Mark Pocan: “Thank you, Mr. Cartwright, for continuing your fight for families in Pennsylvania and across the country. When I listen…”

“Thank you, Mr. Cartwright, for continuing your fight for families in Pennsylvania and across the country. When I listen to Mr. Cartwright and I listen to Mr. Takano and I listen to speakers throughout the day from the Democratic side of the aisle, I can't help but feel that there is an overwhelming--when you look at sequestration, you're really looking at what's happening right now in Europe, and it's called austerity. We know that right now, by doing these massive cuts in Europe like we're now trying to pattern right here in the United States, we know what the net effect is. Right now in England, they are facing a triple-dip recession--not just a double dip, a triple-dip recession. We look at where they are in unemployment; their unemployment is rising. We look at where their deficit is; it isn't going away. All they've done is taken away the very tools that stimulate our economy. When you take away the jobs that Mr. Cartwright and Mr. Takano talked about, that means real people don't have money to spend and build the economy. When you take away the loan guarantees as this sequester will do, real small businesses don't have capital so they can grow and hire more workers. When you have the very effects that we are seeing done right now in Europe happen here, well, what effect do you think we're going to have? I can guarantee it's not going to be fixing that $4 million TV station at the IRS that we heard about.…”