[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10325]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             BUDGET DEFICIT

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, for the last 2 weeks when I was home in my 
district, I heard from many of my constituents who were justifiably 
concerned about the large amounts of deficits that we face, about the 
borrowing that we will have to do and about the spending that we are 
proposing to do in the President's budget that he approved recently. 
You know, those who have sought to, maybe, take advantage of that fear 
have said, ``Nobody ever borrows their way to prosperity.'' Oh, really?
  In fact, virtually everyone who has grown wealthy in this country--
every corporation and any individual--has borrowed to make that 
possible, and that's exactly what we're doing. We face a choice. We 
face a choice of having a dysfunctional health care system, of having 
an energy system that makes us insecure and that damages our 
environment, and of having an education system that relegates our 
citizens to a dismal future.
  What we are doing in the budget we passed is to borrow, yes, but to 
invest in those very important matters that will guarantee a brighter 
life for our society and for our people, and that is what we are 
committed to do.

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