The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's insane to try to balance the budget.
There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.
It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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.
Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.
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.
Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.