Tom Coburn: “One other thing that I think is important that I would want the American public to know, is we cannot let chairmen of…”

“One other thing that I think is important that I would want the American public to know, is we cannot let chairmen of committees not speak truthfully about this problem. It is important that they ask the question of their elected representative of the truth about whether or not the deficit is really $107 billion or is it more than that. It is also important that they ask their representative when they go to vote on the budget whether or not we took that into consideration as we considered that budget, and not allow the politics as usual, the careerism, to wave this off and say this is a nonissue. This is at the heart of the issue: being honest about what our real problems are so we can attack and solve them, not just for us and not just for those seniors today, but for the children and the young people who are going to be seniors tomorrow.”