Willie Hefner: “I find it interesting; it disturbs me when Member after Member from this side of the aisle comes and talks about the…”

“I find it interesting; it disturbs me when Member after Member from this side of the aisle comes and talks about the failures we have had over the past 40 years. This is the greatest country on the face of the Earth. We do not have to worry about keeping people in here. We do not have to worry. We have to worry about people wanting to come here. I have seen programs over the last 40 years. We have had some failures. We have had some abuses. But we have had some great successes. Thanks to programs, people are able to go to school that would not have been able to go to school before, that can get a loan to buy a house that would never have been able to have a home; they got a little loan to send their kids to our colleges in North Carolina and all over this country, to take part in this great experiment called democracy. I take offense when people say how bad this country is. If you want to leave, exercise your right to renounce your citizenship and do not pay taxes and leave this country. But this is the greatest country on the face of the Earth. The reason I oppose this is the reason that 100 Members of this side of the aisle wrote the letter and wanted us to lower the caps, because it just plain ain't fair. This package is not fair, and that couple that is working in that textile mill back home in North Carolina, they are not going to get anything out of this tax package.”