Orrin Hatch: “I thank my colleague. I heard this language, by one of the Members of the Senate, that we are just interested in a quick…”

“I thank my colleague. I heard this language, by one of the Members of the Senate, that we are just interested in a quick and easy fix, like instant rice, like Jiffy Lube, like instant coffee. A quick and easy fix, my foot. We do not believe that the only way to solve problems is by increasing taxes every time, which is exactly what happened here when this President took over. That is not the way to do it. This stack of books is a wall standing between us and fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets. The bricks in this towering wall are the unbalanced budget submissions for the last 28 years, 28 years of strapping debt on to the backs of our children, a towering wall of overspending the hard-earned money of the American people, a towering wall that demonstrates that the score for special interests is 28, the American people zero. Some people say, all we need is the will. Well, this towering wall represents 28 straight years of the failure of will and the failure of responsibility--now, 29. It is higher than I am, and that is two stacks, not one. Before we are through, if we do not do something about a balanced budget amendment, these will go all the way to this ceiling.”