John Mica: “It has been a while. I know the American people are frustrated with the shutdown, and a week from now, the country will…”

“It has been a while. I know the American people are frustrated with the shutdown, and a week from now, the country will default if action is not taken. How we got into this situation is not that complicated. You can only continue to spend so much of the public's money, and then you run out of the public's money. After years, 4 years of unchecked spending, when the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, it has caught up with us. We put the brakes on 2 years ago, and this is a difficult way to put the brakes on now. No one likes it. The American people don't like it. But we have got to get our spending and we have got to get our debt under control. You continue to spend, you incur debt. Next week we'll go from $17 trillion to probably a request for another $1 trillion. That's not sustainable. We must work together to resolve this in the long-term interest and national economic and financial security of our Nation. ____________________”