Many individuals and groups have spoken out on the importance of balancing the Budget. A few samples:

"The first thing to do is to stop interest groups and complicit politicians from eating the unborn. Closing the budget deficit is not only morally imperative, it's also tactically important. When parasites can't feed on the future, they fight over a relatively smaller budget in the present." (39).

"The choices we make now will determine what kind of society our children and grandchildren inherit 20 and 30 years from now. There is little time for political gridlock. With the first of the 77 million baby boomers on the verge of retirement, the window of opportunity to act is rapidly closing. Inaction now increases the prospects of severe changes later. Every year that change is postponed greatly raises the risk of large tax increases or sudden benefit reductions in the future."
http://www.concordcoalition.org/events/fiscal-wake-up/fiscal-wake-up-call.htm

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