Look, I do these floor speeches every week with all the charts and those things. I sometimes feel like I'm an idiot Professor. But what I'm trying to point out is here's the scale of the problem. If you're close to borrowing $100,000 a second, $100,000 a second. and now I have a few thousand people to get my little daily debt text. I get it. I never asked for it, but I get it. (12:42–12:49)
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Asserts the U.S. is borrowing at a rate of $100,000 per second.
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