Austin Scott: “as I stand here, it is very important for us to remember the words of our first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander…”

“as I stand here, it is very important for us to remember the words of our first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, for it was Alexander Hamilton who said the greatness of a strong, centralized government shines at its most brilliant at the moment and time of a nation in crisis. We are in a crisis. We are in an agonizing, convoluting, economic crisis of staggering magnitude. It is going to take us to have the wisdom and the smarts, just like our Founding Fathers did, to be able to respond. Now I want to just bring this into perspective so the American people will know exactly what it is we are doing, in a most responsible way, because I take great umbrage with some of my friends on the other side of the aisle, some of my Republican friends, who want to question the actions of us on the Democratic side of not being good stewards of the taxpayers' money. We are being good stewards of the taxpayers' money. Unlike the first batch of the $350 billion that the previous administration had, you talk about not being good stewards of the taxpayers' money, there you go, no strings attached. Nothing.…”