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Mike Enzi: “I would like to address the type of accounting we have where we are kind of fudging some things that will cost future…”

On the recordOctober 10, 2000
I would like to address the type of accounting we have where we are kind of fudging some things that will cost future generations their Social Security unless we take some action now. We also need to take some action in the area of paying down the debt, tax policy, and education policy. If we don't address these policies using foresight instead of hindsight, if we don't do policy instead of polls, we are going to run into a situation similar to what we had when we hired 100,000 new teachers and then discovered we didn't have buildings to put them in. That was easy to solve; we just threw in a little more money. We put more buildings in there, except we are putting buildings in places where the voters themselves chose not to put buildings. I hope we will look at policy.
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Mike Enzi
Republican · Wyoming

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Discussing the need for policy changes in Social Security, debt, tax, and education.

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