I don't want to discuss things that have already been discussed, but the things that concern me are things like this will be a magnet for more illegal aliens coming into this country because it's going to provide a mechanism for illegals to get coverage under this bill. It's going to cost $44 billion more than the baseline. It's going to involve a tax increase. You know, one of the things that really concerns me about what we are doing is we passed a bailout bill for $700 billion. We are going to pass another bill here, a supplemental, it's going to be $1.2 trillion. We spent $14 billion for the auto industry. This is going to cost $44 billion over the baseline. Where do you think all this money is coming from? And I wish my colleagues would start thinking about the kids in the future as well as what we are talking about today. Because the inflation problem they are going to face is going to be huge. You have got to print this money. It has got to come from someplace. And the kids of kids of today and tomorrow are going to have to pay through the nose for the things we are doing today. We don't have all the money to do these things, and yet we are spending. That will lead to hyperinflation down the road and severe economic problems.
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