Jack Kingston: “I wanted to say that it is interesting that just this morning I was speaking to a senatorial candidate from Georgia, and…”

“I wanted to say that it is interesting that just this morning I was speaking to a senatorial candidate from Georgia, and he said he started politics in 1974. In 1974 the big issue, when he was running for the State legislature, was let us balance the budget, we cannot have these deficits going on and on forever. He said, finally, after all these years, 17, 18 years later, we finally have a Congress who is doing something about the budget. When I hear a lot of the folks back home who are bureaucracy brokers and status quo preservers saying, Oh, you can't do this, you can't do that, nobody said it was going to be easy to balance the budget. Nobody said that you could just do it overnight. We did not get in this situation overnight, and we will not get out of it overnight. I always think it is kind of like dismantling an old white-elephant kind of house, one board at a time and maybe 1 year at a time. Perhaps we underestimated how quickly we could turn this government around. But we got used to borrowing money. Back in the days of Lyndon Johnson, we got used to borrowing money. It got so bad that by 1969, we said good-bye to our last balanced budget, and since then we have just been comfortable year after year of borrowing money.”