[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 80 (Wednesday, June 22, 1994)]
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                 GLOOM AND DOOM ON PROJECTED DISASTERS

  (Mr. WISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, we have been treated in the last few days to a 
parade of Members from the other side of the aisle on health care, 
warning about mandates and awful disasters and job killing cataclysmic 
projections of what will occur.
  Let me quote a famous Republican leader: ``There you go again.'' You 
were wrong on Social Security when you projected in 1935 that it was a 
socialistic experiment.
  You were wrong in 1965 on Medicare when you predicted dire doom for 
that. Anyone over there want to oppose Medicare and call for its 
abolition? I doubt that.
  You were wrong in 1988 when you called, and some of you sitting on 
this side of the aisle today, when you called a minimum wage increase 
of 90 cents an hour a job killer. The economy, of course, has only 
grown more jobs.
  You, of course, were wrong in August of this last year when you said 
the budget package would be a job killer. It actually has been a job 
creator.
  Now you wanted to warn us about health care. Well, any physician that 
has a record of prediction that this side has over here on these kinds 
of things is guilty of malpractice.
  So I just remind you of that famous American Ronald Reagan, ``There 
you go again.''

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