[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 56 (Thursday, April 2, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H4401]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         FREEDOM AND THE BUDGET

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Madam Speaker, if one looks to 
the exceptionalism of America, one finds that at its base is freedom. 
We've always had an agenda for freedom--freedom with responsibility.
  Today, we have a budget that's made up of numbers. People wonder how 
does that somehow have anything to do with freedom. Well, if you spend 
too much, if you tax too much, if you borrow too much, what it means is 
you give greater and greater power to the Federal Government, to 
elected representatives, to nonelected bureaucrats to make decisions 
for you and your life, not only today, but in the future.
  For the young people that are listening, they ought to understand 
that the impact of this budget today will be far greater on them than 
it will be on me. Why? Because we are about to embark on a budget that 
will give us more debt than at any time in the history of America. And 
we and those of us who are here will not live long enough to pay it 
off.
  The young people are the ones that are going to pay for it. They are 
in fact going to have less freedom rather than more freedom unless we 
come to our senses and vote for a budget that is consistent with the 
American agenda of freedom.

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