House Proceeding 03-16-09 on Mar 16th, 2009 :: 2:29:30 to 2:31:55
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2:29:26 to 2:29:46( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: decline ever since then. now we have a rocketship going right back up again, all in the last three months, projected -- mr. broun: would the gentleman yield? e sad thing is our children to live at a lower standard. their standard of live something going to be lower than ours today.

2:29:30 to 2:31:55( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Paul Braun, Jr.

2:29:47 to 2:30:08( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: because they're going to be saddled with this huge debt. you cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. and in fact our president has came, if you all remember, came and told the republican conference that he wasn't going to make the same mistake that franklin roosevelt made when f.d.r. got scared and quit

2:30:09 to 2:30:29( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: spending. he said, our president, was going to continue to spend. and -- it's just wrong. that policy during the depression did not get us out of that depression. warren buffet said he thinks we've been pushed off the -- warren buffett said he thinks we got pushed off the edge and our economy is heading into a very severe depression or

2:30:30 to 2:30:52( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: recession and we may well be. i hope and pray that we aren't. but i know this. every single thing that this administration and the leadership in this house and this senate have proposed is going to hurt our economy. it's going to deepen the recession, it's going to prolong it and may push us into a severe depression. we keep hearing this is the

2:30:53 to 2:31:15( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: worst economic times since the grt depression. no. this is the worst time since jimmy carter and those failed policies and what our president has done is he's bght into that philosophy that keynesian economic policy which is socialism and that's exactly what he's ught into and in

2:31:16 to 2:31:37( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: fact the way i've described it in some speeches is we have a steamroller of socialism being shoved down the throats of the american people, it's going to strangle the american economy and it's going to slay the american people economically. and it's going to. and that steamroller of socialism is being driven by nancy pelosi and harry reid and we've got to stop it because

2:31:38 to 2:31:55( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: it's going to hurt the poor people in this country. it's going to hurt the small business men and women in this country, it's going to hurt the most economically disadvantaged in thi country and we have policies that we're proposing that will actually help small businesses, that will create jobs.