Jack Kingston: “during the 10 days that we were home for the break, the many constituents that I met with had concerns on a lot of…”

“during the 10 days that we were home for the break, the many constituents that I met with had concerns on a lot of different subjects, budget matters, they are very concerned about us balancing the budget. I said many, many times over the last 10 days that the third largest expenditure of our national budget is interest on the debt. And in 2 years that interest on the debt will exceed all military spending, all of the expenditures for the Coast Guard, the Army, the Navy, the Marines, and the Air Force and so forth. We will pay more money, more interest money to the bond holders on the national debt than we will for all of the armed services. I think this is absolutely atrocious, and found that most constituents agree. They want us, they are screaming for us to balance this budget. They realize that there will be some reductions in spending, some reductions in projections, and some elimination in consolidations of various programs, and yet what the folks of the First District of Georgia are saying is if you are going to balance the budget and you are going to do it across the board, that is fine. Do not do it on the backs of the veterans, do not do it on the backs of elderly, do not do it on the backs of children, do it across the board.”