Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Ted Cruz: Why We Should Defund ObamaCare Now

 

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Now to ObamaCare. It may be the law of the land, but that is not stopping Senator Ted Cruz. He is taking action against ObamaCare. Senator Cruz joins us. Nice to see you, sir.

SEN. TED CRUZ, R- TEXAS: Great to see you, Greta.

VAN SUSTEREN: OK, so you are proposing an amendment to the continuing resolution to slow down the funding of ObamaCare. Explain what you want and why.

CRUZ: Well, I think the top priority of every elected representative in Washington should be economic growth. If you look at the past four years, our economy's not growing. And in the last four years, it's grown 0.8 percent a year. And as a result of that stagnant growth, we're not able to get 23 million people back to work. Our federal balance sheet remains a train wreck.

The only way to solve the deficit, to solve the debt, to get people back to work, to get opportunity flowing again is to get growth. This last quarter, we had growth of 0.1 percent. So this week, on the continuing resolution, I'm introducing an amendment that is entitled Restore Growth First, and what it would do is delay funding "Obama care" until we get back to historic levels of growth.

With the economy stagnant, if we implement ObamaCare now, it will kill jobs! It will hammer small businesses! And it could well push us into a recession. That doesn't make any sense!

VAN SUSTEREN: All right, is there any likelihood you're going to get a vote on this?

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8 comments:

  1. Everyone note:
    The above is ONLY rehashed news! I say this because there was a short story last year concerning John "Boner" or "Bone her" or "Boehner". Note he is the highest ranking member of the House. "Mr Speaker".

    Anyway, the funding bill for Obamacare came up to him. He had the votes to sit on that funding bill so hard it could never be called to the full floor for a vote. Guess what Boner does of his own accord? (So far as we know it was just him but I'm sure he was answering to his puppeteers.) Mr Bone-her went right ahead and during the late evening, let the bill open to the full house floor for a vote! I wonder why he did that? Very little was ever said of this but you can Goggle this up and look for yourself. Personally I no more believe Ted Cruz than I do John Boehner. It's just a play on words to appease the people until they can get a better lock down on the public and the smearing of its' opinions.

    Michael-- Deo Vindicabamur

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    1. Can't believe they picked him for speaker again.

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  2. I'm retired but I see absolutely no possibility that medicaid/medicare or obamacare are financially viable. It is best to bury this program and have a chance to balance a budget than to continue plunging ever deeper into debt until the country just flat collapses. As I don't believe there is a chance in hell that politicians are smart enough to bury healthcare, I have been prepping. God help us.

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    1. I see absolutely no possibility that medicaid/medicare or obamacare are financially viable

      Not the way it was sold, that's for sure.

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  3. Medicare/caid is NOT viable and every last person on the hill knows this! So why do you think they all go along with this charade? I know, but you tell me anyways...

    Michael-- Deo Vindicabamur

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    1. :) Just par for the course since the government itself isn't viable.:)

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