'It's Uncomfortable But I Do Want Us To Think About' This Shocking Reality: David Schweikert

Last night on the House floor, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) introduced an amendment to the 2024 appropriations to discuss the reality of government borrowing and spending.
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[@batmanforpresident9655]

ANYONE with purple hair should NEVER be in Congress.

[@LynneTribble]

Any insurrectionist thief or liar should not be in Congress get your information from reliable sources

[@maryrowland3723]

Screw Loose w/Purple hair, my Lord help us

[@jamesgee8094]

100% part of that woke/liberal crowd. Gonna sink this country!

[@Rong499]

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[@user-eo8tr1yz7x]

But you would obviously have no problem with a Rapist in government. Fair call.

[@Bigolg1975]

If your bank account is negative and your credit cards are maxed out, the only thing to do is obviously spend more!!

[@totostamopo]

With respect, that is the tRump playbook. He is responsible for billions in this debt...almost 25% of it. This is also how he runs his businesses. A proven fraudster. A one term president has more debt piled up than the previous 12 presidents before him. Think about it. If you look into this- you'll see that the republicans run up the debt and then punish the country for it during democratic presidencies. We need to revoke absurd tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires instead of taking it out of school lunches. This is insane. I agree with you- but if your bank account is negative, isn't the first thing you do is get a job? Taxing those who have it is how the government funds itself. Why taxing is a dirty word for the GOP I'll never know.

[@batmanforpresident9655]

The fact that old lady has purple hair AUTOMATICALLY discredits ANYTHING she says.

[@dutchreagan3676]

where did you see a 'lady'??

[@davemulka18]

Not sure thats a woman.

[@LynneTribble]

Listen to the words

[@artstocker60]

Just a person's being a Democrat is now almost sufficient to discredit everything that person says.

[@dutchreagan3676]

@@artstocker60 I think when you wake up and start disfiguring/uglifying yourself, you're sending the message that you don't care and that you're totally insane. Fetter is another such idjut. That's all you need to know.

[@samiam93]

We cant keep borrowing money..time to stop sending money overseas.stop foreign aid. Look at every expenditure. Line item veto necessary. Our Gov't has grown bloated. Cuts need to be made.

[@VVayVVard]

Cutting foreign aid won't help one bit. Foreign aid is only 0.5% of the overall budget once recouped costs are taken into account. And cutting it will embolden Russia and China to make further encroachments (because of basic human psychology---leaders tend to want easy wins instead of hard wins) which will lead to further inflation. US defense exports would diminish as well, and the position of the US dollar would become weaker globally. Currently foreign aid costs around 50~100 USD per citizen, and even a 5% increase in the costs of all goods (as happened in 2022) would cause all that saved money to evaporate, never mind the loss of export revenue. An actual solution to the problem would involve raising the minimum age requirements for social security and medicare by 5 years. This would be enough to cover up to 25%~50% of the deficit, saving around 1000 USD per citizen per year. Tax optimization could cover another 25%. Cutting existing benefits would cover the rest. Once debt has been paid off and there's no need to pay interest anymore (which is already 1 trillion a year) many of the cut entitlements can be reinstated. In any case, foreign aid has little effect on the deficit. It could be quintupled and it would still pay itself back. Cutting it would meanwhile almost certainly hurt the economy to some extent. Among all the policies that are popular among people on the right, cutting foreign aid is by far the least intelligent.

[@MAllen-ng8pl]

I like how she acted like she was crying with everything she said, but she never addressed every penny is borrowed. Just keep borrowing. What could go wrong?

[@gordo3582]

Seriously, you can keep giving away "Free money" to people until we are bankrupt, then what? I'll tell you what, you think last year's 10% inflation was bad? How about 20%? 30%? 50%? This will CRUSH the poor like nothing before ever has.

[@Rong499]

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[@meestermole2412]

right? let's say these "programs" help people get out of poverty - just to get above the poverty line to become part of the machine - and be broke anyway...

[@freddyrojas1361]

Stop giving social security benefits to people that are in the country illegally.

[@maryrowland3723]

Those demon crats s o b s !

[@totostamopo]

We do not give social security benefits to anyone in the country illegally. They do not have SS numbers. They cannot receive benefits but do pay taxes.

[@kennyrichard2971]

I have said it over and over how does anyone take her/he serious when her/he colors their hair half purple at her/he age!

[@jamesrobb4928]

I have an idea... how about making congressional pay equal to the median income of US citizens, and no sending ANY money overseas until our country's debt is ZERO.

