loo if we look at the last five times the budget has beenbala, n balanced in the last 50 years, here is what we see.venues t revenues had to be close to g.d. 20 percent of gdp. 19.7% there were 197% in 1969, 19.9 in 1998, 19.8, and 20.6 and 19.5. that is the last five times the bu budget has been bounced. those each of those times revenue was now it is 14 and a half percent of gdp. anyone who seriously argues that you can solve this problem juste on the spending side of the equation is not being serious. d mr. president, the budget framework that we offer today t has revenues at 19.5% of gdp,aln almost equivalent to what it wan during the clinton years when we had balanced budgets and, ind fact, stopped using social othe. security money to pay otherdu bills.on during the clinton years revenue averaged 194%.lan, under our plan it averages 19.5%. reven so, revenue is clearly not out t of line compared to the other times we have balanced the bud budget and, in fact, during they clinton years when we had theno longest economic expansion in this nation's history. sayoh, our colleagues to