[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 153 (Wednesday, November 3, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      THE MONEY BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, NOT THE GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, in Washington there are a couple of things 
that are misunderstood, mostly by the liberals, that the government 
does not have money. Big shock, the government does not have money. It 
is the American people's money. It is hard-working America whose money 
is talked about as if it is theirs.
  The money goes into two pots. One is for general spending and another 
pot, there are a lot of trust funds but the major two, the other pot is 
for Social Security. In the general fund pot, we are out. Yet we have 
heard today speaker after speaker say we need more spending for this, 
we need more spending for that.
  Indeed, most of the liberals voted against the appropriations bills 
because they did not spend enough money. Well, my question is, if we 
are out of money in this pot and we have a lot of money in this pot, is 
that where we are going to get it? Because that is Social Security. If 
we are not going to take it from this trust fund, then we must want to 
increase taxes.
  Wait a minute. Two weeks ago the other side joined Republicans and 
voted 419-to-0 against the Clinton tax proposals. The only way to do 
this, to make our budget, is to cut one cent out of the dollar. I hope 
the Democrats will join us on that.

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