David Schweikert: “First, I appreciate being recognized for these 5 minutes, although it is always dangerous when a Member starts walking…”

“First, I appreciate being recognized for these 5 minutes, although it is always dangerous when a Member starts walking towards the microphone and they are doing it because something hit their desk and it annoyed them. We have been working on something in our office to try to explain an intense frustration I have, and that is Washington and its embracing of delusional math. Look, I have only been here 3 years, and I have come to the conclusion that the single biggest problem I see is not the right-left continuum, but those who own calculators and those who don't; those who live in a world where math actually has a value. And this will make sense, hopefully, in a moment. I am right now holding a CBO report, the ``2013 Long-Term Budget Outlook.'' Yet I have not heard someone else come to this microphone, but there is just the beginning of a paragraph that should terrify you: Federal debt as a percentage of GDP in 2038 under the extended baseline is projected to be about twice as large as the amount estimated in last year's report. Do you understand what this report is saying? That because of the policies from this administration, the policies coming out of our bureaucracies and the things we need to actually deal with in this House, the numbers are almost twice as bad as they were last year. That is the speed we are going to hit 100 percent of debt to GDP.…”