Posted on 07/28/2011 5:15:33 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: GOP plan aims to dismantle public sector, not reduce deficit By Pete Kasperowicz - 07/28/11 06:00 PM ET
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) late Thursday accused Republicans of complicating the deficit-reduction talks because they want to dismantle the public sector entirely.
"Why are we where we are today?" Pelosi asked in closing remarks in the debate over the House GOP's Budget Control Act. "My belief is that the Republicans came to the table not to reduce the deficit, but to go way beyond that and to dismantle decades of progress made in a bipartisan way for America's great middle class.
"If in fact the purposes were deficit reduction, in a very strong way, we were on that path in the Biden talks, in the talks subsequent to it," she added.
Pelosi argued that Democrats were capable of reaching a deal that included some Republican ideas to cut spending, but said the bill up on the floor today, S. 627, aims to dismantle Medicare, Social Security and several other programs.
"This isn't about deficit reduction, this is about dismantling the public sector," she said. "If our purpose is reduce the deficit, we certainly can do that. If our purpose is to dismantle progress in the middle class, we won't be a party to it."
Earlier in the debate, House Budget Committee leaders sparred over the bill. Ranking member Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) agreed with Pelosi that Republicans are looking to gut Medicare and other programs.
"This is a manufactured crisis in order to try and force and squeeze through a particular deficit-reduction plan, a deficit-reduction plan that would end the Medicare guarantee, cut education and yet protect those special-interest tax breaks and breaks for the very top," he said.
But Republicans rejected these accusations throughout the day. Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) disputed Van Hollen's charge that Republicans were trying to engineer a crisis.
"Manufactured crisis?" he said. "Who went on television to scare senior citizens that their Social Security checks might be in doubt? The President of the United States."
Ryan also said the broad numbers in the GOP bill are very close to those agreed on earlier in talks with Senate Democrats. "These were agreed to on a bipartisan basis," he said.
Soon after Pelosi spoke, the House postponed a vote on the bill. As of 6 p.m., there was no sign of when the vote might be held. Comments (17)
OK, Let’s go back to the basic 57 States and no Feds.
Sounds good to me!
Can’t we do both?
Those two goals compliment each other nicely. Doing the first achieves the second. What's the problem?
At least we’re honest about it. Nancy would not DARE tell the world her real aim.
> Pelosi: GOP plan aims to dismantle public sector, not reduce deficit
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, though I must submit that’s more often than this hag is ever right.
Nevertheless, she is correct.
The “Public Sector”, as she and her ilk like to euphemize the collectivist totalitarian state, is a raging, corpulant, out-of-control leviathon that must be starved to the barest of necessities.
Dismantle.
We are D O N E .
We can ‘t pay for Nancy’s vote buys any longer.
I owe $92,000 dollars
Each of my Kids that will start life soon - each owe $92,000 dollars.
And this is without any increase.
And It’s not including the annual tax burden.
It’s over Nancy.
Life as you know and want it - must end.
Watched her on C-Span while gagging....wondered why someone didn’t refute her speech then realized she was making such a fool out of herself and the dems they just let her ramble on and on without calling time on her...
She was a blathering idiot!
Sounds good to me too!
Thanks Stretch!
The GOP plan still allows $8.5 Trillion to $9 Trillion in increased spending over 10 years. The Democrats want $10 Trillion or thereabouts.
Either this country is going bankrupt.
Yet both sides are trying to convince us this is draconian cuts.
She’s like an octogenarian Nasty Nancy Doll.
Everytime you pull her string, she squawks a different nonsensical attack on republicans.
Yeah, well, unless she comes up with a plan to balance the budget without raising taxes, dismantling the public sector is the only option.
Hell, dismantling the public sector would be a fine place to start.
One of the R’s, believe it was Ryan, talked about the scoring of the different plans.
Think it is the CBO? Anyway they said, they just can’t score a speech!! HAHAHA!! Tha’t all Obama has to offer another speech..........no plan to score......what a leader!
“not to reduce the deficit, but to go way beyond that and to dismantle decades of progress made in a bipartisan way for America’s great middle class.”
Obamacare wasn’t bipartisan. But you guys thought it was akin
to the Civil Rights Act or Medicare.
sorry but middle class don’t pay takes (child care, mortgage interest, credits,
EITC) 47% of people don’t.
pay up! pay up Nancy! Everyone >12,000 dollars pays $100 for
defense, Capitol Hill, etc.
I give her an "A" for the Rhetotic. I only wished a Republican would have though of that first... the dems want to dismantle the private sector and would welcome a crash.
Yes, they would welcome it! And you may say "oh no, they would not because they want to win in the next election"
Well, if the unemployment rate is at 20% and many cannot afford food... you will be surprised how many desperate hungry republicans will vote for BIG BROTHER so they can receive funds to feed their kids.
If anyone has been decimated by the policies and
practices of the democrats it’s the middle class.
One only has to listen to what democrats say about
the opposition to know what they are themselves
doing.
The “public” sector needs decimating, it’s out of
control, a frankenstein destroying it’s own creator.
If only the republicans had the guts to do what needs
be done, but it’s becoming quite clear that the “old
guard” do not, so we must replace them as soon as
possible.
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