Here is John Boehner speaking truth to power.

Promises, promises... I guess it is the political game... yet the surging debt is no game...

The Freedom Post

JOHN BOEHNER: "WE'RE BROKE. AMERICA'S BROKE"

"We need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." -- Barack Obama

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called for an end to Washington’s unprecedented borrowing and spending binge during floor remarks today opposing Democrats’ 2,500-page omnibus spending bill. Noting that “America is broke,” Boehner challenged President Obama to go through the measure, which contains more than 5,000 earmarks, “line-by-line and page-by-page” as he promised the American people he would. Following are video and the full text of Boehner’s remarks:

“We’re broke. America’s broke. All year long, our friends on the other side of the aisle have been on a massive spending spree that our nation can’t afford. We had a trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ bill that was supposed to created jobs ‘immediately,’ and yet unemployment is now at ten percent in America and three million people have lost their jobs since it was signed into law. We’ve got a budget that’s going to double the national debt in five years, triple it in ten years. We’ve got a $12 trillion national debt. We bought a national energy tax bill to the floor that’s going to cost a trillion dollars – passed it. We had a health care bill here several weeks ago – another trillion dollars – passed it. When are we going to say, ‘enough is enough?’

“Here we are today wrapping six appropriations bills together. We’re going to spend half-a-trillion dollars. And it’s got over 5,000 earmarks in the bill. Things like: $292,200 for the ‘elimination of slum and blight’ in Scranton, Pennsylvania; $300,000 for music and education programs at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, where they pay the employee who oversees the props more than $530,000 in salary and benefits; and there’s plenty in here Washington as well: $150,000 for the National Building Museum and $250,000 for the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, a concert venue.

“Listen, I don’t know how worthy any of these projects are, but I do have to ask a question: are they more important than our kids and grandkids, who are going to have the pay the debt because we don’t have the money to spend on this? It’s our kids and grandkids who are going to pay for it, and yet we can’t find ways to cut spending.

“Before taking office, the President said he would go through the budget and these bills ‘line-by-line, page-by-page.’ After Congress passed the $410 billion omnibus spending bill with more than 9,000 earmarks, the President signed it, and said, ‘well that was last year’s business.’ Now the President says reducing the deficit is next year’s business – that we need to ‘spend our way’ out of this economic recession we’re in.

“Well I think the President ought to go through this bill line-by-line and page-by-page, all 2,500 pages of it. And then maybe he’ll figure out, we don’t need to be spending this money that we don’t have and piling more and more debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids. Instead, our bond rating, our AAA bond rating is in jeopardy and our Democrat friends want to raise the debt limit next week by $1.8 trillion. Instead, let’s stop the madness and vote ‘no.’”

Consider and ponder.

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