J.C. Watts: “George Bush calls it prosperity with a purpose. We are experiencing unprecedented prosperity in America. The Dow is…”

“George Bush calls it prosperity with a purpose. We are experiencing unprecedented prosperity in America. The Dow is going through the roof. NASDAQ is doing very, very well. These days if one is older than 30, they are too old to be a billionaire in America. It is fascinating the wealth that we see, and I think that if our objective is just to make money, that is a bad purpose. Prosperity with a purpose says that, yes, I want to take the wealth that we have in America and make sure that those who are left behind, that in spite of what skin color they are, in spite of what party they are in, we can go to them and say these are my values, these are my principles, how can we help accomplish what they want to accomplish in life? This prosperity that we are experiencing, we have an opportunity to do wonderful things for the United States of America, but I think we have to be disciplined enough, composed enough, that we do not get dollar signs in our eyes and say let us spend, spend, spend, spend, spend. Let us grow, grow, grow, grow, grow. We have to have a purpose, I believe, in the wealth that we have created in America and in the surpluses that we have that we are experiencing today. I think we have to have purpose in our surpluses. If we do, boy, we will surely create that shining city on a hill.”