We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.
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The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.
We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.
Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.
Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.