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Jim Nussle: “But the fact is that what we are talking about here is, you know, there are a lot of people sitting out there watching…”

On the recordMay 12, 2004
But the fact is that what we are talking about here is, you know, there are a lot of people sitting out there watching this, and they go down to the grocery store and they have a $20 bill and they say, well, I am going to buy some groceries here. So they buy what they can get with $20. That is the way a lot of people operate in this world. But the Republicans, ever since they have taken over this House, in fact you did it under Reagan, we tried this Laffer curve business and all that and went into this great big deficit, and it took Clinton to get us out. For all you want to say about Bill Clinton, he did dig us out of your mess from the Reagan years. You did not learn anything from that. So you decided let us get out our favorite two credit cards and you said, well, we got Social Security, we got a whole lot of money over there in that one, and we got a whole lot over here in the Medicare one.
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Jim Nussle
Iowa
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Discussing fiscal policy and budget deficits during a House floor debate.

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