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 than in our country's first 230 years history. What's your proposal to address that? Well, it's not going to be easy to deal with. It's going to take time. Let me just back up a little bit and tell you the severity of it. (03:16–03:23)
CLAIM
Asserts that recent debt accumulation surpasses historical levels.
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