Political Quotes

“the priorities set forth in a budget directly speak to what we value as a Nation. It is a statement about our sense of morality and about our priorities. What values are represented in giving away our public lands and coastal areas to oil companies that are making record profits at consumers' expense? What does $10 billion in Medicaid cuts to health services for poor children and long-term care patients, and increasing the cost of prescription drugs, what does that say about our values? What about $844 million in food stamp cuts that eliminate nutrition and school lunch programs and breakfast benefits for hundreds of thousands of families and children? How about $14 billion in cuts to student aid programs, including raising the cost of college for students and their families through increased interest rates and fees? What about eliminating $470 million of Federal housing rehab grants to make rental units available to low-income families, which could include families displaced by Hurricane Katrina? Let me tell my colleagues, these cuts are really going to pay for the $106 billion additional tax cuts for the wealthy this year and will still leave an enormous deficit. What does this say about our values? You cannot tell me that we cannot do better than this. ____________________”