Senator David Perdue focused on ending big government programs.

“We’ve had a 100-year slide toward socialism. I’ve seen it happen, I’ve been an outsider to Washington for a few decades, I’ve been in business and I’ve seen it happen,” said Perdue, a former CEO of Reebok and Dollar General.

Three Democratic supermajorities were responsible for America’s financial catastrophe, Perdue said, the Great Society, the New Deal, and Dodd Frank and Obamacare.

“The irony of all that is that they fail all the people they claim to champion — the working poor,” he said.

The poverty rate today is the same as it was in 1964 when President Johnson signed the Great Society, according to Perdue. The poverty rate in 1964 was 19% and today it stands at 12.7%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Other efforts where big government has failed include the Department of Education, according to Perdue. When Carter created the Department of Education, America’s 14-year-olds were number one in Math and Science, but today they are 25th and 26th respectively, claimed Perdue.

“It just shows you that big government programs that start and end in Washington do not solve the problem back home,” said Perdue.
He's exactly right.