Mark Neumann: “I will just point out with 250 million people in the United States of America, that is literally one home for every 5…”

“I will just point out with 250 million people in the United States of America, that is literally one home for every 5 people with the money we have spent. The other thing I could not help but think, as the gentleman from Kansas was going through some of these numbers, contrasting what you are talking about to a program like Habitat for Humanity. Back when I was in the building business when, before I got into the political world in any way, shape or form, I had a group of people from Janesville, WI come to me and say, ``Hey, Mark, you're building a lot of homes. Would you consider giving us a hand in this Habitat for Humanity project?'' Rather than the Government coming in to do this, we got together in the community and built the house. When the person moved into that house, it was a truly needy person that received this help. Can you imagine Habitat for Humanity, with the local support and local effort that they get from the local people, spending anywhere near this kind of money, and what they could have done with one-tenth of this amount of money if the control had just been left out there locally and we had had involvement with the local people to help the most needy people in their community? Can you imagine what we could have done in this country instead?”