Great read!

Brat's amendment has nothing to do with the bill's intent — only with the bill being proffered with Washington's favorite funding method, "autopilot," wherein your tax money is spent automatically without future Congressional review or public notice. In practice, this surmounts to Taxation without Representation, as "autopilot" is not an entity Constitutionally qualified to hold office nor even an experimental Facebook gender identification option.

We are currently $127 trillion light on mandatory spending at present.

This means by 2027, all federal revenues will be spent on only mandatory programs.

This is a disaster.

My children right now are 13 and 16.

By the time they are about 30 we will have zero dollars for running government, because all dollars will be spent on these mandatory programs.

We all want cures, and I am for the underlying bill.

But in economics, rationality requires that we rank our preferences in order and fund the best programs.

This is one of them.

There is no issue finding two billion dollars out of a three and a half trillion dollar budget.

But currently there is no discipline up here in this city.

We just fund everything and hand the bill to the next generation.

Every mandatory program starts off with high hopes.

But go to the trustee reports on the major mandatory programs today, and you will find that they are all insolvent.

By around 2030 as well.

So today, you will hear all sorts of fancy terminology about pay-fors and oil reserves and deficits, but don't be fooled.

Our annual deficit spending is $500 billion and on its way to a trillion in a few years.

We are off course on every front.

We always talk about the children.

But at present, we are handing them $18 trillion in debt and another $127 trillion bill in mandatory programs.

You want the truth?

The children are the only group without a lobbyist up here on Capitol Hill, and that's why they're getting trashed.

If you want a cure, go to a doctor.

But if you want to clean up the U.S. economy, please consult an economist or two.

The numbers and the story I have given are not in dispute.

The only issue is whether we have the resolve to balance our budgets and leave our children a brighter day.

Sadly it was defeated....
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/07/10/stop-the-presses-a-congressman-just-did-what-he-promised-voters-he-would-do/2/

Quoteand leave our children a brighter day.