Steve Kagen: “Can you name one thing that President Bush has done to help us become an energy independent Nation? Just one thing. I…”

“Can you name one thing that President Bush has done to help us become an energy independent Nation? Just one thing. I can't think of a thing that he has done. There is so much that we could be doing to become energy independent. But let's look at taxes just for a minute. I can lower your taxes by investing in people, by having healthier children who will have healthier lives. They will get a better education if we educate them and invest in education. I can lower your taxes. I can lower the taxes of every city, every county and every State in this country if we would invest in a health care system that makes sense, that's affordable, and guarantees access to affordable care for everyone, especially our children on whose future we all depend. We can lower our taxes by having healthy senior citizens who walk straight, who don't need canes, who actually have access to the essential services that they require. We have to invest in people, their education, their health care, and especially our veterans. And it's going to cost more and more and more the longer we remain in a religious civil war in Iraq. We're spending $12 billion of our tax money that we have to pay back sometime. Now 80 cents on the dollar that we're borrowing from foreign countries, 80 cents on the dollar we're taking from foreign countries right now. So who owns America? Who are we?”