In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
From the Complete Text of the Debate.
Bush thinks tax cuts for his buddies is much more important then Homeland security.The president hasn't put one nickel, not one nickel, into the effort to fix some of our tunnels and bridges and most-exposed subway systems. That's why they had to close down the subway in New York when the Republican Convention was there. We haven't done the work that ought to be done.Sorry guys, what with my huge deficit and 200 billion spent in Iraq if you want your firefighters to have helmets your going to have to hold bake sales.
The president -- 95 percent of the containers that come into the ports, right here in Florida, are not inspected. Civilians get onto aircraft and their luggage is x-rayed, but the cargo hold is not x- rayed. Does that make you feel safer in America?
This president thought it was more important to give the wealthiest people in America a tax cut rather than invest in homeland security.
Those aren't my values. I believe in protecting America first. And long before President Bush and I get a tax cut -- and that's who gets it -- long before we do, I'm going to invest in homeland security, and I'm going to make sure we're not cutting COPS programs in America, and we're fully staffed at our firehouses, and that we protect the nuclear and chemical plants. The president also, unfortunately, gave in to the chemical industry, which didn't want to do some of the things necessary to strengthen our chemical plant exposure.
And there's an enormous undone job to protect the loose nuclear materials in the world that are able to get to terrorists. That's a whole other subject. But -- I see we still have a little bit more time. Let me just quickly say, at the current pace, the president will not secure the loose material in the Soviet Union, former Soviet Union, for 13 years. I'm going to do it in four years, and we're going to keep it out of the hands of terrorists.
MR. LEHRER: Ninety-second response, Mr. President.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I don't think we want to get to how he's going to pay for all these promises. It's like a huge tax gap and -- anyway, that's for another debate.
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