[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2496]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             DEFICIT SPENDING BAD HABIT NEEDS TO BE BROKEN

  (Mr. JONES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, bad habits are hard to break. In fact, the 
longer one engages in a bad habit, the harder it is to break.
  Deficit spending is an excellent example of a bad habit. Deficit 
spending means spending more money than we have. This is what the 
Government does year after year. If we add up all of the deficit, we 
will find out that the national debt now stands over $5 trillion.
  Washington has not managed to balance the budget since 1969. The 
tragedy in this is that the politicians who vote to run up deficits 
year after year are not the ones who suffer the consequences of their 
spending habits. Who suffers the consequences? You guessed it. Future 
generations, our children and grandchildren, the children are stuck 
with the debt. That is not right, that is not fair to children growing 
up today who deserve the same opportunities that we have.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time to break the bad habit. It is time that this 
Congress pass a balanced budget.

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