[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10694-10695]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE WISDOM OF WASHINGTON

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, this week we will see the 2009 budget coming 
before Congress for a final vote. In

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the wisdom that only the City of Washington, D.C., can bestow, this 
budget borrows record-setting sums, raises taxes, and spends taxpayer 
money at an unprecedented clip. This so-called wisdom produced a budget 
that places our children and grandchildren in a state of perpetual 
servitude to the national debt and is a perverse sort of wisdom indeed.
  This reality brings to mind something that Thomas Jefferson penned in 
1781. He said that ``every government degenerates when trusted to the 
rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its 
only safe depositories.''
  The current conventional wisdom in Washington of borrowing and 
spending doesn't work for American families, and it won't work for the 
Federal Government.

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