[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 191 (Monday, November 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6064-H6068]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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ISSUES OF THE DAY
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of
January 4, 2021, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) is recognized
for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader.
Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, in recent days, I have been doing some
research. In fact, one of the things I was looking at is the average
income over the last couple of decades going back to 1991, and this was
average annual wage according to the Social Security Administration, so
maybe somebody would take issue with their accuracy. But according to
their numbers, during the Clinton administration, the average
American's income went up each year about $1,000 a year. So over
President Clinton's 8 years in office, the average income went up about
$8,000 over those 8 years.
Under President Bush, it was a little more than $1,000 a year during
his 8 years.
But during the Obama administration it was between a $7,000 and
$8,000 increase during the Obama administration.
Then during the 4 years of the Trump administration, the average
income went up about $2,000 a year. It was between $7,000 and $8,000
for the 4 years, a dramatic increase.
But I was shocked, as I was looking at different numbers, to find
that the net worth for Black households in America during the 8 years
of the Obama administration went down by 30 percent, on average. During
the Trump administration, it didn't go down. It went up significantly.
As I look at what is being proposed in the Build Back Better program,
and I see this administration having canceled the Keystone XL pipeline,
which certainly was going to, and has, caused an escalation in fuel
prices and energy prices, and of course, President Biden released the
penalties that had been put on the Russian natural gas pipeline, so it
is doing great now, and took off some of the penalties on Iran--anyway,
we have seen the price of energy going up significantly.
It brought back to mind yet again the Honorable John Dingell's
comment. He was looking forward to pushing through, in essence, a
socialized medicine program through the committee he was chair of in
2009 and 2010, but he was famously asked about the cap-and-trade bill.
He responded that the cap-and-trade bill is not only a tax, but it is a
great big tax.
He explained before that when you raise the price of energy, you are
not hurting the billionaires, the megawealthy. It is an inconvenience
to them when you raise the price of energy, be it electricity, propane,
natural gas, coal, whatever it is. It is an inconvenience to the very
wealthy, but to those who are on fixed incomes, those who are scraping
by working so hard every week and just getting by, if you increase the
price of gasoline, electricity, energy, you just devastate those
households. It is not just a little tax to them. It is devastating.
The inflation that comes with an upward explosion of the price of
fuel and energy, but especially fuel, as this administration has done,
it inflates the price of everything. There is just not much of
anything, unless you are buying from some pickup truck or some roadside
kiosk--otherwise, you are having to pay a lot of extra energy costs,
whether it is for the ingredients of something you are buying or
whether it is the product getting to market. But usually, it is all of
the above. The energy prices inflate costs of everything, basically.
That is what has happened to the working poor in America. That is
what has happened to seniors on fixed incomes. They are being
devastated as prices continue to skyrocket, with no end in sight.
On a trip some years back during the Obama administration, some of us
went to Germany, and we met with some of their energy leaders. In one
meeting, the driver of our little van was from Berlin, and he sat in
and listened. I was talking to him privately after the meeting, and he
said I hear all these rich people talking about how great our green
energy is in Germany, but I have had to go from having one job to
having three jobs, hardly ever getting to see my family, so they could
brag about our green energy. But it is
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destroying my family. It has completely destroyed my family time. I am
having to work these two other jobs just to cover our energy costs. So
it is kind of hard listening to them brag about it when it is coming
out of my hide. I am the one, and people just like me all over Germany
are the ones, who are paying for them to be able to brag about our
green energy because it is costing us a tremendous amount in the way of
personal time, family time, and additional time working to pay for
their bragging.
As we look at these issues and the costs skyrocketing in America, who
has benefited? Well, China has benefited dramatically. We know they are
still on course to have 100 new coal-powered energy plants go online
over the next couple of years. They don't care.
Of course, when we had coal-powered plants here in the U.S.--there
are not many left--but when we had them, they have scrubbers in there
that are taking pollutants out of the air before it ever gets out of
the stacks to the air.
