Political Quotes

“Going back to the Congressional Black Caucus' budget, we increased the funding for Pell grants and for our young people so they do not have to deal with the very situation that the gentleman described. Taking it just a little further, those that somehow make it through start looking for job. There are no jobs out there; but if in fact we created an infrastructure, development initiative, if we invested in our economy by investing in health care, if we invested by establishing the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund to increase the production of affordable housing in this country, we would be able to create jobs by creating an investment in our country and in our communities for areas that people need. People need health care and housing and transportation. We need schools to be fixed and we need construction projects going on. There are so many millions of jobs that could be created if we just invested our Federal resources into this instead of the military machine for weapons which feed the military industrial complex.”