200 billion for a war in Iraq. They do not look at the other signposts along the road that show that we have lost millions of jobs. Now we have replaced 1 million-or-so of those jobs that we lost, and they want to say that we have created new jobs. They are a long way off from creating a new job that is a net new job, but they do not want to talk about that. They do not want to look at these signposts. They want to keep going down this road. What the Obey resolution suggests is we should take a different course. We should say to millionaire taxpayers that rather than take $124,000 in tax cuts, take $24,000. Let us pay our way for this war. Let us pay our way in terms of investing in the needed resources of our country.”