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On the recordFebruary 24, 2010
I think the American people need to know that socialism never has worked, never will work, and we've got people here in Washington who are so arrogant, so ignorant, so incompetent that they will think that their brand of socialism is going to work, but it will not. It never has worked. It never will work. I don't care who is trying to force socialism upon our people; it's still not going to work. In fact, the Progressives... have been trying for 100 years now to socialize the health care system. We have a sham of a meeting tomorrow at the Blair House that the White House has set up. When it was first announced, I was very hopeful that maybe the President had seen the light from everything that the American people had been saying, in that they don't want to have the government take over the health care system.
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Paul Broun
Republican · Georgia
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Feb 24, 2010

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The speaker criticizes socialism and discusses health care reform efforts.

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