Joe Cunningham: “I listened to a Republican Governor the other day, and what does this mean to the future, not only to our senior…”

“I listened to a Republican Governor the other day, and what does this mean to the future, not only to our senior citizens, but to our children as well, as far as a balanced budget? He said that his father took home 82 percent of his paycheck, his brother and his sister only take home 45 percent of their paycheck, and that under the current spending of Congress, an increase in taxes, he can expect his children to take between 16 and 18 percent of their paycheck home. That is a pretty sad commentary, that if we do not turn this around, what is the impact it is going to have on every American in this country to the negative? When we talk about a billion dollars a day going just to pay for the interest on the national debt, and not one cent of that goes to pay for Medicare, not one cent goes to education, not one cent of it goes for law enforcement or the rest; what could we not do with $365 billion in a year for the American people in the same areas that many of us--that I believe the liberals want better education, I believe they want better national security.”