Walter B. Jones: “Is it not true that since the mid-1960's, when the Great Society program was established under the leadership of Lyndon…”

“Is it not true that since the mid-1960's, when the Great Society program was established under the leadership of Lyndon Johnson, that it has cost the American people $5 trillion? This Nation today is about $5.3 trillion in debt. So welfare has cost the American people $5 trillion. In addition to that, what the Republican majority has proposed that even Democrats supported and the President vetoed is a program that would save the taxpayers in 7 years in outlays about $58 billion and lend the programs, or I should say direct the programs back to the States, which most of them want, and the President vetoed it.”