Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, we on this side, I think, were foxed before by the President because he promised to come up with a balanced budget. He never did. Now they are telling us the responsible thing to do is raise the debt limit without any guarantees, to continue taxing and spending. We were betrayed before.

The alternative is the President's budget, which they are afraid to really even bring on the floor today. It has in it $210 billion in additional spending. That is more than 1 entire year's deficit that we are running now. Then another surprise, $66 billion in taxes.

They are saying we cannot pay our senior citizens or our veterans, but in fact we are going to make choices and we are going to pay if we do not make some changes here; our illegal aliens, we are going to pay volunteers for paid volunteer programs, and we can dig up $50 billion here or there for Mexico. We cannot make these wrong choices again.