Aaron Bean: “We teach our children that if they make a mess, they ought to clean it up. Yet we have made a mess of this Nation's…”

“We teach our children that if they make a mess, they ought to clean it up. Yet we have made a mess of this Nation's finances, and we need to start now, and we have started in this first 100 hours in the Democratic majority to address that mess and clean it up. The expression is ``pass the buck,'' but what we have instead been doing is passing the debt. We should not be passing trillions of dollars to future generations with ``borrow and spend.'' Instead, we should pay as we go.”