Look, those are always hard to do, particularly, you know, when you want to reach out to the families in your community and deal with those really difficult moments. So I appreciate the gentleman, and I am always happy to yield. He has always been very kind to me here. All right. Back on to trying to help do our theme here. And I know it is a little sarcastic, but it is sort of meant to have a little impact. We often joke that we are operating in a math-free zone, and it is a great frustration. One of the neat things that has happened over these first couple of months as we have been doing this sort of unified theory pitch--and we keep trying to say it is not Republican or Democrat. It is math. A number of my friends from the left have actually started to stop by the office, particularly on the technology, which I am very excited, because there is a revolution happening around us. So let's actually sort of move on to one or two more boards just to make sure that we have built the argument. On this particular board--and I have shown this; I am going to keep showing it--2008 to 2028, 91 percent of the increased spending--so when you see that curve going up between that 2008 and 2028, 91 percent, Social Security, healthcare entitlements, and interest. Social Security, the healthcare entitlements, and interest--91 percent of the growth in spending for those 20 years.…
David Schweikert: “Look, those are always hard to do, particularly, you know, when you want to reach out to the families in your community…”
Share
More from David Schweikert
We’re going to have to deal with the reality of subsidization of everything in the economy is not going to work,
we are going to actually do something with a little meat on the bones today. I have to walk through the math. Repeatedly, I have come behind this microphone over the last decade, trying to walk through our Joint Economic Committee's, my…
Mr. Speaker, guess what. We had sort of a record today for not being in COVID or whatever disasters. Every day, I send out a text message. It is part of our Joint Economic Committee. I have a few thousand people who subscribe to this. Yes…
have you ever had a piece of legislation--we all go through this--where you have your friends on the opposite side who say things, and you think, wow, I can't find that in this piece of legislation. I guess we are all sometimes in the…





