Jay Inslee: “today the majority party will ram through a bill making their tax cuts permanent; but it is not just tax cuts they will…”

“today the majority party will ram through a bill making their tax cuts permanent; but it is not just tax cuts they will make permanent. They will make a $4 trillion raid on the American Social Security trust fund permanent. They will make their $1 billion raid on the Medicare trust fund permanent. They will take their temporary wound to Social Security and make it into a permanent scar. Just when 40 million Americans will be entering Social Security, they will be permanently raiding it for $4 trillion. They will be doing so as part of an ultimate dream to privatize Social Security and realize what one Republican called the hope that Medicare some day would just ``wither on the vine.'' Mr. Speaker, today's bill ought to be called the ``Permanent Raid on Social Security,'' the ``Permanent Injury to Medicare Act of 2002''; and we should reject it.”