If we are doing the coal burning here in the U.S., it is not so hard
on our environment as it is in China or India, but especially China,
because when people are just struggling to survive and to have enough
money to put food on the table for their families, they are not that
worried about how their yard looks or how things look, how the
environment is. The same is true not only for an individual but for a
country.
If the economy is struggling, the people in that country are not as
interested in cleaning up the environment. We will have to wait, they
think, until we are making decent money, and then we can worry about
the environment.
Here in the United States, though, if you go back to 2007, every year
since then, including through the Trump years, we have been producing
1.3 percent less carbon dioxide. We can debate about what that does to
the environment, whether it makes the temperature warmer.
I have read where experts have said if you have a choice between the
temperature getting slightly warmer or slightly colder, you want warmer
because if it is getting slightly colder, that means there is less time
for crops to grow. If it is slightly warmer, not too much warmer, then
you have more time for crops to grow. You have more food, and you have
fewer people starving.
There are a lot of areas for debate, but for those who are concerned
about carbon dioxide emissions, we have been on the right track. We
continue to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide we are putting out in
this country.
So there is nothing about building back better. This has been going
on for a long time. Largely, we are told by the experts, that is
because we have been converting coal plants to natural gas, and natural
gas is such a clean-burning fuel.
For those who want to get rid of all fossil fuels, if they would just
take a serious look at all the things in the room in which they are
located or the car in which they are located, they will find that so
much of what we have that has made our lives easier, helping people
rest better, is as a result of the use of fossil fuel. There are so
many products that cannot be manufactured without natural gas as part
of the manufacturing process. You have to have natural gas to make so
many products.
I was looking at getting some plastic composite boards for part of
the area in our backyard so they wouldn't deteriorate so often, and
they are expensive. But when they last for decades instead of a matter
of short years, it looks like a good thing. That is using recycled
plastic, finding more and more uses for that plastic, fiberglass.
There are so many things we can't produce. Synthetic fibers, so much
of the carpets and rugs we have are synthetic. The toothbrush, you
wouldn't have a modern-day toothbrush--and I realize that, yes, there
are people who have used bark off of certain trees to brush their
teeth. I get that, but I kind of like having a modern-day toothbrush
myself. You wouldn't have that without fossil fuel, particularly
natural gas.
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People say we need more electric cars. We need to get rid of fossil
fuel. You cannot currently manufacture an electric car without the use
of fossil fuel. Even if you don't use fossil fuel to power the vehicle,
you are going to have to use it in the production of things within the
car or there will be no car. So, I don't know, maybe someday somebody
will build a wooden car, but wooden batteries are not going to work.
For those of us that recognize how the length of life has gotten even
longer during our modern history, medicine advances have just been
extraordinary. There is a great book, ``The Five Thousand Year Leap'',
that points out that when settlers came to America, they used basically
the same type of farming methodology and tools that have been used for
thousands of years. There hasn't been a whole lot of change.
But if you look at the last 150 years in the United States and in
Western civilization, you see dramatic increases and advances in the
way that we have progressed, whether it is farming, medicine. Heck, if
you go back 100 years or so when medical historians say in the early
1900s, up to that point, for the whole of human history, you had a
better chance of getting sicker after seeing a doctor than you did at
getting better.
And then you look at the--since 1910, 1920--some say it might be the
1918 protocols during that pandemic--but around that time, you started
having a better chance of getting better after seeing a doctor. And
look at where we are now. People go to the doctor and expect to be made
well because we have been able, by the grace of God, to develop some
different cures. Life has gotten longer. Life has gotten better
quality.
So much of what we have is made by the use of fossil fuels. We need
to do it cleanly, as cleanly as possible. But, again, when you take an
economy in the direction that the build back better Biden
administration has been doing as we head to the toilet with this
economy--and there is no end in sight for this race to the bottom--then
you realize we have come so far and now we are going in the wrong
direction.
There have been times, like World War II when we were struggling
mightily, but we are not going through a world war right now. We should
be doing well. And we saw, during the Trump administration for the
first time in decades, something had happened.
