[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3463]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE GOVERNMENT'S TRIPLE BOGEY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, we are being told by the 
administration that unless America plays this stimulus package game, 
``the country may never recover.'' Once again the politics of fear and 
intimidation are on Capitol Hill.
  If we open up this $835 billion package and look inside, we see all 
types of goodies for special interest groups that is nothing more than 
government waste.
  There are millions in the package for grant money for neighborhood 
electrical vehicles that go to government workers. Here's one of these 
$7,500 vehicles right here. It looks like a golf cart to me. Why should 
the taxpayer be forced to buy these contraptions?
  Does anyone really think this will help the economy?
  Well, the taxpayers are yelling ``fore'' while being left out in the 
rough, and Congress keeps adding strokes to the scorecard.
  This bill is supposed to get the economy back on the fairway, but 
it's just one bogey after another.
  Want to stimulate the economy? Let Americans keep more of their own 
money.
  No golf carts for government workers. The government is millions of 
strokes over par by playing this stimulus game.
  And that's just the way it is.

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