Jack Kingston: “I know that for a fact. I have been here. If they have not read the bill by now and have not been following the debate…”

“I know that for a fact. I have been here. If they have not read the bill by now and have not been following the debate, that is not the fault of the Republican Congress. The second reason they say that is that welfare does not cost that much. If you add in all the Federal Government welfare programs, the cost is $345 billion, which is more than we spend on defense. I am not sure what they consider money if $345 billion is not. We spent $5 trillion since LBJ's Great Society programs, and that is enough money. That is more than we spent on World War II. The final reason they are saying is that it is cruel to children. Nothing is more cruel than having a welfare system that traps children in poverty, that makes children and families break up, that makes them live in housing projects where the dad cannot be at home, where there is high drug use, where there are teenage dropout rates and teenage drug abuse. I do not see why they think that is compassion.”