As you noted, I have been a proud member of the Georgia banking group for a long time.

Minimum wage is not a career, and we need to remember that.

I think, Representative Wagner, that there are many things in Dodd-Frank that were positive for our industry

It is the government that is the major drain on the American economy and individuals.

I think our time would be much better spent working on issues that will benefit the American people immediately rather than pre-emptively trying to stop this idea from even being explored by Facebook and other industry participants.

As a small business owner, I am a Main Street America guy, 50 years in business.

We should not discourage the private sector from investing their own time, and their own money to research these new technologies.

Do you believe that the private sector rather than the government is better suited to explore the potentials of blockchain technology in the financial services space?

It seems like there is a lot more work to be done internally at Libra before we, in Congress, can seriously examine all the regulatory and security hurdles.

I applaud your entrepreneurial spirit, and it leads me to believe you are probably a capitalist; are you not?

Are you still a capitalist, or have you undergone a drastic change of thought and now believe socialism would be a better economic system for our country?