Ted Cruz Discusses the National Debt w/ The Daily Caller

right now the federal government is out of control when Barack Obama was elected the national debt was ten trillion dollars today

I was speaking there I mentioned when my daughter Caroline whose for when she was born our national debt was ten trillion dollars today at sixteen trip when

I got home that night I was looking at Twitter and Paula Poundstone the Canadian had tweeted that night Ted

the heck did she do and I have to admit my wife Heidi and I laughed pretty hard so it really does unders

ten trillion dollars took forty three presidents over two centuries to build one president three and half years has grown that that

is a fundamental structural shift in our government when Barack Obama was elected federal government expenditures were twenty percent of GDP there

now twenty five percent of we are not just walking we're galloping down the road to European style socialism to what's happening in

Greece and Italy it was Margaret Thatcher put the problem with socialism his eventually run out of other people's money and

that's the challenge were facing and unfortunately there's a culture in Washington where

the way you cut a bipartisan deal the way a Democrat and Republican work together they put their arms around each other and

they say all spent for your project you spend from and that's how you bankrupt the country in four centuries every

generation of Americans given to their kids and grandkids brighter future greater opportunity greater price we're

you know that is utterly unacceptable to me and I know it is utterly unacceptable to millions of Americans and

that's why we're seeing that the Great Awakening that's why the tea party movement is happening because men and women all

incredible legacy of the shining city on a hill that is produced the greatest opportunity and prosperity in

the history of the world if you look at the new generation of leaders that came in a twenty two it was transformational and what I think is critical is that twenty

say we got cut the lot of the life that we are not willing to give our kids this crushing oppressive

debt I've asked a number times imagine if someone broke into your house stole everything you own took your credit cards and

charged hundreds of thousands of dollars on your credit card to foist crippling debt on your children that's

exactly what politicians of both parties are doing in Washington right now that's why the American people it's why Congress is

a has a ninety percent approval rating you know the thief wouldn't have a nine percent approval rating and how do we change it we

the tea party totally we need twenty twelve to be the second half and I'm convinced it will be