On the recordMarch 4, 1997
any time a contemporary generation is engaged in the business of consuming the resources of generations yet to come, they are in the business of abrogating the freedom of generations yet to come. This democracy was formed in a war for economic freedom and independence. As you look to the children yet to come, we are in the business of robbing them of the choices and the freedoms we have known as American people. The balanced budget amendment to the Constitution is an act that must be engaged in in order to preserve the freedoms that we have known as Americans for all those generations yet to come. My mother and father kept 80 percent of their wages to raise their family. My sister will keep 46 percent, and her children will keep 16 percent. They will not be free as we know it. We need to pass the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
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