Balances the Budget by 2012 Maintains proven pro-growth policies – keeping taxes low and restraining government spending – to ensure that near-term deficits are overcome and we achieve a surplus in 2012.
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Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.
History will remember him as among the finest public servants of his generation – a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position.
Being your President was a high privilege, and the honor of a lifetime.
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