[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21362]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    PULSE OF TEXAS: HUMBLE RESIDENT

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, each week my neighbors take the time 
to make their opinions known through emails, phone calls, and letters. 
Today's Pulse of Texas is from a Federal employee in Humble, Texas, who 
recently wrote me with these wise observations:
  ``I am an 11-year Federal Government employee who works hard, and yet 
I'm on a 2-3 year pay freeze while unemployment benefits are extended 
over and over again. I live in a house that I purchased because I could 
afford it, yet my tax dollars go to bail out bad lenders and borrowers. 
My children go to colleges that they can afford. They all held jobs 
during college, and the oldest graduated with zero in student loan 
debt, yet now there is a plan to bail out those who went to schools 
above their means. Enough is enough.
  ``Please help break the cycle of entitlement and lack of personal 
responsibility that the government is fostering in this country.''
  Mr. Speaker, America should be the land of freedom and opportunity, 
not more free stuff and entitlement.
  And that's just the way it is.

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