[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 4, 1994]
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   GOVERNMENT, ``A DANGEROUS SERVANT AND A FEARFUL MASTER''--GEORGE 
                               WASHINGTON

  (Mr. DOOLITTLE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton talks a good line about 
helping the American people and reducing the size of Government, but in 
fact his actions all go in the other direction. They all show a 
tremendous faith in big government.
  Mr. Speaker, Government is too big, and it spends too much. President 
Clinton promised us a middle class tax cut. Instead we got the largest 
tax increase in history, hitting the rich, the working people, and the 
middle class. And, by the way, the average family of four with a median 
income today pays 24 percent of its total income in taxes to the U.S. 
Government--a national disgrace.
  Mr. Speaker, President Clinton promised to get the economy going 
again, and we hear all these great speeches from the other side about 
how well we are doing. Everyone is concerned for his future in this 
economy right now. We know interest rates are rising, and job creation 
is only two-thirds of what it has been in previous recoveries. This 
diminished recovery is due to the tax increase and the added regulation 
imposed by President Clinton and the Democrats in Congress.
  Now we are promised by President Clinton that we are going to get 
more affordable health care. The reality is that this proposal is 
another big Government scheme, a Government takeover of health care, 
with controls, rationing, and limitation of choice.
  Mr. Speaker, George Washington said it best: ``Government is not 
reason, it is not eloquence, it is force, and like fire, it is a 
dangerous servant and a fearful master.'' May President Clinton listen 
to Mr. Washington.

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