Political Quotes

“To the previous speaker, you know I had a friend that said he made $100 back in 1960 if he made $125 now. That is not an increase; such a thing is inflation. With Medicare there are additional people called baby boomers that are going into the system, and, if you go into my district in Pennsylvania, in fact if you go across the State of Pennsylvania, talk to Republicans, independents, and Democrats who happen to run the hospitals, they will tell you that statewide the Republican Medicare/Medicaid cuts are going to mean 40,000 health care workers are going to be unemployed. Mr. Speaker, in my district alone over 1,000 people are going to be unemployed because of the Medicare and Medicaid cuts that the Republicans are going to make when we include inflation, when we include the fact of the increased costs and more people going into the system. Now I am reminded when I look at the plan on Medicare and Medicaid of the comments made by the military spokesman during the Vietnam war. He said we had to destroy the village to save it. They are going to destroy health care, they are going to destroy Medicaid, in order to save it. They are going to destroy Medicare in order to save it. I may be a casualty of this war; I may even become a POW, but one thing, my colleagues, I will not be, and that is missing in action.”