all across new hampshire, people are so tired of seeing the government put them more in debt. when i came in to congress, in january of 2007, the country was $8.67 trillion in debt. today it's $15 trillion. next year it will be $17 trillion. we're acting like greece and like italy, and that's what people are frustrated with. they want us to ask like a first-world nation. not like what president barack obama is doing. he's acting like we're a banana republic. we've got to get our act together, and stop spending money that we don't have. >> you're not -- i mean you're seriously calling the united states acting like a banana republic compared to the sort of debt issues that the eurozone countries have had? >> what i'm doing is saying that what the decision that barack obama is making, is acting like a banana republic. it's absolutely irresponsible what president obama is doing to get behind measures to incree spending to such a level that we're going in to debt, $1.5 trillion every year.