Jack Kingston: “Last night I attended a Georgia Farm Bureau dinner in Washington, and the speaker was Clinton appointee Richard…”

“Last night I attended a Georgia Farm Bureau dinner in Washington, and the speaker was Clinton appointee Richard Rominger. Now he was speaking on accomplishments of the Clinton administration. Well, as did everyone else in the audience, I thought it was going to be a real short evening with that being the topic, but as it turns out he was claiming everything with the conviction of the rooster taking credit for the rising sun, and so it was rather lengthy. But one of the things that he said was the Clinton administration is claiming that the national debt has fallen $15,000 per family of four. Now our colleague, Mac Collins, a Ways and Means member and number cruncher, says how is that possible? The national debt has risen for the last 3 years the Clinton folks have had the White House; how could it be falling? And without blinking a shameless Clinton appointee said: Oh, it is easy. The annual deficit had been going up at a certain rate, and since it is no longer going up at that rate, then the savings that we calculate, the $15,000 per family, is in the anticipation.”