The People Want a Balanced Budget Amendment

July 18, 2011

Senator Orrin Hatch appeared on Fox News to talk about the Balanced Budget Amendment on Monday. When asked if he thought the amendment could be passed Senator Hatch responded with the following:

"I can see a path but it will take democrat help, and right now, I don't know that there are going to be any democrats that are really going to help and the balanced budget amendment we always get a number of democrats and in fact i brought it up twice, and almost passed it with 67 votes, on the second time, in 1997, we had 67 votes, going over to the final arguments on the floor, and, at the last minute one of our republicans stepped off, because the unions threatened him and we lost by one vote and it will take a balanced budget amendment.

...it is apparent the congress is not capable of living within its 5 trillion in debt, and I might add, social security is $11 trillion in debt and medicare is $38 trillion in debt and medicaid is almost that bad and there is no real effort made by the administration, and the democrats in congress, to try to resolve that problem, and I'm convinced the only way to resolve it is to force the congress to live within its means, like 49 states have to do, 49 states have balanced budget amendments, and, most cities do, and the fact of the matter is, they found that that is the only way to get spending under control, otherwise, people keep spending because they get more credit for spending than for conserving."

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