J.C. Watts: “I am about to share a story that some of my colleagues will have probably heard me share, but I am going to share it…”

“I am about to share a story that some of my colleagues will have probably heard me share, but I am going to share it again because I think it is very fitting for the hour. Back in 1981, I was about 45 days from graduating from the University of Oklahoma and I had gone home one weekend to spend the weekend with my parents, and my father said to me as we sat up in the front room of his home one night until about 2:00 in the morning, and daddy and I solved all of America's problems according to our own opinions and thoughts. After about 3 hours of discussions he said to me, he said, Junior, I think I want to go to college. And I said, Daddy, why do you want to go to college? You are 57 years old. You are a double bypass heart patient. Mom has diabetes. You have these cows, this rental property. You are pastor of the church. Why do you want to go to college? And he replied to me, he said, I would like to see what makes you guys fools when you get out. He said, you guys seem to lose your ability to use common sense. What this package is about it is about common sense, trying to address the needs of the American people. Common sense should say to us, we have got people who are unemployed, who are without work, who are without health insurance benefits. Common sense should say to us, our moral fiber should say to us, let us address the needs of these people who need this assistance. Common sense should say to us, we do not need more taxes. We need more taxpayers.”