Bobby Scott: “And, Mr. Speaker, the most unseemly part of what is going on is, as the interest on the national debt gets bigger and…”

“And, Mr. Speaker, the most unseemly part of what is going on is, as the interest on the national debt gets bigger and bigger, and, as I earlier indicated, the individual income tax only generates about $800 billion, we are paying $200 billion, $300 billion, $350 billion more in interest on the national debt and growing right at the time when the Social Security Trust Fund is going to be running the big, bigger, and bigger deficits, we have to assume that this administration has no intention of paying Social Security after 2017.”