On the recordApril 28, 2010
Well, I think it's pretty obvious, gentleman. I think that we're not about preventing health care in this bill. It's about a government takeover of one-sixth of our economy. It's about control; they want to control that portion of the economy. Again, I've got another friend of mine who owns three manufacturing plants around the country, looking to open a fourth, but with the uncertainty of our economy, with bills like the health care bill, cap- and-trade, the stimulus package, additional tax increases that are sitting on the back burner right now, he says, I'm not going to open this business; I'm not going to build a new manufacturing plant. To bring another business example here, I had a group of bankers in yesterday and I asked them, I said, How is your money supply? Have you got plenty of funds to loan out and what is your loan demand? And he said, We have the funds to loan out. The demand is sort of lukewarm right now, but the last five guys we've had come in who wanted to take out business loans were all ready to sign the papers. We had approved them, everything was fine. They're good customers, they're good business people, they decided at the last minute, we're not going to expand. We don't want to do this because we're going to endanger our whole operation if we go down this road. So they actually backed off, and as a result, look at how many jobs we're not providing or jobs that we're killing because of bills like this.
