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We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.