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Joe Scarborough: If we are spending too much money on defense, we are really spending too much money on interest on the Federal debt. I…

On the recordApril 19, 1996
If we are spending too much money on defense, we are really spending too much money on interest on the Federal debt. I say it is time we do what middle-class Americans have done for years, spend only as much money as you take in, balance the budget and cause an economic revival in this country that is unprecedented that will lift all the boats.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Discussing the need for budget balancing and economic revival.

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