This is our fourth deficit over a trillion dollars.
Unsustainable.
All because the Tea Party insisted on cutting 100 billion in spending last year.s/
Your homework assignment, gents & ladies, is to identify the speaker who made the following remarks on February 23, 2009. Ready? You may pick up your pencils and turn over your test booklets.
“I refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay.”
“We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end.”
“We cannot simply spend as we please.”
“I will end accounting tricks.”
“I will require every Cabinet member to scrub department budgets line by line and reinstate a pay as you go rule from the 1990s.”
“This is the rule that families across this country follow every single day, and there’s no reason their government shouldn’t do the same. You don’t pay what you don’t have.”
“We are on the path to the very debt explosion we must avoid.”
Fiscal high treason.