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Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Military
Military Personnel
Personnel
Republican
Support
Alike
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Achieve
Deterrence
Nuclear
Order
Weapons
Thousands
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Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Active
Troops
Deploy
Guard
Hardly
Reserve
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Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Running
Administration
Clinton
Country
Surplus
Years
Years Ago
Billion
Clinton Administration
Fiscal
Fiscal Year
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
High Heels
Moving
Series
Surplus
Years
Rules
Budget
Deficits
Developed
Diminishing
Heel
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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.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
War
Cost
Decided
Kingdoms
Participating
United Kingdom
Billion
Fully
Largely
Paying
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The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Concerned
Federal Government
Fellows
President Bush
Reckoning
Bush
Federal
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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.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Looting
Pentagon
Prepared
Spread
Troops
Underestimated
Weapons
Number
Guard
Hundreds
Prevent
Required
Throughout
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Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Education
Health
Environment
Growing
Health Care
Percent
Spending
Years
Education Health Care
Category
Year
Budget
Discretionary
Domestic
Ignores
Rein
Says
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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Equipment
Oil
Pay
People
Plenty
Rebuilding
Situation
Troops
Two
Weapons
Welcome
Assumptions
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Postwar
Proved
Soon
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Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Commitment
Country
Iraq
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Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Allies
Band
Burden
Economy
Iraq
Share
States
Superpower
United
United States
United States Of America
World Country America
Commitments
Dangerously
Largest
Motley
Stretch
Taking
Thin
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We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Add
Amount
Bottom
Bottom Line
Cutting
Debt
Deficit
National Debt
Paid
Sooner Or Later
Surplus
Tax Cuts
Tax
Adds
Sooner
Cut
Cuts
Later
Straight
Line
National
Tax Cut
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I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Calling
Defense
East
Elsewhere
Middle East
Our Time
Time Money I Am
Onto
Tab
Terrorists
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And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Nuclear
Raises
Tactical
Direction
Emerged
Finally
Fundamental
Weapon
Mission
Nuclear Weapon
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As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Alone
Dollars
Natural
Policy
Risk
Taxpayers
Troops
American Taxpayers
Guess
Learned
Leaves
Lesson
Mount
Paying
Second
Taking
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We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Defense
Enlisted
Increase
Missile Defense
Officers
Personnel
Good Money Will
Good Money Where
Ballistic
Particularly
Junior
Missile
Namely
Targeted
Warrant
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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.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Colleagues
Debt
Fighting
Grandchildren
Leaving
National Debt
Share
War Fighting People
Adding
Represent
Simply
Effectively
Letting
Lion
Tab
Whom
Young People
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With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Alone
Army
Crime
Grew
Insurgency
Left
Military
Prison
Rate
Security
Security Forces
Year
Confront
Crime Rate
Forces
Hand
Iraqi
Released
Soldiers
Throughout
Waged
Worse
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