W. Todd Akin

Skipping a budget resolution this year would be unprecedented. The House has never failed to pass an annual budget resolution since the current budget rules were put into place in 1974, according to Congressional Research Service. They…

So that was this one. But what happens when you put Chairman Spratt together with President Obama?

I'm going to get to that, but one of the things when you do what you're talking about, that bull-in-the-china-shop mentality of just spending money out of control and it's a bailout for big businesses, bailout for Wall Street, bailout for…

You know, there's a certain point where if you spend too much money and you try and put a budget together, the train is going to come off the track. I think that's where we are, and that's, I think, the reason why the Democrats said, yeah…

Certainly as a medical doctor you have been looking very closely over the last year at one of a whole series of these taxes. These things effectively work as taxes. Let's just take, if you will, health care out of the equation, whether…

So local spending, the average family of four, is a hundred thousand bucks of debt, per family of four?

I think it's important to take a look on a bar graph as to what we're looking at here. I know that President Bush--and as a Republican, I heard this frequently--he was criticized for spending too much money. And I voted against some of…

What would be the first step in living within your means? Would it not be putting a realistic budget together, perhaps?

I am very concerned about our discussion tonight because I am afraid somebody may be watching and they are thinking, oh, my goodness, there isn't any hope, things are terrible and bad. Yeah, we are in a big financial mess because we have…

Freedom is a beautiful thing, but we have to realize there are a couple of things that come along with freedom. If you really want to be free, you're going to have to be responsible as well. You can't assume Big Brother government is going…

I really appreciate the gentleman for joining me tonight. We, in a way, as Americans have got two choices here. One choice is the path to freedom, and the other path is the path of servitude to Big Brother government. Every solution that…

That's a great point. And let's repeat that. What you just said was, you don't raise taxes during a recession. And what we are going to talk about here tonight--there are some bad assumptions that were made that are destroying our country…

I think you're an optimist. I really do. I'm not so sure that our children and grandchildren will live at a lower standard quite the way you're talking about. I'm not sure that this is not going to create a more catastrophic kind of crash…

The thing is, you and I are not talking about something that is speculative or based on theory. These graphs are ending in 2010. These are actual numbers. This is what has happened, and it doesn't work. It didn't work for FDR, and it's not…

It seems to me, gentlemen, that President Bush was Ebenezer Scrooge by comparison to what we've got here. I mean, this is runaway spending. And this is created not just by TARP, not just by the, quote, ``jobs bill'' where we just dumped…

You didn't even mention that little small detail of the government becoming the master. The government is getting so big, the government employees are making so much money it's effectively becoming not the servant, but the master.

Thank you for that insight and the wisdom that you have shared with us. This is a graph of actually what happens over time. And this is this effect I was talking about. You know, when you were flying those old-fashioned airplanes and you…

There have been some assumptions made by the Democrats about the economy, and the question is: Are those assumptions any good or not? One of the things that history does tell us is we should learn something from it. Of course, FDR's…

The problem with Freddie and Fannie is you don't get something for nothing. I'm an engineer. I mean, it's one of those things, if it isn't there, it isn't there. So what we're doing is we're using Freddie and Fannie to make loans to a…

That's the point. So the deal is: Is it the job of the American public to bail out people who make irresponsible loans? How about all of the people who get loans, who make their mortgage payments, who do everything by the book, who then…

I guess it sounds like kind of a boring subject in some ways; but on the other hand, it so much influences and affects every single person in our country that I guess we have to put up with a little bit of talk about economics just to make…

I think that that's accurate to say: there is a good bipartisan sentiment that when a small nation is trying to defend itself, we have always stood for people. The basic principle of people being allowed to be free and have some…

Let me just jump in for a moment. You know, the charts that you chose actually have a relationship to each other, and you alluded to the mechanics of what that connection is, which is, when the government creates a job by hiring somebody…

I think that's good. It paints a vivid picture, but there is a problem with Freddie and Fannie.

Just to respond briefly here on the subject of missile defense, I know we are working with some en bloc amendments. We're comfortable with those amendments. There is some disagreement on missile defense, and I think at least a considerable…