Tim Ryan: “when you are having your Christmas party or your Chanukah party or your Kwanzaa party or your holiday party or whatever…”

“when you are having your Christmas party or your Chanukah party or your Kwanzaa party or your holiday party or whatever you call things these days, because I even get nervous wishing somebody a merry Christmas anymore, when one of the billionaires, one of the millionaires are around the party table in the next week or two and they are holding up their glass, they should say, thank you, Chinese government; thank you, House of Sahd; thank you, Japan, for loaning my country the money to be able to give me a tax cut. Do not thank us. Thank the people we are borrowing the money from. Thank them, because we are borrowing money from the Chinese and the Saudi Arabians and the Japanese to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in the United States of America. Not only are we borrowing it, but the money we do take in, look what we are spending it on in Iraq: $1.5 billion a week. Look at these Iraqi projects: Transportation and communication, $508 million. Look what we are cutting over here in the United States: $500 million to our student loan programs. In Iraq: Electricity projects, $4 billion for electricity projects in Iraq. In the United States, we are cutting $4.9 billion from child support to go after deadbeat dads; $1.72 billion in Iraq for oil infrastructure. What are we cutting back here at home? Farm commodity and conservation programs, just about the same number, $1.76 billion, we are cutting here at home. We are borrowing from China.…”