On the recordFebruary 11, 2011
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Speaker, I'm here today because I represent those small businessmen that are trying to make a living in towns like Butler, Pennsylvania, and Erie, Pennsylvania, and Greenville, and I've got to tell you, the rhetoric is absolutely off the charts. What we really need to see now are some results. Until we get government's boot off the throat of small business people and allow them to move forward, do we want to be in the game? Heavens yes, I want to be in the game. So does everybody else want to be in the game. We need to realize that all these taxes that we create or that we're trying to take in come from businesses that are profitable and people who are working. So if we're talking about growing an economy and if we're talking about cutting spending--and I do agree that cutting spending is important--we better wake up and start to smell the coffee. We have overregulated these people to the point that they don't want to be in this game anymore. We've got to wake up. I repeat that because we are missing the boat on a very vital thing that's happening right now in this country. We need to get onboard with this. And I've got to tell you, insiders in this Beltway talk about too big to fail. For small business people, you know what we are? We're too small to survive, because we can't get the help from the people we need. All we get is a lot of talk and a lot of overregulation.