In 1990, when I brought a friend to speak to our Rotary Club, he had
said, We are going the wrong direction. We are becoming more and more
reliant on foreign countries for our energy. It has been years, he
said, since we have been energy independent, and we are going the wrong
way and it is going to destroy this country, if we can't produce the
energy we need.
Mr. Speaker, 30 years later--not even 30 years later--we were energy
independent, the biggest producer of fossil fuels in the world. And we
used it cleaner than anybody else. Virtually almost every other
country, maybe some small ones, do a little better.
But China knows that they are not going to be breathing their own
air, it turns with the planet, and we end up breathing as much as they
do right here in America. Not the clean air we produce more of every
year for many years, but the polluted air that China is letting off as
they continue to move toward putting us in their wake as they move
toward becoming the greatest economy in the world. And spending money,
massive amounts of money we don't have, creates not only inflation but
it weakens this country.
Mr. Speaker, I have heard some in recent days say if we are not
careful, we are going to end up like Greece. And actually, if you look
at the debt that we had at the end of the Obama administration, we were
already Greece. The difference is, we got to produce our own currency.
Greece was using the euro, so they didn't get to decide to create a lot
more money in their system. And the dollar was the world standard. It
was the world currency.
I know there are companies, including China, they are advocating
against the dollar being the world currency and that it is used to buy
oil in the world market, but that hasn't happened. I am very thankful
for that. But if we were not the world currency, and we didn't produce
our own money, then we would already be in as big a trouble as Greece
is because of the recklessness. And we are seeing it like never before
in this administration.
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Yes, it is true the Obama administration, with the Democrats helping
them, they hit between $1.5 and $1.6 trillion deficit in one year.
Well, this administration, this Democrat majority are working very hard
to eclipse that by a lot.
We were warned back when we had over a trillion-dollar deficit more
than one year, the agencies that rate country's economies and their
currency and their debt, they may have to rate, downgrade, our debt.
Standard & Poor's did that because we wouldn't get our spending under
control--not enough.
If any other rating agency had downgraded our debt, then the cost of
borrowing money would have gone up dramatically and we would have ended
up spending more paying interest than we were taking care of seniors
who were counting on their fixed income. So there are some dark days
ahead if we continue on this course of spending money we don't have. It
is like everything this administration can see to throw money at that
might help create more Democrat Party voters and they are throwing
money at it.
So people were shocked, including Democrat friends, they were shocked
to hear that this administration is proposing paying $450,000 to legal
immigrants that were separated from a child. Well, we know that did
happen some during the Trump years. We know that it has continued to
happen during the Biden years; that it happened under the Obama
administration. And it can be a good idea until we are sure that an
adult with a child that is already breaking our laws by coming in
illegally is actually related to and, hopefully, the parent of that
child instead of part of the drug cartels that continue to use them in
sex trafficking. And we have had people that turned out not to be
related to the child they were claiming, and we have been able to
interrupt that. And so it is important that we don't just take this at
face value, especially when we have reports of children being recycled
to come across with people over our border illegally.
So under the Biden administration, if you think, Okay, these people
come in, they break U.S. law, we are going to give each one $450,000.
And that might not mean much to somebody who has a son that sold
paintings for $500,000, and I wouldn't object if the Biden
administration wanted to give each illegal immigrant a painting that
Hunter Biden had done. If they said, Here is your half a million; here
is another painting that Hunter Biden has done. Enjoy it. Maybe you can
sell it for half a million and you will be set for life. Let's try
that.
Mr. Speaker, $450,000, if you look at the Social Security
administration, the wages, well, for 2020, the most recent numbers we
have, the average income for an American last year was $53,000--like
$53,300 or something like that--but $53,000 a year.
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Now, the rate is normally around 22 percent. There is data that
indicates the effective rate paid for income tax may be around 13 to 14
percent. Let's just round it and say that the average American making
$53,000 a year pays 20 percent income tax. That would be $10,600 a year
that a person making $53,000 would pay in Federal income tax.
