Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.
Children aren't just our future. They're our present.
Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.
Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.
I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming problem in our health care system - with rising costs that don't seem, by the way, to be necessarily associated with higher quality. That is the key burden that they will face.
Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
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