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Ron Klein: I was just thinking as you're talking about the economic dream and the responsibility, and one of the things that I…

On the recordMay 23, 2007
I was just thinking as you're talking about the economic dream and the responsibility, and one of the things that I heard on the campaign trail over and over and over again, and I just felt that in my own heart as a small businessman, we had 75 employees in our business, was the fact that this government, for so many years, was just operating in this deficit higher and higher, spend and spend and spend. And it's one thing we talk about lower taxes, which obviously we want lower taxes, but you have to have lower spending. It has to balance, and it still just goes beyond my imagination as to why Members of Congress over the last number of years could spend and spend and borrow 10s of billions of dollars.
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Ron Klein
Florida

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Discussing government spending and fiscal responsibility during a floor speech.

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