Quote(s) of the Week
“It's time to lay it out on the table and let the American people start to chew on it.”
Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY), a co-chair of President Obama’s bipartisan Deficit Reduction Commission on how to decrease the national debt.
“Is America ready for an adult conversation on the deficit? It’s ‘put up or shut up’ time.”
Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN) on the Deficit Reduction Commission report.
“…A failure to act is consigning this country to second-class economic status. That is clear from all that has been provided to this Commission. The right has said don’t touch revenue. The left has said don’t touch entitlements. If you don’t touch revenue and you don’t touch entitlements, you can’t solve this problem … What’s the alternative? … The alternative of doing nothing is far more severe in the long term in its effect on our country than this plan or any plan of this magnitude.”
Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), member of the bipartisan Deficit Reduction Commission and Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee in speaking to the media on the newly-released report of the Co-Chairs.
Kevin Fickenscher, MD
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