[@bwiled26]

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[@deltatango5765]

We can't do that! How else are the politicians going to get their secret kickbacks??

[@VVayVVard]

You do realize that that would mean getting rid of social security and medicare, right? Because foreign aid and congress salaries together amount to less than 0.5% of government spending. The salaries of representatives are particularly negligible----there are around a thousand of them, with an average salary of 1 million per each, amounting to 0.001 trillion spending in total. Foreign aid is 0.05 trillion (0.02~0.03 trillion when recouped costs via the taxation of defense sector companies and their employees are taken into account). Meanwhile the deficit sits at around 1 trillion. Also don't forget that cutting foreign aid would hurt the economy in the long run. Weak foreign policy induces inflation via disturbances to production lines and shipping lanes as happened in 2022 and 2023 (since world leaders tend to push when they expect easy wins) while reducing defense exports (because all the areas conquered by adversaries would now buy their defense products from Russia, China or Iran) while simultaneously diminishing the power the US dollar globally (because when you give your currency to people, they're incentivized to use it, instead of some other currency that they don't have... not a hard concept to understand, I would imagine). Making US allies weaker also isn't a great long-term policy. I assume I don't have to explain that one. Raising age requirements for SS and medicare would meanwhile cover about 25%~50% of the deficit. Tax optimization could do another 25%. Cutting existing benefits would cover the rest. Once debt has been paid off, the government will have an extra 1 trillion per year to spend (since there's no interest to pay off) and some of the cut entitlements can be restored.

[@jamesrobb4928]

@@VVayVVard You sound like a politician. Tie domestic spending to foreign spending. The reason social security and medicare are so high is because illegals are suckung those benefits, without EVER paying into the system, and our own politicians forcing fathers out of the home for the mothers to receive continued support. In essence, LBJ had Kennedy killed, and for an additional reason being to "re-enslave" minorities by keeping them dependant on the government, instead of charities. Income tax is solely for the purpose of supporting the military industrial complex and line the pockets of politicians and their cronies. Social security was a joke since its inception, as the age it was to begin to be collected, exceeded the life expectancy of the average male at that time. To ad insult to injury, the social security fund was RAIDED by politicians, for their out of control spending, which is directly tied to lining the pockets of politicians. Face it, our government has become a monster and needs to be exposed, reduced, and have it's power heeled, or replaced, to return the servant of the people, not a ruling class of tyranny, it has become.

[@strsocerplaya9]

Our economy is going to crash eventually. Teach your kids a skill that actually matters.

[@grizz6150]

Your 💯 percent correct.

[@12oldman]

This woman lives in fantasy land. According to her it’s ok to just to keep borrowing. As far as I’m concerned families and the government need to return to a budgeting system that we had in the 50’s. If we don’t have the money, we don’t spend. She is delusional.

[@LynneTribble]

How about taxing the rich

[@nadewitt-yf6ng]

​@LynneTribble if you had a clue, they pay way more than you do. Try dome research instead of listening to tge democratic agenda crap they feed you 24/7/365 back there!

[@jamesgee8094]

Have here talk to biden about giving all our dam money to ukraine!

[@grandmag204]

​@@LynneTribble😂

[@Rong499]

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[@MattBaker-zd8nq]

Who in their right mind would put this woman in charge of anything

[@mikusoxlongius]

It's so nice to see how well Lurch's mother is doing during these trying times.

[@MissJensk1]

😂😂😂

[@alicegood8166]

Lurch was a loyal servant that was aware of his employers faults. It seems as thought lurch was WOKE .

[@karlmuckit2968]

@@alicegood8166 Really

[@nadewitt-yf6ng]

Just think poor Lurch! He had to put up with this crap his whole life!

[@Rong499]

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[@paulaparker5597]

IT ONLY CUTS THE MONEY LAUNDERING FROM THE PROGRAMS

[@kdkay4039]

NO MORE! We have NO MORE to give!!!! Stop this INSANITY!!! Balance the budget, cut out TRASH FUNDING, of “feel good” programs, vs. “do good” programs!

[@rubenbates2709]

How the hell do you vote for someone at the age that woman is with purple hair 🤔

[@EPo-lw6zz]

It's interesting to me that when it comes to blowing money around the world, you're not thinking of any of this. Home

[@douglashewitt5064]

Cut funding, period. This woman wants to keep spending money we do not have. When the system collapses, we all suffer incredibly because we over spent, period. Cut back before the entire system collapses. 😮

[@InfiniteLynn]

It's definitely time to reduce spending on the military and make them pass an audit.

