[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24737]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         YOU AMERICANS ARE RUNNING OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, in medicine, the rule is do no harm. But look 
at these Medicare cuts just approved by Speaker Pelosi. The 
Congressional Budget Office reports that the bill cuts Medicare, 
nursing, wheelchairs, home health, even hospice. Hospice? Yep. Medicare 
hospice is cut.
  Another principle is this: the right hand of government should know 
what the left hand is doing. Just a few months ago we enacted a 
stimulus bill to put money in the economy, but the bill we are going to 
consider has a $400 billion tax increase that takes money out of the 
economy.
  In the teeth of the great recession, this is what we are going to do. 
But you know what? That's okay, because we can still borrow billions 
from foreign lenders; right? Or, as one British MP correctly said when 
he summed it all up, you Americans are running out of other people's 
money.

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