BREAKING NEWS: Rand Paul Absolutely Unleashes On McConnell, Schumer In Tirade Against Ukraine Aid

Madam President, Senator from Kentucky, open the champagne, uncork, the Democratic leader of the Senate and the Republican leader are on their way to kyiv, they are bringing $60 billion. I don't know if it's cash and pallets, but they're taking their money to kyiv now they didn't have much time there really wasn't time or money to do anything about our border they were literally being invaded invasions crossing our border 800,000 people arrived illegally in the last month and all they had to do in the Senate was get the money, get the cash, load the planes, prepare the champagne and fly to Kiev on Friday, they would take the $60 billion to Kiev, open champagne and meanwhile every day between 5 and 10,000 people cross the border illegally now they presented a fake bill and said they should have accepted the fake bill, they should have accepted the Roose, we gave them a bill border law, but the border bill would allow 5,000 people to cross per day and then they would declare an emergency Guess what the emergency is, it is already here 700,000 people in two months is an emergency almost 800,000 people in two months is an emergency but they denied to the ceiling when they tweeted their fantastic points about how good this deal was going to be. tweeted that the border never closes so they were introducing this big border bill that the president would use to stop illegal immigration but they tweeted all the main points that this would make the border never close and this is actually true because What happens is that they would close the illegal crossings but leave the legal crossings open.

It's like why wouldn't we always have the illegal crossing closed? Why after 750,000 people came in illegally would we not close the illegal crossings immediately and what also gives The lie in your claims is that we have the same laws that we had under President Trump and President Trump controlled the border, so how Could President Trump do it with the same set of laws? And now they say that if you just gave us power, we would do something, but what disproves this statement is that they are in court every day trying to dismantle the barriers that Texas puts in Texas and 30-something Republican governors have said enough, they put up containers cargo and barbed wire on the border to say no more illegals.

The crossings, so the Biden administration, which says just give us more power and we'll do something about the border, went all the way to the Supreme Court to get the power and they have it temporarily, they may not keep it, but they've struggled with nails and teeth. to remove shipping containers, remove barbed wire, remove border barriers, so do they want more power to crack down on illegal immigration or do they want to remove border obstacles to illegal immigration? I can't have it both ways now, some would say well this seems to be that you don't want immigrants in your country, nothing could be further from the truth, we admit a million immigrants into our country every year and I'm in favor of that, of In fact, I'm a cosponsor of half a dozen bills to increase legal immigration.

I think it would be difficult for the United States to do many things, including building houses, apartments, and commercial buildings, without new people coming to the country. I think some of the best Americans just came here, many of them are my friends. Bowling Green is known Bowling Green Kentucky is known to people all over the world. We have a hundred languages, and 100 languages ​​are spoken in our schools. This has nothing to do with not wanting immigrants, it has to do with not wanting 750,000 people to cross paths. who we don't know who they are, most of them are military-age men and we're not doing anything, so we've reached a tipping point, that's where we're a tipping point and we had a chance that 41 of the 41 Republicans of the United States could have done it. stood up and said no, we want something better, there is an emergency at the border and we will settle for nothing until we get a border security bill, instead it failed, because the Republican leadership is flying with the Democratic leadership to Kiev because they have prioritized Ukraine over the southern border there is no other way to say it we have a disaster on our southern border and the senior Republicans and the senior Democrats there is no difference they are on the same team they will be on the same flat that Kev Republicans and Democrats same plane pallets of cash to Ukraine even if you could argue and I think there is an argument that there is a noble cause that these people are fighting for their independence and they are fighting against aggression, all of that is true, but there's no money to give them we're out we're completely out of cash not only we're completely out of cash we're $34 trillion in the hole we're borrowing money like it's going out of style we've never ever borrowed money in At this alarming rate it's hard to even Imagine the billions of dollars coming out the door.