[@jeannetteknighten9043]

Yes, I’m sick of doing with that when we work our moneys tax, when we spend it is text again, then, at the first of every year is text again Biden is giving everything the taxpayer makes to the other countries. I for one am tired of them, sending my money to another country.

[@maryrowland3723]

Sick and Tired of THEIR BS

[@jamesgee8094]

You nailed it!

[@misoudeweese7209]

We have a spending problem. And too many tax loopholes. Flat tax and no deduction loopholes. Control loopholes and audit the heck out of these govt agencies.

[@windsurferpursley2736]

They won't go with that, they'd get no money from their donors

[@elisameadows2297]

Oh my gosh, she whispers like Biden! Somebody stop her!

[@CalIrons-wr2xy]

I’m a simple man, I see congressman Schweikert, I click like 👍 Let’s get America financially healthy 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@jeandelgado6240]

It is not time to be borrowing more money! Trap..? We are maxed out!

[@FernandoFallacara]

Look at the monster that wants to turn your children into something either whatever they want

[@glendablattner8880]

Corporate America has to profit in order to hire proper staff and employees!

[@douglashewitt5064]

There is no business without profit. We all suffer when the profit disappears. Stop spending money we don't have 😮

[@EPo-lw6zz]

Should have thought about all that when you guys were blowing our money when we had it. All those programs are talking about. Those are all luxury programs. They're not necessities. The money could be generated through local communities, fundraisers, etc

[@jbthesfm]

It's just embarassing at this point. The collapse is going to be terrible and we have no one to blame but ourselves. This is what we voted for, folks. This is what we wanted.

[@martinfrench4583]

"We are borrowing all of the money that we are spending on all of these programs." "But we can't spend money if we don't borrow it!"

[@851spinks]

As soon as I heard gentlewoman that's enough said!

[@DDurbin]

They always talk about cutting Senior benefits. How about term limits in high paying government?

[@bonniewyrick7771]

Clean Up THESE "NON-TAXABLE NOT-FOR-PROFIT FAKE PLACES "!!!

[@clake8931]

WTF , the person with the purple hair looks like she just crawled in off the streets ? What has happened to the United States??

[@windsurferpursley2736]

She really knows how to match her outfits

[@pattyflaherty9545]

The spending needs to stop these people are nuts. Let them fish out their own dollars. 😡

[@awhsum1]

Should ask her how to pay for all this money they "borrow"

[@debbie5728]

What’s up with Emo-learch?

[@jeffjones2771]

Instead of hiring lawyers to run Congress, perhaps we need to hire more accountants. At the very least, accountants know how to both add AND subtract...

[@danwilliams3894]

Cut!

[@serdna9307]

Where did they bring that witch from😂😂

[@markreeves2491]

This amendment would reduce the number of people on the government plantation ! 🤔 We certainly can't allow that to happen ! 🤨

[@antknee109]

Why is this woman still wearing her Halloween Costume!

[@TheNewCarryTrade]

The bond market will ultimately decide what gets funded, just like Liz Truss found out...

[@dorcasmcleod9439]

Insanity!

[@Jimmy-nv7mn]

I don't care if we don't have the money, spend it anyway.

[@gunnyd9282]

How about we just stop spending money we don't have!

[@LogicalThoughts7144]

Of course it cuts spending....that's the point. We cannot afford everything so we NEED to cut some items.

[@walter857]

Just let them spend what they want. It's just money.

[@jamesgee8094]

Borrowed or charge means the same Dam thing! Custer yelled (charge) look how that turned out! We're are in deep shit! Keep spending & see what happens!

[@alpine7313]

They're basically admitting that it doesn't fucking matter if we borrow or not, because we're never paying the money back anyway.

[@wilhaynes1632]

I see alot of comments on here about the government borrowing money to keep these programs functioning; but no one is addressing the point about wealthy people and corporations not paying their fair share of taxes and once this is addressed, we can get on with making the necessary cuts in programs to balance the budget. Would this not be fair?

[@1antiquenut539]

Cut the spending period.Or it will cut us.

[@_TheGman]

Cut all of the biomedical research from NIH!!!!

[@glendablattner8880]

Meals on wheels is one of the programs that is horribly expensive and lacking in proper nutrition and quality!

