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.
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.
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
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.
But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
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.
Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
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.
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
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.