Christopher Shays: “We have three primary objectives. One is to get our financial house in order and balance our Federal budget; the second…”

“We have three primary objectives. One is to get our financial house in order and balance our Federal budget; the second is to save our trust funds from insolvency, and ultimate bankruptcy, particularly Medicare; and our third objective is to transform our caretaking social and corporate welfare state into what I would call a caring opportunity society. Our country has grown into debt from $430 billion since the Vietnam War to $4,900 billion. That has got to end. Adults, Members of Congress, are elected by adults to represent the children, and that is what we are about to do.”