Jack Kingston: “a year ago the President proclaimed the era of big government is over. And then recently he said, it is now the end of…”

“a year ago the President proclaimed the era of big government is over. And then recently he said, it is now the end of an era, meaning we have a surplus and we had a lot of ways to spend it. So I guess the era that big government was over was only about an 11-month period of history in the United States. Now we are back to the government spending as usual. The President came on like gangbusters, Santa Claus on Christmas morning, with all kinds of high taxes, new spending programs, old Democrat stuff, tried and true methods of buying blocs of voters one at a time. One thing the President forgot in his speech, he said the deficit had 11 zeros. Actually, the debt has more zeros than the deficit. I believe the President confused the debt with the deficit, and he thinks we have paid off the debt. Mr. Speaker, the children of the United States of America, and all others, are faced with over a $5 trillion debt. We have got to pay down the debt. That should be the highest priority with the surplus.”