[@stephencourtright8099]

Yeah Rosa was our crossing guard at Bridgeport Connecticut on pequannock Street Saint Augustine School back in the 60s I don't remember her having purple hair but she was one hell of a crossing guard now she's big time I wonder if she still has that crossing guard belt like a tattoo in my brain

[@pissedoffamerican4869]

ALSO GOT CRIMINAL PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!!!

[@markoshea8993]

The dollar is going to be worthless the way these crumbs are spending

[@LyndaHiatt]

Representative Schweigert Arizona ( Karl ‘s uncle)

[@WeFightDirtyDios-ow4vg]

Personal apearence not someone would accept advise from

[@ramonapool619]

Everything is going to collapse. Just a matter of time.

[@RowdyBorders-ni3ti]

Lockbox SSA from politicians and federal officials

[@highinquisitorvanwiller8904]

Defund the Politicans and Beaurocrats.

[@nordan00]

Purple-haired elderly broad looks like a character from one of those Rankin-Bass claymation cartoons!

[@rosemarieconner9493]

The piggie bank is empty lady! Wake up!

[@dorcasmcleod9439]

Spending way more than we take in! Insanity! Can you say, "Weimar Republic"? It failed due to hyperinflation and political extremism among other factors.

[@RowdyBorders-ni3ti]

So what’s up with our senior citizens with purple hair can’t figure which ways up ?

[@user-mm1se7gy7e]

She looks like John Kerry with purple hair.

[@bonniewyrick7771]

Purple Hair should sit down until she gets herself together so people will take her seriously. 😂

[@philmcalister1645]

This lady needs to wake up. Take a pay cut lady! Are you sufferers? Really doubt it.

[@tonycall8059]

Fiscally deficient or malignant. How do people get through life without basic knowledge of bouncing a checkbook?

[@GaiaMiranda]

She completely ignored him. Even if you took ALL of the wealthiest individuals money away from them we would still have an enormous problem. SMH

[@SS-qp3tl]

Either fix this tradegyvor get out. Not the US citizens responsibility who NEVER agreed. Vote your constituent wishes, not your back pocket, backdoor deals.

[@1antiquenut539]

Why do we have open borders.If we can't afford our own people.Doesnt add up.

[@jamesreiger7990]

I understand the points on spending, but i think there are plenty of foreign investments and government bloating that can be cut before we turn on backs on fellow Americans. Unfortunately, it seems we are not getting anywhere on either front. We're both borrowing to invest in foreign initiatives that don't serve us and neglecting to invest in the welfare of our citizens. Sad state of affairs

[@WeFightDirtyDios-ow4vg]

Found 14 billion in wasteful spending last week Congress gave it away MORE BORROWED MONEY 💰💰💰💰💰💰

[@letricblue]

To all those that say it's revenue problem, 1st getting more money from taxpayers (taxes) is like telling people you have to work more so I can spend more, 2nd tax the rich corporations still means work more because for them to pay more it comes out of cost of goods increase, so pay more taxpayers to survive, 3rd inflation as cost of goods increase, prices increase, cost of life increases. We are at the point where we can't afford more debt. Are we ready to go bankrupt and have our country repossessed or do we spend less?

[@gordo3582]

How about passing a balanced budget law? We want fiscal responsibility to safeguard our country's future. These clowns will keep giving away "Free money" until we are bankrupt, then what? Inflation goes to 20%? 30%? 50%? This will CRUSH the poor like nothing before ever has. Good luck with that.

[@jeandelgado6240]

When the squeeze happens, the poor and needy would be cut out and left without!! Trojan horse..... Democrats must stop frivolous spending!

[@Rong499]

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[@linsteele1820]

Who is listening.? Noone there "at work"

[@evelynclover6366]

Umm..... I don't have a child and don't plan on having a child.....can I opt out of this "paying taxes for child care before 5"? You can't even keep kids in regular school we ALL have to pay for...why do I need to pay more? I would love to be a pilot and have painstakingly tried to get funding for the schooling, but flight school is not paid for by the government in any capacity. We need pilot's more than children as apparently your open border brings tons of them everyday....

[@totostamopo]

Gee Evelyn, I don't have a car...does that mean I don't need to pay for roads? Government is for the common good. Clearly, you wouldn't be here if folks didn't have children. I find this argument lacking in appreciation of the purpose of government.

[@evelynclover6366]

@@totostamopo Your argument has holes. Let me point out the big one. Everyone benefits from roads, only the family benefits from children. Citizens who have child dependents should automatically have a child tax. It shouldn't be added to non parents. Ask yourself, how's that forced Obamacare working for you?

