[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 31 (Monday, February 23, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H1637]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SOMEBODY IS SMOKING SOMETHING THAT'S ILLEGAL

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, if what I'm about to say wasn't 
so sad, it would be funny.
  We've spent $700 billion in TARP, $14 billion for the auto bailout, 
and that's just the beginning, $738 billion in the so-called stimulus, 
and that does not include the interest that will take us over $1 
trillion. $410 billion that's coming up in the omnibus spending bill, 
probably another $100 billion in supplemental. And the President today 
with his staff people down there was talking about national health 
care. Lord only knows how much that's going to cost.
  And Mr. Geithner is spending 1 to $2 trillion, he says, to help the 
financial institutions in this country to stay above water.
  And then the President said today he's going to cut the deficit in 
half in the next 4 years. It does not add up. How in the world are you 
going to do that when you're spending all this money, printing all this 
money, asking China to loan us more money? It just doesn't work. 
Somebody must be smoking something that's illegal.

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