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Jodey Arrington: “Moral hazard. We are sleepwalking off the cliff. The problem with this crisis is, as I said, when Humpty Dumpty falls…”

On the recordJune 13, 2022
Moral hazard. We are sleepwalking off the cliff. The problem with this crisis is, as I said, when Humpty Dumpty falls and shatters it is going to be difficult to put him and the exceptional nature and the superpower leadership of this great country back together. There is just not a lot of time and heads up and warning before you go over the precipice. It is incumbent on us, as young fathers and young family men, to be able to take this on head-on with the courage that our Founders had who gave birth to this great country. Madam Speaker, I hear you rattling the gavel, so God bless America, and I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________
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Jodey Arrington
Republican · Texas
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Jun 13, 2022

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