It's been said before, but people have asked: how do you imagine? How do you put a billion dollars into perspective? What is a billion dollars if you put a million dollars? the palm of your hand on a thousand bills would be four inches high but a billion dollars is difficult harder to visualize to put a billion in perspective a billion seconds ago Reagan was beginning his second term a billion minutes ago the pantheon was being completed in Rome a billion hours ago we were in the Stone Age more than 100,000 years ago, but a billion dollars ago, just a couple of minutes during the time I'm going to talk, the government will spend billions of dollars, practically a thousand millions every two minutes, 30 years. a billion dollars in the space of an hour is out of control if you look at the deaths that are happening and people say ah, what does it matter, you could be like Dick Cheney and some of these Republicans, ah, the deficits don't matter, no. we matter You must worry about the deficit and you see the results of the deficit every time you fill the tank of your car every time you go to the supermarket every time you buy something you are seeing the results of the debt the way we pay the debt the debt is that we print money the fed buys the debt but the fed doesn't have any money so they print the money and dilute the value of the existing currency what does that mean inflation prices go up but so does the cost of government people ?

We have cost of living increases and I'm not sorry, but it's 9% in the last year or so, so the cost of Social Security is through the roof, the cost of Medicare is through the roof, but do you hear a peep, not a peep? about the problem of paying our own bills we are basically like tenants paying for our apartment in what kind of world do you borrow money to send charity if you see a homeless person you want to help them but you don't have money would you go to the first one? corner and you go to the bank and say I want to help the homeless, would you give me $1,000 so I can help the homeless?

No one does that if you are paying rent on your apartment do you go to the bank and borrow the rent? not your apartment, there are times when you borrow against things of value you can borrow against a house that you have a down payment for you can borrow for capital improvements like schools or roads but you don't borrow for your daily expenses, that's what's going on here you realize that 2 thirds of the spending is entitlements Medicare Medicaid Social Security and food stamps are two thirds of all spending that's all we have enough money for tax revenue pays for that everything else is borrowed you'll hear people talk about a budget that they say that Congress votes on a budget, well, the budget that we voted on is equivalent to approximately 1.5 trillion dollars, that is the debt.

Every part of the budget we voted on is borrowed last month, we borrowed $210 billion, so we're on track to borrow over $2 trillion. that rate people are alarmed by this the head of the Federal Reserve Poell said the other day that the problem was urgent and these are the type of people who choose their words carefully the debt is urgent the need to restrict spending is urgent and So how is it done? The leaders respond that the Republican leaders and the Democratic leaders have teamed up to send a hundred billion dollars to another country while they cannot pay our country's bills, we are borrowing money to pay our rent as citizens in our own country and we. you're sending a hundred billion dollars to another country under what world is that a good idea is a terrible idea the chairman of the Federal Reserve has said the problem is urgent Jamie Diamond the head of JP Morgan Chase has said the problem is urgent MIM T the author of The Black Swan has said that it is urgent to have all these people, some of whom predicted the crisis in 2008 saying that it is an imminent crisis, the debt crisis is looming over us, there is the danger of destroying the dollar and destroying our country, and the leaders are worried about making their plane to kyiv the Republican leader and the Democratic leader will be on a plane to kyiv I guess with champagne and pallets of cash have you ever seen the photos when they download the pallets of American cash when they did it in Iraq how much oversight?

Do you think there are pallets of cash in hand how much is stolen? Well, you'll never know because they have refused to have an inspector general. I have forced at least two votes on this. I have been advocating for over a year. Not to send money to Ukraine, but if you are going to send it, can we at least count how much is stolen? Ukraine has been on the list of the 10 most corrupt countries in the world and no one is watching the money now. journalists in Ukraine have caught some people, we haven't caught anyone, if you ask our people in our defense department, they will tell you: "Oh, nothing to see here, you realize that our defense department never has been audited, we have been trying to audit the Pentagon in our country for two decades do you know what the Pentagon tells Congress?

