Americans have lost confidence in the federal
government. People are wakening up to
the fact that Washington D.C. is the source of all of our problems. That’s not just me venting. That’s what former Senator Tom Coburn stated
before a Senate committee on Homeland Security.
“I would just tell you a little of my background this last year in
2015 I spent my time in 21 different states,” Coburn told the committee. “And
America doesn’t trust you anymore. That’s the truth. Because they don’t see the
actions coming out of Congress that should be coming out.”
“And that doesn’t mean that they’re right all the time, but
you’ve lost their confidence,” he said. “And that’s not one party,
that’s both. And so when you have hundreds of billions of dollars that could be
saved and aren’t, and they know it. You know, they actually read your reports.
People online, and then they use social media, pass it around.”
“The important thing is to restore the confidence in the country
what you’re doing, and why you’re doing it and how you’re doing it,” Coburn said.
“The unfunded liabilities of this country, with its debt, is $142
trillion,” he said. “That’s $1 million per family, or that’s $1 million per
taxpayer. Nobody knows what a trillion is but when you’re telling a young
family with small kids, ‘Oh, by the way, here’s the debt burden that’s coming
to you over the next 25 years, you better be prepared for it.’
Dr. Coburn is leading an effort to convene an
Article V convention of states that would amend the constitution. Because we all know Washington D.C. is
incapable of reforming itself.
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