House Proceeding 04-02-09 on Apr 2nd, 2009 :: 0:41:15 to 0:43:50
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John B. Shadegg: program we are trying to devise. vote for the democratic resolution. the chair: the gentleman rese time. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: madam chair, i would the gentleman from azona plrksshadell egg. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for to minutes.

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Speech By: John B. Shadegg

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John B. Shadegg: mr. shadegg: consent to revise and extend. the chair: without objection. mr. shadegg: you can get something for nothing? that isn't true. inzeed, what you get for spending is debt or higher taxes and there are facts in this debate. we spent a lot of time discussing whether or not the cap and trade program is a tax

0:42:02 to 0:42:22( Edit History Discussion )

John B. Shadegg: and the majority sidsaid, no, no, no, it's not a tax. but in the obama budget it produces $647 billion for the government. that's an additional weight on every single american, not just taxpayers, but every single american. that's higher energy. that's highercosts for everything we buy.

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John B. Shadegg: let's talk about some of the facts - i'll yield like you yielded earlier. largest tax increase in our history, $1.4 trillion or 10 years. it contains the largest defic, $1.8 trillion in 209, four times larger than the previous record of 407 billion.

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John B. Shadegg: largest deficit is a percentage of the gross domestic product and the largest national debt. there are facts in this debate. those facts include that the republican budget, which was put together by the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, spends $4.8 trillion less thn the democrat budget and borrows $3.6 trillion less than the obama budget.

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John B. Shadegg: what does that mean? it means that if we pass the democrat budget, we are rapidly going on the path of becoming not the greatest generation, which is what our parents and grandparents created and gave us the defeat of facism and putting us on a course of prosperity,

0:43:28 to 0:43:48( Edit History Discussion )

John B. Shadegg: what we are going to give our children, what we are going to give our grandchildren is the most reckless generation, a generation that is driving itself deeper and deeper deeper into debt. it stuns me that the other side were concerned when my republican colleagues were overspending, but not concerned today.

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John B. Shadegg: this democrat that the