[@inspirethechildren]

What is that thing???

[@ThePoehladian]

Purple haired NPC would make great compost for purple Iris flowers.

[@user-sf6cg1iy1o]

Thank you Biden!!

[@hhfd1369]

She is really crazy

[@davef.2329]

The person that starts speaking at 2:15? Seriously?

[@LegoSwordViedos]

this cut will take a percentage away from program x y z. yeah and what happens when the debt gets so bad ALL those programs have to go just to service the interest on the debt... idiots...

[@samuelcharles7983]

Its the purple people eater.

[@rubenbates2709]

Everything she is pushing, someone else wrote on a piece of paper. Spend spend spend

[@mtvntn]

She needs a hospital....

[@RobertKinne-lh8wn]

I already gave you the money for my ssi every week if you fooled it away an let people in that never worked a day that's up to you When I went to ssi the man there said I don't see this every day you never missed a quarter from when you were 16 till you were 62 now try to take that away from me who zooming who

[@markoshea8993]

For what purpose does the freak with purple hair seek recognition?

[@David-yp4fl]

Bill Clinton needs to run for the US Senate in New York and support gay rights

[@pamelacoffos8412]

Talk about drama she is it. She chose the wrong career.

[@diahegge5395]

Her drama isn’t convincing

[@DDurbin]

Simple solution.Stop sending billions to other countries. All politicians take a pay cut. Look at all those empty seats. Politicians don't even show up for work.

[@user-hi1mn4uj9y]

Somebody needs to inform that purple haired woman that her boss is why we're in this mess and some of her extracurricular s*** is going to have to wait until we take care of the important task at hand of putting our country back together

[@MrWeeble19]

Even IF you take that 🤡 at her word, $1t does NOT offset $8t. And just to point out more nuttery, what do you think the payers of this $1t are going to do with their prices? You think they will say "fine, you're right we should just eat that $1t." No, that is never going to happen. They will just bump the costs down to you and I. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@oscarwindham6016]

This back and forth between Rep. Schweikert and Rep. DeLauro over federal funding with Rep. Schweikert falsely stating that we have a [national] "debt" is so very, very disingenuous because Rep. DeLauro does not, nor does anyone else up on Capitol Hill, point out the fact that these "debt $s" are in fact $s that we the people "pretend to borrow" from ourselves through the process of deficit spending and or quantitative easing (QE) or what I more appropriately call the reality of the Equity Spending process. Bottom line, both Rep. Schweikert and Rep. DeLauro are liars, or they are both incompetent, as far as both of them failing to point out the fact that all of these federal spending programs are now and forevermore shall be funded by the process of Equity Spending which process does NOT actually create a "national debt". With Equity Spending we're talking about the electronic generation of we the peoples' $s in order to meet federal expenditures when there are insufficient funds available from our defunct federal tax revenue system that will never, cannot ever, never be revived. Furthermore, the very crux of the ES reality/process is that even though we the peoples' electronically generated ES, if you will, $s spend exactly the same as we the peoples' forty-hour workweek paycheck $s, it is nonetheless impossible to actually borrow or payback, for that matter, we the peoples' electronically generated ES $s because these ES $s are in fact, we the peoples' electronically generated ES $s, and YES, it is all just that simple, as far as "The Big Picture" is concerned. With these facts thus stated even the most simple-minded individual should be able to deduce that we do NOT actually have a national debt, but instead we only have a pretend national debt which, of course, also means that our federal deficit is totally irrelevant, as far as the amount. Exactly what we the peoples' ES $s are being spent on is another matter altogether. There is the even greater point, which is that IF... the Dems, at just the right time during the upcoming presidential election, come forward with this Mia culpa relating to our nation having federal funding to - "Infinitum" - to quote Fed Chairman Powell, and without one cent of federal tax revenue being involved due to the reality of the Equity Spending process..., we're talking about the GOP suffering the greatest political defeat in the history of all creation..., Trump or no Trump. I can't post the title of my quintessential fictional and non-fictional formatted book, for obvious reasons, which unique book (Revised 2nd Edition) fully illustrates the full spectrum of how and why the reality of the Equity Spending process works, but I can post my full name - Oscar Dean Windham.

[@bornagain9192]

I reall dont put much trust in her ,ive seen her before.

[@wf5697]

Purple hair in congress looks whacky