Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.
It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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.
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.
This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.
We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.
What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.