[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 16 (Thursday, January 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H697]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              THE CREATION

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. In the beginning there was limited government and a sound 
economy and abundance covered the face of the land.
  Then Johnson, leader of the Spendites, looketh into the Treasury and 
saw there was a surplus, and he was sore afraid. So he called to the 
high priests of the Spendites, who even then had controlled the 
Congress for 10 years, and he spake thusly, ``Democrats,'' for that was 
the Spendites' name, ``We must exhaust the Royal Treasury, for there is 
a surplus, and I am sore afraid.''
  The Spendities heeded the call of lord LBJ and spent as if there was 
no tomorrow, creating foolish and wasteful Spendite programs that 
promiseth much but dideth not. And the Government became big and 
bloated, and the economy weak and burdened, and the children and the 
grandchildren, and, yea, even the great-grandchildren of the subjects 
of the Spendites were saddled with great debts. And the people cried 
out, ``Balenceth the budget.'' But the Spendites were sore afraid, so 
the people cried our for the Thriftities to lead them out of the 
wilderness of deficit spending.


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