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Mark Neumann: This is more than an issue about numbers and whether we need to pay down the debt or balance the budget. It is an issue…

On the recordApril 24, 1997
This is more than an issue about numbers and whether we need to pay down the debt or balance the budget. It is an issue about morals, and it is one of many moral issues facing America today. When a generation concludes that it is all right for them to spend the next generation's money, we have more than a numbers problem, we have a moral crisis facing America today. And this is just one part of it. The moral crisis facing our Nation is even bigger than what we are looking at here today.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin

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Discussing the moral implications of national debt and budget balancing.

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