[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25686]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           GOVERNMENT OBESITY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, the first stimulus bill was 1,000 
pages long and cost $1 trillion. We were, in essence, told, Pass this 
or America is doomed. It was railroaded through before anyone could 
even read the bill. Now we know why. It wasn't about creating jobs; it 
was about more government spending. Since then, 3 million more people 
have lost their jobs, over 15 million people are unemployed, and the 
unemployment rate just keeps growing.
  And so the government's answer is, if at first you don't succeed, 
try, try again. So the government this year is going to have a second 
stimulus bill. The Federal Government has already spent more money this 
year than all previous years in American history combined.
  The American people have had about all the big government spending 
they can stand. With that kind of government success, it's time to try 
something else, like cut taxes instead of cutting jobs.
  We cannot spend, borrow, and tax our way into more jobs or 
prosperity; big oppressive government just has proved it. Government 
needs a health care plan for compulsive, addictive government obesity.
  And that's just the way it is.

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