W. Todd Akin: “Before we get into the specifics of various solutions, let's just talk for a minute. You know, the question is, a lot of…”

“Before we get into the specifics of various solutions, let's just talk for a minute. You know, the question is, a lot of times people think Congress has some sort of a magic lever here in the Chamber. And when we pull this lever, it just makes the economy accelerate or something. You know, they say we are going to stimulate the economy, whatever that is supposed to mean. Really what Congress can do is we can either tax people or not tax people. We can take the revenue and slop it around in different ways. That's about all we can do. We don't create any wealth at all. So when it comes to the economy, the tools we have are, to some degree, limited just because of the fact that Congress really doesn't create anything. What happens is it's the economy that either pulls itself forward or stagnates because we have created some set of laws that's messing it all up. So as we talk about solution, we have got to be careful, don't we.”