Nunnelee remains committed to spending cuts
Congressman Alan Nunnelee says his priorities in his second term will remain on cutting spending and reducing the size of government.
“For the last decade, Americans have been getting $5 worth of government and only charged $3,”The Tupelo Republican told The Commercial Appeal. “Well, we’re not getting it at a discount. We’re just passing on that discount to successive generations. My goal is to cut spending — to honestly deal with the debt, so that I can pass on freedom and opportunity to my grandchildren.”
Nunnelee, who represents north Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District, says he’d like to see changes to entitlement programs, but isn’t sure they can be worked out before the Jan. 1 deadline set by the package of spending cuts and tax increases known as the “fiscal cliff.” He recalled a similar deadline in 2009, when he was in the Mississippi state senate, and a budget bill was approved at 11:58 p.m. on June 30 — two minutes before the budget year ended.
AP
12/9/12
