Gilbert Gutknecht: “Instead of a future of debt, dependency, and despair, I really think we are giving to our kids a future of hope, growth…”

“Instead of a future of debt, dependency, and despair, I really think we are giving to our kids a future of hope, growth, and opportunity. Instead of having huge deficits piling up bigger and bigger every year, we are now talking about surpluses. We are not talking about leaving them a legacy of debt, but perhaps actually paying off all of the debt held by the general public. We have welfare reform so we encourage work and personal responsibility. We want to allow families to keep more of what they earn, because we know at the end of the day the magic of America is not here in Washington, D.C. It really is back there in places like Savannah, Georgia, and Rochester, Minnesota, in Kasson, Minnesota, where real people, ordinary people, are allowed to do extraordinary things. That is the magic of America. That is the magic we cannot afford to lose, because if we continued down the path we were on 6 years ago of higher taxes and bigger debts, more government regulation, and even more government interference in the activities of business, we were absolutely guaranteed that we were on a downhill spiral, not only for the economy but for our society.”