Kendrick Meek: “To be able to paint this even further for the Members, I am going to put a couple of countries up, more than a couple…”

“To be able to paint this even further for the Members, I am going to put a couple of countries up, more than a couple up, thanks to the Republican majority, that own a piece of the American pie. This bothers me in putting these countries up, but I think it is important that we spell it out. Mr. Speaker, when American civilization 500-600 years from now, when they start digging into the Congressional Record to find out what happened at this time, because I will guarantee you this, and I was talking to a group of veterans that came to my office today, this Congress, this Republican Congress, the 109th Congress and the President of the United States will go down in history, not in history of, oh, wow, something great happened, history in saying what were they doing? How did we get to the point that we owe so many foreign nations money? How did they buy a piece of the American pie? Why wasn't this an alarming time? We want them to be able to unearth this map here. U.K., they own $223.2 billion of our debt. The U.K. did not make us do it; they just were available to say fine, because you are going to owe us. Germany, that should mean something to some veterans, $65.7 billion of our debt. Taiwan, folks talk about Taiwan, many of the toys that are floating around the United States are made in Taiwan; and what they are doing with the money, they are buying our debt, $71.3 billion that they have of our debt.…”