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On the recordJune 9, 2010
I really appreciate the gentleman for joining me tonight. We, in a way, as Americans have got two choices here. One choice is the path to freedom, and the other path is the path of servitude to Big Brother government. Every solution that we've seen coming from the Democrats--now, we've seen an unusual year-and-a-half. I have been in Congress now 10 years. I've never seen a year-and-a-half like this. This is a total one-party rule. Almost every bill that passes, Democrats all vote one way, Republicans the other, and the Democrats have such a majority, and everywhere along the line they can do whatever they want and they have. And the solution is always more taxes, more government, and more government control. So, on the one hand, you have the world of the Big Brother government taking care of things, and you're guaranteed that you can't fail because the government will always be there to bail you out, not just as a big corporation but as an individual. You can make bad choices. The government will be there to bail you out; that's what they promise, but it doesn't work that way. In fact, what all of human history shows us is that one of the most dangerous things to human beings is big government because big government has killed more human beings than all the wars of history combined. Just take communism alone, which is a big government theory.…
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker discusses the dangers of big government and the implications of one-party rule.

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