Mark Neumann: “I use another example when we talk about how much the Federal Government is spending every year, you know, and you hear…”

“I use another example when we talk about how much the Federal Government is spending every year, you know, and you hear all this discussion about spending cuts out here. The Federal Government this year is spending $6,500 on behalf of every man, woman and child in the United States of America. So just to put this in perspective, $6,500 for every man, woman, and child in America. A family of five like mine, the Federal Government is spending over $30,000 on behalf of that family of five like mine. You know, a couple of other things that I think are important is you talked about the concept of need versus want, and I always like to go through what happens if you find a new program that we really need to do in America and you have got this frozen discretionary spending or you are trying to keep spending from going up. I think our vision for the future is that, when you find a new program that is legitimately necessary; for example, we have passed welfare reform last year. That means many women are leaving the welfare rolls and going into the work force, and that is a good outcome. But when they go into that work force, they are at the bottom end of the pay scale in some cases, and we want to see opportunities for them to move up the pay scale.”