James Davis: “The voters have spoken. They have elected us to return to Washington to get the job done. And one of the first things we…”

“The voters have spoken. They have elected us to return to Washington to get the job done. And one of the first things we are getting ready to do is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. We are getting ready to charge to future generations this massive expenditure that we are enjoying the benefits of and ought to be paying for ourselves. One of the things I would like to add to what has been discussed here tonight is folks at home say to me, Jim, what does this mean to me? These are a lot of numbers. This sounds like a fight about people in Washington. Where do I fit into this? And one of the ways, I think, to sum this up is that today, because of the reckless spending habits and reckless decisions on tax cuts without regard to the debt and deficit, each American's share of the Federal debt today is $25,000. $25,000. Every American in this country, Democrat, Republican, man, woman, child, grandfather, grandchild, $25,000 each.”