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On the recordSeptember 29, 2023
Jack Nicholson is in it, and he is being cross-examined in a military trial. They keep asking him questions, and at the end, he becomes so frustrated, he said: ``You can't handle the truth.'' In our lives, the people who raised us--our moms, our dads, our grandparents--would never have done to us what is happening right now and what we are doing to our own grandchildren. {time} 1500 We have to handle the truth. We have to face the truth--this path that we are on, this mission that we are on, and this idea that somehow we have to get the message out to our hardworking American taxpayers that our future is being destroyed because of irresponsible spending. Now, just to be sure on this, your Social Security will never be touched. Medicare and Medicaid are not going to be touched. The banks are never going to forgive the interest on our loans. That is the reality of it. When you understand it that way, it becomes, oh, my gosh, what are we going to do? So, we sit there and try to figure out what it is that we can do to save the future for our children, and I looked at pictures yesterday with your two children. What are we doing to these kids? What are we doing to them?
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Mike Kelly
Republican · Pennsylvania

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