That is really frustrating, isn't it, to basically give people a mushroom treatment. You keep them in the dark, smother them in some sort of a fertilizing material, and we tell them these things: if you like your doctor, you will be able…

This is part of that same report that we were just talking about that has just now been released conveniently after the bill was voted on.

Let's get this straight. You have a company here and the company is being faced with some choices now. Their first choice is just take their employees and dump them into, is it the State or the Federal?

Thirty-six million more people go into Medicare--now, you don't have to be too much of a wizard on business--36 million people go into Medicare that weren't there before, it's going to cost more money. And then you are going to cut $575…

It's a treat to join you and my colleagues once again this evening and talk about a subject that has been troublesome to all of us for some number of months now, that is the state of the economy, the problem with unemployment, and the…

The true engine of job creation in this country will always be America's businesses, but government can create the conditions necessary for businesses to expand and hire new workers. This statement is completely true. Unlike a lot of…

And you say people are losing jobs. Sometimes I think it's helpful to put a picture in your mind. When I think about losing jobs-- and maybe this is one of my worst fears--I picture a house and a family that's not in the house and a big…

You know, the thing that was interesting to me, about December of last year there was a guy who is one cool businessman, he is the CEO of Emerson Electric--which is not a big household name to a lot of people, but Emerson is a gigantic…

The thing that got me was, think of the logic: they have to come up with a bill and they wanted to come underneath $1 trillion. So how do they do it? Well, what they do is they say we're going to tax people over 10 years, but we're really…

Well, gentleman, you had some of those bills, and hats off to you because in spite of the fact that the President said we didn't have any bills, then later on he claimed that he had read all of our bills, which seems a little hard to…

You know, sometimes we use words, and you're talking about being heartbroken because you can connect the policy with how it's going to hurt people.

I would like to slow you down just a minute because you are smart in this stuff, and what you're saying is historically accurate. But I would like to take that apart, slow it down just a little bit so people can see the logic of why this…