We are too big to be audited. You know, my answer is that you are too big, so you should be smaller if you can't even audit the money we're spending, they routinely lose billions of dollars, they routinely get paid billions of dollars, they have no idea where the dollars went and so in the middle of this, in In the midst of a $1.5 trillion deficit this year, at least the leadership has come together, people say that commitment, well, you're getting it today, but it's the wrong kind of commitment, it's a commitment to loot the treasury, is committed to spending money we don't have, we don't have a penny saved, there is no savings, there is no emergency fund, they are shoveling.

They essentially have to borrow this from China, or they borrow it from China or they print it, but there's no money, there's no money out there, it's all been spent, there's not enough money to take care of the things they already have. I promised that everyone in the other aisle and half of the people on this side who want to send more cash there also promised that they will take care of you so that all the entitlement programs are available, well, entitlement programs are all-consuming. our tax revenue there is no money beyond that, so military and non-military discretion, which is about a third of total spending, there is no money for it, it's all borrowed, so we're going to add more now.

I have often asked the question: Couldn't we perhaps establish priorities? And if you really believe that Ukraine is part of our national security, which is ridiculous, but if you believe that maybe the money should come out of the defense budget, if this is really so, if defending Ukraine is defending our country, then Which is ridiculous, but if it were, we have 880 billion dollars in our military budget, this is more than the next 10 NATO countries combined, if you really want to send your money to Ukraine, take it out of the military budget, take it out of something So.

It's a perpetual problem, but I think the American public needs to know that as Republican and Democratic leaders travel to kyiv popping champagne and handing out pallets of cash, they need to know that there was opposition to these people, say why they're coming to the room. . Why are you making the poor senators here during Super Bowl weekend? Why do you make them cancel their vacation? You think I do it just to be mean or out of spite. I do it because I care about our country. I care about the bankruptcy of the United States, I care about the looting of our treasure.

There can be an honest debate about national security or what is part of our vital security, but there is never a debate if you look closely at what people say, they will simply declare that it is part of our national security. sending money to Ukraine there is not really a debate. Actually I think it's quite the opposite. I think sending money to Ukraine actually endangers our national security. I think it threatensour National Security Vital send more money to Ukraine. Because? Because I think so. threatens the fiscal solvency of our country. I believe that, along with much of the rest of the spending, it is dragging Americans down and threatening a day of destruction.

There have been civilizations that have destroyed their currency and usually this happened immediately after the war after the World War. War I Germany destroyed its currency after World War II. England was at such a point that they were no longer the dominant currency after World War I and II and the United States became the dominant currency. I think we should think twice before. sending our money abroad I think we should think twice about the problems we have here at home, but I think the American people should look at those here in this body who are willing to prioritize another country over our own.

I think they need to look at that and decide is this what you want is this what the American people really want if you elected these people to ignore the southern border and send money to look at the Ukraine border to prioritize the Ukraine border over the border of America is that what you elected people to do and if they did it, don't they care about the bankruptcy of the United States? Don't you care about the destruction of the dollar? It's happening every day and it's happening gradually five 10% a year of lost purchasing power, but there are people left behind people whose salaries don't keep up with inflation people who are being squeezed by this inflation and people are saying whose inflation Republicans or Democrats and I say both there's really only one party when you look at it everyone wants to spend money the leadership of the Republican Party really isn't much and this is a secret you're not supposed to expose in Washington but there's not much difference between Democratic leadership and Republican leadership that in a way they want to reveal. spend money on different things sometimes republicans want to spend more on the military enterprise and democrats maybe more on welfare but they come together people say oh there's not enough commitment in washington there's too much commitment why do they commit to spending money they don't We have So, to increase military spending, they have to promise that they will also increase spending on social assistance.