If you took all $10,600 of Federal income tax coming from the average
wage-earner of $53,000 a year, and if you took that $10,600 and applied
that toward the $450,000 President Biden wants to give to each of these
illegal immigrants, it would take 42\1/2\ years of the average American
wage Federal income tax to pay one person who broke the U.S. laws and
came into the country illegally. That is what appears to be justice to
the Biden administration.
And how is our President looking to the rest of the world? The story
today, as he came into the G20 Summit, he came in--according to the
article I saw--20 minutes late. He said, in essence, sorry to be late.
He had been trying to get past the elevators--they had a problem with
the elevators and that is why he was 20 minutes late. Somebody needs to
help him.
I think it would be helpful not to leave people from the biggest
countries, except for China and Russia, they didn't come--their leaders
didn't come--but the rest, let's show them a little more respect by not
making them wait 20 minutes for our President to show up. I think that
would be a good thing. Kind of lend a better atmosphere to those type
of meetings.
Perhaps then you wouldn't have foreign reporters saying things like:
President Biden looks like he needs a nursing home and a hot bowl of
soup. We need to help our President give a better image of America. I
know there is no intention for our President causing problems like
that, none whatsoever, so I am avoiding in engaging in personalities.
But I think it would be good--there are so many people helping the
President--to help him represent our country well.
So in an article here, a $450,000 payment to illegal aliens would
exceed various programs for American citizens. And, of course, we, in
Congress, did a good thing in recent years. We felt like the families
of those people who have lost a loved one in combat, they should have
been getting more than the measly thousands of dollars they were, so we
increased the amount that the family of an American hero who was killed
in combat would get. It was increased to $400,000.
Well, we find out that the Biden administration wants to provide more
than we provide to the family who has lost a loved one in combat
representing and defending our country and our national interests.
Someone who crossed the border illegally, according to this
administration, should get an extra $50,000 more than those who died
for this country.
We also know--and I am pleased that Secretary Buttigieg is back from
paternity leave because we do have a real crisis in our supply chain.
We didn't have this problem during the Trump administration. It sure
seemed to be a good idea the way we were manufacturing more of the
things we need in America. I am not a big fan of tariffs, but as I told
President Trump, since you are simply using them as a tool to get
better trade deals then I will vote for those tariffs for such use, so
that we can get more fairness in our agreements with foreign countries.
That worked out. President Trump did make some good deals.
We are seeing all that fall aside as this administration seems to be
more dedicated to helping China, Russia, Iran, and OPEC nations do
better with their economy than we are here at home.
I realize there are some people here in Washington that feel like
America has more than it deserves. I believe God has blessed us more
than we deserve in America. We are seeing those things change as we
have continued to forget more and more just who the source is for the
blessings in this country.
In fact, what occurred to me is, instead of build back better, as we
see the economy in shambles, prices going through the roof, more and
more people now being fired, the economy appears headed in even deeper
trouble the further we go. Maybe instead of build back better, we could
call it Biden's bulldozings of our blessings.
Here is an article from Fortune. No sign of relief. The global supply
chain crisis could last well into February. And as I thought back, Vice
President Harris--it seems like it was back in August when she was
speaking to some folks--somebody made fun of her for saying: You may
want to order your Christmas presents early this year so you make sure
you have them. I didn't know why anybody would make fun of her because,
as it turns out, she was actually exactly right. Apparently she knew
back in August we were going to have trouble getting the things we need
in America.
I have been amazed to see car lots more empty than they have cars.
Shocking. I have never seen some of these car lots with so few cars
ever in my life.
There is an article from The Hill: More people in Manchin's, Sinema's
home States want to hold off on new spending. That is from polls--an
article by Mychael Schnell from The Hill.
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People have been trying to convince Senator Manchin and Senator
Sinema that they just need to sign off on spending trillions more
dollars. But recent polls apparently are showing that people in their
home States appreciate them not agreeing to more and more of the
runaway spending that would just increase inflation.
