mr. fortenberry, for 27 minutes. mr. fortenberry: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, any american that may be watching tonight is probably bewildered but all of the -- by all of the discussion of budgets and continuing resolutions and perhaps debt ceilings as well as the appropriations process. in order to understand where we are currently it's important to look back where we were. what i'd like to do today is -- tonight is share a little bit of information about what the government spends, where the revenue comes from and then how we got into this current situation that we're in. right now we have a $1.6 trillion deficit. we have $14 trillion of debt. that means every man, woman and child in america, if we were to pay it off right now, owes $45,000 and the trajectory of spending is simply unsustainable. we are borrowing about 40 cents on every dollar that we spend. america cannot continue to do this. we all know that. we all know we're going to have to act with bold resolve to get the fiscal house in order. but let's look at this chart, mr. speaker, for a m