They will forgive us for doing things and spending money that may turn out not to be necessary if, in fact, we are going forward vigorously to prevent what could be a horrible situation, |
This is certainly a good day for the millions of American workers who, at least for the moment, will not see their benefits slashed by 20 to 50 percent due to a cash balance conversion, |
This kind of support tells me that people want a strong voice in the United States Senate who will help lead the fight against the most reactionary administration in modern American history, |
we all had the same (health insurance) card. |
We have a single payer program in Vermont right now, ... It's called Dr. Dinosaur. Ask any parent who uses it and they'll tell you they love it. |
We have been expecting businesses to provide health insurance coverage, but is this fair? Or, should health insurance be like education, a public responsibility?, |
We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels, ... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world. |
We should be very aware that PNTR is not only leading to the destruction of traditional blue-collar manufacturing, ... It is leading to the loss of millions of high-tech information technology jobs as well. |
We want to stop the bait and switch scams by which college students, low income and working employees throughout the country and are essentially lying to them, |
What my focus has been as a congressman, and what my focus will be as a member of the United States Senate if I'm elected, is to bang away at the fact that - with an explosion of technology and worker productivity - it is absolutely insane that the middle class is shrinking, that poverty is increasing, that the next generation may have a lower standard of living than our generation, that 45 million Americans have no health insurance, that we're losing our pensions, that middle class families can't afford to send their kids to college, that families are spending 45 or 50 percent of their income on housing. |
You have given the wealthiest [portion] of the population a break, and now you are coming before the American people and saying, 'We don't have enough money to protect the sick and the old, |
You have the trade issue, which is important. You have health care issues, which are very important. You have war and peace issues, economic priority issues, which are very important. And on those issues you can bring together coalitions, which redefine the normal paradigm which a lot of the corporate media creates when they talk about liberal and conservative. |