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“President Clinton left you guys an estate of $5 trillion, and like irresponsible relatives, you went off and blew it… What is this, Comedy Central?” – George Miller

Congressman George Miller (D-CA) spoke for three minutes on the House floor today about the Republican push for a ‘line-item veto’ and the permanent repeal of the estate tax, their failure to control the federal debt, and their opposition to raising the minimum wage. What do they all have to do with each other? You must watch this classic Miller footage from this morning’s debate.

Excerpt -- “ You control the House, you control the Senate, you control the presidency and you need help before you spend again? What is this, Comedy Central? What is it you're doing here? ‘Help me! I can't stop spending. Give me a line-item veto and maybe the President will veto a million here or $10 million there or $5 million there.’ We have an $8 trillion debt. You inherited a $5 trillion surplus. The money you're going to give to the richest families later today in this country, the richest 7,000 families, you're going to borrow from Social Security.”

Watch it here: http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/ ... 222006.wmv

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Check out this video and listen to what he told them.

(Yeah!!!!)

I'll trying to find a full transcript, when I do I'll post it, but until then listen to him let congress have it. I appreciate and agree with what he says. This is why I vote – and continue to vote – for people like George Miller (and Barbara Boxer); because some elected officials really do earn their pay.

The link doesn't work for me

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Or go to this link below, and try accessing it again from there:
http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/georg ... eches.html

They have transcript up now of what Miller said and it's not long, so I'll it here in full:

Representative George Miller’s Speech on the House Floor Regarding H.R. 4890, the Legislative Line Item Veto Act

Thursday, June 22, 2006
Click here to watch Rep. Miller's speech
(NOTE: This is the unofficial transcript and maybe be subject to revision.)

Mr. Miller from California:

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. It is fitting we're talking about the line-item veto when we're doing the estate tax. President Clinton left you guys an estate of $5 trillion, and like irresponsible relatives, you went off and blew it and now you're saying to the country so much like -- so often serial killers leave letters to the police. The Son of Sam said, ‘help me before I kill again.’ You say, ‘Help me before I spend again.’

“You control all mechanisms of spending. You control the House, you control the Senate, you control the presidency and you need help before you spend again. What is this, Comedy Central? What is it you're doing here?

“’Help me. I can't stop spending. Give me a line-item veto and maybe the President will veto a million here or $10 million there or $5 million there.’

“We have an $8 trillion debt. You inherited a $5 trillion surplus. The money you're going to give to the richest families later today in this country, the richest 7,000 families, you're going to borrow from Social Security.

“Mr. Crenshaw says you're now being fiscally responsible because you have a rainy day fund. You're the only family in America that went out and borrowed money to put into a rainy day fund because you don't have any money.

“The American people don't have any money in this government. All they have is debt. And you want to beg to help you to keep from spending again. What you need is a 12-step program on spending. It's called intestinal fortitude. It's called having a spine. It's called having some guts to do what's necessary.

“But the first thing you did was get rid of the discipline and pay as you go. So now you're stuck, but more importantly, the nation is stuck. And so we see this little plea on the morning that we are going to give almost $1 trillion to the richest people in the nation, you have a plea here that maybe the President will stop the ‘bridge to nowhere.’

“How about Congress stopping the ‘bridge to nowhere’? How about doing what you're elected to do? You don't need a line-item veto. This isn't about statutes. This isn't about vetos. This is about what the Congress is supposed to do. You walked in here fresh, newly elected, and you got handed $5 trillion, and now you can't stop yourself. You can't stop yourself. You can stop yourself from giving people the minimum wage increase that hasn't increased since 1997.

“You can't give those people 70 cents more an hour, but you can give it away to the richest estates and then you can plead that, but for the line-item veto, we would somehow get to a balanced budget. Every dollar you're going to spend today, tomorrow, and every dollar you've spent yesterday and the day before came out of the Social Security trust fund.

“I'm sure that America, while you're putting away a rainy day fund on borrowed money, I'm sure America is delighted that you're putting away the estate tax on their Social Security earnings, on their trust fund. You're taking their trust fund that belongs to all Americans, called the Social Security trust fund, and you're raiding it for the trust fund of the heirs of the richest estates in America.

“What a wonderful example today. What a wonderful example for young people to learn about our obligations for future generations. This is a theater of the absurd. You've run the country into the ditch financially, you've got a trillion dollar war going that you can't figure out how to stop, you've stolen most of the money from the Social Security trust fund, every year we have a deficit, we have an $8 trillion debt, and you want to talk about the line-item veto.

“You know, they said Ronald Reagan -- they said the government's spending money like a drunken sailor, and Ronald Reagan said well, at least the sailor was spending his own money. You're spending the public's money at a rapid, illegal, immoral, unconscionable rate, you ought to stop but the line-item won't do it.”

Source:
http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/ ... 62206.html

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