Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank Jodey for putting this together. I have enjoyed sitting with him in many of the meetings that he has called to work on fiscal responsibility, reaching across the aisle to see about having those important conversations, realizing the heavy task ahead of us, but also how important it is that we take it on. We are $30 trillion in debt. I like how Jodey framed it because $30 trillion is a hard number for us to grasp, but the idea that it is a deferred tax on our kids, it is nothing that we will have to pay, but it is a burden we are passing on to our kids in the name of spending today. Right now what we see happening in our Nation is families are struggling with inflation, inflation, and inflation. Right now many families are having to make the choice between food and fuel. You have families on a fixed income who suddenly their money doesn't go as far as it went, and they are having to make tough choices, sometimes between medicine and food. You have others who have saved their whole life, worked their whole life, thinking their money would stretch a certain distance, and suddenly their life savings is not worth what it was. The Washington solution, of course, has been to spend more money, exacerbate the problem, put more money out there that causes more and more and more inflation.…”