David Schweikert: “My wife accuses me of not being able to speak without a chart, so now, when I am home, I walk around with a chart for my…”

“My wife accuses me of not being able to speak without a chart, so now, when I am home, I walk around with a chart for my 4-year-old, trying to explain what being a good girl is. So far, it is not working. We try to do this every week, but tonight, I am going to try to put some more details into last week's presentation. The reason I have this first board up is, once again, to show the math on the single biggest threat, I believe, to our country and to our society and the absurdity that this body isn't dealing with it. If you look at this chart, this is from the Manhattan Institute. It is now several months old. It is the 30-year window. I am going to try to make this all make sense. If you remove Social Security and Medicare, we have $23 trillion in the bank 30 years from now. If you pull Social Security and Medicare into the numbers, you see up on the top line, you are $103 trillion in debt. If you, then, normalize it for, I believe, inflation-adjusted dollars, constant dollars, it is like $83 trillion in debt. You are a couple hundred percent of debt to GDP. You have blown up the society. Why can't we just have an honest conversation that our debt driver is demographics? It is the healthcare portion of the demographics. How do we have a revolution here around the cost, the availability of healthcare, instead of the absurd conversation we have around this place all the time where it is about the financing?…”