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One other thing people are noticing--a Washington Times story from
Stephen Dinan titled ``Biden administration expands no-go zones where
ICE can't arrest illegal immigrants''--so millions more are coming in,
and fewer and fewer are being deported.
Mr. Speaker, I think it is important for people to understand that
this feeling that we need to secure our borders doesn't come from any
kind of xenophobia. I look at the Hispanic culture, and though
generalizing can be dangerous, generally speaking, I see faith in God;
I see a hard work ethic; and I see a devotion to family. Well, those
are things I believe made America the great country it has been. We
need more of that help.
Mr. Speaker, if you look at the contributions that immigrants have
made from countries all over the world to this country, to make it as
powerful and as great as it is, we want immigration. No country in the
world, even those bigger than the United States, is as generous with
providing visas as the United States is--over 1 million a year.
But as Milton Friedman pointed out, if we are going to provide
welfare in this country, which started back in the 1960s, then we can't
have open borders or this country will be over very soon. It will be
overwhelmed with people coming in. It will destroy the golden goose
that some look at the U.S. as being, and there won't be any country to
flee to looking for a better life.
Some in allied countries tell me: If you lose your freedom in
America, there won't be any freedom in the world. We will all lose our
freedom pretty quickly if you lose yours.
This is critical stuff. But I think the biggest danger of people
swarming across our border, as they have been doing this year
unimpeded, is the danger that Benjamin Franklin pointed out. He didn't
go into detail, but as most people here remember, he was asked by a
lady as he left the Constitutional Convention at the conclusion: What
have you given us?
And as most everybody here knows, he replied: A republic, madam, if
you can keep it.
A republic, a republican form of government, that is with a little R,
not the Republican Party. A republic is what the Romans came up with
after they looked at democracy from the Greeks. They actually had a
real democracy where most everybody participated in the big decisions.
Fortunately, they realized you can't let everybody vote as a juror in
law cases, so they restricted those law case juries to only having 501
people. As I understand it, it was 501 people on the jury that voted to
make Socrates drink poison as his penalty.
That is what you see, Mr. Speaker, when you have too many
participating in a process. It gets out of hand. You get a handful,
they start running, and they get people fired up. Before you know it,
Mr. Speaker, one of the finest men in the country is ordered to drink
poison.
Mr. Speaker, you have to be careful. That is what the Romans
realized, so they created a republic. We like the democratic idea that
people get to vote and participate in government, but let's have them
elect representatives, then the representatives study the issues, and
they vote on behalf of the rest of the country. If we don't like how
they are voting, then we throw them out in the next election and select
another representative. That is the republic form of government.
Republics generally have not lasted more than 200 years. We are 30
years or so past the 1789 ratification of our Constitution. Some would
say: Well, when we pass 200 years, we are living on borrowed time.
We know history, but not enough. Too many of our schools quit
teaching history because the Federal Government got involved in
education.
Is education an enumerated power under the Constitution for the
Federal Government to be involved in? No, it is not. But in 1979,
President Carter created the Department of Education. As a result, the
percentage of teachers in education has dropped dramatically.
Nearly three-fourths of the employees in K-12 education in Texas were
teachers. But then after the Department of Education comes along, you
got more bureaucrats here making more requirements for the folks in
Austin and every State capital. So those folks have to hire more people
to answer the mandates of the Department of Education in Washington.
And to get their information, they have to mandate more people in every
school board in elementary school.
I had a fantastic public school education in elementary school,
middle school, and high school. In elementary school, we had a
principal, the principal had an assistant, then there was the janitor,
then there were the people who worked in the cafeteria, and that was
it. Now, every school has to have so many people working in the
administration gathering information to send to the State capital so
they can send it to Washington.
As I recall, it was either late eighties or early nineties, I think
it was early nineties, but I was on the board of Former Students of
Texas A&M. I was asking the president, we had some other people there
who worked on analyzing SAT scores. I said: I understand the SAT test
has now been recalibrated so that students will do better than they
have in the past for answering the same number of questions right. Yes,
it has been recalibrated. People were embarrassed that SAT scores were
a lot lower now than they used to be.
