You just can't do that. You're going to end up having some type of a debt crisis. And so I've watched this over the last 25 years when We had 5 trillion in debt at the turn of the century. to now be 38 trillion in climbing. And you've had both Republicans and Democrats that have controlled Congress over that period of time, and yet the results continue to be similar. (01:44–01:48)
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