Cass Ballenger: “we are hearing an awful lot of griping from the defenders of big government these days. With the balanced budget…”

“we are hearing an awful lot of griping from the defenders of big government these days. With the balanced budget amendment on the verge of passage in the House, there are Democrats who still oppose this important government reform. They are attempting to derail the amendment by disingenuously demanding to know how we plan on spending each and every penny in the year 2002. Well, it is amazing they can look across a kitchen table at ordinary Americans without turning red from embarrassment. Their argument against a balanced budget amendment is essentially: ``We don't want to cut government spending. Period.'' As American businesses continue to tighten their belts, as a American families watch their paychecks shrink and their children's future become ever darker under the long shadow of government's growing debt, the defenders of big government are digging in. They talk a lot about working families but they refuse to life a finger to save America's middle class from government's out-of-control spending. The Republican contract with America is our commitment to cut the size score, and cost of government. The balanced budget amendment will forever guarantee that Congress of the future will never again be allowed to spend our children into the near bottomless pit of debt we are in today.”