Cord Byrd: “I support this alternative to the President's deeply flawed budget policies. The President submitted a budget request…”

“I support this alternative to the President's deeply flawed budget policies. The President submitted a budget request with a shocking price tag, $3.1 trillion. In the entire history of the Republic, the Congress has never had to grapple with such an enormous budget request. In the entire history of the Republic, the Congress has never had to reconcile such enormous deficits, the highest ever proposed by any administration. In the entire history of the Republic from George Washington, to Abraham Lincoln, through Franklin Roosevelt--in 220 years, after a Civil War, two World Wars, and the Cold War, after severe economic depressions, and stock market manipulations and crashes that eclipse anything we have seen in our lifetimes--the Congress has never, ever had to wrestle with such an alarming explosion in the national debt. No administration has ever proposed to borrow so much money. Once you look past the Orwellian rhetoric about earmarks, and see through the phony arguments about domestic programs somehow paying for everything else, you come to inexorable conclusion that this administration's policies have been an unmitigated, indisputable fiscal disaster. What's most worrisome, is that the President's budget continues a dangerous practice of squeezing domestic agencies, and gambling that they can get by for another year, and another year, and yet another year on a starvation diet.”