Louie Gohmert: “One of the things that is being said is, But what about the children? I welcome that question, because those of us who…”

“One of the things that is being said is, But what about the children? I welcome that question, because those of us who are standing so firmly in trying to cut this runaway spending are the ones who are standing for the children and the children's grandchildren because what has been done--and in truth, I remember getting beat up in '05, '06 for $160 billion in deficit spending. It was wrong. We shouldn't have been there. But now for the last 3 years, 2\1/2\, to be over a trillion dollars each year is just reprehensible. It is wrapping such a heavy weight and chains around the necks of the children--some not even born yet--that it is unthinkable that somebody would invoke for the children to keep the self-aggrandizing spending going when it is going to come out of the children and their grandchildren's pockets. We've got some that say, It's all going to work out. Don't worry about it. Look, just let the spending go. Don't rock the boat. I saw this prayer from Peter Marshall back when he was Chaplain of the Senate. And just for historical purposes, in one of his prayers in the Senate, he said, ``Our Father, give us the faith to believe that it is possible for us to live victoriously even in the midst of dangerous opportunity that we call crisis. Help us to see that there is something better than patient endurance or keeping a stiff upper lip, and that whistling in the dark is not really bravery.''”