Jim Nussle: “I must say it has been pretty clear to me there are two philosophies at work here. The one philosophy is the one I…”

“I must say it has been pretty clear to me there are two philosophies at work here. The one philosophy is the one I believe I brought to Congress and I believe many of my Republican friends brought to Congress. That is, that individuals and families make better decisions about their daily lives than Government can for them. They spend their money better. They make better decisions about their family, about their future, about deciding what their American dream is all about and how they are going to reach it. Yet there is another philosophy here in Congress and here in Washington, and, that is, that bureaucrats and Congressmen make better decisions about people's daily lives than they can for themselves and that the only kind of compassion we can have in this country is one that comes out of a word processor, one that is printed on paper, one that is paid for by a Government check, and that is basically the two competing philosophies. So, yeah, there's a lot of whining, there's a lot of crying about the future because the future is changing, because Americans are saying, 'We've had enough with Government check compassion.'”