Our Morbidly Obese Federal Government

If We Don't Believe In Americans, Who Will? I Do Believe. I've Seen It In The People Of Our Very Typical Corner Of The Nation.

As Republicans, Our First Concern Is For Those Waiting Tonight To Begin Or Resume The Climb Up Life's Ladder.

All Great Enterprises Have A Pearl Of Faith At Their Core, And This Must Be Ours: That Americans Are Still A People Born To Liberty. That They Retain The Capacity For Self-government. That, Addressed As Free-born, Autonomous Men And Women Of God-given Dignity, They Will Rise Yet Again To Drive Back A Mortal Enemy.

I Refer, Of Course, To The Debts Our Nation Has Amassed For Itself Over Decades Of Indulgence. It Is The New Red Menace, This Time Consisting Of Ink. We Can Debate Its Origins Endlessly And Search For Villains On Ideological Grounds, But The Reality Is Pure Arithmetic.

If Our Nation Goes Over A Financial Niagara, We Won't Have Much Strength And, Eventually, We Won't Have Peace. We Are Currently Borrowing The Entire Defense Budget From Foreign Investors. Within A Few Years, We Will Be Spending More On Interest Payments Than On National Security. That Is Not, As Our Military Friends Say, A 'robust Strategy.'