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




          THE DEMOCRAT SPAGHETTI DINNER OF HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, this chart is not a spaghetti 
dinner. It may look like it, but it's the Democrats' health care plan. 
If you were a person out in the hinterlands, looking at this, you would 
think, How in the world am I going to get health care coverage for me 
and for my family if I have to go through all of that? It's going to 
cost trillions of dollars--trillions.
  In addition to that, there are going to be jobs created, 4.7 million 
jobs in China and in India, and their energy bill, cap-and-trade, is 
going to create 2.5 million new jobs in India and in China because it's 
going to drive jobs offshore because the small businesspeople will not 
be able to afford to pay all of these bills and taxes that the 
government is creating right now.
  The Democrats need to do something. They need to cut taxes and help 
the small businessman make a profit and create new jobs. If they do 
that, we will have jobs, but right now, we don't know where the jobs 
are. Unemployment was supposed to cap at 8 percent. In Indiana, it's 
close to 10 percent. It's going to go to 12, 14, 15 percent if they 
don't change and change now.

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