There is a particular argument that has been made by both Republican and Democratic leaders and the White House. I find this argument particularly reprehensible and particularly repugnant. and it's disturbing that they argue that it's actually not that bad to send money to Ukraine because it increases the profits of arms dealers and most of the arms dealers who sell weapons for this war are Americans, they say, oh, that's cool, it's a victory. If we win, we send the money abroad to Ukraine, but Ukraine then buys our weapons and weapons. Merchants get rich. I don't know, I know there are no American soldiers in this war yet, but I have some sympathy for the young men and women involved in this war that the argument that we should perpetuate war that war is not a bad thing and that war It's not hell on Earth because we get some benefit from it.

I find it disgusting. I find it really disturbing that there are people. out there arguing on both sides of the aisle is no big deal, it's helping our defense industrial base is another word for the military-industrial complex because even Eisenhower warned 70 years ago that there was a danger that the military-industrial complex would become so big that it wouldn't be a policy run by Congress that corporations would become such big trillion dollar money hoarding corporations that they would run the policy that it would no longer be you who voted or it would no longer be us who voted, but The corporate interest that makes the property right and makes the profits would be driving this and I think we've gotten eerily close to this being kind of the quiet part that they used to not say out loud, they used to keep it on.

In the QT we are simply not going to talk about the profits that go to the arms dealers, but now they brag about it. The defense industrial base, we are going to improve the defense industrial base. Really, the meat grinder of war is now justified by expansion. The profits of arms dealers. Some estimates are that 500,000 people have died in that war, so if we continue this for another year or two, maybe a million will die in the war, which will be good for arms profits. So that's our defense. It's not to shorten the war, but it's not that important to let the war go on and on.

The general in Ukraine has said that the war has reached a stalemate and I am the first to admit it. Look, the whole war started. on Russia's side Russia is the aggressor there is nothing good to say about Putin doing this he is the aggressor he is wrong but that doesn't really change the situation on the ground it is paralyzed 500,000 people have died it is paralyzed some In the cities of Ukraine no longer you can find young people, they are either dead or they have gone to Europe to avoid war, so Zalinski, the president of Ukraine, fired his major general because the major general admitted the truth, which is that this broke out of a stalemate.

Many people in this body, to justify foreign aid, will say that we are spreading and projecting American power and values ​​that we are trying to teach and show the world the nobility of democracy. Yeah, if you look at one of the networks, that's all you hear. Democracy democrat democracy democracy well guess what Ukraine is not a democracy they don't have elections so they stopped having elections several years ago and there is no plan to have elections so zilinsky won and I'm not saying he didn't win in Lo more likely it was a legitimate election, but in a way it is an election and that's it, there are not going to be any more elections, so we are doing everything we can, not we, the Republican leaders and all the Democrats, are doing everything possible to send money to a country. that doesn't have elections, this is a country that has banned media criticism, there is no media criticism and you would think First Amendment advocates would be furious at the fact that there is no objective media criticism in Ukraine , but the reason why The Other Side does not stand up and the reason why they are not crazy and armed about this is that they actually want our country now to be in favor of censorship, they believe in national security of the United States, they censor and tell people what they can't say.

So if I were to say, what I have said a million times, that it is a mistake to vaccinate your children against Covid because they already have immunity and that there are some risks to that vaccine, the other party will say that I don't have the right. to say that they say it would be fine for the government in the League with the corporations to censor my speech if I told them that masks don't work and that they don't work. All studies 78

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omized controlled studies say masks don't work. you can use one. I'm not going to forbid you from using one.

I would only tell you the truth. They will say. I shouldn't be allowed to say that. I can still say it in the Senate, but I do say it somewhere. from the big tech platforms we have the FBI and Homeland Security under the Biden administration sitting down and meeting with big tech weekly to encourage them to take down my speech so that when Ukraine limits speech you won't hear much criticism that they are just sending their money because They're no longer opposed to censorship, they're no longer pro-First Amendment, they're pro-First Amendment, unless they're spreading misinformation, but what is misinformation?

