Joe Cunningham: “That is the liberals' and socialists' excuse to just keep dumping more money into a program, regardless if it is…”

“That is the liberals' and socialists' excuse to just keep dumping more money into a program, regardless if it is effective or not. And you know the other side would say that we are cutting. First of all, for every dollar the government spends, it has got to take it away from somebody in the first place. It is not free money. We have the charge of making sure that those dollars are effectively spent, and when you look at our school systems, that where our systems across this country are last in most--below all nations in math, and reading, and writing, and science; I mean that is not a good system and we need to change it, and to effectively do that instead of just continually dumping money. They say, well, you are cutting. We are not cutting. What we are doing is focusing the dollars in the most effective means and letting local districts control it, and what we are cutting, whether you are talking about any other program outside of even education, is we are cutting the precious bureaucracy that they can control, and that is what their whole thing is about right now. You are cutting. What we are doing is cutting their ability to spend money so that they can get reelected. We are cutting their ability to spend money so they can get reelected so they got the power here in Washington, DC. And that power represents even a bigger bureaucracy, 760 programs all the way down the line. That is wrong. Forty years has brought us to that point.”