Remarks in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
09/25/1976
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The budget is the President's blueprint for the operation of the Government in the year ahead.
Income and wealth are not produced in Washington, they are only redistributed there.
I am calling for legislation to halt this practice so that our budget system will fully reflect the financial activities of the Government.
There is no excuse, for example, for the Federal Government to have 15 different child nutrition programs spending over $3 billion per year ...