Tom Coburn: “Let me make my point. I will yield in a minute. What we are doing, if we pass this without offset, we are taking out the…”

“Let me make my point. I will yield in a minute. What we are doing, if we pass this without offset, we are taking out the good old politician credit card saying we don't have the guts to do it the right way, we don't have the stamina to do it, we don't have the courage to do it. By the way, grandchildren, here you go. Back in 2006, we couldn't do the right thing, we didn't have the courage to do the right thing, and we are charging it to you. And besides charging it to you, we will charge the interest from the time now until you are 40 years of age, so you are paying 40 percent or 50 percent regular, middle-income-America taxes because that is the only way we will get out of this. Three points, and then I am finished. There are things that need to be changed in the bill that send the wrong message, especially on crop insurance. We will never get crop insurance fixed if we keep sending the message we are sending with this amendment. No. 2, there are other organizations within the Federal Government designed to help small businesses. We ought to use them rather than create another one. The third point, we ought to pay for it. We as a Congress do not have the courage to stand here and fight and say we are not going home until we have taken care of this problem for the farm community in America and done it right--not limiting payments but looking at payments as a percentage of your net assets rather than having a fixed dollar amount.”