Tom Tancredo: “before I get into the main topic of this evening's discussion, that being immigration and immigration reform issues, I…”

“before I get into the main topic of this evening's discussion, that being immigration and immigration reform issues, I am compelled to respond to some of the comments made by our colleagues on the other side with regard to the budget dilemma that we all face here this evening. It is the dilemma faced every year, I suppose, and has for many many decades; and that is that we will always be spending more money in this body than we take in, or at least that was the case for all of the time, for the at least 40 years prior to the time that the Republicans took control of this body. The Democrats, of course, ran an imbalanced budget for many, many, many years. And I am in complete sympathy with those Members of the Democratic Party who say that that is an improper way to run government; that, in fact, we should be looking more to how businesses and industries run their business and States run theirs by having balanced budgets every single year. And I certainly completely and wholeheartedly agree. But I must say that as I listen to, on one hand, what I believe is an articulate plea for a balanced budget and, on the other hand, an articulate excuse for a vote for the farm bill which we just passed, it is hard to reconcile those two concepts.”