John Spratt
John Spratt
John McKee Spratt, Jr.is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district from 1983 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Spratt was the dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on the Budget, and the second ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, where he served on three subcommittees: Oversight and Investigations, Strategic Forces, and Air and Land Forces. In addition...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?
These additional tax cuts can only have one affect; they will add dollar to dollar to the deficit which (is) already enormous, $521 billion this year,
any kind of significant downturn in the economy is going to put the budget back in the red.
This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.
We can set aside a surplus to save Social Security or Medicare, or we can pass the burden of the baby boomers retirement off on to our children,
What we've done is design a package that is front-loaded and fast-acting deliberately.
What we've got now is a situation where none of this is easily possible,
We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility.
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.
Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.
The president blames the disappearance of the surplus on excessive spending, but all of the extra spending since he came to office is spending that he either initiated or approved,