Louie Gohmert: “We are living in interesting times. As Dickens said, it is the best of times and the worst of times. There has never…”

“We are living in interesting times. As Dickens said, it is the best of times and the worst of times. There has never been a country in the history of the world with the amount of opportunity and freedom for individuals that has been found in the United States. Even in Solomon's Israel--great wealth there-- there was not the opportunity and the individual assets that we have here in the United States of America. It is incredible that even for the Nation's poor, obesity is a major health issue. That is just unheard of in world history. It is deeply grieving to hear that so many of our Nation's college students and college graduates have been indoctrinated with the notion that socialism is so much better. Communism, really, is what we are talking about. They call it progressivism and socialism, what they are proposing, that that would be a superior form of government to what we have. What those students have not been taught--and it is an enormous gap in education; it is an enormous area of ignorance for those students-- is that you can't have socialism or communism without giving up a tremendous amount freedom. That was one of the things that scared some people in the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union came to exist no more. They had given up so much liberty, the idea that they were now free to find whatever job they wanted, and they didn't have to just take what the government told them to take. They could find whatever job they wanted.…”