We can limit what the government does with it but there is no way that we can limit anything beyond the pieces of the government that we control.
Lester Johnson
The Public Record
Mr. Wilshusen, you testified about the concept of limiting the information the Federal Government obtains and basically limiting the time that it is kept.
The challenge, I think, right now is to enable that personal development not by having to self-edit because of the fear of going to a Muslim Web site.
As we watch every terrorist act, the aftermath of that, people start doing a postmortem on that, and they go, well, we had this information, why did we not put two and two together and prevent the attack.
So, when we turn people who are trying to help us into suspects, it builds exactly kind of distrust that we are trying to prevent and I would argue hinders investigations going forward.
But in terms of limiting the increase of cost, certainly from my standpoint, introducing free market principles into health care would be one of those things.
I'll just try to wrap up what I was trying to achieve with my questioning, first starting out with the question about the private sector, where you've actually come in the private sector and worked toward these solutions.
My concern with what we've just passed here, what the Supreme Court just basically ratified, is we have a whole new entitlement now.





