This is the quote that is on all the anti-Perriello signs. He is arguing that Congress will only stop stealing from social security and medicare when mandated by law. He said it on March 16, 2010.
Um so uh…Social Security and Medicare are being in the red. I think the question of whether these things can be managed successfully, obviously part of what has happened with Social Security and Medicare is that when they were set up life expectancy was such that people weren’t expecting to be on it for two or three years, not fifteen or twenty years. That, that is good news obviously that we are healthier. It is also in trouble, because politicians raided the cookie jar over and over again. That’s a problem. If there is one thing that I have learned since I have been up here, and I didn’t need to come up here to learn it. It’s the only way to get Congress to balance the budget, it’s to give them no choice. The only way to keep them out of the cookie jar is to give them no choice. Which is why, whether it's a balanced budget acts or pay as you go legislation or any of that — it's the only thing. If you don't tie our hands, we will keep stealing.
If anyone has the entire quote, I would be grateful. The video cuts him off.
The gas line was cut eight days later after a certain Tea Party "citizen" posted the wrong address on the Lynchburg Tea Party website. Maybe someone really did not like that quote. The next day the Lynchburg Tea Party disowned the poster and made a statement against violence.
“The Tea Party does not suggest, condone, promote, incite, overlook or tolerate violence against persons or property. Our movement believes in, and abides by, the rule of law as expressed and embodied in the Constitution of the United States. It is that very Constitution which provides for the proper and peaceful means for the expression of political opinion and the transition of political power.
No comments:
Post a Comment