There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's insane to try to balance the budget.
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.
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.
Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.
What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.