Brian Jones: “I find it so ironic that our Nation is on the cliff of collapse and yet we continue to borrow money from China to prop…”

“I find it so ironic that our Nation is on the cliff of collapse and yet we continue to borrow money from China to prop up a corrupt leader in Afghanistan. Our country is in the most dire of fiscal straits, and we continue to send money to Afghanistan. The worst part is, the money we are sending, we cannot audit, and many times the taxpayers' money ends up in the hands of the Taliban to buy weapons to kill Americans. Mr. Speaker, this poster beside me is a book that I read. The title is, ``Funding the Enemy.'' The subtitle is, ``How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban.'' I would like to quote Lisa Freeman, who recently acknowledged that we have lost 2,000 young Americans in Afghanistan. She lost her son, Captain Matthew Freeman, in 2007, in Afghanistan. Ms. Freeman said: Where is America's outrage? Where is America's concern that we're still at war? I agree with Ms. Freeman. Where is the outrage here in Congress? Does it make any sense that we continue to borrow money from foreign governments to prop up a corrupt leader and half the money going to the leader of Afghanistan ends up in the hands of the Taliban to buy weapons to kill Americans? Our Nation is broke--China owns us--and we're sending our young men and our money to Afghanistan, yet we're going to cut programs right here in America for the American people. The American people need to put the pressure on Congress to bring our troops home now and not wait until December of 2014. Mr.…”