Jack Kingston: “I heard a similar quote that said ignorance and bliss is easy. Let me just say that I think it is important for all of…”

“I heard a similar quote that said ignorance and bliss is easy. Let me just say that I think it is important for all of our constituents to call us, to write us, to get involved, to come to town meetings and so forth. We are in a huge national debate. We have a budget that has a deficit of about $140 billion to $150 billion. We have a $5 trillion debt. We cannot pass this legacy on to our children, and we will not even be able to do, because the day of reckoning is coming sooner than that. I will close with one story I tell many, many times, you have all heard it, a story about a guy crossing the road. He gets into the middle of the road, and a car comes whizzing around the corner. All of a sudden, the man jumps out of the way, the car swerves to the same direction. The man jumps to the right, the car swerves to the right; the man jumps to the left, the car swerves to the left. Back and forth. At the last possible minute, the man jumps out of the way, and the car pulls up next to him. The driver rolls down the window, and it is a squirrel, and he says, "It ain't as easy as it looks, is it?" I think that is the situation we are in in the United States of America right now. We have got a lot of problems, and it is not going to be easy, and it is not going to be something where you can just stay at home and say this is what ought to happen. We all need to be involved in this.”