[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       THE MONOPOLY OF GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, when I traveled to the old Soviet 
Union in the 1980s, nobody walked around smiling or joking or laughing. 
It was all gloom, doom, and despair.
  Living under government tyranny destroys the human spirit, the mind, 
the soul, and the body. The monopoly of government kills off the notion 
of individuality. Bureaucracies have an insensitive cookie-cutter 
solution for everything. It's the same with government-run health care.
  Thomas Jefferson was a visionary. He talked about government-run 
health care. He said, ``If the government decides what foods people eat 
and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a 
state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.''
  Government-run health care pushes us down the road to ``we the 
subjects'' instead of ``we the people.'' Instead of us controlling 
government, government controls us. That's what tyranny is.
  The monopoly of government-run health care will have the efficiency 
of the post office, the competency of FEMA, and the compassion of the 
good old IRS.
  And that's just the way it is.

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