Steve Pearce: “I address the body tonight about the future of this great country, and the previous speaker said we did just have a…”

“I address the body tonight about the future of this great country, and the previous speaker said we did just have a chance to celebrate Memorial Day. In the district that I was in, we recognized the anniversary of the D-Day landing, and we understand that it is with the sacrifices of brave young men and women throughout history that a nation is able to sustain itself, and it is only through those sacrifices in each generation. One generation cannot pay for the next generation. But, tonight, I would like to look a little bit at the economic future that faces us, both in the world and in this country, and would like to have a discussion about what it is that will allow America to offer its promise into the future so that our sons and daughters, our children and grandchildren, would have the opportunities that our generation has seen. I am the second-oldest year of the baby boom generation, and I will tell my colleagues that my mother and father grew up in very difficult circumstances in West Texas. When my father graduated from high school, he went to work for a cousin of his farming and actually in the role as a sharecropper. I recently had a chance to visit with my mom and dad in the place where I was born and lived the first 2 years of my life.…”