[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3636]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE SKY IS FALLING

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the sky is falling, the sky is 
falling, but never fear, the Federal Government is here. But in another 
failed attempt to save the day, the administration announced they would 
use the full force of the government to spend our way out of this 
crisis. Congress hasn't even passed the $835 billion stimulus package 
and the Treasury Department announces $2 trillion more for the bailout 
for the fat cats on Wall Street. With that new emerging threat on the 
horizon, the stock markets tanked.
  Government is not the answer. They are the problem. These ideas do 
little to address the economic situation. It is just more scare tactics 
and government-savior rhetoric. Reagan once said that the most feared 
words in the American language are, ``We are here from the Federal 
Government, and we are here to help you.''
  The Federal Government can't spend money it doesn't have. This will 
be debt that Americans yet to be born will have to pay off. The 
Congressional Budget Office said all of this spending will have a 
negative effect on the economy. Let Americans keep more of their own 
money, tax cuts for all those that pay and report their taxes. Wasteful 
government spending is not the answer. It is the problem.
  And that's just the way it is.

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