mr. speaker, is freddie vasquez jr. and he has concerns about our spending. he has concerns about foreign aid and he has concerns about the war that we're fighting. and he writes, we spend billions on helping others and that's fine. when we have the mean. libya, pakistan, iraq and afghanistan, they take our money then they stab us in the back. america can and will go bankrupt, our government is acting like a teenager who just received a credit card. he then goes on to quote tupac where tupac said, they got the money for war but they can't feed the poor. and he closes with, that's not right, that's not america. and i will just say that the frustration that mr. vasquez is expressing here is a frustration that we're hearing all across the country. the fact that we're fighting so many wars on foreign soil, the fact that our humanity goes far out immediately. people are wondering, does humanity start at home? do we have obligations to take care of on the home front before we go across the globe doing the same? mr. speaker, i would just chime in here and add my per