Sam Gibbons: “the American public and the American people deserve to hear the truth about who will better protect Social Security and…”

“the American public and the American people deserve to hear the truth about who will better protect Social Security and America's future. Under the Democratic-controlled Congress, Congress raided the Social Security trust fund in every year, in every budget, for nearly three decades. Why? So they could pay for bigger, more wasteful government bureaucracy. Now this Congress, for the first time, has a chance to stop this incredulous thief of big-government spending, the one who steals from the future of Social Security. Since the Republicans have taken control of Congress, we have slowed the runaway government spending of our colleagues over here on the left and begun balancing the budget for the first time in nearly 40 years and will do this without dipping into Social Security surpluses. The American public needs to tell the tax-and-spend Democrats and the President to quit raiding Social Security and work with the Republicans to better protect Social Security and America's future. Americans have a clear choice, support a strong Republican principle of saving Social Security and securing America's future, or support the Democrat's expanding, expensive new government and their tax-and-spend bureaucracy. Mr. Speaker, it is America's choice.”