Episode 359: Why We Need a Balanced Budget
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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When Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House, they balanced the federal budget for four straight years, the only four consecutive years in your lifetime. And they did it knowingly, deliberately and with a strategic plan. He knows it can be done. Newt makes the case of why the federal budget needs to be balanced now.
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| 1:06.0 | On this episode of Newt's World I want to chat with you about balancing the federal budget |
| 1:12.0 | and how rapidly the world can change. |
| 1:16.0 | And I say that because if you just stuck your head up in Washington today and said, |
| 1:21.0 | oh, let's balance the federal budget, people would think you are crazy and they would say, oh my god, don't you realize that the debt's too big, that the obligations are too much, that it's not possible. |
| 1:33.0 | Now, I have a particular interest in this because when I was speaker of the house, we balanced the budget for four straight years, the only four consecutive years in your lifetime. |
| 1:45.0 | And we did it knowingly, deliberately and with a really strategic plan. So I know it can be done. |
| 1:52.0 | But I want to start by chatting about budgets and why budgets matter. |
| 1:57.0 | And then I'll carry you through some interesting stories about what we did and how we did it and then I'm going to apply it to the present. |
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