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Republican Congressman D. French Slaughter Jr. brags about his support for a balanced-budget amendment.
This is one of the biggest frauds that has ever threatened the American people. It is the president’s job to submit a budget to Congress. President Reagan promised us a balanced budget by 1983; 12 years later, no budget within $150 billion of balancing has ever been submitted.
Our experience with the GrammRudman Act should have convinced us how useless an amendment would be. The government has pretended to reduce the deficit each year, using all kinds of accounting tricks, stealing $100 billion from the social security, highway and airways trust
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