We are now on a systemically dangerous path of debt.
We cannot continue on this course.
I believe that budget should balance. We should balance it at least within 10 years.
We can remove the debt cloud, the drag that this debt has over us, and put us on the path to prosperity.
Federal Government debt is now-- gross debt_is 103 percent.
I resent the fact that people suggest that those of us who have a different view of how to help poor people somehow do not care about them.
Tax increases equals spending cuts, and you have a balanced plan.
We are in a danger zone, and there are many ways for us to get out of it, but this budget does not get us out of it.
We have the weakest recovery since the end of World War II.
Erskine Bowles sat in the chair you are in now and said we face the most predictable economic crisis in our Nation's history.
This budget does nothing to effectively help them, but continues a tax-and-spend policy that has not worked.
This budget increases our debt over $8 trillion over 10 years.
We need to know some facts that I think are indisputable.
Surely the President claims his budget replaces sequestration, but he fails to provide a plan that has any chance of passing in Congress.
Compassion and help for the poor and struggling amounts to more than just borrowing money and sending out more money in the form of checks.
We have no higher obligation as lawmakers than to protect the financial security of the Republic.
As the law requires, the Senate not only has a legal but a moral duty to present the taxpayers with a plan.
I believe we have to have an economy that is growing, creating prosperity, that we need to help poor people get jobs and move forward in the...
