Kelly: Too Hard To Be Profitable In US

NEW YORK - Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly says Congress needs to get its fiscal house in order.

Among Kelly's ideas are to lift drilling bans, reform government to prevent future runaway spending, and to reform the tax structure.

The representative from northwest Pennsylvania told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday morning that his years running a business taught him a lot.

"Why in the world would you expect businesses to work under a heavier burden, and then say, 'Why are you guys going offshore? You need to stay here in the states.' Really?" Kelly said. "Why would I stay here when there's obviously, there's too many adverse conditions. You want to go where it's easier to work, and we have to do that here. We have made it too hard for people in business to be profitable."

Kelly later added, "In my business, I have to borrow money from time to time to keep the doors open. But I've got to have a turnaround plan that makes sense. And when I go to a lender, they're asking me, 'Prove to me that you can pay it back, and prove to me that the things you've done in the past, you've mended your ways. If you haven't, I'm not lending you the money.' And I think that's the fallacy here. We continue to do poor things, bad things, things that don't make sense to the common guy, and we continue to do it. And if we can raise our own debt limit, if we can print our own money, if we can do things that just don't make sense fundamentally, then we're wrong. We've got to change the fundamental way that we run government."

Kelly was sworn-in to Congress in January of this year.