[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14165]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              NO NEW TAXES

  (Mr. LONG asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LONG. Mr. Speaker, I'm new to this House. I'm new to politics, 
actually. I'm a small business owner. I ran my own business for 30 
years. And when you have your own business, you get a lot of free, 
unsolicited advice, and most of that advice is telling you how to run 
your business.
  Back home, a fellow would tell you, after his 30-minute dissertation 
on how to run your business, he'd stop and revise and extend his 
remarks by saying, ``Well, I guess I can run everybody's business but 
my own.'' Because usually they've been bankrupt a couple of times and 
been fired, but they want to tell you how to run your business.
  When I hear the United States government say, ``We need to create 
jobs, we need to tell the job creators how to operate, what to do,'' 
I'm reminded of the fellow back home who says I can run everybody's 
business but my own. Because we haven't had a budget in this country in 
over 850 days.
  We don't do much right up here, and trying to run businesses is not 
something we should be doing. We should be reducing taxes, reducing 
spending, reducing regulation. And we need to get those three free 
trade agreements from the White House over here. If you don't believe 
me, ask the European Union. Car exports up over 200 percent after they 
signed their free trade agreement with Korea. Their aircraft is the 
same. It's up over 2,300 percent.

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