David Thomas: “Mr. Speaker, I am sure some people are a little bit confused about this debate, and I will try to explain why. It is…”

“Mr. Speaker, I am sure some people are a little bit confused about this debate, and I will try to explain why. It is kind of like in physics, where what we are discovering simply cannot be explained in the language that physicists now have. For example, you talk about matter, but because of the way the world works, they have to talk about antimatter, and it just does not seem to make sense, matter, antimatter. We just had the gentleman from Michigan in the well being forced to quote a conservative in support of what they were talking about. It is because the Democrats in their rhetoric just cannot deal with the world that the majority of Republicans have created, and that is a budget surplus. The Democrats are now arguing that it makes no sense whatsoever to adjust the Tax Code in any way until the Social Security trust fund is sound. For how long? Seventy-five years. How long was the trust fund sound every year they were in the majority, and they made tax adjustments? The answer is simple: Never. They are having difficulty dealing with a world in which the budget structure provides a surplus in which we can lay aside $1.4 trillion this year, more next year, more the year after, to save Social Security and provide people with a reasonable tax cut.”