Jack Kingston: “we hear a lot of fanfare about the budget and the surplus, and we hear that the deficit has been wiped out. When we take…”

“we hear a lot of fanfare about the budget and the surplus, and we hear that the deficit has been wiped out. When we take a close look at this, we find the only reason why we can say the budget is balanced is because we take $100 billion in Social Security surplus and apply it to the general fund. Now, if we take that out of there, there is still a deficit; that we are still spending more money than we bring in if we pull Social Security out of it. The reason why this is important is I agree with those who want to put Social Security first. I think it is very important to preserve Social Security, to protect it and to separate it from the rest of the group of money. But the President, as we know, has proposed over $100 billion in new spending. Now, is it not coincidental that we have a $100 billion surplus in Social Security and the President is pushing $100 billion in new spending? It is total fraud. We are not putting Social Security first. We are not protecting it when we are saying let us go out with a whole bunch of big government spending programs. I think we should be truthful and honest with America's seniors, protect Social Security and not increase government spending.”