[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 13 (Thursday, January 22, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H446]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        BIG BROTHER TAKETH AWAY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, they say the economy is going into the 
abyss because government doesn't spend enough money.
  Even though the stimulus packages of last year didn't work and the 
billions to bail out the elite robber baron banks hasn't been 
effective, the government solution is ``Let's spend more money,'' like 
$850 billion. That's almost a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars 
stacked up in $20 bills is 3,000 miles high. That's the distance from 
D.C. to Peru. All this money will be forcibly taken away from 
taxpayers.
  This bill gives earmarks to special interest groups like millions of 
dollars for the National Endowment of the Arts, millions for fancy cars 
for government bureaucrats.
  Why not do this: Don't spend taxpayer money! Don't go into debt with 
China. Cut taxes for everybody that pays taxes, and let Americans 
decide how to spend their money and not our greedy, big bloated 
brother, the government.
  Government cannot tax, borrow, and spend our way into prosperity. It 
has never happened. This bill isn't economic stimulus. It's old 
fashioned squeaky piglet, pork barrel politics that will poison the 
pocketbook of every American.
  And that's just the way it is.

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