[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4657-4658]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               REPUBLICANS BELIEVE IN TRUTH IN BUDGETING

  (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, obviously, my friend from the other side 
of the aisle has confused St. Patrick's Day with April fools when he 
talks about the Republican budget.
  Let me talk to my colleagues. There is philosophical and mathematical 
differences between the way the Republicans and Democrats use numbers. 
It is best illustrated by this story.
  One of the Democrats' leading budget hawks went to go buy some worms. 
He was going fishing. He walked up to the bait store and said, ``How 
much are your worms?'' The guy said, ``You can have all you want for 
$1.'' So the Democrat said, ``I will take $2 worth.''
  That is the problem. We almost need national testing when it comes to 
truth in budgeting with the Democrats.
  Let us go through this little quiz on Social Security: Republicans 
want to preserve 100 percent; Democrats 62 percent.
  Fill in the blanks: Which is greater, 62 percent or 100 percent?

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  True or false, 62 percent does not equal 100 percent.
  True or false, 38 percent will be spent on non-Social Security items 
under the President's budget.
  This is true. The President wants to preserve 62 percent, Republicans 
want to preserve 100 percent of the Social Security balance. We believe 
that it is worth fighting for our grandparents to do the right thing 
and not spend their money on pork.

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