What they don't like is its definition and its idea. what you're saying, I would be perfectly willing to acknowledge that there are arguments on the other side of what I'm saying, whether masks work, whether you should vaccinate your children, I think the arguments are stronger on our side and I will debate with anyone these issues and I think they should be debated and then you should make your own decision in a free country you make a decision wear a mask do not wear a mask vaccinate your children vaccinate your children do not vaccinate your children but ban the speech is a very dangerous precedent, this is the type of speech they are in favor of banning in our country, so they are not too worried about the speech being banned in Ukraine.

Religious authorities have also been banned in Ukraine, so there were no elections in Ukraine, we banned speech and there has also been a ban on religion and yet the fervor, the fervor of people to send money to load the plane, the plane is probably loaded now. I may be exaggerating that they're going to be pallets of cash, they're probably going to be a computer entity, but it's much more visual to imagine the pallets of cash, but there's going to be a plane leaving this weekend that's going to have the Republican leader and the Democratic leader and them.

We will be celebrating that 60 billion dollars of your money goes to Ukraine 6 60 billion dollars 60 billion that we do not have and at the same time they did not have time to discuss the invasion that is coming from the southern border, we did not have a minute, we have We didn't have an amendment, we have several amendments that would actually put border security back into the bill and some on the other side I love this, they've said it well, because you oppose the bill you don't deserve to have amendments. I love the definition. and the idea of ​​what their concept of democracy is, if you agree with me you can have a speech, but if you don't agree with me, my God, you are deplorable and you don't deserve to have your speech nor do I have amendments, that's what they have basically said, so at this time there have been no amendments on border security.

There is an emergency on the southern border. I am totally in favor of more legal and legal immigration. I have several bills that would do exactly that. I have bills. that would expand employment-based immigration, as it used to be when you came to our country, particularly when we had large waves of people coming toward the end of the 19th century, you had to have a sponsor and you had to work. I don't have a problem with that, even some of the people who already came here and didn't follow the rules. I would probably be in favor of allowing work permits, but the thing is, I'm not in favor of 780,000 people coming to Mass across the border.

The people from the border come from China, the people come from Venezuela, Colombia and Paraguay, they come from everywhere there was a Pew study a few years ago that sampled people who would come to the United States if they could, it was estimated that 750 million people do you think we can accept 750 million people at once do you think we can double our population no There has to be some planning. There has to be some kind of periodic hurdles. There has to be a legal way in. In this country, I have been in favor of expanding the legal pass.

I have been in favor of expanding employment-based immigration. Most people I know who are first generation are excellent workers, like I say, some of the best Americans just got here, but we can. If we have a completely open border, we cannot allow the invasion to continue. What has happened here in recent days and will continue to happen is basically ignoring people. There's an elite class in this country that thinks Americans aren't smart enough to realize these things, they think Americans aren't smart enough to really know if they want to vaccinate their kids, if they want to wear a mask. or whether or not they want six feet of distance.

It works, did you hear the one? Recently, when he was interviewed, he was asked where the six feet of distance came from. He said: I don't know, I think we just made it up. I actually went to my son's college to graduate. They had white circles drawn on the ground outside. you had to stand in another white circle two meters from the people outside there is no science behind that zero they don't even know where their so called science came from I said I thought you came up with the sign no I thought so I thought it worked it doesn't work and You don't get any diseases outside of all those things we go through at graduations with people with masks on and the chair 6 feet away.

My favorite is this one, although these people are so obsessed and think masks work. I'll see them on the ground now and not all of them. I'm just guessing but I know at least some of them on the ground when they wear a mask it's because they have covid and it's like they're being taught common sense. when I went to medical school as a kid you stayed home when you were sick if you had an infectious disease you stayed home now they tell you to go ahead and confront people but wearing a mask that doesn't work why not?

