[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10990]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           DEBT AND SPENDING

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about debt and 
spending.
  This Nation today is $13 trillion in debt, and the Democrat majority 
intends to spend another $1 trillion to add to that debt limit by the 
end of this year; $14 trillion of debt, that's unconscionable.
  You look at the budget that's coming from this administration that 
was proposed this year, $3.8 trillion, and we only have $2.2 trillion 
in revenue. That's $1.6 trillion in deficit spending, all of it on the 
credit card, and the credit card is maxed out.
  People back home ask me, why do you keep spending? Why does the 
Congress keep spending like this when you don't have the money? I think 
there's two reasons. I think one is this Democrat majority wants to 
grow government as much as it can while it still has the super-
majorities to do so. I think the second reason is they really want to 
overhaul our tax system, and they want to do that by creating an 
economic crisis to justify implementing a VAT tax and reaching back to 
the high rates of taxation that we had back in the Carter 
administration.
  This is unconscionable behavior, and if it doesn't make you mad, it 
ought to.

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