[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H658]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              DEMOCRATIC POLICIES ARE HURTING OUR ECONOMY

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago, Congress and the President 
added $1.9 trillion to the national debt limit. That translates to more 
than $6,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country, more than 
$24,000 for an average family of four. Now, your family is required to 
repay that debt through future taxes just as surely as if it appeared 
on your credit card statement. Now, $24,000 is the price of a new car. 
Only you don't get a new car, just the payments for a new car. What you 
get instead is another 14 months of deficit spending.
  Two-thirds of economic growth is consumer driven, and yet we have 
just cost every family in America an average of $24,000 from its future 
purchasing power. These policies are not helping our economy; they are 
hurting it. The American people are coming to understand this. Let's 
hope it's in time to change this Congress, change this administration, 
and save this country.

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