Tom Coburn: “I believe we have to be guardians for the future. And I believe in waiving the pay-go rules we are not doing that; that…”

“I believe we have to be guardians for the future. And I believe in waiving the pay-go rules we are not doing that; that we are not a guardian for the future. If you think about $30 billion, you are asking every person in this country this year to pay an extra $100 because this program was not funded and arranged properly. What we also ought to consider is making sure we never do this again. And I would hope that when and if this budget point of order is waived the chairman and ranking member will put something in the bill that prohibits us from going back and ever waiving debt for this program again. It is truly unfair, when we spend $28,500 per household at the Federal Government level and the median income in this country is $42,000 and we are already spending 70 percent of that at the Federal Government level and a third of it we are not paying for, we are borrowing from our children, to add on another $30 billion. What we are talking about is opportunity. We don't want to be tough enough now to not take opportunity away from our kids. The fact is, we can't.”