Rep. David Schweikert:
Yes.
If you have someone with a freaky high I.Q. who’s willing to, in some ways, evangelize, saying we need to modernize how we deliver health care, how we deliver government, what we do, because the fact of the matter is, intellectually, Congress, the reporting class, others, are almost fearful to tell the public just the scale.
Look, we’re borrowing so far this fiscal year $8.7 billion every single day. And yet the triteness of so many of the solutions we get, if this actually raises the profile — look, I know people want to take a shot at someone because of what they do and those things, but how much of the public actually understands we’re clicking off a trillion dollars of borrowing about every 118 days?
If this actually sharpens the mind, sharpens the intellect to actually deal with the reality of our demographics, 100 percent of the debt so today through the next 10 years, is interest and health care. It’s demographics. It’s not Democrat. It’s not Republican. It’s what we are as a society.
