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On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
I keep thinking an awful lot of Americans must be starting to feel the same way I do: that the government is not a servant anymore; that it's a fearful master. We were warned by the forefathers that if you let your government, your Federal Government get out of control, it will become a fearful master. It seems to me that that's kind of what is starting to happen. And I think the last election was an understanding across the whole country that this government needs to be put back in its proper place, being a servant of the people and doing programs that are constitutional instead of things that people just think of, wow, it would be a great idea if we mandate this or mandate that. And here you have an example of an area that's already had a tough hit from the oil spill, and we are going to take businesses that have done nothing wrong and we're going to basically shut them down because of some mandate. Somehow or another, I just don't see that as being government of the servant. Do you?
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker addresses concerns about government mandates and their impact on businesses and citizens.

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