[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        GOVERNMENT DOES NOT KNOW BEST WITH REGARD TO HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, only in Washington, D.C., 
does government know best. My friends on the other side of the aisle 
think they know how to create jobs: stimulus I and possibly II, cap-
and-trade, health care reform, higher taxes, more regulation, more 
government intervention. The Democrats think this is going to create 
wealth and jobs in our economy.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to be about the business of overhauling taxes, 
of bringing commonsense regulation reform to the people, of giving 
people real choice to make decisions for their health care between them 
and their doctors. It is about empowering people, not government. What 
I'm talking about, Mr. Speaker, is not socialism. It's freedom. With 
all that our colleagues on the other side have done, and with all that 
they propose to spend, I ask a simple question, Mr. Speaker: Where are 
the jobs?

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