I think when you're looking at a debt that is about to exceed $37 trillion, when you're spending more on your debt repayment than you are on your defense spending. Borrowing to pay our debt repayment. Correct. Countries have gone down when that. When that threshold is met and we surpassed it. I think when we sit here, we argue dimes instead of dollars. We have to recognize the fact that this mandatory and discretionary spend that we fight over isn't going … (21:28–21:34)
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Asserts that countries have declined after surpassing a certain debt threshold, which the U.S. has surpassed.
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