Providing for Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 5297, Small Business Jobs Act of 2010

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Mr. Speaker, I support this week's Republican YouCut amendment that would be prohibited by this rule. The amendment would reduce the Federal workforce to its pre-Obama level by phasing out 188,000 new Obama bureaucrats who have already been added to the public's burden. This spending isn't stimulating the economy--it is stimulating the government at the expense of the economy.

Before government can create a job by spending money, it must first take that money out of the economy, destroying the productive jobs that create wealth and replacing them with government jobs that merely consume it.

In 1946, Harry Truman slashed Federal spending from $85 billion down to $30 billion. He fired 10 million Federal employees. It was called War Demobilization. The Keynesians at the time predicted catastrophic unemployment. Instead, he produced the post-war economic boom that produced unprecedented prosperity for middle- and working-class Americans.

We know how to revive an economy because we've done it before--by reducing the burdens that government has placed on productivity. All we lack is the political will. Maybe the American people can help with that in a few weeks.

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