I boil it down to a number of different issues and I'll rattle through them for you. First, our economic future. We are bankrupting our country. We've racked up more debt in the last three and a half years than in our country's first 230-year history. And by the way, this deficit spending has been going on for 15 to almost 20 years now. Why is that relevant when you have $35 trillion in debt? (04:45–04:51)
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Asserts that recent debt accumulation surpasses the total debt accumulated in the first 230 years of the country's history.
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