Jack Kingston: “Well, you know, the old expression, I'm from the government, I'm here to help. I haven't found a school board or a…”

“Well, you know, the old expression, I'm from the government, I'm here to help. I haven't found a school board or a school board member back home or a teacher in the classroom who can't spend the money more efficiently and more effectively because, you know, there's an old Loretta Lynn song about raising children. One needs a spanking, one needs a hugging, and one's on his way. And you know, that's the situation with education. It's the teacher in the classroom who knows how to teach Johnny, not some bureaucrat on the sixth floor three offices down at the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. Well, you know, what about Medicare? Now, Medicare's a very important health care program for our seniors--my mom's on it and I think your parents are--and yet it's going broke. $36 trillion in unfunded assets? What are we doing to senior citizens? The program is going broke, and yet we have our head in the sand.”