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Cass Ballenger: I am wondering if some of my liberal friends on the other side of the aisle can help me with a question that is puzzling…

On the recordNovember 4, 1997
I am wondering if some of my liberal friends on the other side of the aisle can help me with a question that is puzzling me. Why is it that it is selfish when we wish to keep what belongs to us, whereas it is compassion when we wish to take what belongs to another? I suppose by your own logic, it is selfish to lock your doors at night when you want to keep what you have earned. I guess all of the hard work and sacrifice that goes into earning what belongs to you, that is forgotten, because the liberals are busy today talking about how compassionate they are spending other people's money. Now we have the President of the United States on record showing what side he is on. Yesterday he called those of us that want tax cuts selfish. The President thinks that ordinary Americans ought to be condemned for thinking that the Government could get by on a little less, that families ought to have a little bit more. It is kind of puzzling, is it not?
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina

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Addressing tax cuts and government spending during a floor speech.

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