let s do it your way. the republican plan that oy? passed the house of pas representatives, and the rsent republicans were in the senatele would in the cbo require ben beneficiaries of medicare to pay $6500 a year more, $6,500 a year more for medicare thanoda they do today. and why are they doing that?ey d it is because they want to preserve i don t think the w speaker says this, but it is tax cuts for the top americans that we cannot afford. demonshey demonstrated in their plans, and itr give them credit for this, that if you try to balance our budget without revenues and without tax revenues, then you aren forced to put in place juceptionally harsh cuts not just for medicare b beneficiaries, but for medicaid. remember this country, this gret great nation with our great resources one in eight americans are eligible forht food stamps today. 40% of americans born todayto
medicaid. remember this country, this gret great nation with our great resources one in eight americans are eligible forht food stamps today. 40% of americans born todayto are born to families eligibleor for medicaid.dea the idea that you can ask thehe american people to balance this budget on the backs ofks the elderly and the most vulerab vulnerable with no murder through tax reform on the mostoe fortunate americans is fundamentally unacceptable. they knot going to happen. it is not going to become law. and we have made so much m progress over the last fourour m months with the republicans and trying to bill consensusensu for a more balanced approach.ane i give the speaker a lot of credit for that. let s turn in the time we we have left to the economy. last august you wrote an op edy ad and the headline was,eres w welcome to the recovery. that was not our headline. it was the new york times stoe headline. let s put it up on the you d screen, if we can.on what you did say i