Mark Neumann: “Reclaiming my time, that is great and that is where we should be going with the future of this country. Another thing I…”

“Reclaiming my time, that is great and that is where we should be going with the future of this country. Another thing I know my parents and they have talked to me a lot about and most senior citizens in this country, they want to give a Nation to their children that is better than the Nation they received. They want to fulfill their responsibility to this country, just as generations before them have done. One of the problems that has developed over the last 15, 20 years is the growing debt facing America. And they are very concerned about this, and they are very concerned that this is the legacy that will be passed on to the next generation. So I thought I would take a few minutes and talk about how we got to where we are, how deeply in debt we as a Nation are and what we need to do to fix the problem and how things have changed in the last few years. This chart I brought with me shows how the debt was growing starting in 1960 to 1980. You can see how it is a relatively flat line, but from 1980 forward, this thing has gone off the wall.”