Blake Moore: “I am from Kansas and I go home virtually every weekend. And when I go home, I talk to my constituents; and they tell me…”

“I am from Kansas and I go home virtually every weekend. And when I go home, I talk to my constituents; and they tell me, not in these words, these are mine but I guess it is what I have kind of distilled from their comments to me over the past 5 years I have been in Congress, why can Congress and America not live like American families do? There are three simple rules that Kansas families and American families follow: number one, do not spend more money than you make; number two, pay off your debts; number three, invest in basics for the future. Of course, the basics for a nation are national defense, some sort of highway system to move goods around the country and make our economy work strong. The basics for a family are food, shelter, education, health care, transportation, all the things that you think of, that we pay our bills on a monthly basis. And yet we routinely in government have spent more money than we took in, resulting in a $7.1 trillion national debt, $7.1 trillion. That is 7,000 billion dollars, more than most people, myself included, can even imagine.”