On the recordJanuary 20, 2011
In a way, I think you've really framed things. I appreciate your perspective because you're getting a little bit off at a distance and saying look, there's two choices and the two parties really are very, very different in this. One seems to be the party that wants entitlements. They want food stamps, and they have unemployment. And the other party is saying we want jobs and paychecks. And that's kind of the choice. And if you want jobs and paychecks, you've got to have a free enterprise economy. If you want the government to just subsidize you and live off of welfare, that's a different perspective. So what we're seeing is this growth in entitlements, this number is low on this chart because it doesn't have food stamps, it doesn't have public housing, and it doesn't have the debt service. When you put that all together, we're right at the point where the money coming in is just barely paying for all of these entitlements and the debt service. You put that together, that's not a good picture. And the solution I think most Americans--I bet you that's what your election was about, the fact that we want to have jobs, and we want to see a strong America. We want to see an America that's free.
