not reduce the deficit by raising taxes. We need more taxes like John McLaughlin [ Washington
executive editor of National Review ] needs assertiveness training.
Now, whether government borrows or increases taxes, it will be taking the same amount of money
from the private economy, and either way, that ' s too much. We must bring down government
spending. We need a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. It ' s something that
49 states already require-- no reason the federal government should be any different.
We need the line-item veto, which 43 governors have-- no reason that the president shouldn ' t.
And we have to cut waste. The Grace Commission has identified billions of dollars that are wasted
and that we can save.
But the domestic side isn ' t the only area where we need your help. All of us in this room grew up,
or came to adulthood, in a time when the doctrine of Marx and Lenin was coming to divide the
world. Ultimately, it came to dominate remorselessly whole parts of it. The Soviet attempt to give
legitimacy to its tyranny is expressed in the infamous Brezhnev doctrine, which contends that once
a country has fallen into Communist darkness, it can never again be allowed to see the light of