sent to the senate, dead on arrival there. meanwhile, every single american is doing his or her job, getting things done. instead, we just limp along here on capitol hill, without budgets to control our spending, or our economy? so much room from frustration over this. i mean, just in simple, broad terms, the government is spending over $3 trillion, taking in a little over $2 trillion how long before we implode? not only is it frustrating, that very fact, there is an unwillingness to adopt a plan and to put a plan in place to resolve t. that s all we are saying. we don t solve the problem overnight. rome wasn t built in a day or burned in a day. we are saying, adopt our plan so we can get about the business of saying, there is a certainty of focus that we re going to address the problem and then grow the economy. but, you know, the unwilling tons say we need a plan in place, that s what is so
sent to the senate, dead on arrival there. meanwhile, every single american is doing his or her job, getting things done. instead, we just limp along here on capitol hill, without budgets to control our spending, or our economy? so much room from frustration over this. i mean, just in simple, broad terms, the government is spending over $3 trillion, taking in a little over $2 trillion how long before we implode? not only is it frustrating, that very fact, there is an unwillingness to adopt a plan and to put a plan in place to resolve t. that s all we are saying. we don t solve the problem overnight. rome wasn t built in a day or burned in a day. we are saying, adopt our plan so we can get about the business of saying, there is a certainty of focus that we re going to address the problem and then grow the economy. but, you know, the unwilling tons say we need a plan in place, that s what is so
sent to the senate, dead on arrival there. meanwhile, every single american is doing his or her job, getting things done. instead, we just limp along here on capitol hill, without budgets to control our spending, or our economy? so much room from frustration over this. i mean, just in simple, broad terms, the government is spending over $3 trillion, taking in a little over $2 trillion how long before we implode? not only is it frustrating, that very fact, there is an unwillingness to adopt a plan and to put a plan in place to resolve t. that s all we are saying. we don t solve the problem overnight. rome wasn t built in a day or burned in a day. we are saying, adopt our plan so we can get about the business of saying, there is a certainty of focus that we re going to address the problem and then grow the economy. but, you know, the unwilling tons say we need a plan in place, that s what is so
same way. tonight i want to take a look at the time line of the rise and fall of rome. i will not show you much in the rise but i will show you, compare the decline. we will show you where we are in comparison. but before we start, everyone thinks of the roman empire but there is something important. most people never take the time to explain that rome wasn t always an empire. it was a republic. at first. there was freedom. things went well. so they expanded. and, then, when freedom started to fall apart, they became an empire. they went from freedom to feeding people to lions for sport. now, how do you go from a decent people that are expanding to taking people and feeding them to lions? if we progress, if we are all so
same way. tonight i want to take a look at the time line of the rise and fall of rome. i will not show you much in the rise but i will show you, compare the decline. we will show you where we are in comparison. but before we start, everyone thinks of the roman empire but there is something important. most people never take the time to explain that rome wasn t always an empire. it was a republic. at first. there was freedom. things went well. so they expanded. and, then, when freedom started to fall apart, they became an empire. they went from freedom to feeding people to lions for sport. now, how do you go from a decent people that are expanding to taking people and feeding them to lions? if we progress, if we are all so