Fiscal Responsibility

Harry Zeeve - Page 2

"College is really where I got my cooking education," adds Harry. "When I moved off campus, in my junior year, that's when I applied all the knowledge that I had acquired from my mom, grandmother and the trips into town with my dad. And it worked out pretty well. My roommates did enjoy my cooking-I think-I hope. They never said no," he laughs. "We would alternate who cooked. We'd all chip in either ingredients or money and figure out who's going to cook. I actually lived with a couple of really good cooks. We never sent anybody to the hospital."

Harry met his wife during his freshman year of college. "Carol has a degree in social work and later got an MBA. The pre-school teaching she's doing now is ideal because it fits the kids' school schedule. So it works out very well. She certainly draws on her social work degree although the management techniques she learned getting an MBA certainly applies to getting 3 and 4-year-olds to behave." Carol enjoys baking which is just fine with Harry. "Baking is a little too precise for me," he laughs. They have two children, Alex (9) and Rachel (7). "Both of them like to help out. Alex will help with any of the prep work I'm doing especially when it comes to grilling." Rachel loves to help out with her favorite omelet, which she came up with herself. "I asked Rachel what she would like in her omelet and she said you've got to put some Parmesan cheese in it Daddy." Rachel's Omelet was born.

While baking might be too precise for Harry, he and the Concord Coalition know precisely what our federal budget needs: balancing. The hard part is coming up with the recipe. Yet it has been done before. "We took the starting point in '92 and said this is an unsustainable path we're on; it's time to start fixing it." Says Harry, "It went from there. Those issues ran the range from hard choices in the budget to trying to foster a meaningful debate on entitlement reform."

It took eight years for the U.S. to dig out of that hole. The country started running budget surpluses for about three years starting in 2000, 2001 and even in early 2002. "It took both sides to bite the bullet and make some hard choices," Harry says. "The fact that the Clinton Administration was dealing with a Republican Congress meant that neither side could get everything they wanted. The Republicans couldn't get every tax cut; the Democrats couldn't get every spending program and lo and behold when you have forced compromise like that, it was very good for the budget."

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