Robert Berry: “I find this debate we are having this evening most amazing. I was eating breakfast Monday morning with a dear friend of…”

“I find this debate we are having this evening most amazing. I was eating breakfast Monday morning with a dear friend of mine. He is a farmer and lives on the bank of the St. Francis River in Clay County, Arkansas. He is full of wisdom. He knows that if you do not make a crop, you cannot pay the bank off. He understands that. We were sitting there eating breakfast just at daylight looking out across some beautiful cotton; and he said, Marion, those guys are not going to know they are broke until they have sold their last chicken. We have already sold our last chicken, and you guys want to just keep borrowing money and borrowing money and piling the debt on top of debt on top of debt on top of my grandchildren. Like everyone that has grandchildren, I think they are the most special thing, and it breaks my heart to see what you all are doing to them and this country. I do not see how you can continue to deceive yourselves and try to deceive this great Nation by doing that. And you can talk about raising taxes and you can talk about whatever you want to. The bottom line is, you cannot hide from that debt. You got to pay it. You got to pay the interest on it. There is no place to go when it gets so high that nobody can afford it, and we are already there. Yet you want to keep playing these little games. There are lots of things you can say about this, but one thing is for sure: it is irresponsible.”