Gene Taylor: “the citizens of America entrust us with running their Nation. We are going to be asked in less than 3 hours to vote on a…”

“the citizens of America entrust us with running their Nation. We are going to be asked in less than 3 hours to vote on a 960-page document that was just delivered to the House. No one knows what is in it. There could be a tax on handguns; there could be a tax on cigarettes; they could bring back prohibition. Neither the Speaker of the House nor the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Linder) have any idea what is in this bill. But if the House votes for it and the Senate votes for it, it becomes the law of the land, until it is repealed. That could take 1 year, that could take 100 years. This Nation squanders $1 billion on interest on the debt. I hear my Republican colleagues say we finally turned a profit. We have an $8 billion surplus for the first time in 30 years. I would tell you that surplus compared to the debt is like a person who, for 30 years, has been charging things to his Visa card and finally breaks even at the end of 1 year and has $1,000 left, and says, ``Honey, let's go blow it,'' ignoring the fact that he is $686,000 in debt on his credit cards. That is the comparison of this year's surplus to the accumulated debt of $5.7 trillion.”