Brian Jones: “Yesterday I heard Congressman Mo Brooks from Alabama give a very disturbing speech, but a speech that everyone should…”

“Yesterday I heard Congressman Mo Brooks from Alabama give a very disturbing speech, but a speech that everyone should hear, and that is: America is headed toward Greece. Financially we are in a bad situation. We are $19.4 trillion in debt. In 2000 I was here when President Clinton was leaving office. We had a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and we were headed for a surplus. In fact, the debt in 2000 was $5.6 trillion. Today that debt is $19.4 trillion. The poster I have with me, Mr. Speaker, I used all during August. It is a great political cartoon. It is kind of sad in a way, I guess. The cartoon is this: It has got Uncle Sam in a wheelchair, and Uncle Sam is saying, ``I can see Greece from here,'' and the cliff has got written the words ``fiscal cliff.'' And then who is pushing Uncle Sam but Mr. Obama, and he is saying, ``Forward.'' And who is pushing Mr. Obama? The donkey, representing the Democrats? Who is pushing the donkey? The Republicans, the elephant. What it is saying is both parties are guilty of this debt that is going to strangle this country before very long. Last week there was an article in Reuters News. The headline was: ``U.S. Army Fudged Its Accounts by Trillions of Dollars, Auditor Finds.'' The auditor said that, in the year 2015, he found that the Army had misappropriated over $6 trillion. I don't know where the outrage is anymore. I have no idea where it is. Six trillion dollars they cannot account for.…”