Political Quotes

“The people of America have again been to some extent hoodwinked into thinking that all of our Federal dollars have gone for the military and we have cut domestic discretionary spending and mandatory spending dramatically. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you look at this chart which provides cumulative real changes from fiscal year 1990 through fiscal year 1999 you see almost a 40-percent increase in mandatory spending programs, the entitlement programs, you see a 12-percent increase in domestic discretionary spending, and yet you see a 35-percent decrease in defense outlays, an actual decrease. The only area of the budget that we have cut in the last several years and are proposing to cut in the future are in fact national security and defense. This President, even in cutting his Federal workers, and he counts that heavily, what he does not tell the American people is the bulk of those workers are going to be Pentagon workers, they are going to be the people who work for the military, the young people who committed their lives and their careers to defending this country.”