Angus King actually said...

"It is our generation being unwilling to pay our own bills. And we are borrowing from our kids."

"I think long-term debt and deficits are unsustainable and are, in fact, burdening future generations and the interest rate."

"If you put a balanced budget amendment on top of that situation, with the mandatory rise caused mostly by health care and demographics, and that is all you do, you squeeze the shortfall down into the ..."

"It is much easier to spend than it is to tax. So, deficits are almost hard-wired into the system unless there is a discipline."