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
The situation in Iraq, unfortunately, differs dramatically from the rosy picture that was painted for us by expatriates before the war.
It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt,
They agreed on one thing for sure, that the gravest threat facing the United States is that of terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.
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,
Even after the economy is back on its feet and grows -- upon their assumption of the rate of 3.2 percent a year -- even then, we still have a negative bottom line after you back out Social Security and Medicare, as we think he should,
could easily add $50 to $100 billion more.
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,
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,
Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
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.
Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
Don't begin to think we're going to reach common ground,
It's hard to get a clear picture of exactly where we stand. We've made progress with the training of Iraqi security forces, but it's taken a lot longer to get there than we anticipated.