Louie Gohmert: “And of course we know where that all led. Ultimately, it led to the Soviet Union borrowing money, printing money as fast…”

“And of course we know where that all led. Ultimately, it led to the Soviet Union borrowing money, printing money as fast as they could and then ultimately coming to the day of reckoning. And when they realized we can't borrow enough, we can't print enough, and they have to announce we're out of business as a country, all of these states that made up the USSR, they're on their own. We're out of business; we can't borrow enough; we can't print enough. You know, another tragedy out of this health care bill--and not in terms of human suffering, but still a tragedy--was the media and the light that was cast from the media through this bill. Because you think back through the years, both Democratic Presidents and Republican Presidents, I don't recall in my lifetime a media being so oblivious to truth. I can't imagine under George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, going on back, I can't imagine the media ever allowing any governmental entity to stand up and say we are going to save $1.3 trillion with this bill starting 11 years from now and going 20 years from now. Obviously, for the next 10 years we're going to cut Medicare $500 billion, and we're going to raise taxes by $500 billion. We're going to do this for 10 years and then that will pay for 6 years of health care. And the mainstream media didn't utter a whimper.…”