Lynn A. Westmoreland: “I want to thank the learned orthopedic surgeon from Georgia for yielding me this time. I want to say something to the…”

“I want to thank the learned orthopedic surgeon from Georgia for yielding me this time. I want to say something to the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. When he was talking about an idiot can offer a 1 percent cut amendment, I certainly hope he wasn't talking about my good friend from Georgia. Now if you want to talk about fuzzy math and idiots, we can do that here tonight. Because this bill increases the spending 9 rac{1}{2} ext{ percent}. What the learned surgeon's amendment does is cut that by 1 percent. Now you can say this isn't going to cause a tax increase, you can say it is not going to cost people more money, you can say anything you want to, but the people of this country are smarter than that because they know every day that if they spend more money it is going to cost somebody at some point. So they can say anything they want to. They can talk about all of the fuzzy math, whether it is going to be a tax increase or not a tax increase. But when you spend 10 percent more money, somebody is going to pay for it.”