This Budget takes the responsible path of investing to respond, recover, and rebuild. It takes us down a path where we will face choices as to how we begin to repay some of our debt. There will be difficult choices then, as there are difficult choices today. But I promise you this: this Government will never put the burden of those choices on those who can least afford it. We will not cut the services that are their lifelines. We will not preach austerity, but then line our pockets with tax cuts. No, we will rebuild this country with hard work, innovation, creativity, compassion, and courage. We will grow our economy sustainably to pay back our debt, we will fairly share that burden, and, above all, we will do it together.