Senator Al Franken (D-MN) makes a hell of a lot of sense in this speech on reducing the deficit sensibly. You cannot cut your way to prosperity, there MUST be additional revenue. We as a nation MUST invest in our middle class, not cut necessary programs that help lift people out of poverty and give them a hand up. Cutting early childhood education, health care, schools and universities, infrastructure and other things that will move this country forward are penny wise and pound foolish. Without a vibrant middle class, there IS no United States of America. At the end of WWII, our national debt was 121% of GDP. The investments made in the 50's, 60's and 70's in the space race, science, industry, education and more reduced our national debt to just 32% of GDP. There are some valuable lessons to be learned here listening to Senator Franken speak plainly about what is going to be needed to tackle our national debt problem. He speaks the truth and I hope that people listen to what he has to say here. Thank you, Senator, for coming up with a good answer to our national debt problem. Now I just wish that those on the opposite side of the aisle would listen and put his suggestions into action.....but I'm afraid that it will be a very cold day in hell before the two parties ever cooperate since the GOP has set as its number one agenda the destruction of President Barack Obama. No wonder people heap such scorn on our members of Congress. They no longer work for the people who elected them. They work for the hand that feeds them and that's Big Money. Too bad we no longer have the representative democracy our Founding Fathers envisioned. Bet they're rolling in their graves at what has become of their grand experiment.
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