[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            IT ISN'T WORKING

  (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, I've had six town meetings in the 
last couple of weeks, and if I were talking to the President, I would 
like to tell him what those people have been saying.
  Number one, they don't want a government-controlled health care plan. 
They just don't want it. And second, they want jobs.
  What we ought to be doing is cutting spending and doing what Ronald 
Reagan did, and that is cutting taxes across the board. People said 
that was the wrong thing to do then, but it created 20 years of 
prosperity because we knew that if people had more disposable income, 
they would spend it and it would create jobs and a sound economy.
  Instead, what have we got? Since the Democrats have taken control of 
Congress 3 years ago, we've got 7\1/2\ million jobs that have been 
lost. And since the President signed the stimulus bill--the jobs bill--
we've lost 3.3 million jobs.
  ``It isn't working,'' if I were talking to the President I would tell 
him. It isn't working. We should focus on what's important now--not the 
health care bill. We need to solve that problem. But the first thing we 
need to do is cut spending, cut taxes, and that will create a sound 
economy.

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