Only about 15 percent of that gets to the ground, Madam Secretary. That is all I am saying. It is woefully inefficient, and we can do better.
Michael Garcia
The Public Record
$61 billion rounding up, $60.8 billion, would be sufficient. If you assume 500,000 homeless people in our country right now, which is a rough estimate plus or minus, that $61 billion is enough to give every homeless person in our Nation $122,000 every year, each and every year.
These numbers don't make sense, and I think--I think you are not getting all of the power to the ground, the power of the American taxpayer dollar to the ground in these neighborhoods where we need to be making the investments that you described.
Even at 5 million, you are still putting about $12,000 per year to each of these 5 million people.
I believe it is a noble mission. But I am a numbers guy, and as an appropriator, especially right now where our Nation is seeing record inflation, 8.5 percent, and a debt of $30 trillion at the Federal level, we have got to pay attention to these numbers a little closer than we have maybe historically.
This is about a housing shortage. This is about housing affordability. This is about enabling homeless families to get a roof over their head.
We need to reverse this cultural trend of defunding the police and, instead, defend the police and back our blue.
I can't wrap my brain around why you would be pleased with what has gone on in the last call it year to 18 months.
We are asking for even more money for counterintelligence and cyber defense, but we are worried not only about China, but about Russia, and about its immediate threat to us, and about North Korea, and about Iran.
In the last year, we have seen crime spikes like we have never seen before, 54 percent increase in shoplifting.
He is behaving like the penguin from Gotham City almost in Batman movies. He is almost enabling the bad guys to get away.





