Mark Neumann: “I turn our attention now to the question that I get asked quite regularly after I get done talking about the tax cuts…”

“I turn our attention now to the question that I get asked quite regularly after I get done talking about the tax cuts, and they are very concerned that we are not destroying this Nation to do it. I start tonight by talking about how we got into the situation we are in today where we have a $5.3 trillion debt staring us in the face. This chart I brought with me shows the growth of the debt and how from 1960 to 1980 it did not really grow very much, but from 1980 forward, it has grown a lot. The chart ends in 1995. And we can see how fast the debt climbed in particular from the late seventies and the early eighties on through the year 1995. It has led us to a point where we are $5.3 trillion in debt. By the way, a lot of people look at this and say, well, if I am a Democrat, I go, 1980, that is Ronald Reagan; it must be Reagan's fault. If I am a Republican, I go, the Democrats controlled Congress during all those years and they spent out of control, so it is the Democrats' fault. The facts of the matter are that it is an American problem. It is time we put our partisanship aside and figure out how to solve the problem for the good of the future of this great Nation that we live in. It is a very real problem, and I think it is clear from looking at this picture that this problem cannot be allowed to continue. This picture is the reason I left the private sector, a very good job in a very good business, providing job opportunities for people as a homebuilder.”