[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17835]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. WESTMORELAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WESTMORELAND. The last speaker just talked about what the 
Republicans want to do. Well, what the Democrats want to do is spend, 
spend, spend. And I gave a little math lesson yesterday, and I'd like 
to revisit that today, Mr. Speaker.
  You know, we talk about millions of dollars and we talk about 
billions of dollars and we talk about trillions of dollars. The more 
you hear those words, they just become words, and you don't realize how 
much money that is.
  A million seconds equals a little over 11 days. A billion seconds is 
31 years and 8 months. A trillion seconds is 31,710 years. If I gave 
you $1,000 a second, it would take me 31.7 years to give you $1 
trillion at $1,000 a second.
  We're not the Party of No. We're the party of doing what we can 
afford. The Democrats are the party of throwing money at any problem 
that comes about, with no regard to what it's costing the American 
taxpayer.

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