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Glenn Grothman: It is the time for authorizations, and one of the topics of discussion today, of course, is our armed services…

On the recordMay 18, 2023
It is the time for authorizations, and one of the topics of discussion today, of course, is our armed services authorizations, military bills, as we get briefings on what is necessary to defend our country from our external enemies. However, let us not forget that when Nikita Khrushchev spoke to the American public in the 1960s, he said: We will take America without firing a shot. We will bury you. We can't expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism until, one final day, they wake up and find they are living in a communist government. Now, how could our great country, the strongest country in the world, be destroyed from within? I also point out that when the KGB was active in this country in the seventies and eighties, the majority of agents were not spies. They were not engaged in looking for our military secrets. They were, apparently, out in the open, trying to corrupt Americans into how they understood our country should be operating. They were taking advantage of our freedoms in what is supposed to be a constitution made for a moral and religious people. How would you go about destroying America from within? First of all, briefly, we would try to destroy the currency. We know there has been wild and reckless spending recently, to the degree that our debt-to-GDP ratio is the highest it has been since the end of World War II.…
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Glenn Grothman
Republican · Wisconsin
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May 18, 2023

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