Kendrick Meek: “This is just the foreign debt. This is countries that we have borrowed money from and now we owe them. Now, I am going…”

“This is just the foreign debt. This is countries that we have borrowed money from and now we owe them. Now, I am going to be quiet for a minute, but I just want to make this one last point and it is going to be 30 seconds. Ms. Jackson-Lee, if I borrowed $100 from you, and let us say I still have not paid you back, our relationship will change. Matter of fact, your respect for me as an individual to be able to handle my own finances will be altered. Even though we are considered friends, our relationship is forever changed. Now, for the first time in the history of the Republic, Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, the Republican majority has countries like China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Korea, the Caribbean nations, Taiwan, Canada, Germany and the OPEC nations looking at us in a different way, in an unprecedented way. The fact that, man, how can y'all tell me what to do on foreign policy and how can y'all point your finger to me as it relates to war on terror when you cannot even handle your own finances? That is not the American people. That is the Republican rubber-stamp majority. They have allowed this President to run this country into a fiscal nightmare. So I close with that by saying, Mr. Delahunt, for you to say the generals are coming out, they are coming out because the American spirit is coming out of the chest of Americans that have put themselves in harm's way, because this administration and this Congress asked them to put themselves in harm's way.”