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John Cox on Budget & Economy
Republican Party Chair, Cook County (IL)
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One of the original members of the Club for Growth
We need to do something different in 2008. I'm a long-time activist, just like you. I'm one of the original members of the Club for Growth. And that's the Club for Growth--economic growth.
That's what this country needs. That's what will provide a living for our children and a strong, secure nation.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
Anti-Hillary candidate cannot be a career politician
We need to nominate somebody who has a chance of winning, who is a perfect anti-Hillary. A businessman, not a career politician. If we nominate another career politician and they get up on that stage with
Hillary, she's going to beat 'em to death with why they spent all that money, why they expanded government, why they didn't get anything done.So, you've got to ask yourself. Are we going to keep doing the same things over and over again?
What did Einstein say, that insanity is doing the same things and expecting a different result? Let's change what we're doing. Let's get some real management expertise into the presidency.
Let's move this country forward. Let's get integrity and competence back in the Republican Party.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
Rein in out-of-control spending and balance the budget
Q: In 2006, the US government spent $406 billion dollars of our money just on interest payments to the holders of the national debt--which is now $8.8 trillion. If elected, will you rein in this out-of-control spending and work hard to balance the budget
- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
COX: When I campaign, I see kids and I go up to them and I say, "Did you know you are $30,000 in debt already?"
And they look at me, and they say, "What's debt?" It's immoral to put our children in debt. The career politicians in Washington who have spent your money to get elected year after year continue to pile debt onto our children, and it can't continue
at this rate. You know, we've got a decent economy out there, 4.6% unemployment. The stock market is at 13,500. But people have a palpable fear of this crushing debt, and the idea that we are going to leave this to our children. It can't happen.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
Veto every federal budget that is not balanced, period
As president, I will veto every Federal budget that is not balanced. Period. Government spending is out of control. Special interests make it very difficult for career politicians who depend on them for re-election to cut spending. I will eliminate the
Commerce and Education Departments, I will seek Line-Item Veto and Balanced Budget Amendments from Congress, and urge zero-based budgeting and sun setting to force a constant re-evaluation of government programs
Source: Campaign website, cox2008.com
Jul 2, 2007
Republicans have been spending money like liberals
I've seen a lot of things in Washington that I really don't like, said Cox, including what until the November 2006 election had been a nominally conservative Congress presided over by a nominally conservative and
Republican president who together, however, have been spending money like liberals.
Source: John Kozoil, in "The Citizen", Laconia, NH
Jun 11, 2007
Government runs deficit because they lack tough decisions
I run my businesses at a profit, not a deficit. The government runs a deficit because career politicians don't have the nerve to say no to special interest groups or to make the tough decisions necessary to balance the budget. Certainly, national
emergencies like WWII happen & you may have to run a deficit temporarily to address that type of situation. If Congress won't balance their budget, I will go over their heads to their bosses--the voters who elected them & who can kick them out of office.
Source: Interview with "Small Government Times"
Mar 6, 2007
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