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Tom Price: I appreciate so much, again, the gentleman's coming. Really, it is a positive picture, because what it says is that we…

On the recordMarch 8, 2006
I appreciate so much, again, the gentleman's coming. Really, it is a positive picture, because what it says is that we ought to be looking at our founding document. That is a positive uplifting picture. I guess what is one of the most distressing things about what you have said is that you described this budget that is going to be proposed as a radical budget, but it is a balanced budget. There is nothing radical about a balanced budget within a 5-year period of time, which is, as I understand it, what will be proposed. So it is not radical. In fact, doing anything else is harmful, is not compassionate, and is probably radical because it puts us on that track for the GDP percentage being consumed by the Federal Government that you pointed to of 50 percent in the year 2050. And as you say, that is unsustainable. It means it doesn't work. Can't work. So thank you so much for joining me tonight, and I really appreciate your perspective and your insight and your acumen that you bring from the private sector to us here in Congress. I have talked about Senator Moynihan's wonderful quote that ``Everyone's entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts.'' What we try to do on the Truth Squad is to highlight some of the comments that have been made on the floor of the House of Representatives and to point out what in fact the truth is.…
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