[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
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[Page 12023]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            LET'S LEARN A LESSON FROM THE ``GERMAN MIRACLE''

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, Dr. Milton Wolf 
in The Washington Times reported, in the last 2 years, over 2 million 
private sector jobs have been lost, that unemployment has increased by 
1.5 percentage points, that the U.S. dollar is 12 percent weaker, and 
that the long-term unemployment is the worst ever on record--and sadly, 
the national debt has exploded by 40 percent.
  At the same time the administration pushed the failed stimulus 
spending here, the President urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to 
do the same in her country. The Chancellor refused. Now, as a result of 
her good judgment, Germany's economy has recovered. German unemployment 
levels are reduced while over 14 million Americans do not have jobs.
  The President should learn a lesson from the ``German miracle.'' The 
solution is not for big government to keep borrowing and spending. Tax 
increases destroy jobs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism. Our sympathy to the 
people of Norway in the religious extremist mass murderers.

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