[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 124 (Friday, July 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7921]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              DEMOCRATS ARE SILENT ON HOW TO SAVE MEDICARE

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, in what should be one of most important 
issues on their agenda, the Democrats have come up unbelievably silent 
on the issue of what to do to save Medicare.
  The trustees have said Medicare goes bankrupt in 7 years. Yet the 
Democrats are doing nothing about it. They are intellectually bankrupt 
on this issue. In fact the Baltimore Sun has said how the intellectual 
initiative has switched from the Democrats to the Republicans is 
visible in the fears debate over Medicare. Bill Clinton's Democrats 
find themselves defending the status quo.
  Unfortunately, they also find themselves playing politics Richard 
Nixon style. Nixon once said that people vote their fears. That is what 
the Democrats are counting on.
  The Republican Party this year is counting on the people going out 
and voting their hopes and dreams and rewarding those who dare to step 
into the arena and fight and get themselves bloodied to save Medicare 
for the next century.


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