The masks work because the pores of the mask are 600 times larger than the virus and the virus is aerosolized not just into sprayed water droplets that move freely through the air. ProbablyThe stupidest thing we did that perhaps rivals the Middle Ages is plexiglass. The morons told them that plexiglass would stop the virus, they would just say there's no truth to that, no signs that it's ridiculous, it should be a Saturday Night Live parody of plexiglass that's so tall the virus can't get over it, the virus yes. To turn it around, a group of engineers at MIT looked at this and looked at the flow patterns and I can't say if I know if this is correct or not, but they actually surmised that the plexiglass actually made it worse because the flow of Lamar Lamar La amount of air was actually disrupted by these things and their filtration systems, which actually probably have some value, were disrupted by the plexiglass, but that's what we live with, but these are the people who inflicted these things on you believe that not it is. smart enough to make your own decisions when you tell people at home what's going on here and I go home every weekend I go to the grocery store I go to church when I tell people at home that they just sending 60 billion dollars abroad is a gas they say how can that happen they say they don't know anyone if I'm in eastern Kentucky I could be talking to a firefighter a police officer from the city council they come up to me spontaneously and tell me we have problems here in our country, we cannot To pay for the basic functioning of our country, only 2 thirds of the spending in Washington is paid, a whole third is borrowed and yet they want to send money to a foreign country to solve their problems, Shouldn't we try to get busy? of our own country first, shouldn't we try to do something to stop the destruction of our own currency?

How do they get away with it? It's incredibly unpopular if you were to take this position in my state and ask everyone in Kentucky how many of you think we should send 100 billion dollars overseas and do nothing for the southern border, not a penny, not a single policy change. , nothing for the southern border.border how many people believe that in my state it is close to zero very few people believe that so how does it happen here? It happens because there's not enough sunlight there's not enough transparency so that's part of what a filibuster is, this is a talking filibuster today and the reason we're talking is to try to get this message across so it hits home so they can send us better people.

Madam Speaker, can you tell me how much time I have left to speak? The senator has 27 minutes left, okay. So one of the proposals that I have had I think is a modest proposal and you would think that it would not pass and should have been adopted unanimously and that is to have an inspector general to oversee the money that we have been making in Afghanistan. Over 20 years we still spent almost $2 trillion in Afghanistan over 20 years, but at least there was someone trying to watch because in times of war a lot happens, they talk about the fog of war, sometimes there are atrocities, sometimes there are murders of civilians. almost always, but there is also a lot of theft, there are a lot of things, you know, they have a name, it used to have a bad connotation of war profiteer, but it happens that in Afghanistan a hotel was being built, it was being built in front of our embassy.

It was framed it was halfway done, you know, halfway done, at least it was started, you could tell it was going to be a hotel and while they were building it someone said, wow, it looks like they're going to look right into the courtyard of our embassy and someone said wow, wouldn't that be a security risk and other people said yeah, I think you're right, so construction slowed down when they assessed the potential security risk of building a high-rise hotel facing our embassy. Meanwhile the guy who had the money fled to Jordan with 60 million dollars, it was going to cost 80 million, they put about 20 million into it and left it there like an eyesore and from what I understand they finally tore it down, how did we know from this? because we had an inspector general, the inspector general is called seagar special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, so I had a proposal over a year ago I said why don't we hire the inspector general, who has been doing this in Afghanistan, already he has a budget because it turns out that I am conservative in everything and I said we don't even need a new budget, the guy already has a budget, he has 10 or 15 million in his budget, why don't we change it from Afghanistan to Ukraine?

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everyone when I get home. Mentioned it. People mention it to me. I haven't heard of any people who object. I have not heard of anyone who opposes having an inspector general. We voted for it, the other side almost universally rejected it, and some on my side voted against it. Why, because the Inspector General has a history of finding waste, do they not like him? I chose him because he apparently is good at his job. a whole series of maybe 50 to 100 economists, accountants, people are used to looking at war spending and discovering that people waste it.

He writes a book about it every year. One of the waste projects he found was a natural gas station and these are the kind of ridiculous things that people back home don't know about and these are things that the other side puts on everything everything has to be green let's make the army be green so they decided they wanted to have a natural gas station. In Afghanistan, you have to realize that this is a country where much of the food is still cooked on open stoves and people travel in Buras, not in cars. natural gas, but they built them.

