Jim Nussle: “I think there are some people who are going to be able to come here tomorrow and vote no on that kind of a plan, and I…”

“I think there are some people who are going to be able to come here tomorrow and vote no on that kind of a plan, and I think the reason is it is a matter of who they trust. I see in your plan a willingness to trust the decisionmaking that happens around the kitchen tables of America, you know, when they are balancing their checkbooks, trying to decide how they are going to send their kids to school, to college, what to do about next month's bills; they have got to make some pretty tough choices, in fact, tougher choices than I think sometimes we give them credit for but also tougher choices than we make. We trust them to make those decisions. We trust them to make those better decisions that affect their daily lives. I think there are a lot of folks around here who do not trust that anymore, that do not trust the power of the individual, the family, the neighborhood, and the community to make those decisions. You not only see it with raising taxes, but you see it manifested in another way that we have not really even talked about and that is the mandates, that is the unfunded mandates, because somebody said to me in a town meeting, they said, ``The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.'' That is exactly right. We have got a lot of small print in the budget that came down from the White House that has a lot of mandates that tell us what to do.”