Louie Gohmert: “I can't tell you how it warms my heart to hear the former chairman say he was pleased to yield me time. I appreciate…”

“I can't tell you how it warms my heart to hear the former chairman say he was pleased to yield me time. I appreciate that. But one thing that isn't pleasing is this so-called stimulus bill. It's an abomination. We should not be doing this to future generations. I've got two pairs of words for you: One pair of words, tax holiday; another pair of words, American energy. Our President went from promising all of these millions of jobs, three million, I believe, initially through this stimulus package to now saying we're going to create or save four million jobs. Why would we add ``save''? Because there is no way to document saved jobs. So whatever happens, ``Well, we lost four million jobs, but gee, we saved four million in the process.'' I guess that's what will be said at the end of it. The problem is this is not going to stimulate the economy when over half of it, 60 percent of it, is not going to be spent for a couple of years or so. The economy needs help now, and we need to do it without devastating our children and grandchildren. I used to sentence people for doing unconscionable things to their children or to children, and here now I'm a part of a body who wants to live better by taxing and hammering future generations. That's not right. There is nothing virtuous, there is nothing noble in loading down our future generations with this kind of debt.”