Rob Bishop: “Thank you. I appreciate that pass-off very quickly here. The comments of Congressman Gohmert about General Brown, I…”

“Thank you. I appreciate that pass-off very quickly here. The comments of Congressman Gohmert about General Brown, I think, are appropriate as a beginning for this entire discussion about the stimulus. As he has been sacrificing his all for this country, it is our job to try and make sure that there is a country that is worthy of that sacrifice and that commitment that he will have. I just want to talk very briefly because we have some great experts here on the economy of this country who will say something. Just on a personal approach, I am one of those who was a product of kind of a 'yours and our' family. My father, who was a newlywed with a young son--my oldest brother--during the Depression, lost his job during the depths of that Depression, and my mother was a recent widow with two young sons under 5 with no job at the same time. My father went for 2 years during the depths of the Depression without a full-time job. I realize the difficulty in talking to him of what he went through and of what the family went through. Indeed, he was saved by the creation of a government job during that time period. I came around about 20 years after this event, and my father always cautioned me at the time that the government job that saved him was a temporary job, that when the government decided to close the program, the job went away at the same time, and he was back to the same issue of finding a job that had been created on the economy, an economy created job.”