[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 31717]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERS BUSINESSES THE ENEMY

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Madam Speaker, the White House considers business 
owners the opposition, but don't take my word for it. In his 
autobiography, Mr. Obama wrote that when he worked in the business 
world, he felt like a ``spy behind enemy lines.''
  So it's no surprise that as President, he has appointed fewer people 
with business backgrounds to Cabinet positions than any other President 
in over a century, according to an analysis by J.P. Morgan. Maybe that 
explains why the President favors government control of the health 
care, energy, automobile, banking, insurance, and student loan 
industries.
  Perhaps the administration has forgotten that without employers, 
there would be no employees, and that small businesses generate 65 
percent of the new jobs in America. It is the private sector, not the 
government, that makes America productive and prosperous. Business 
owners are our friends, not the enemy.

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