i have a favorite truck driver, retired truck driver in pinedale, wyoming, who suggested that we needed to quit putting people in the wagon and get more people pulling the wagon. and what, of course, he's referring to is the way that we're growing government. every time we grow government, we put some more people in this wagon that the private sector has to pull. yes, everybody in government pays taxes but not one person in the government pays as much taxes as they earn. so they become a part of the burden in the wagon. yes, even -- even senators are part of that burden in the wag wagon. but we're getting less and less people pulling the wagon. and they're getting a little tired of pulling the wagon. and i'm going to show some things that are happening in this budget that are making it even tougher for them to pull the wagon. so, mr. president, this is not the right path forward. my constituents back home in wyoming and americans across this country deserve better. we talk about how we have reduced the deficit. reduced the deficit? yeah, that means that we used to be over -- overspendin

you know, we had a government shutdown awhile ago and i got a letter from a trucker in pinedale, wyoming. he said he was getting a little tired of all the people who were riding in the wagon and how many fewer people were pulling the wagon. and what he's referring to with that is every time we expand the government, every time we do one of these new programs and put a whole bunch more people on the payroll, heck, we got a whole bunch more just in i.r.s. people that are supposed to be checking on obamacare. if you put them in the wagon and the private sector has to pull it, there is a point where they can't pull it anymore. and what he was suggesting was that if we wanted to really find out about america, that the private sector ought to have a shutdown. and it wouldn't take 16 days for us to realize the effect of the private market. and that's something we've got to watch out for, because that is where the taxes come from. oh, yes, all of us in government pay taxes. none of us pay as much in taxes as we receive in wages. so we're riding in the wagon and it's getting tougher and tougher t