Tim Ryan

We have a discharge petition too that will allow Members of Congress to sign it and discharge it out of the committee process and bring it right to the floor. We have had this debate. We can bring it to the floor and let us vote on it.

I just think that is it. Thanks for reiterating it. It is just what is the crisis? What do you at home want us to deal with, because we work for you. What do you want us to deal with here? And we are trying to bring up issues like China…

Not just yourself. Your wife, your kids, my wife, constituents, people watching at home, if you are watching this program.

The gentleman brought up a great point, and we will share some more information from the Department of the Treasury of the United States of America. This is the national debt, and I believe this is moving. You can go to a Web site, next…

Everybody, $26,300 you owe. The point I would like to bring up and highlight again is what the gentleman brought up, talking about what college students owe. The average college student owes 20,000 bucks.

They withheld the administration from your constituents and my constituents, and we made a faulty decision here on the House floor where many Members would not have voted for it. When we go back and look at the war, what we were told about…

Does the gentleman watch any of the old shows, the ``Archie Bunker'' reruns and ``Cheers''?

I will work on that right after we get this Social Security thing going. We will have Ed O'Neill Boulevard in Youngstown. We will do it.

Does the gentleman ever watch ``Married With Children''? It has some very funny reruns.

These are today's numbers. And this clock is ticking by the second. But $7.7 trillion is the national debt today and ticking. Maybe we will be able to get the technology here where this will keep moving, $7.79 trillion national debt today…

Constructive criticism. I appreciate that. We had a discussion about the Europeans wanting to lift the arms embargo on China, which has been the Europeans cannot sell all these different types of military arms to the Chinese. The ban has…

And, Mr. Speaker, when you look at when you would want to actually take out the money, our colleague, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner), who was here a few weeks ago with us, had a great explanation. The stock market goes up. The…

We want to be a part of this. I do not want anyone at home sitting there listening to us to think that we do not want to be a part of solving this problem. Not crisis. Problem. Long-term problem. We all have long-term problems. My family…

So what is your philosophy on life when you say that you are okay with those people going back into poverty?

He said bankrupt. To me bankrupt means there is nothing in the bank. It is belly up, zero. That is how I interpret bankruptcy. Nothing left. The problem is Social Security will never, ever, ever, go bankrupt because there will always be…

It is not a good way to run the government. Although a person may be able to get away with it longer and file personal bankruptcy without the ramifications to society as opposed to privatizing Social Security.

But the massive figure is $5 trillion over the next 20 years. Now, that is $5 trillion we have to go out and borrow and pay interest on, which I think is probably the best argument for not doing this. We should not implement a program that…

Yes, certainly. I said that $1.4 trillion must be borrowed in the first 10 years of implementation of a Social Security reform package that includes the private accounts.

We just had an hour where we discussed Social Security and the private accounts, not to get back into it, but this many Members on the other side are willing to borrow $5 trillion over the next 20 years to pay for the privatization plan…

The more cynical side of me, and being a 30-something I should not be cynical just yet, but that side of me says that this whole thing may be a big side show. While we are having this debate here and we are all focused on Social Security…

As we run these deficits, as the gentleman from New York just stated, it is not free. We are borrowing, money and we have got to pay interest on it. The interest payments and the money that we have got to pay on our debt becomes a greater…

I spoke with some people today who study this and understand this system, and after hearing all the facts and after studying this for the past few months of what the President's proposal is or what little of it that we know about, we need…

I have two stacks of letters about this high over in my office from seniors. We have got 2,400 as of last week... they say, I am not worried about my benefits, but please fight to make sure that my grandkids will have Social Security when…

Can you imagine President Reagan and Tip O'Neil strolling out saying, ``We did it. We sucked it up for the American people and did what was best; and part of it was your idea and part was our idea; and part was conservative and part…

I think that is it. Basically we are going to bet the ponies, and we do not have any money in our pocket, so we are going to put it on our credit card at 21 percent. We have to pay the Chinese back because they issued us the credit card…