I'm the Guy Who Says, We Can't Afford It, Right?

Riedel: I'm the person who, when everybody's having their party promising everybody, all these free benefits, I'm the one who comes in with the nerdy calculator going, well, actually, we can't afford all of this. So it is a life I've chosen. And I'm really bad at it because when I arrived in Washington in 2001, the budget was in surplus and Washington was spending two trillion a year. Now we're spending six trillion dollars and we have a trillion dollar deficit. Sometimes, you know, correlation is causation. He makes eating spinach as fun as you can make it.