[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3973-3974]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          BALANCING THE BUDGET

  (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, can you imagine in your household if, for 
every $1 you spent, 40 cents was borrowed? Can you imagine if you were 
in that situation and didn't change your buying or your spending 
habits?
  That would be absurd. Yet that's what the U.S. Congress is doing. 
We've had a debate on a spending reduction of less than 2 percent. Yet, 
the way some people are screaming and hollering, you would think that 
we were cutting spending in half.
  This isn't about protecting programs and the status quo. This is 
about the next generation. Sit down, and tell your children: You know 
what? We've

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got a deficit of $1.6 trillion, and we've decided the tough decisions 
that are necessary to balance the budget aren't worth it for the next 
generation.
  That is not the America that you and I know and love. We deserve 
better. We can do better. It's time for Democrats and Republicans and 
independents to come together to do what is best for the United States 
of America, to not worry about the next election but to worry about the 
next generation.

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