I"ll just take one Kirk issue. He expressed concern about the $35 trillion debt being grown and left to the young people in that audience.

He, like so many others, totally misunderstands the debt and that figure.

Left entirely out is the annual revenue that PAYS that debt. When revenue is short, that creates a deficit, and THAT is the number about which we should be concerned.

The Bush II presdiency began with a balanced budget. and a surplus, which was refunded to tax payers. Immersion in the two wars reignited deficit producing cycles that grew the deficit to about $3.5 trillion before W left office.

Obama reduced spending by reduction of his budgets, so when he left office the deficit was down to about $700 billion.

The felon's tax cuts and budget spending grew the deficit back to a record $4.5 trillion.

Biden's budgets cut spending and reduced the deficit to about $1.3 trillion.

The felon's BBB combined with his tax cuts and tariffs will grown that deficit by $4.5 trillion more, to something over $6 trillion.

There ain't NUTHIN' conservative about that!