John Rice Carter: “What is very interesting is that as many of you can remember, do you know the Food Stamp program that we started out…”

“What is very interesting is that as many of you can remember, do you know the Food Stamp program that we started out with was supposed to be a $25 million program and never would get above that? And in this package alone, when we look at food stamps, over $17 billion is put into the food stamps in the stimulus bill, a 32 percent increase over the just-increased program which was increased by 23 percent in October of last year. Now that is one of those programs that we talk about that has eternal life. It has gone from $25 million to just the increase in this package of $17 billion. This is the kind of thing that I think the American people will look at it and get a clearer picture of what we're talking about when we talk about spending $1 trillion. The example that we all learned and are giving now is what is $1 trillion? If you take 1 million brand new $1,000 bills, if you take $1,000 bills and you stack them up until it is 4 inches high, you have $1 million. A $1 trillion would be 63 miles high. So, this spending, as the people look at it, they need to realize what we are getting ourselves into. And every dollar is borrowed money. We already got credit issues. We supposedly were going to fix it with $750 billion, which we don't seem to have got to. And now we're going for another trillion. When does it stop? And I yield back.”