Charles Norwood: “we have now completed 59 days of very hard work in this House, and as I sit back and ponder what we have accomplished in…”

“we have now completed 59 days of very hard work in this House, and as I sit back and ponder what we have accomplished in these 59 days I am really struck by the differences in what we on this side of the aisle are doing and what the Democrats are saying in opposition. We want to take this country forward. We want to protect our Nation's future by reducing our national debt. But from the other side we hear very meek defenses and sometimes very loud defenses of the status quo. We hear their cries to save the failed policies of the welfare state that they created over the last 40 years. And we hear their pleas to save the precious bureaucracy, for only the Federal bureaucrats know how to govern this Nation, they say. Mr. Speaker, we owe very near $5 trillion. We are adding another trillion every 4 years. We are paying almost $300 billion annually in interest on our debt. There is no greater thing we must fear than our debt. A trillion is a large number. I never can keep the zeros correct behind a trillion. But we owe almost $5 trillion, and maybe to put that in perspective just a little bit, I would say that if we tried to pay off $1 trillion of our debt and we chose to do that by paying $1 every second, we would pay off that trillion dollars in 144,000 years. And I remind my colleagues perhaps that organized agriculture only started on this planet 10,000 years ago.”