Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. Jim Cooper More Quotes by Jim Cooper More Quotes From Jim Cooper If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy. Jim Cooper medicalemergenciesfinancial Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire. Jim Cooper oxygenlawblood If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. Jim Cooper governmenttiessafe Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems. Jim Cooper cluelessrealhome Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans. Jim Cooper doctorsaverageideas While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account. Jim Cooper irstaxpayersincome This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future. Jim Cooper incomeimportantsimple Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years. Jim Cooper officepresidentyears This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership. Jim Cooper congressrepublicanjobs The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill. Jim Cooper iraqdrugwar President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. Jim Cooper ablegovernmentpresident It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. Jim Cooper savingssavinghome First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. Jim Cooper pathpastyears Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era. Jim Cooper tanksfoundationthinking It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years. Jim Cooper debtyearsfirsts We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame. Jim Cooper votingbodyyears Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history. Jim Cooper equality-under-the-lawtriumphlaw I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious. Jim Cooper jobyounatureleadership If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago. Jim Cooper youcongressmoneywant Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives? Jim Cooper medicalhealthgovernmentbusiness
