Sen. Shelby: We have decided we are not capable of enduring the consequences of our own actions

Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) it took until 1982 for the national debt to pass $1 trillion. The stimulus bill will add approximately that much in a single year. Worse, he says, today, when the Senate is expected to pass the stimulus bill, "will mark the day when our generation decided that we were not capable of enduring the consequences of our own actions, and therefore future generations must shoulder the burden that we could not find the courage to bear ourselves." (0:51)
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