Jim Bunning: “I remain committed to ensuring that American consumers are protected.”

Is that not just kind of a transferring of what we cannot pay for and what our excesses are presently to my children and grandchildren? Is that not kind of a wealth transfer or a debt transfer?

I have had the great fortune of having three wonderful careers during my life: one as a husband and father of 9 children and a grandfather of 40, one as a Major League baseball player for 27 years, and one in public service for 30 years…

in 2006, we had a huge housing crisis in this country. And even before that, the mortgage crisis showed its face in 2001 and 2002.

The unemployment rate as of January 2009 was 7.7 percent. In August of this year, the unemployment rate was 9.6 percent.