[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     SKYROCKETING NATIONAL DEFICIT

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, the President has claimed that his policies 
are going to reduce the skyrocketing national deficit, but I would like 
to spend just a moment to debunk this myth.
  Rather than reducing the deficit, the President's budget calls for a 
$9 trillion deficit over the next 10 years, 6 trillion higher than the 
CBO predicted just in January when he took office. Even according to 
the White House, the national debt will more than double in 10 years. 
The President's own numbers showed that the national debt will be 107 
percent of GDP by 2019.
  In the month of August, there were 14.92 million unemployed 
individuals looking for work, the highest number in history. Since 
February, when the Democrats passed their stimulus, 2.46 million people 
have lost their jobs.
  And while the President promised that billions of dollars would go 
into shovel-ready construction projects that would help rebuild 
infrastructure and employ hundreds of thousands, transportation 
spending from the stimulus has only trickled out at a snail's pace.
  Given this administration's track record, why wouldn't the American 
people be skeptical about $1.6 trillion for health care reform?

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