John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08
TRANSCRIPT:
LANCE ARMSTRONG: This election [...] there's constant coverage. Which I think is great, for the most part. Through this process, I have seen, this is just speaking from fact, I have seen your opponent say that the equivalent, or voting for you is the equivalent of voting for a third George Bush administration. This is what I have read. The second thing I'll say, again a fact, that for the third year in a row the current administration has shrunk the budget at the National Cancer Institute. This is a fact. If you are elected president, will we continue to see that trend? Or will we reverse that trend, and actually increase funding at the National Cancer Institute?
MCCAIN: We will reverse that trend. But [...] I think we ought to all support a better method of aportionating the funds. [...] So we can make sure, that whatever money it is, is going in the most effective way and would lead us to on the path of success in the struggle against various forms of cancer or other diseases. There's unfortunately a competition, as you know, between the important advocates, and the addressing adequately so many of the challenges that America faces in the area of health and other areas. [...] And don't sometimes you feel Lance, like you are competing with people who also have very legitimate causes?
ARMSTRONG: Correct. And that's what they say. [...] And I think that's the beauty of this event. And it's been our approach all along is that we think we need a united approach here. This is one disease, absolutely. And I have no idea who's going to be the president [...] but I want to make sure I heard you right, you would decrease that trend, I mean I'm sorry, you would reverse that trend?
MCCAIN: Oh sure, yes.
PAULA ZAHN: Can you tell us by how much though? Your democratic candidates at your forum in the fall were saying they'd double and they'd triple the [...] budget. Double, triple, those are big numbers.
MCCAIN: How about quadruple, or quintuple? How would that sound? Quintuple or sextuple or whatever it is you want to say? The point is, one, we got to pay for it. And two, we have to apportionate it correctly. So it's easy, particularly in all candor, for liberals to go out and say I'll give you all this. You know the debt we've laid on you, future generations of Americans? Do you know that Medicare, which is a vital safety net, is 40 some trillion dollars in debt? Unfunded liability. So when you go out and you say I'm going to double, or triple, or quadruple the amount of money, I'd like to not lay the debt for it on the next generation of Americans who are not going to receive the same social security benefits, who are not going to receive Medicare.
And so I think we need some fiscal responsibility in Congress also. And the first thing I want to do is cut out the pork barrel projects. Okay, you keep mentioning my opponent or my opponents. I have never asked for a single pork barrel project for my state. Not a one. Never. My opponent has asked for 932 million dollars in pork barrel projects. Literally one million dollars for every working day that he's been in the United States Senate. So if you want to talk about spending money, I know how to spend money, everybody does, but I promise you my friends, I'm not going to lay that debt on the next generation of Americans. We're going to pay for it.
ZAHN: So you're not going to give us any hard numbers then, as president how much you would?
MCCAIN: I'd be glad to give you some hard numbers about the 9,000 pork barrel projects and 18 billion dollars in pork barrel projects that we've accounted for that we could take and immediately transfer, that Senator Obama continues to vote for, and I continue to vote against. So I'd be glad to give you some numbers but I'd also like to give you a couple of other numbers. How bout, 6 trillion, in I believe it is, unfunded debt is social security. These young people here, they're going to have to pay that bill. Let me give you another number. 40 some trillion dollars in unfunded liability from Medicare. [...] I don't think it's particularly fair to say I'll spend all this much more money without paying for it and without having it taken care of in one way or the other. So we will increase the funding my friends, but we will do it because I'll make the pork barreling guys famous, and you'll know their names. And we won't spend anymore. [...] My friends, we won't do those things. And we'll take that money, and we'll make sure it goes to the right place and this is one of the right places.
LABEL: JM OH 07-24 (RAD#4) Clip 9
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