David Schweikert: “I have been coming behind this mike every week when we are here, sometimes for half an hour or an hour, and I have been…”

“I have been coming behind this mike every week when we are here, sometimes for half an hour or an hour, and I have been basically taking the bark off our brothers and sisters on the left because of my belief that so much of the policy here hurts people. I have shown over and over the working poor are getting poorer, the poor are getting poorer, the middle class--I mean, last week, I had charts here that showed that, in my Phoenix-Scottsdale area, we have the highest inflation in the continental United States. You get to work a month-and-a-half for free just because of the change in our inflation index. Even when you plug in any salary growth we have had in our marketplace, you are functionally donating over a month of labor that you get no purchasing power for, no compensation. That is inflation. I have tried in those previous speeches to turn to my brothers and sisters in the majority, the Democrat side, and say: Hey, here are some things we could do policy-wise to take on inflation. Inflation is not just a monetary issue; it is also things we can do on policy, the fiscal side. I thought I would go to crazy town for a moment and show some things that are optimistic. The fact of the matter is that a lot of them aren't necessarily right or left. They are just technology adoption.…”