President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in our nation's history.
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The request for an additional 18 billion for 2002 for defense would just make this situation worse, and I told the secretary of defense I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with a way of paying for this,Kent Conrad
It leaves out any war cost past September 30th of this year. It leaves out the cost of fixing the Alternative Minimum Tax -- the old millionaires' tax that is rapidly becoming a middle-class tax trap,
Kent Conrad
The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later.
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Forty-three per cent of the benefit goes to the wealthiest one per cent, those who are making 900,000 a year. There is no fairness in that.
Kent Conrad
This is a fundamental debate about the economic future of our country.
Kent Conrad
The ground-breaking research that will be done right here in North Dakota will allow our grandchildren to drive hydrogen-powered cars, live in hydrogen-powered homes and end our country's addiction to foreign sources of energy.
Kent Conrad
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