“Right now, just about everything our government touches is broken or they break it. It’s always over-budget, behind schedule, and simply nothing works. Look at the Veterans Administration, where new hospitals come in hundreds of millions of dollars over-budget. And yet our brave veterans still don’t get anywhere near the kind of care they need or deserve.

Look at our decaying infrastructure. Look at our aging military equipment. Our military is so depleted, despite having the greatest people on Earth. I mean, they are the greatest people in our military, but it’s so depleted.

The tax code is broken, the education system is broken. We spend the most for any — of any country on education and we get bad results.”

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