DNC chairman says Republicans blocked move to cut the deficit
By Lukas Pleva
August 18, 2010 Republicans tried to block the deficit commission.
Republicans tried to block the deficit commission.
Bill McCollum "backed Jim Greer's effort to hide financial irregularities."
"Warren Buffett called credit default swaps financial weapons of mass destruction. And Greene was the first individual to use them."
"Some Republican leaders in Congress" are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in…
"We have over 700,000 illegal immigrants in the state. They're costing us billions of dollars and they're taking legal residents' jobs."
"Since the president became the president, we have lost 3.3 million jobs in the private sector. But you know who's done OK and who's not…
"It is wrong for the average federal worker today to make more than $100,000 while the average private-sector worker makes less than $70,000."
The United States is "number 14, number 15" in college graduation rates, and "we're leading the world in high school dropout rates."
Pam Bondi "refuses to take a position on the gay-adoption ban."
"In 1935, more than 50% of the elderly population lived in poverty. Today that poverty rate stands officially at 9.4%."
"We didn’t have a development director for over seven months."
"Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent."