Judd Gregg, “there will never be surplus in federal budget”
May 8, 2009Sen. Gregg was all over cable news networks yesterday blasting Obama’s proposed budget. His yankee blood must be boiling at the size of Obama’s proposed budget.
Here’s a sampling of what he had to say in his network interviews (Yes, I recorded them to transcribe the best quotes):
It’s as if you took a teaspoon of water out of the bathtub while you left the spicket on at full speed.
Basically right now we’re running up a debt that is so high as a percentage of our gross national product that we couldn’t even get into the European union. I mean we’re headed to third-world country status if we keep this up
It is as if you were flying an airplane, and the gas light came on and it said ‘you 15 minutes of gas left’ and the pilot said ‘we’re not going to worry about that, we’re going to fly for another two hours. Well, the plane crashes and our country will crash and we’ll pass on to our kids a country that’s not affordable.
Barack Obama and Democrats think that by increasing the size of the government you can increase the prosperity of the country. That is just plain wrong and I challenge anyone to a debate on that statement. What we need both in New Hampshire and for our nation a fiscally responsible government that does not burden future generations with massive amounts of debt.
Mike Emm
May 9, 2009
Oh for Pete’s sake. Judd was the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee for 4 years and never came close to proposing a balanced budget. He was silent as we ran the entire Iraq war off-budget. He was the Senate’s point man on the $700 billion TARP bailout plan less than a year ago. Judd’s sudden conversion to fiscal sanity is about politics, not policy.
A Plaisted
Jun 16, 2009
Regardless of what Judd has done or not done in the past is irrelevant to what he stated. Pointing fingers solves nothing. We already know who’s at fault: both parties and the Federal Reserve lock stock and barrel.
Each of the three quotes is true however and what we need now is to figure out a way to fix it permanently; be it electing honest officials or protesting or out and out rebellion… Certainly what we are doing now, swapping Republicans for Democrats and vice versa, is not helping.
We need to do something