[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 826]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        WHO CARES FOR THE POOR?

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Michigan (Mr. McCotter) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, today we endure much discussion about who 
most cares for our poor. Some measure their compassion by spending 
their own money; some measure their compassion by spending other 
people's money. Yet compassion for the poor's true measure is premised 
upon this fact: You cannot empower a person by making them dependent, 
be it upon charity or be it upon bureaucracy.
  Thus, let us strive to emancipate our poor from dependency's 
nightmare so that our suffering brothers and sisters may rise in self-
reliance and awaken to the American Dream.

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