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W. Todd Akin: It seems like the pattern is that every single thing the administration does is to try to create an entitlement class, a…

On the recordJune 23, 2010
It seems like the pattern is that every single thing the administration does is to try to create an entitlement class, a victim class, a group of people that are totally dependent on the government. And perhaps the worst of all of those things, as you know, Doctor, is the socialized medicine, because if your body is physically dependent on the government to give you your health care, it makes you truly one of these dependent classes. And it seems like the government is trying to turn all of us into a bunch of people totally dependent to the government--in fact, slaves to the government. It reminds me as we start approaching the Fourth of July how it was that the people in this country said, We really don't want the government to be our master.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri
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Jun 23, 2010

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The speaker criticizes the administration's policies for creating dependency on government.

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