David Schweikert

instead of an hour of another economics presentation, we need to have a conversation. Is the evil winning? A couple of hours ago, one of my constituents lost his life. There is a 16-month-old whose daddy is not coming home. There is a…

For every dollar of tax collections we get next year, what are we going to spend? For every dollar of tax collections we take in next year, we are going to spend $1.43. This one number right here should scare the hell out of people…

to my appropriator friend, this is the game that we play, and this is where we talk past each other. Can I give an actual example? Clean coal technology, appropriated August 18, 2015; unobligated balance, $2 million. In the scale we deal…

In the next decade, the vast majority of debt is driven by interest and healthcare costs. We are often very uncomfortable talking about it. Let's actually talk about things that are great and that if we would get the policy right, we could…

First off, in August, Republicans are going to go out and tell the morality of people's taxes not going up next year. What we did in the reconciliation budget: incentives to invest in America, to build new plants of equipment, for working…

we are having a really exciting discussion with my buddy of how CBO actually does scoring on things. I was trying to explain that some of the things we consider absurd are actually our fault because it is the law that we have passed to…

Mr. Speaker, we are going to try a couple of things tonight, and I am going to try to do this as efficiently as possible. I hate doing it this way, but part of what I am going to do tonight is respond to basically a little bit--actually, a…

I believe there are actual solutions. The problem is they are hard, and it is one of those occasions where I think we play this game. We talk around each other because we talk our book. We talk what gets us elected. We talk what raises us…

I have come behind this microphone, heaven knows how many times and shown the charts. We are borrowing $72,000 a second. We could borrow as much as $2.3 trillion this year. I am going to show some other things in here such as Moody's, and…

I could almost hear the joy from my staff saying: Hey, it is only 30 minutes this time, not an hour. Mr. Speaker, I want to do just a handful of things. One of these days we are going to have not enough noise about the facts, the numbers…

Yeah. It blends out closer to the 70. Now, talking about the expansion population. That is where--

--The Wall Street Journal articles from the last year? I think they have done five or six major, major exposes on something we called Medicare part C. It is the Medicare Advantage. It was the sort of managed care version within Medicare…

Yes. Just understand, in reconciliation, which is the one time where we are allowed to talk about mandatory spending, the majority of mandatory spending, we are not allowed to touch--

Mr. Roy, we use the term ``socialize.'' How do I get it to part of our folklore, our use of language? Borrowing money is a tax hike.

Yes. You don't have to answer that because, the moment you answer, there will be an army of paid lobbyists, people running ads in your district, probably now beating the crap out of me on social media--

--because, between Social Security and interest, that is probably 54 or 55 percent of all mandatory. Sorry. It is a weird way I remember numbers. Well, let's risk our political careers. How many of you have read--

As always, I apologize to the bored staff, and I will try not to speak like a machine gun. Mr. Speaker, we are going to do basically three things. I am going to make fun of us. I am going to actually walk through some debt and deficit…

Mr. Roy, I think I am actually against my time, so I am going to do that moment. I am going to first apologize to the folks who had to try to take our words down for talking too fast, for the poor Speaker who had to sit here and listen to…

Most of this was designed in the late sixties. I have this weird history. I was a child--in my early twenties. I was a temporary page at the State legislature. Arizona was the last State to enter Medicaid. It was bankrupting our counties…

Yet, the big stuff, since there are so many lobbyists and constituencies who live off of that money, you are not allowed to talk about that. Mr. Roy, I am blessed. I have Phoenix and Scottsdale. I have one of the best educated districts in…

You have to understand. Okay. You are not going to raise taxes. I despise raising taxes.

The MedPAC report, since I am the only idiot who came here to the floor with the MedPAC, but that is partially my responsibility being on the Committee on Ways and Means. The MedPAC report was all highlighted, and we showed the MedPAC…

It is just to be paid at a future date. Yet, because the curve is now steepening--remember that I just showed you some charts that says we may double U.S. debt this decade. The curve is like this. You don't think we are not going to reach…

It goes further. Have you had the occasion yet, Mr. Speaker, where a group comes into your office--somehow, they were put on a plane, put in a hotel, those things here, they have no understanding of the math, the mechanics, but somehow…

The borrow is $250 million every hour. Watch out for the scam artists who play the game. They give you something that is outrageous. Okay. Get rid of it. Yet, sometimes the things that we will debate for hours here are minutes or sometimes…