Jack Kingston: “I overheard the beginning of your speech, and I thought it was very important that you pointed out that 2 years ago the…”

“I overheard the beginning of your speech, and I thought it was very important that you pointed out that 2 years ago the President said that the era of big government is over. And yet the other day, yesterday, he said, we are now at the end of an era. So apparently the era of big government being over was only a 2-year period of time, a 24-month little spurt in United States history. What the President is now saying is that the era is over, and here is how I want to spend the surplus. Now, I do not know how the good folks in your district are, but I know the good folks in coastal Georgia, if they have a credit card debt and they go 1 month without using the credit card, that does not mean that the bank calls them up and says, hey, last month your credit card balance was zero, go out and buy some new clothes and a new stereo, and go on a nice vacation and take your family out to eat. What they say is, hey, I am glad you finally quit spending on the damn credit card. Now start paying down your credit card debt. The position we are in as a country, just because for the first time in 30 years we are going to have no deficit, it does not mean that we have paid down our $5.1 trillion debt. And what we need to do is have a sensible approach that you have outlined in terms of paying down the debt and having not increased government and not gone out and spent on a lot of new programs and so forth.”