Posted on 03/21/2003 7:33:39 AM PST by Paul Atreides
A shrill-sounding Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, attacked President Bush's Iraq war budget on Thursday, saying that the administration's plan to cut taxes while spending more on the armed forces "will not stand the test of time."
"Under any objective assessment of where we stand in the world right now, this budget should be a nonstarter. It should be withdrawn from the floor," the nation's leading Democrat complained.
Raising her voice to a near-shout, Mrs. Clinton urged, "Every one of us should be saying, 'My goodness, we have higher obligations. How can we keep faith with those young men and women who are on the front lines for us?'"
And while Clinton continues to insist that she backs the U.S. military, she argued Thursday that rising defense costs could hobble the economy for future generations of Americans.
"We are in danger of being the first generation of Americans to leave our children worse off than we were," predicted the New York Senator. "No generation of Americans has ever done that. We are about to do that."
The former first lady drew a direct connection between rising military expenditures and the prospect of a dimming economic future.
"We are about to load onto the backs of our children and those lucky enough to have grandchildren, the unknowable costs of military action that may be necessary to protect our freedom, the unknowable costs of that may be necessary to protect our freedom, the unknowable costs of ongoing security to protect us here at home."
She also contended that increased military spending would threaten a whole host of social welfare programs, such as "quality affordable health care and quality education and decent transportation, to say nothing of keeping faith with Social Security and Medicare."
"This is a very solemn moment - and it's not only solemn because of what is happening in the Persian Gulf," Clinton warned. "It is solemn because of the extraordinary commitment of this Senate leadership to take action that will not stand the test of time."
"those who are lucky enough to have grandchildren" is an interesting statement since that contradicts abortion.
"We are in danger of being the first generation of Americans to leave our children worse off than we were..."
Funny how that did not seem to trouble her seemingly vacuous mind when SHE and her boy were in charge! THEY left US worse off than WE were prior to their desecration of all America stands for!
"No generation of Americans has ever done that..."
Funny how that did not seem to trouble her seemingly vacuous mind when HER husband elected to do things (in the people's house, no less) that subjected us to things NO American generation had never been subjected to before!
"We are about to load onto the backs of our children and those lucky enough to have grandchildren..."
The vitrolic sounding woman is living in the world of Sept. 10th... WE are NOT the ones loading anything "onto the backs of our children...". In typical communistic fashion, everything is somehow OUR fault.
She also contended that increased military spending would threaten a whole host of social welfare programs. Said programs are part of the problem, not the solution.
Thank You For Allowing Me To Rant...
And that's what really has her voice at a screech level.
Hillary knows she's on the Blame Train and she's trying
to pull Bush to the platform so she can jump off!
Shame on her!!
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