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John Rice Carter: “We have a problem here in Washington since the Democrats took control: It's called insanity, specifically, political…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2010
We have a problem here in Washington since the Democrats took control: It's called insanity, specifically, political schizophrenia. Yesterday, the Senate voted to spend another $15 billion in taxpayer money to create a hoped-for 250,000 jobs. Yesterday, President Obama introduced a health care proposal that is estimated to cost 600,000 jobs by his own supporters and up to 5.2 million jobs by business groups. So in 1 day Democrats pushed two proposals--one to create jobs and one to cut jobs--that combined will result in a net job loss of between 350,000 and 4.8 million jobs. The madness has to stop before maybe the President starts claiming he's George Washington.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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Feb 23, 2010

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The speaker criticizes the contradictory job proposals from Democrats in Congress.

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