Austin Scott: “I definitely do agree. Just to bring your point home and the gentleman from Tennessee's point home about what we are…”

“I definitely do agree. Just to bring your point home and the gentleman from Tennessee's point home about what we are doing and the money we are borrowing from foreign governments, just think about this as you tie that to homeland security. We are spending more in our interest and the fee and the costs that we are paying these countries, in addition to the billions of dollars for each country you have mentioned, there is an interest on top of that that they are charging us to borrow the money. It is more than what we spend on our own homeland security. You talk about the height of irresponsibility. But I do want to make sure that the American people understand the hypocrisy that is at stake here with what my friends on the Republican side are asking us to do which we must not do. We must not trade these budget cuts for foster care programs and for those of the needy to give the wealthy these tax cuts. Not now. Later when we can afford it, let us do so. But certainly not now. Just think. I am not sure that my friends on the other side of the aisle understand nor the President really understands how our country, most of the majority of the working families, the people in this country that are the backbone of this country, let us just even take our soldiers and our National Guardsmen, our soldiers who are defending us so brilliantly, doing an extraordinary job in Iraq and Afghanistan, many are on their second and third tours. Our military might is being strained.…”