[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15901]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               SURPLUS IS NOT PRESIDENT'S MONEY TO SPEND

  (Mr. GARY MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GARY MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, last week when the 
President was in California, he was quoted in the newspaper as saying, 
``It would be wrong to spend our hard-earned surplus on tax cuts.''
  What the President meant by ``our'' was the government's. So he said 
it would be wrong to spend the government's hard-earned surplus on tax 
cuts. When did the government ever earn any money?
  How would the President know what the private producing sector of our 
country can and cannot afford? His whole life he has worked for 
government. According to his own biography, the closest he ever came to 
being paid by the private sector is when he won a college scholarship. 
Even then, the government gave him a grant to supplement his tuition to 
Georgetown.
  When the President says we cannot afford a tax cut, he only speaks 
from the perspective of government. He does not know any better. I will 
repeat, he does not know any better.
  Well, as someone who has signed both sides of a paycheck, I can speak 
for the private sector when I say he is wrong. What we cannot afford to 
do is keep the surplus in Washington, D.C. to grow government. It is 
not the President's money. Let us send the American people's money back 
to the producing sector of our Nation, the American people.

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