If you took the SAT in the early seventies, your score now would
probably be around 200 points higher than it was back then. I was
intrigued by that.
Why did we have to recalibrate the SAT? Well, it was so people
wouldn't think schools were failing during the nineties. So SAT scores
came back up not because they were doing better but because the scoring
was recalibrated.
That was a rather interesting illumination on education, but we
continue to see problems.
As both Republican and Democrat Presidents have been pushing more
control, I think President Trump tried to give more control back
locally. But what has happened is the Federal Government has taken more
and more control right here in Congress. We continue to pass stuff that
says: You don't get your money back. Of course, we know the money comes
from the States up here. But we are not going to give you your money
back unless you do this, that, or the other like we tell you.
Well, one of the mandates has been you had to pass this federally
mandated test, and the federally mandated test was extremely light on
history. I am told that there are times when there isn't any history,
maybe one history question, and it is not always good history, if a
question is asked.
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So I hear from schools back home: We have to teach to the mandated
test because if any student doesn't pass the federally mandated test,
we don't get all of that Federal money that came from us back to us.
They keep it for that student.
So to avoid not getting back even as much of our own money as we
should, we have got to get people prepared to pass the test. So some
schools, they got rid of music, they got rid of art. And some of us are
big advocates and we go: Wait a minute. Do you not understand that when
it comes to music, it comes to art, you are getting synapses to fire in
the brain that might not fire otherwise, and if you can get more
synapses firing, then the student's brain can accumulate more, work
better, and then overall do better scoring?
Look, we have got to get them to pass the test, I am told, and those
things, music, art, are not on the test, so we have got to concentrate
on making sure the students are ready for that federally-mandated test.
Well, that is a shame.
Music and art add dramatically to life. And there are some awesome
art teachers. They didn't do too well with me. Apparently, there is an
art gene in my background. My dad was artistic; had a daughter that was
very artistic. But it was a latent gene in me. I see what it adds in
the art contests that all of the Representatives, I think most of us
have in our districts, but you see the incredible products that these
kids are able to create, and it is really inspiring.
Yet so many are having to cut back or get rid of art altogether. Why?
Because of the Federal mandates from here on high, on Mount Olympus, on
Capitol Hill.
It is important, also, on how we treat people. When I go to the
border, I don't mistreat anybody that comes in illegally. I try to help
all I can, but they have come into the country illegally.
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And we need to get back to the Trump policies before we get
overwhelmed. And going back to the point that Benjamin Franklin made:
It takes work to keep a republic. It doesn't just happen. That is why
it has happened so rarely. That is why the United States of America is
such an anomaly in history.
There has never been a country like this. Even Solomon's Israel
didn't have all of the individual opportunities, all of the individual
assets and comforts that we have here in America. It is an amazing
place, but it takes work. It takes education of our children, training
them up so they understand what it takes to preserve a republic, a
representative form of government, and getting stronger and stronger as
we have done until more recent years.
When you have people flooding in, I mean, 2 million people this year,
this administration has 3 more years, so are we going to have 8
million, at least 8 million more people enter this country illegally?
They are not coming from countries that understand how to preserve a
republic. And I will tell you some of the very best citizens we have in
this whole country are people who went through the process of becoming
legal citizens, and I hear from them a lot in my district.
They love America because they know how it can be outside of America,
and they don't want our country becoming like those countries they came
from. People from Venezuela, people from Central America, from Eastern
Bloc countries are some of the best citizens we have got, some from
Russia. My cousin married a Russian, and she knows. We were talking
about it last week, and she is feeling a sense of urgency. We are
losing what we have had. We are becoming more like the place I was so
anxious to leave.
It takes work to keep a republic and to enjoy the blessings we have
received. People who are flooding in, they have never been trained on
what it takes to preserve a republic. And one of the big issues to so
many people during the COVID pandemic has been the unprecedented grab
of power that the Federal Government has never had before. Never. We
have had pandemics that were a lot more deadly than COVID, but no one
has ever had the nerve to tell people who were not infected, who had
thriving businesses, that they had to close down their business. We are
going to let these people open. We are not letting you open.
