Statements about Federal Budget

"Forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children."

"There's more than 100,000 people working at the Department of Agriculture. That's 1 employee for every 30 farmers."

"In the last 50 years, (the federal government has) only balanced the budget five times."

"If we just froze spending at 2007 levels ... by 2013 we would balance the budget ... and by 2020 we would cut the national debt in half."

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