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David Thomas: If I might, I certainly agree with the Senator. It isn't that difficult. In other words, this is what our system is all…

On the recordJanuary 28, 1998
If I might, I certainly agree with the Senator. It isn't that difficult. In other words, this is what our system is all about. Our system of private enterprise, our system of limited Government, our system of allowing as much money as possible to stay in the hands of the citizens so they can invest it and create jobs, that is what our system is all about. Through the years it has been tested against socialism and big government and the government doing all these things, and throughout the world this system is the success. It is being copied everywhere. Sometimes it is scary when we see ourselves moving away from our own system that has been so successful, that everybody else has adopted. So the Senator is exactly right. That certainly is what creates this kind of an economic environment is the ability to take the risk, to invest, to work, to earn, to keep and to do things for yourself and your family.
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David Thomas
New York

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Discussing the merits of private enterprise and limited government.

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