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On the recordNovember 17, 2010
I want to talk a little bit about unemployment. I want to talk about the economy and what the solutions are to this problem. This isn't very complicated, but people try to make it more complicated than it needs to be. ... the problem of unemployment and the problem of the continuous and rapid growth of the Federal Government, which stifles our freedoms and liberties, which buries us in red tape and bureaucracy, which raises our cost of living, and which makes life more and more miserable for Americans as they lose their freedoms, and the Federal Government's out-of-control spending that accompanies that. These are problems we've talked about, and these are problems that the voters have voted on. The voters seem to think that this is a problem in spite of the fact that we're going to try and shove socialized medicine down the throats of Americans and in spite of the fact they don't want it.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker addresses unemployment and the growth of the Federal Government's influence on American freedoms.

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