T. Gorton: “there is a substantial, vitally important difference between the two budgets between which we will choose in the course…”

“there is a substantial, vitally important difference between the two budgets between which we will choose in the course of the next few hours. That of the majority looks backward. It congratulates itself over the proposition that the budget deficit is lower now than it was a year ago or 2 years ago--due, of course, to vastly increased taxes, and to a natural recovery in the economy. This budget includes within it no plans to do any better. The alternative budget proposed by the Senator from New Mexico looks forward, looks to the proposition that if we are going to have national growth, if we are going to have good times, if we are going to have the progress, which is assumed in the budget that the majority has put before us, we ought to use that time to reduce the deficits, to stop borrowing against the future, however valuable or valid spending programs may be. It is, however, only the Republican budget that looks to that proposition.”