Neil Abercrombie: “I am not an advocate of term limits. It all depends on whether you and I are here or not. But for some people who are…”

“I am not an advocate of term limits. It all depends on whether you and I are here or not. But for some people who are advocating a balanced budget and have been castigating one side or the other over the lack of a balanced budget and who say they are for term limits, they want to pass this budget, they will be gone out of the Congress. And suddenly, 2005 will be here and they will say, it is not my fault, I had nothing to do with it. Is it not our responsibility, if we are telling people that this is a balanced budget and there will be a balanced budget in 2002, that that be meaningful, that that not reflect an illusion, reflect borrowing for which there is no payback plan? You and I cannot borrow. If we say we should run the Government more like a business or the general illusions, we should at least be honest about our borrowing. You and I could not borrow money and not have a payback plan, could we?”