David Schweikert: “For anyone out there who is insane enough to have C-SPAN on, I may suggest requisitioning a life. If you don't want…”

“For anyone out there who is insane enough to have C-SPAN on, I may suggest requisitioning a life. If you don't want someone to talk to you like an adult, if you don't want someone doing big math, big numbers, and being serious, I am sure there is a video out there of a parakeet playing a piano someplace. Please leave now. Today I was actually going to try to come here and do the happy, positive talk. I actually had put together some boards on some really good things that happened. Then we made the mistake on my flight; the staff actually looked at the trust funds that were collapsing over the next few years. People forget. The Medicare trust fund is gone within 7 years. We can't actually work out the math of how devastating that will be because about 40 percent of all Medicare spent comes through that trust fund. It is almost all the money that Medicare patients receive at the hospital level. I do have one happy slide, so we are going to do that one, and then we are going to go on to the reality. Let me sort of make a point. We are going to have the fight over the continuing resolution or the budget or these things. People are going to do their political posturing, and we are going to fight and fight. Please understand. It is all important. It is rounding of the rounding of the rounding errors of what is really going on.…”