Mark Neumann: “I will just carry on a little bit on just what you were just saying here, that when I go home to our district, and I…”

“I will just carry on a little bit on just what you were just saying here, that when I go home to our district, and I turn on my TV set, and I hear about cut, cut, cut, cut, and then I come back out here to Washington, and I take a look at the numbers, and the numbers are not going down, they are going up in spending; spending today is about $1530 billion or about $1.530 trillion, and by the year 2002 that spending is slated to go all the way up to 1.8 or $1,835 billion. So when people talk about these spending cuts, I think it is important to note that they are not cuts in spending. What they are is reductions in the amounts of increases, and in fact, as you can see looking at these numbers in the spending line, we have got spending increases of $350 billion from the year 1995 to the year 2002. Spending is continuing to go up. And you are right on the money with what you are talking about, that the real goal here needs to be to get the net revenues into line with the amount of spending that we are doing. That is how you get to a balanced budget.”