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One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

Government is just spending too much money.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.

Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion.