On the recordOctober 7, 2015
Because I want to engage as we used to do. And I know that you do this as well. But I just want to follow up on what you just said because the gentleman from California posed the question and stated the fact that millennials today really aren't starting new businesses. You would think--and we envision them to be the start-up generation. They are living in a start-up era, but, yet, they can't see it. To use the vernacular of the gentleman of Florida, Congressman Meeks, when we were throwing things around on the House floor 10 years ago, let's put the cookie on the bottom shelf here. If, as you just said, they are saddled with the burden of significant debt coming out of college when they get a degree, it is very difficult for them to see a pathway to develop that small business, to envision being a pioneer of the next great industry. So we are literally saddling them with a heavy burden as they leave what is supposed to be the jumping-off point for the next phase of their lives. We are supposed to be passing them the baton so that they can move America forward. It is just not fair. It is not right. And our friends on the other side of the aisle are part of the problem.
