Sam Brownback: “It is insane to run $200 billion annual deficits and put that on the backs of my children and grandchildren to come.…”

“It is insane to run $200 billion annual deficits and put that on the backs of my children and grandchildren to come. That is wrong. That is morally wrong to do that. At this point in time in our history it is wrong. But instead of focusing all the time, as we do so much of it on saying, ``OK, this cut is going to hit here, this one is going to hit there, it's going to hit here,'' what about all the liberation that takes place with that? What about all the freedom of the people? I think this has been an insidious relationship between the Government and its people over time, that it has grown and strengthened those bonds and surrounding us to the point that the Government has become our master and not our servant, and it is time to cut those shackles off. It is time in many cases to pull the whole tree up instead of saying we are going to cut the little branch off. Here it may be time, and it is time, I believe, to cut the hole and pull the whole tree up to give that freedom back.”