Jack Kingston: “you know, each month, sometimes at the beginning of the month, sometimes at the end of the month, but surely during the…”

“you know, each month, sometimes at the beginning of the month, sometimes at the end of the month, but surely during the course of the month, the American middle-class families must sit down and assess their finances, and as a result of these assessments, many new dresses and suits and weekends out and stereos and want-to-have type purchases yield to such mundane purchases as new dryers, new washing machines, automobile repairs, new roofs for the house, other type things like that. The American middle class must do this, because their expenses cannot exceed their revenues. It is essential. It is common sense. And now the U.S. Congress can join them in this effort. We have ignored this for too long. The last balanced budget was in 1969. This week we can change everything by the passage of a balanced budget amendment. Let us pass it and do what middle-class America has to do each month.”