thebluehydrangea:

I am finally get to see this, and all I can say is this: I could cry right now. And second of all—Eric Cantor: go to hell.

“I’ve always believed that this the United States of America, U-N-I-T-E-D, that we are one nation. That when there’s a problem in the West Coast or in Louisiana,the people of Vermont, the people of New Jersey are there for them. When there’s a problem in the East Coast the people in the Midwest who have suffered their tornadoes, they’re there for us. This is what makes us a nation. And the idea that anybody in the United States Congress could say, ‘I don’t care. We’re going to allow communities to be devastated’… We need, along with other states, help from the rest of the country that our part of the country has provided in the past. That’s what makes us a nation... I sometimes think, Ed, that some of these right-wing Republicans want this nation to be a second-rate country. Maybe they’re looking to China for the future, but some of us are not. We believe America’s great. We believe that we can grow and we have got to invest to do that. At the very least, at the very least, we have got to make sure that everyone in this country knows that when disaster comes help will be there for them.”

kileyrae

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“It’s not just Vermont that you’re hurting. You are destroying the fabric of a nation. We are a nation that comes together in disaster and you don’t ignore people in Vermont or Missouri who have been hit by an earthquake or a tornado or California that has it’s problems. We are a nation. Don’t sell us out, Mr. Cantor. Don’t make us a second-rate nation.”

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) concerning disaster relief for states effected by Hurricane Irene.