Charles Norwood: “Presuming there are one or two, I have to tell you, I wondered tonight, as I listened, has any country, any nation on…”

“Presuming there are one or two, I have to tell you, I wondered tonight, as I listened, has any country, any nation on Earth ever, ever spent more money for the poor than the United States of America? And in doing that, what we basically do is we take money from one human being and give it to another which there is nothing in our Constitution that suggests that we have to do that. We do that because, I think, we all do care about those that are less fortunate. Now, let me just make one other comment about the information. One of the things we could do in Congress that would really help us is that we could get factual information, or perhaps make the Members be responsible for what they say and make sure that what they say is the truth. But so much of the information that we have heard tonight comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and their report that they have put out on the nutritional programs is a report put out by a lot of people who know that they are going to be out of work.”