David Schweikert: “I am going to come down to the lower microphone because we are going to be using a number of slides, and I want to…”

“I am going to come down to the lower microphone because we are going to be using a number of slides, and I want to apologize right now, this one is going to be a little thick. We are actually going to do some information in regard to what CBO put out this week and some other economic data and try to put it in perspective. So let me come on down. I get teased all the time about the charts and the fact that I can't even get my wife to now watch me do these because she says I am boring, but it is important. Madam Speaker, what I am going to try to do today--and let's see if I can do it as well as possible. I want to walk through what is a little bit of sort of the political folklore that we engage in here about the math when we talk about the deficits and the debt and the economic future and when you hear people say things like the debt as compared to the size of the economy and what is driving it, because, if we don't actually sort of get our act together here and start to become honest about just the math and what is driving it, we can't put together policy. I am incredibly optimistic that there is a path where we can digest the realities of these costs that happen from our demographics, because we are a society that is getting old really fast, but we do politics now. The other day, I am home and I am watching a little bit of one of the Presidential forums.…”