Boehner: President makes Bush look like a piker

By Suzia van Swol, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service
At a weekly press session, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), said that there has been too much Republican spending over the last few years but; “If you begin to look at what has happened over the last month, and what’s being proposed in the budget, the President is beginning to make [Former] President Bush look like a piker.”

Boehner said that the House Democrats would pass a $410 billion appropriations bill, which is eight percent above last years levels and he stated that, “I think we just ought to admit that we are broke, and we can’t continue to pile debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids.” He went on the say that we can’t tax and spend our way to prosperity and that, “the era of big governments is back, and the democrats are asking you to pay for it.” He stated that everyone will pay higher taxes under the President’s plan.

Boehner says that the American people want healthcare at an affordable price but they don’t want the government to tell them what patient/doctor relationships should be.
“They put all this money in the stimulus bill so that they could do comparative analysis; A way of government beaurocrats looking at treatments that patients get and trying to determine which ones are more effective than others. In other words, getting ready to tell doctors and patients that this is the cure, regardless of what the doctor may think.”