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When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.
Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
African American children can’t be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
The Republican Party is in charge. They’ve been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.
The President’s proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
The U.S. and Europe may have more breakthroughs in neuroscience, but you have to put that in perspective. The U.S. has 350 million people, and there are 28 countries in the European Union. Israel is third behind these countries in its neuroscience developments, but per capita, it is way ahead of everyone.
But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
I’ve seen with my own eyes what the effects of Israeli neuroscience research is. It was in my congressional district in Philadelphia that ReWalk, the Israeli company that makes the exoskeleton suit that enables paraplegics to walk, carried out their trials.
Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.
There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.
To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening and should be a call to action for policymakers and educators.
The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.
There’s not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven’t spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.
We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
