[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25799]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HEALTH AND THE ECONOMY

  (Mr. SOUDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Speaker, we are actually having a debate today far 
beyond health care, far beyond the economy. Not many businessmen are 
probably listening to this debate as they're too busy working to make a 
profit so other Americans can be employed.
  As we face rising unemployment in a stagnant economy, the Democrats 
propose a government takeover of health care and of taxes on small 
business to pay for that government takeover of health care. They have 
an energy proposal that will cripple American manufacturing and that 
will enact endless regulations, increasing the cost of making things in 
America.
  On this floor, Democrats have repeatedly confused gross profits and 
net profits. In the student loan debate, the person before me even 
confused revenue with net profits. He said he was going to take the 
revenue from the private companies and use it for government purposes.
  From the President on down the party line, there has been a 
philosophical attack on the concept of profit and capital. Government 
does not create jobs. It redistributes profits. Profits create jobs. 
Capital creates jobs. That is why our system is called capitalism. This 
economy cannot recover if the leadership of our country has no basic 
understanding of how our economic system works, and we will not have 
growth by destroying the capitalist system.

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