Richard K. Armey: “the gentlewoman from New York should realize that in her district, the 28th District of New York, the Kasich budget…”

“the gentlewoman from New York should realize that in her district, the 28th District of New York, the Kasich budget promises $56.5 million of family tax relief. I am sure her families will find that nothing to sneeze at. Mr. Chairman, I have been listening to this debate from some time, and as I listen to the debate, I realize that the American people, when they address the question of the budget, make a singular demand of us, and that is, in the parlance of the street, to ``get real.'' They want us to ``get real'' and understand that this is a real matter of real consequences in their real lives. What they do not understand in the real world is that in Washington we have a different standard for reality. In Washington, perception is reality. Now, I have just listened to another stock-in-trade tirade against the eighties. Mr. Chairman, when will the members of the Democrat Party give up on the eighties? When will they finally give up on trying to tell the American people that what they understand to be their own life's experience for a very important decade in their life is something different than what they know it to have been?”