The plain fact is the budget doubles our gross national debt, never once produces an annual deficit of less than $600 billion in its 10 years.

We have a town that is about to be flooded on the west end of the lake, the little town of Minnewaukan.

My own belief is that we need to put in place a plan this year to get our fiscal house back in order.

The stimulus worked.

All of us--all of us--have to be in on the solution.

Clearly, that cannot continue for very long.

The Obama administration has failed miserably in that regard. It has focused on consumption and fiscal stimulation that will give us 4-percent growth in 2011.

I agree with the Chairman that our current deficits are not sustainable, and they are huge national security issue that needs to be dealt with on a bipartisan basis by having a credible plan to deal with the deficit.

When we talk about there being $78 billion in savings here on a net basis, you know, it is from an inflated baseline.

100 percent of GDP is too high.

That is a formula for failure.

I do believe we can move toward more of a consumption base by moving toward what you might call the traditional flat tax.