Good afternoon, everyone. Id like the call this subcommittee meeting on the emerging threats and capabilities to order. Ill start with the Opening Statement, and then we will have an Opening Statement from you, and move on to the witnesseses. Thank you, gentlemen for being here. The subcommittee on merging threats and capabilities made to d today to receive testimony on the department of defenses efforts to counter weapons of mass destruction and we welcome assistant secretary for defense of Homeland Defense and Global Security, deputy rapuano, and Joseph Osterman who is the deputy officer of socome, and thank them for appearing before us today. This hearing is coming at a troubling increase in the proliferation of wmds by rogue states and terrorist organizations that pose a direct and growing threat to the National Security. While we are familiar with and concerned by the growing size and capabilities of north Koreas Nuclear program, we should be mindful of the efforts to expand the c
You can also have a rapid unraveling, and that is a panic. 2008 was close to a panic. I dont believe we have fundamentally fixed all of that. I believe there is still enormous debt. There could some day be an instantaneous recognition that something is seriously wrong here. The country is no longer producing like it did and has enormous debt. I hope that they doesnt calm. Defend that off, we need to bring it into balance. It is a simple proposition. You only spend what comes in. The rest is common sense. If you did that, that would be so radical that everybody would say you cant do that. When i say i only want to spend what comes then, outside the beltway, that makes sense. Why is it hard for the government to shrink . Sen. Paul the people appear dont know what to do because they have been here too long. When i came up here and offered spending cuts, they said good when i was back home, but its not enough to balance the budget. I was going to call 500 billion. It could be done. The ups
You can also have a rapid unraveling, and that is a panic. 2008 was close to a panic. I dont believe we have fundamentally fixed all of that. I believe there is still enormous debt. There could some day be an instantaneous recognition that something is seriously wrong here. The country is no longer producing like it did and has enormous debt. I hope that they doesnt calm. Defend that off, we need to bring it into balance. It is a simple proposition. You only spend what comes in. The rest is common sense. If you did that, that would be so radical that everybody would say you cant do that. When i say i only want to spend what comes then, outside the beltway, that makes sense. Why is it hard for the government to shrink . Sen. Paul the people appear dont know what to do because they have been here too long. When i came up here and offered spending cuts, they said good when i was back home, but its not enough to balance the budget. I was going to call 500 billion. It could be done. The ups
You can also have a rapid unraveling, and that is a panic. 2008 was close to a panic. I dont believe we have fundamentally fixed all of that. I believe there is still enormous debt. There could some day be an instantaneous recognition that something is seriously wrong here. The country is no longer producing like it did and has enormous debt. I hope that they doesnt calm. Defend that off, we need to bring it into balance. It is a simple proposition. You only spend what comes in. The rest is common sense. If you did that, that would be so radical that everybody would say you cant do that. When i say i only want to spend what comes then, outside the beltway, that makes sense. Why is it hard for the government to shrink . Sen. Paul the people appear dont know what to do because they have been here too long. When i came up here and offered spending cuts, they said good when i was back home, but its not enough to balance the budget. I was going to call 500 billion. It could be done. The ups
You can also have a rapid unraveling, and that is a panic. 2008 was close to a panic. I dont believe we have fundamentally fixed all of that. I believe there is still enormous debt. There could some day be an instantaneous recognition that something is seriously wrong here. The country is no longer producing like it did and has enormous debt. I hope that they doesnt calm. Defend that off, we need to bring it into balance. It is a simple proposition. You only spend what comes in. The rest is common sense. If you did that, that would be so radical that everybody would say you cant do that. When i say i only want to spend what comes then, outside the beltway, that makes sense. Why is it hard for the government to shrink . Sen. Paul the people appear dont know what to do because they have been here too long. When i came up here and offered spending cuts, they said good when i was back home, but its not enough to balance the budget. I was going to call 500 billion. It could be done. The ups