David Schweikert: “We are going to try to do a continuation on a theme. Last week, I came to the floor and sort of walked through what…”

“We are going to try to do a continuation on a theme. Last week, I came to the floor and sort of walked through what inflation was doing to seniors. Today, I am going to try to walk through what it is doing to the poor, the working poor, the middle class, all of society. One of the difficult things I am going to do, and I know it is somewhat rhetorical, is ask my brothers and sisters on the left: Are you happy with what you have accomplished? Democrats took, functionally, power here 15 months ago. They had the House, the Senate, and they took the White House. And we got to see the playbook. This is important because we often are so busy chasing shiny objects here, we never sort of talk about some of the economic differences and the way the left and those of us on the right view the world. The left sort of believes in this model of consumption. Send people checks, and they will go buy stuff and, somehow, that will make society utopian. Of course, it also sets off really bad societal problems like: ``Hey, I have money. I don't have to participate in society and the economy.'' ``Hey, I have money. Let's just go buy stuff today,'' and it sets off inflation. Those of us who actually showed up to our economics classes, we believe in this concept--it is often referred to as supply side. It is much more complicated.…”