William Helms: “in making these daily reports about the Federal debt, which I began on February 27, 1992, I have tried to avoid partisan…”

“in making these daily reports about the Federal debt, which I began on February 27, 1992, I have tried to avoid partisan comment. But if I were a young American, just beginning my career, or just beginning to set up my family, I would be greatly concerned at the breakdown of the Senate vote on the budget resolution earlier today. No, I would be more than concerned. I would be angry. The American people have demonstrated a hundred times in countless different ways that they want the tragic finances of the Federal Government cleaned up. They want a balanced Federal budget. They want Federal spending to be brought under control. But in all fairness, Mr. President, when one looks at the 53 to 46 vote today on the budget resolution, it is apparent that the finances of the Federal Government are not going to be cleaned up, and the Federal budget is not going to be balanced, and Federal spending is not going to be brought under control. Not by the 104th Congress in any event.”