The panel has set back, rather than advanced, the prospects for reform by failing to offer realistic proposals that fairly distribute the tax burden across income levels and the states, |
The president is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy and reductions in spending for domestic needs, |
The Republicans have sequestered themselves in a room in order to piece together a political bill they know is going nowhere, |
The war has not changed the fact that our children need better schools, the sick need to be assured of patients' rights protections and our seniors need affordable prescription drug benefits, |
The whole Republican rationale for passing such a big tax cut is that we needed to send the surpluses back to the people. How ironic is it that we are now borrowing from the people in order to pay them their checks? |
This bill has nothing to do with China. It has everything to do with getting votes for DR-CAFTA, |
This is basically a historic moment for those of us in Harlem. How seldom do we come to find that one of our own is going to be part of the leadership of this great state? |
This is our business, ... At the end of the day, these are our kids. |
This little kid who was found abandoned in the ocean brought a face to the people who were in Miami -- a face that showed hatred, a face that showed ignorance, a face that showed they had no respect at all for the things that Americans believed in, |
Watch Freddy Ferrer and remember this election; it's not only going to be an election for our city, it's going to be a signal for what happens in the Senate, in the House of Representatives, and it's going to be a signal for change in the country, |
We can only support a tax cut when we know what is going to happen with the rest of the budget, |
We don't windsurf in Harlem. |
We have a million people -- a million Americans out there that have worked every day, that have paid into the unemployment compensation package -- and the bad cops are saying, 'forget about it,' |
We would like to know which of the president's recommendation's he would like to drop, ... We only have $250 billion left, since the president has figured this just right. |
we're going to come up with anything. |