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Chaka Fattah
American
Politician
About the author
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Security
#People
#Americans
#African
#Benefits
Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Democracy
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Action
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Now
#Will
#Children
#Debt
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Time
#Children
#Years
#American
#Experience
#College
#Cure
#African
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#President
#Education
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Security
#People
#Work
#Will
#Risk
#Promise
#Retirement
#Benefits
#Widows
The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Security
#People
#Children
#President
#Future
#Benefits
The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Years
#Congress
#Republican
#Party
The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#People
#Will
#American
#Terrorism
There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Problems
#Country
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Years
#Money
#Congress
#Democrats
#Taxes
This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Country
#Leading
#Majority
#Republican
When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Security
#American
#Poverty
#African
While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Security
#Crisis
#Faces
We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Problems
Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Nature
#Americans
Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Jobs
#Americans
#Health
Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Want
#Now
#Blame
#Majority
#Republicans
But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#Want
#Country
#Future
But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
Chaka Fattah,
American
Politician
#War
#President
#Taxes