[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17951]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          BALANCING THE BUDGET

  (Mr. DesJARLAIS asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DesJARLAIS. Mr. Speaker, it seems there are those who still fail 
to realize that we cannot continue down this road of fiscal insanity. 
It isn't politics; it's math. Our spending is simply unsustainable, yet 
we have not seen a serious proposal from the White House to address our 
trillion-dollar deficits.
  The President thinks the answer is more taxes. But while the tax 
increases President Obama is calling for would hurt small businesses, 
they would have little effect in reducing our deficits. That is because 
our debt is being driven by spending, plain and simple. Therefore, to 
solve our problem, we must implement serious spending cuts and reforms.
  The good news is this isn't hard to do; we just have to look at the 
amount of revenue coming in and not spend more than that. Rather than 
spending more than we can afford, we must prioritize our spending. 
Hundreds of millions of Americans do this every day. If my constituents 
in Tennessee can balance their budgets, so can Washington.

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