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Eric Hovde: “We're sitting on $36 trillion in debt, adding another…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 03:09

The different empires in China, the Dutch Empire, the British Empire, they fail first because they lose their moral compass and then secondly, they bankrupt themselves and our country and what we've done with deficit spending. And now We're sitting on $36 trillion in debt, adding another trillion dollars in debt every four and a half months. We've added more debt in the last three and a half, four years in our country's first 230 years history. What's your proposal to address that? (03:09–03:17)

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Asserts the current national debt level and the rate at which it is increasing.

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