Political Quotes

“First, you read about a mother and her child that has to move back into their family's residence, or her parents' residence. These are now senior citizens. Then you tell me about someone who's actually going to be homeless. Then we hear about a person that's degreed, has the ability to contribute to the engine of this economy in science, and they're unemployed. And then if you would, Mr. Levin, just look, I'm on the floor with Mr. Garamendi, the gentleman from California, and we use this to show how flat-lined our working and middle class have been in terms of the growth of their income; and we see the top percent of wealth right here shooting up to an enormous amount--that is the blue line. This is how the wealthy have progressed and grown. And then we hear our friends saying the poor little rich person, where the very rich person in this group, because I'm not involved in class warfare, is saying we understand and we're willing to have the burden of sacrifice with the benefit of living in this great country. And so when we look at this wealth, think about this woman who is saying she is near homelessness and think about the 160 million Americans that if we do not do a payroll tax cut; but think about, most of all, the 6 million Americans who will be left to homelessness in contrast to the enormous wealth that is on this poster board and the meager proposal of surtax on the 1 percent for 10 years, starting in 2013, to pay this off and to keep solvent Social Security.…”