[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12182-12183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 DON'T FALL FOR THESE ACCOUNTING TRICKS

  (Mr. BROUN of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, in the midst of all the talk about 
raising the debt ceiling, I don't hear anyone talking about the most 
important

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factor in this equation, our unsustainable National debt. Everyone is 
focused on raising the debt ceiling, but if we truly want to get our 
economy back on its feet, we need to begin paying off the debt that 
President Obama and his predecessors have created.
  It's obvious that our Democrat leaders in the White House and the 
Senate care more about making campaign speeches than about the 
livelihoods of the American people. Liberals want to raise taxes, but 
of course not until after the elections. And they want to sham us with 
talks about future cuts that we will never see materialize. It's like 
one big Ponzi scheme, and they're trying to get the American people to 
buy into it.
  We need spending cuts now, and we need to pay down our outrageous 
debt. I urge both my colleagues and the American people not to fall for 
these accounting tricks.

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