[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 15 (Tuesday, February 2, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H452-H453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  TEN THINGS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BUDGET

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, the President of the United 
States, President Obama, is sending a budget up here that we've just 
found out about in the last couple of days. It's $3.8 trillion in the 
fiscal year beginning October 1, and that's about a 30 percent increase 
in outlays since 2008: $3.8 trillion.
  The President's budget includes more than $2 trillion in tax hikes at 
a time when this economy is really suffering with a nearly 20-percent 
jump in taxes in the first year alone, and it's going to hit tax 
increases on small businesses, investors, and families, and it's going 
to violate the President's campaign pledge.
  The President's budget borrows too much from our kids and grandkids. 
Under the President's budget, the Federal Government will run a record 
budget deficit of $1.6 trillion in fiscal

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year 2011; and throughout the next decade, the deficit will never go 
below $700 billion a year. At the end of the decade in 2020, it will 
still be over $1 trillion a year and the national debt's going to 
double within the next 5 years. We just can't sustain this kind of 
spending.
  This President's proposed spending freeze that he talked about is a 
step in the right direction, but it's only $15 billion. $15 billion out 
of a budget of $3.8 trillion is less than a drop in the bucket. So when 
he talks about freezing spending, that's not going to solve the 
problem. We need budget caps. We need spending caps that will be 
continual year in and year out if we're going to get in control of 
spending.
  The President pushed through the stimulus package which ended up 
costing over a trillion dollars, and it hasn't helped unemployment at 
all. In fact, he said it was going to be no more than 8 percent, and it 
went up to 10\1/2\ percent and it's still over 10 percent right now.
  The President says he wants to have another stimulus package. He 
calls it a jobs bill. It's going to cost billions of dollars more, and 
it's not going to create jobs; it's just going to increase the deficit 
more.
  And CBO says that if we pass the energy tax he is talking about 
because of ``climate change,'' it's going to increase taxes on energy 
by $870 billion.
  And then to cap everything off, the President continues to want to 
bring these terrorists to the United States for trial. These people are 
enemy combatants. As my colleague, Dan Lungren of California, talked 
about a while ago, they should be tried in a military court in 
Guantanamo where people won't be intimidated by them.
  Can you imagine what it would be like to be on a jury with one of 
those people? Everybody on the jury would be scared to death that their 
life is at risk if they render a decision to put those people to death 
or cause them a great deal of harm. So we really need to deal with them 
as an enemy combatant. We need to deal with them at Guantanamo with a 
military tribunal and give them the justice that they deserve.
  This is what is going on with this administration right now, and I 
hope that the President might be paying attention--I can't address him 
because we can't address people outside the Chamber--but if he were 
listening tonight, I wish he would take all of these things to heart 
because the American people are very concerned about the direction of 
this country.

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