Duncan Faircloth: “I have spent 45 years of my life in the private sector, meeting a payroll every Friday as a businessman and farmer. I…”

“I have spent 45 years of my life in the private sector, meeting a payroll every Friday as a businessman and farmer. I have watched the Congress, each time it came into session and adjourned, make it more difficult for me and every other businessman in this country to run a business. New rules, excessive rules, regulations, and new Government spending programs have led this country on a path to economic catastrophe. Last night, the President spoke about his desire to radically change the health care system in this country, all in the newly coined phrase of 'health security.' We already have the finest health care system the world has ever known. The security most people want is economic security. President Clinton has already hit the working people of this country with the largest tax increase in history, including a retroactive tax increase. Now he wants another tax increase to pay for a new health-care-bloated Government bureaucracy. I am adamantly opposed to it. This is not economic security. We need to make health care more affordable for working people who are most concerned about the security of their pocketbooks.”