I was going to say to my friend, over the course of the last 10 years we know where the debt really came from. It wasn't in early childhood education. It wasn't in national parks. It was in two tax cuts--a couple trillion dollars or more. It was in two wars--at least a couple trillion dollars. And it was in a crash on Wall Street when people were laid off and had to have some kind of assistance. Obviously, you said Arizona needed assistance--$6.4 billion and they still sold their capitol. I would yield to my friend from Connecticut because he has the chart that describes this.
On the recordJuly 29, 2011
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