Sam Gibbons: “the cog wheel of liberal logic has just a few teeth missing. It seems that my Democratic colleagues on the other side of…”

“the cog wheel of liberal logic has just a few teeth missing. It seems that my Democratic colleagues on the other side of the aisle are complaining because Republicans want to use one thin dime of each dollar of the budget surplus to reduce the burden on hard working middle class taxpayers. Of course the liberal Democrats whine and complain because this means they cannot spend money to grow a more expensive, more intrusive Federal bureaucracy. Well because this is not salable to the American public, their latest claim is that they want to use the entire surplus to save Social Security. Mr. Speaker, it is these very same liberals who are the reason Social Security is going bankrupt. They are the ones that continually borrowed from the trust fund to promote their dying social agendas, only to replace the money with their favorite three letters, IOU. Let us allow hard-working Americans to keep some of the money they have earned. Let us allow a couple to marry without being punished by the IRS. Let us allow the self-employed to finally afford health insurance by deducting 100 percent of the cost. Let us support our children, our families, our marriages. Let us support America's future. Mr. Speaker, we can do all this and still save Social Security. No longer is it IOU, but it is our commitment to the future.”