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Mark Neumann: “Thomas Jefferson said that. That is not today. Can you imagine if Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers, was…”

On the recordApril 8, 1997
Thomas Jefferson said that. That is not today. Can you imagine if Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers, was standing here with us today and we were showing him this debt chart, $5.3 trillion facing the American people, $20,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States of America, $100,000 that our Federal Government has borrowed on behalf of a family of five like mine? Each month $600 to do nothing but pay the interest on the Federal debt. Can we imagine what our Founding Fathers would say? This is what they thought. They recognized that the debt was a huge burden.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin
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Discussing the national debt and its implications during a speech.

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