Charles Wilson: “I truly believe, Mr. Speaker, that Congress cannot buy on credit without being responsible for the credit card. This is…”

“I truly believe, Mr. Speaker, that Congress cannot buy on credit without being responsible for the credit card. This is not the principle that I have lived by all my life as a successful businessman and these are not the principles that our government can run by. We need to be accountable. We need to be able to step forward and show what our money is being used for, and not to spend more than we have. Each and every one of us has budgets within our home, we have budgets within our life that we use every day. We know that we have to live within our budget or we have bad consequences. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Speaker, there is no difference for us as a government. We have to live within our means. And to see the transformation that has happened in the last 6 years in going from a large surplus of $400 billion to now a nearly $9 trillion balance of debt, D-E-B-T as Congressman Ross says, in our government. It is time that we start saying to the Congress and to the administration we must live within our means.”