A balanced budget constitutional amendment, one of these days, has to pass. The question is, how much we are going to hurt our Nation before we pass it. There is just no question, if we had passed it back when John F. Kennedy complained about spending $9 billion on interest--today we are spending $344 billion on gross interest--what a much better country we would have. We cannot wait another 5 or 10 years. We are going to have chaos.
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