This is from a speech on August 4, 2003. It's important to know that Gephardt believes that his plans to create a National Health Care Plan will stimulate the economy.
"In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan – a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share. We took the political heat and paid the political price. But it was the right thing to do.
Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer. Instead it led to the single largest economic expansion in history. It resulted in the highest home ownership ever. It forged the lowest inflation in a generation and it created over twenty two million new jobs. Turns out we were right and the Republicans were wrong.
. . . As president, my first act would be to submit to Congress legislation to repeal the Bush tax cuts and replace them with health care for all Americans that can never be taken away. Senator Wagner started the fight 70 years ago, and I’m determined to finish it."
And this is from a speech on November 23, 2003.
"Fiscal responsibility is not amputation. It's finding the right balance of optimism, incentive, fairness, and opportunity. It's rising to a fiscal challenge with imagination and compassion, not clinical detachment and disdain for the unfortunate. It's asking the most fortunate to do their part so we can invest in everyone's ability to succeed."
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