First, it increases spending about four times the rate of inflation at a time when the deficit is out of control and our national debt is skyrocketing. So I just I think fiscally, it is irresponsible.
Evan Bayh criticizes the spending bill for increasing spending significantly while the national debt is rising.
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And we also finance our debt. Japan is mostly internal, isn't it? We have a lot of external, which makes it a little bit different.
We need more than just kind of a vague assertion that, 'Don't worry. Trust us, it'll be taken care of.'
I will make one comment I do not expect you to respond to, but a skeptic might look at all this and say what was really at work here was a choice between an eventual orderly restructuring or a disorderly restructuring that could have been…
It seems to me the message there to the Afghans is, 'Look, we're here, and you can rely on us, but you have to do your part, too.'
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