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On the recordJune 23, 2010
Well, Lucifer rebelled against our creator, God, and was thrown out of heaven. And we're trying to fight all of those spiritual wars today because of that. But the thing is, what the progressives or radicals or socialists--whatever you want to call them--are trying to do or the proposal from people like Saul Alinsky and others is that you just totally destroy your enemy, and then you build up a socialistic society out of it. I've had person after person in my district, just working folks--not politicians, just working folks, say to me, Paul, why is President Obama trying to destroy the free enterprise system? Because that's exactly what he's doing. I hear that over and over again from lower middle class working people all the way up to small businessmen and - women who are just saying, Why are we trying to destroy the free enterprise system? Why are we creating all this debt? And the people in my district in Georgia are just seriously questioning all this huge debt. What this chart shows is the deficits for each year. That doesn't reflect the debt that's accumulated. The debt would be an exponential curve if we showed that.
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Paul Broun
Republican · Georgia
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govinfo.gov
Jun 23, 2010

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The speaker addresses concerns about the impact of government policies on the free enterprise system and rising national debt.

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