On the recordFebruary 27, 2007
And that is what we are talking about here. We are talking plain and simple about stewardship, are we going to be good stewards of our country. All we have got is our country and the money, the hard work that our citizens do and the money that they contribute to our national government. The least we can do is make sure that the Federal Government spends it properly. I am concerned about this debt: $8.7 trillion. And what really is amazing is what Mr. Cooper told us a little earlier tonight, that not only is the debt $8.7 trillion, this is the debt that the government insiders are familiar with. The public I don't think is really aware of how dramatically large this debt is. But what Mr. Cooper told us was that this doesn't even warm it up. The real debt is more in the neighborhood of $50 trillion.
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