For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.
The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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