and other benefits. we are out of money. the federal government is broke. we are $14 trillion in debt. can we just continue to borrow money and send it to any program that we want, or to states or localities? there has got to be a federal local partnership, but that partnership exists today. talking about expanding it only puts us in deeper financial trouble and jeopardizing the jeopardizes the opportunities of generations to come. i think we ought to roll back to 2008 spending levels now. under the president s proposal, he will double the national debt in .500 years, and triple the national debt in 10 years. i don t think that is the direction america wants to go. that is why i have voted against 32 of the last 44 appropriations bills that have been introduced since democrats took control of congress. mrs. marshall? i have been i have a different take. when george bush was president, you voted to race the debt ceilings. it was ok spending then. america went to war tw