CPAC 2016-2019: on Budget & Economy


Ted Cruz: Lost Generation: Obama agenda hammers young people

How do you win young people? Who are the two Republicans in modern times who have most energized young people: Ronald Reagan & Ron Paul. Neither one of them were young or rugged. They were septuagenarians, yet what did they do? They stood for principle. They painted a bold, inspiring vision for America and young people said 'that's the vision I want to be behind.'

If you were to sit down and try to design how to hammer the living daylights out of young people, you couldn't do better than the Obama economic agenda. Under Obama, we've had five years of great stagnation, no economic growth, which means one generation, after another, can't find jobs. You know economists are referring to this generation of young people as a 'lost generation.' ObamaCare, one of the easiest ways to understand it, it's a massive wealth transfer, from young healthy people to everybody else. And then our national debt from $10 trillion dollars to $17 trillion--who the heck do you think is going to pay for that?

Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention Mar 7, 2014

Ted Cruz: Balanced budget amendment to stop bankrupting our country

We need to pass a strong balanced budget amendment. We need to stop bankrupting our country. Right now our kids and grandkids are inheriting a country where our national debt is larger than the size of our entire economy. Let me speak right now to everyone in the room who didn't applaud when I said, 'are there any young people here,' what we're doing to our kids and grandkids is morally wrong. It is an outrage. If we keep on this road, they will spend their entire lives, not to meet the needs of the future, not to meet the needs of their priorities, but instead, just working to pay off the debts that their deadbeat parents and grandparents stuck them with. Our parents didn't do that to us. Their parents didn't do that to them, and the reasons we're here today is, we're not going to do it to the next generation. We are going to turn this around.
Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention Mar 7, 2014

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