Political Quotes

“This amendment cuts the Rural Business Program Account in half from last year's enacted budget amount of $43,125,000. The Rural Business-Cooperative Service, like a lot of Washington, D.C., programs, has a good name. It doesn't always do good things. Unfortunately, it continues the age-old government sin of picking winners and losers instead of just letting the market work. I ran a small business, and people would tell me that the government wants to be a good partner. I wasn't looking for a partner in my business. I was looking to run my business. If there was a partner, surely it wasn't the government, which had no idea about what I did in my business. What businesses need is for the government to get out of the way and stop making it difficult if they don't bend the knee to whatever the government demands of them. Let me just tell you what we are funding with this money. This comes right from the code cited in this appropriations bill: Loans for the purposes of reducing the reliance on nonrenewable energy sources by encouraging the development and construction of solar energy systems and other renewable energy systems. If you want to do that, you can get some of this money. If you don't want to do that, you can forget it. Mr. Chair, we have seen the government-mandated shift to green and oftentimes unreliable energy sources, and we have seen what it has done to the country.…”