They spent $45 million building a natural gas station 30 or 40 miles from anywhere. The military site couldn't be protected, but then they discovered another problem and I guess maybe they hadn't thought this through, they wanted to go green and they wanted to get rid of internal combustion and they wanted to go to natural gas and that's it. With gasoline they were going to solve climate change in Afghanistan, a country of open fires, so they built this natural gas station for 45 million dollars, but lo and behold, you know what they discovered, no one had a car that ran on natural gas , so they would never use it. discouraged the useless papers of American spending, he said let's buy cars that run on natural gas, we have a gas station, we have to get you cars that run on natural gas so we can cure global warming in Afghanistan, so they bought them, I think , 24 cars. that ran on natural gas but they didn't think about this either people now had a gas station that delivered natural gas to their cars we gave them a couple of cars that ran on natural gas but they didn't have money so we said, let's give them a credit card, so they gave them credit cards to buy natural gas.

We have a service station. Natural gas. Natural gas cars. But now here's your credit card. They didn't think that all the time either. It turns out that people were still killing each other in that part of the world and it was too dangerous for our soldiers to protect, so when one of my staff members asked to see the natural gas station, our soldiers told him that it was too dangerous to protect. see it, so you can imagine what this natural gas station looks like now. If you can imagine, imagine a downtown gas station with the copper pipes ripped out.

You know, anything of value torn from the ground. That's your natural gas station in Afghanistan. That's your 45 million. dollars and that is war, even with an inspector general, we discovered it. Can you imagine what war is like without an inspector general? Now the other side will say oh, the Department of Defense has an inspector general. Well, yes, they do, this is the Department of Defense. That's missing a couple billion dollars worth of equipment. This is the Department of Defense saying they're too big to be audited, so I would say we had to be a little careful about just saying oh, the Department of Defense will keep an eye on this. money, so I mentioned before about a billion dollars, you know what a billion is, so a million dollars in the palm of your hand is a thousand bills, if you have them, the bills would be four inches high it would be a million of dollars, a billion dollars is harder to visualize but to put a billion in perspective a billion seconds ago Reagan was beginning his second term a billion minutes ago the pantheon was being completed in Rome a billion hours ago it was the Age of Stone over 100,000 years ago but a billion dollars ago at the rate we're spending money just over two minutes ago, now it's a billion, you know, you wonder how bad things are around here.

We used to think that a billion was a lot of time, a lot of money, but now we have trillions. trillion dollars 34 trillion dollars I remember when George W. Bush was president it was five trillion and it got to 10 trillion I was like God, this is terrible, this is a Republican administration, then when Obama was president it went from 10 to 20 and then when trump was he went up seven and a half eight in four years even at a more alarming rate every president has been worse everyone has been bad congress also deserves some of the blame it doesn't happen without congress but the money is going crazy but we It's about $1.5 trillion, so I looked this up this morning.

I wanted to know if you stacked $1 bills and wanted to know how big 1.5 trillion is. If you take two years of debt, that's three trillion and you want it. $1 Bills $1 bills would stack up to the Moon More than 230,000 miles away, we're starting to talk about a little money here, but it's not just general debt. When they pay the debt, the Federal Reserve dilutes the currency and the currency is worth less and less, but also what happens is that our interest rates increase over time, so under George W. Bush we went from five to 10 trillion and we doubled the debt from five to 10 trillion in that period of time, the interest rate was cut in half, so the interest rate actually wasn't much worse, but ultimately I think we've lost the ability to Federal Reserve to reduce interest rates.

Interest rates have increased and interest payments have doubled. We are on the right track within the next year or so. For interest rates to become the single biggest element that crowds out and crowds out other spending in the budget, mark my words, this hundred billion dollars is going to add to that problem and I think that is

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a complete mistake and an insult to everyone. Americans to ignore the invasion of our country. Southern Border to send money abroad I reserve the balance of my time