Thirty years ago, they would have opened anyway, probably 20 years
ago, and they would have won in court without question. You can't shut
down business. It is unprecedented. And for heaven's sake, to tell
churches they couldn't open. For the huge majority of our history, when
there was a time of emergency, including a pandemic, people felt like
they needed to be in church praying; that they needed to be asking God
for help. And for the first time in our history, we didn't have a
President that issued a National Day of Prayer & Fasting, asking God to
help us. For the first time in our history, we had a national
proclamation: You have got to close businesses. You have got to close
churches. You can't meet. In some places States said you can't
even sing in church because you open your mouth. We can't allow that.
And I know there are still a lot of mixed signals on masks. It is
interesting. There are cloth masks. I had a mask getting on a plane
with, one of the SHEMA97 masks designed in Israel. It has four layers
of cloth that are ionized to kill germs. They don't just catch them.
They will kill germs.
The flight attendant said: I can see your nose, so that mask can't be
any good. It can't be any good, she says. And she was wearing one of
the little blue-and-white masks. Talk about not doing any good.
Although, in fairness, I have read that there were some studies that
said those little blue-and-white masks can decrease your percentage of
getting COVID by 0.2 percent. So 0.2 percent, that is what it is,
great. Wear one of those little, cloth masks.
But then we see down in Florida that has been the most open, that
they have fewer cases percentagewise. They are doing better than any
other State in the country and they have been the most open State we
have had. So it is interesting. And I have an article here from The
Gateway Pundit. ``It Wasn't Just Beagles and Monkeys--Fauci's NIH Also
Funded Medical Experiments on AIDS Orphans in New York City.''
I read somewhere else that these were Black orphans that had AIDS,
and the Fauci NIH was doing experiments on them, according to this
article of Jim Hoft. They reported that 25 children, those Black
orphanage babies, died during the drug studies they were doing on those
poor little babies. An additional 55 children died following the
studies while they were in foster care. Tim Ross, director of the child
welfare program at Vera--I am looking for what that stands for--the
Vera Institute, that as of 2009, 29 percent of the remaining 417
children who were used in drug studies had died; 532 children that are
admitted to have been used now.
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That was in the last 20 years. I don't know if Dr. Fauci has been
asked if he knew about that. We found out he lied about funding gain of
function in China.
Another article from Fox Business, Elizabeth Faddis, that Dr. Fauci
is facing a demand from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to divulge
information regarding the alleged use of an experimental drug on
puppies.
I guarantee you, as more people find out that NIH was using orphan
Black AIDS babies for drug experiments, that killed many of them, there
will be even more cries from both sides of the aisle on answers. I
thought we were so far past anything like that. I mean, after the
outrageous Tuskegee experiments, I can't believe we have been doing
that same stuff in the last 20 years. Somebody needs to be held
accountable for these things.
We are in deeply troubling times, and there is a good chance that if
we don't get back to making sure children in America know how to
sustain a republic, we are headed for losing it.
It is because of a fear of that, a fear of the loss of freedom, that
caused me to leave the bench and run and try to get elected to Congress
so I could make a difference in legislation, so we could try to salvage
this little experiment in self-government. But it seems pretty clear it
is not going to last much longer.
You can't absorb 8 million people, who not only most of them don't
speak the language, but they are adults who have no clue, have never
been educated. They have certainly got the capacity to learn, but they
have never been educated on what it takes to preserve self-government
and the blessings that we have in this country.
If they are not educated on that, if they are simply handed $450,000
each, then that is all they know. Wow, this is a country where you come
in, demand money, they give it to you. You can't sustain a country like
that, and we won't. No one ever has.
In Rome, there was one Caesar that figured that bread and circuses
were being given to keep people peaceable, and it was keeping them from
working. He tried to do away with it. But by then, it was too late.
Let's act now before it is too late.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
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