[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10695]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE'S THE BUDGET?

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, suppose your family is deeply in debt, 
bills are piling up, your credit card interest is eating you alive, and 
finally you seek the help of a financial counselor. What's the first 
thing that debt counselor is going to say? He's going to say, the first 
thing we've got to do is sit down and sketch out a family budget. We 
all know that. It's hard work, it's painful, but it's absolutely 
necessary if you're going to get your finances back under control.
  Mr. Speaker, our national debt is fast approaching the size of our 
entire economy, yet while this House has all the time in the world to 
consider the most trivial matters, it can't spare the time to develop a 
national budget at the very moment in the life of our Nation when we 
need one the most, before we bury our children in debt.
  Churchill once spoke of a locust generation. I wonder if that's what 
we've become.

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