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Randy Neugebauer: I want to reiterate one point that was made earlier, and I think is maybe one of the most important points that has been…

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
I want to reiterate one point that was made earlier, and I think is maybe one of the most important points that has been made here today, and that is that we don't have another $350 billion. In fact, we didn't have the first $350 billion, and we had to go out and borrow that money from our children and our grandchildren in order to do something that nobody has really articulated what we were trying to do. We didn't have a plan. There was no accountability. But we went ahead and charged on the credit cards of our children and our grandchildren $350 billion, with the assumption we would do another $350 billion. The issue here, and the reason it is so important, and I am frustrated and I do not understand, this isn't the only money that we have committed. The Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, have guaranteed billions and billions of dollars, and we are getting into the trillions. A recent Wall Street Journal article said that we could possibly be already in this at $6 trillion. Now, even in Texas that is a lot of money. But the question here is that it is not just this $350 billion that we are talking about.
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Randy Neugebauer
Texas

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Discussing concerns over government spending and borrowing during a debate on economic stimulus.

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