James T. Tucker: “That is right, we are moving backwards fast, because backwards is nowhere, it is a place called nowhere. We are moving…”

“That is right, we are moving backwards fast, because backwards is nowhere, it is a place called nowhere. We are moving so fast that we do not realize that we are moving backwards, and backwards is nowhere to be. It is nowhere we want to be, because it is where we have already been, and that is why we left it. Mr. Speaker, we know what happened in the days of orphanages. We have these people who take the floor and somehow try to glamourize Dickens, somehow try to glamourize Boy's Town, somehow try to glamourize the concept of an orphanage. That is like trying to glamourize a whorehouse; it is nice, it is a place of comfort and refuge. No matter what words you put on it, no matter what semantics you use, no matter what window dressing you use, an orphanage is still an orphanage. Why can we not, as a country, wake up to our responsibility, to our children in this country, and realize, yes, we have to cut the deficit. The argument that our colleagues use for cutting the deficit, do you know what the argument they use is? It is always our children, "We don't want to mortgage this debt on our children. We don't want to have the ignoble responsibility of going down in history as that generation that left a multi-billion dollar deficit and multi-trillion dollar debt to our children. We are mortgaging our children's future." That is what we hear on the floor of Congress every day. Therefore, if they are so concerned about our children, why don't they show it?”