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)
Whenever expenses outpace income, the first thing that most real businesses do is cut staff. We have a vastly bloated “public sector” that is bankrupting us with their myriad unfunded liabilities. We could probably dismiss half the bureaucrats in this country and not even notice their absence.
[Scratches head] I don't get it. You say that like it's a bad thing, Nancy... oh wait, I get it! You're one of them Godless commies, aintcha?
We want to confront the issue welfare queens who believe it is their right to have society pay for them to have children and not work. We want to confront the issue of 50% of the US population paying no taxes but qualifying for a ‘tax break’. We want to confront the issue of social engineering by the government. We want to stop career politicians. We want to make people like Reid and Pelosi achieve in the public sector in order to be successful - not become celebrities because they are in semi-permanent government jobs that provide them with stature and a soapbox. We want to promote individuality, not group think dictated by politicians and liberal entertainers. In short, Nancy, we want the opposite of what you represent.
>Can’t we do both?
LOL — You took the thought out of my head.
Pelosi is definitely a mental disorder
They are the same thing, Nancy.
I’d hit it. Ooooops, my bad....wrong post.
And the down side of it is....?
She says they’re trying to get rid of the middle class. That makes sense because to her and the dems government workers ARE the middle class.
No need to stop her, the commy-donks are so totally screwed by little bammy's destroy America agenda they are going to be decimated in 2012. May as well insure nutjob-nancy gets kicked out as well. She was a BIG part of the damage to America and may contribute more before this is over.
Ramble on, bug-eyes!
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No...it's about LIMITED Federal Government, as STATED in the Constitution. We don't need your Socialist Utopia or YOU and your Unions.
“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!”
Her base is composed of Idiots so they consider her words,to be true!
True, but that bit about "Progress in the Middle Class" is a damned good hint.
I'm just gonna sit here and savor that thought for awhile...
Damn right! It’s called LIBERTY.
Today the figures came out that over 80,000,000 people get 220,000,000 government checks every month. Yes, many are “double dippers,” getting several types of government stipends.
This should shock every taxpayer to their souls. How long can this country survive with so many people depending on the government redistributing money from taxpayers to non-taxpayers every month? And BO told Joe the Plumber that he wanted to “share the wealth.” Did he not know how many millions were already getting the wealth of someone else?
Sooner or later, there will come a time when there will be no government checks in the mail.
She appears to be either heavily medicated, drinking heavily, or both. The costume she had on today was also bizarre. Someone needs to arrange an intervention for the crone.
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