[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 167 (Thursday, December 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H8523]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      INCREASING THE NATION'S DEBT

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Yesterday, with one vote, the United States Senate 
increased the debt of the United States by $858 billion. Is this the 
best we can do to help those out of work, the best we can do to begin a 
sustained economic recovery, to enshrine the trickle-down, supply-side 
tax cuts of the Bush years that have failed so miserably over the last 
decade and some of the worst aspects of the so-called stimulus debt 
finance consumption of goods made in China with money borrowed from 
China?
  Worse yet, $112 billion of this is going to come from Social 
Security, the first time Congress has ever broken down the firewall 
between the general fund of the United States and the sacrosanct Social 
Security trust fund.
  No, we could do much, much better.

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