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Jack Kingston: That is excellent news. Let us take the Social Security completely out and do what the gentleman is proposing in his…

On the recordJune 23, 1998
That is excellent news. Let us take the Social Security completely out and do what the gentleman is proposing in his legislation, build a wall around it. The point I am really getting to, if you are walking down the street and you find a wallet with $100 in it, you do not immediately start thinking, how am I going to spend this? You think about, who does this belong to? How do I get it back to them? That is what we in Washington should be doing with any surplus, saying, whose money is this? How do we get it back to them? That should be our number one question in the context of let us pay off debt, money we have borrowed; but mostly, let us figure out whose money it is, which is not a hard question to answer, and how do we get it back to them, instead of what new programs should we start and what new buildings, airplanes should we buy, particularly when we are losing objects, large objects, like the gentleman has outlined.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the handling of budget surpluses and the importance of returning money to taxpayers.

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