the government t spends every year is codified as mandatory, n meaning there s no review no process, no checks and balancecs ,just a blank check and no the e balancing the checkbook. we live in a society wherend obc laziness and obesity can qualify you for a disabilityfora check from the government paid for by us working americans . u sin fact, nearly two thirds of the money spent by our government last year went to social welfare programs, according to democrats , likeof f congresswoman sheila mccormick of florida, to even mention challenging these programs is to be heartless and void of empathy.void of empathy empathy. when someone chooses but when someone chooses getting high over being a father to his children, what pity is he owed ? when a woman uses a chronic sprained ankle to stay on social security disability, d she an invalid or using discomfort to scam the system? m or when the son of a vice president spends his time and money on and blow, is he an addict in need? o
is the huge increase in natio our national debnat. gn over to folks who , along with you on this, you some pretty fiery language fierye. i know passions are high and understand why. if you watch the monologue in this show,gue in t car we care. we care about the money this country spends and what we expect from our citizens.otiato if you re thr e negotiatoron on the phone with president biden, how do you get whatat mcr you want rather than what kevin mccarthy got? so in two thousand eight , te speaker boehner, republican and majority leader in the senate, democrat in president obama, democrat, negotiated the deal where they were caps on the sequester in place. that s what we h neeerd to do hs we need to stop the rate of government growth. we need to make sure that wethar don t continue to add trillions onto our national debt. listen, i know you all are going to vote tonight. we ll see what happens. good luck with the thingsre you believe in. and good luck taking care of america. th
oh my daughter gets bedbugs. we re just passing through and we wanted to thank america s numberents are one mor insurer for saving us money. fri le exactly like me. i know, right? well, cherish your friends and loved ones. oh, let s boogie woogie. this is a fox news alert. the house of representatives is nearing a vote on the debt ceiling in an hourg in. ation a we re monitoring as we the situation and we ll break in with news as we g get it. foxfirst, hello and welcome to fox news tonight. and i m joe johns. d them as republicans fight themselvese over a fraction, the money our government spends in a year, it s important to put all of this into persp perspect if the bill can only limit 11%ei or discretionary portion of the budget, what is the other? 89% spent on the lion s share my of your money, your money?
and everybody wonders, why does a consumer keep spending? because consumer spending hasd s sort of kept up. o the answer is we re atdebt peo record levels ofpl credit card t debt. hithey people are borrowing to pay for the things they can ct forward so, again, when you talk about this economy is delivering fore the lower middle class, it s not delivering. it s requiring theering it sm tt their livelihoods on plastic in order to get by . we ve got to flip that around. we had an economy prior to thes pandemic where wages really were goinge going for people at the bottom and they weren t having to run up record credit a card debt because they could earn a living. wou mentioned work earlier on your show, the dignity of work, but alsolity of wothe sustainability of work asa way to build a family. that s what we re missing right ig now. ht nowso we talk about working g making more money. inflation s going up. you have flation s credit card debt. all right. les that probably makes your credi
but this ide a that we ve soldthe ca out because we can t stopr the car before it goes over the abyss and we re going to slow it down is kind of irrelevant. s been gthis has been going on g and the republicans are partlyhh culpable. they didn t have the discipline to do it when they hade ve the p the power and theyow don t have the power to stop it now. but they can if they ll start winning elections and start being physically responsible for change,e you have so much of this really centers around that they want it to be longer because they re afraid that they won t be able to keep it going. cong congress is . are thesree policies just aren ? popular with americans? yeah. i mean, yeah. tha i mean, the americans know that they re headed for armageddon.r. and weat and whether it s social spending or defense or whatever it is , that s not sustainablsustainae. we re either going to havee th to print money or renounce the debt or confiscater private wealth. that s what happenst historic