Bob Good: “Mr. Higgins, we are going to spend some $20,000 per citizen this year. There are 330 million Americans. In a Republican…”

“Mr. Higgins, we are going to spend some $20,000 per citizen this year. There are 330 million Americans. In a Republican majority Congress, we are going to spend nearly $7 trillion, about $20,000 per citizen. We will borrow $6,000 of that $20,000. This year alone, we will borrow $6,000 per citizen; not per taxpayer, not per household, but per citizen. Of the $20,000 per citizen that we will spend this year, only $3,000 per citizen will be for the primary responsibility of the Federal Government, the safety and security of the Nation, to defend the Nation. We will spend $20,000 per citizen, we will borrow $6,000 of that, and only $3,000 will be for protecting the Nation from foreign invasion, keeping the Nation safe and secure. To Congressman Higgins' point, with the explosion of debt from $1 trillion in 1980 to now nearly $33 trillion today, the interest on the debt, what we are paying to service the debt is about $1 trillion a year. With interest rates rising, that cost is only going to go higher in addition to the spending disaster that we are experiencing. What are we prepared to do? It doesn't matter what you believe in, it doesn't matter what you say you stand for if you are not willing to have the courage of your convictions to take risks to fight for that for which you claim to believe. It is no coincidence that one thing the gentlemen with me tonight, Mr. Norman of South Carolina and Mr.…”