Country. Department of labors tracking entrepreneurs. As the president was implementing his spending agenda, that agenda that took us from record high deficits of the bush administration, to record deficits three times higher in the Obama Administration. The number of new establishments, entrepreneurial activity, for the yearending march 2010 march, 2010, was lower than any other year since the series began. Since they began keeping record, mr. Speaker. In 2010 under this administrations stimulus policies, entrepreneurial activity was at the lowest level in america since we began keeping records. I dont mean at the lowest level of people succeeding. I mean the lowest level of people trying. The lowest level of people trying, mr. Speaker. What does it mean about us . What does it mean about our future when we have beaten the enthusiasm to try out of our people . Frightened it out of our people. Mr. Speaker, thats not just a department of labor report. We talk a lot about that. What is it that the guys down at the agencies are producing, those technical reports. Ill a tell you what they are producing, ill tell you the impact its had. The federal register, mr. Speaker, i dont he know if you picked up a copy since you have been here. The federal register measures all the new regulations coming out of washington. They have to publish them there. 2012, last year, you and i you werent here yet, mr. Speaker. I have been here for two years. We were not passing a new regulatory agenda. Those department agencies, they were not implementing a new congressional regulatory agenda. They were implementing, pardon me, the old one. They hadnt gotten the old one out yet. 34, ear 33 billion really, 33st9, 33 billion is what those own agencies estimated the cost of complying with their new government regulations would be. Those agencies, those agencies that put out their regulations are required by law to explain to the American People whether its worth it or not. They havele to certify how many hours its going to take the American People to comply with all their new regulations. 81 year, mr. Speaker, million hours. 1 million hours just last year were added to the federal regulatory code book in new work for men and women across this country. Why is that low . The federal government is borrowing money to spend here. There is no prospect for tax relief on the horizon. Taxes keep going up. Brand new Health Care Bill in place that folks dont understand. Going to destroy their health care system, not to mention add to their cost of their business. And the federal government last year in the midst of this terrible recession, the midst of this difficult economy, added 33. 9 billion in additional costs through regulatory activity thats going to take 81 million hours to complete. Lets do some back of the envelope math, mr. Speaker. 81 million hours. The average work year, 40 hours a week, you work 50 weeks a year, thats 2000 hours. 000 hours. Thats 40,000 people. Who will spend every working all of every working day year long just to meet the new federal regulatory burden. Mr. Speaker, i dont wonder why it is that entrepreneurial activity is the lowest its been since we began keeping records. The wonder is that folks are still trying at all. I had someone say that to me, mr. Speaker. I was visiting with a group of honor students. I represent two counties in the north Metro Atlanta area. We were talking about what you want to do when you grow up. We were talking about america as a land of opportunity where you can do anything you want to do. Where its our birthright to be filled with opportunities that our parents never dreamed of having. And a young woman on the front row raised her hand and she said, congressman, youre talking so much about going out and hanging out your own shingle and being a entrepreneur. She said it looks really, really hard. She says why would anybody even try . The best high schools in my district, Award Winning high schools. Honor students in that school. Asking the question in america, why is it even worth trying today you are making it so hard . Aose arent just the words of naive 18yearold. Those are the words of some of the most successful entrepreneurs in america today. Up here in orange, mr. Speaker, its not quite home depot orange. Its one of those Great Companies founded down in my part of the world. Across the country, tremendous success story. We are so proud. They are a great corporate citizen. They give back so much to us in the community. One of the founders, one of the founders of home depot wrote an open letter to the president in the wall street journal. Again one of the captains of industry. One of the most Successful Companies in america. This is what the founder of that company wrote in an open letter to president obama. He said, if we tried to start home depot today, under the kind of onerous regulatory controls hat you have advocated, its a stone cold certainty that our business would never get off the round, much less thrive. These budget exercises are not about numbers. They are about families and opportunities. And when the captains of industry in america, those folks who risked it all with their ideas and every hour of their day for years of their lives to try to get something to grow their idea from a concept into an actual business into an international enterprise, those folks, the most successful among us, say if they were trying to do it today in the america that washington, d. C. , has created oday, they would fail. Folks, this isnt about dollars and cents. In a federal budget, this is about dollars going to regulatory agencies that are crushing dreams and opportunities. This is about the failure of government to weigh benefits and burdens, to do those things that dont encourage opportunity but restrict it. And these are not the words of folks who are here trying to pursue a partisan agenda, its the words of folks who put families to work and put food on the table. Its not just ken langone. We heard it from the founder of subway just this month. Late last month, february. Being interviewed on tv, he said this. You see a subway on every corner in america. 5 foot long happens to be one of my favorites. Its a bargain in this town. I suggest you go and take a look. But the founder of subway said this. Just last month, if i started subway today, subway would not exist. If i started subway today, one of most successful restaurant chains in all the land, subway would not exist. He didnt say that because he thinks americans are unwilling to work today. Americans work harder than any other people anywhere on the planet. He didnt say that because we as a people are unwilling to take risks today. There is no more entrepreneurial culture on the planet than the American People. He said it because washington, government has structured a landscape in which opportunity cannot thrive. Tax burden, health care burdens, regulatory burdens, labor burdens, on and on and on. Folks, theres nothing special about america that exists in our landscape. What is special about america is the idea of who we are that he we could break ties with the mother land such that we could come here and try it our way. So we could take the risk that maybe we succeeded and maybe we failed, but the chance to succeed is such a great motivator, hope is such a great motivator that family after family after family, for over 200 years, has risked it all to come here and risk it all to make sure their kids have more opportunities tomorrow than those parents have today. And our captains of industry, our entrepreneurs, are telling them that government regulation, government overspending, government bore he rowing, rising debt is crushing that dream for the next generation of america. And thats not news. President obama knew it when he was running for election. He he knew it after he got elected. We just need a willing partner to work with us today to solve that problem. Ill go back to home depot again. Its a fantastic Atlanta Company thats grown around the world, Bernie Marcus, tremendous philanthropist in atlanta. Gives of his time and resources to every worthy cause in town to try to make sure his neighbors are taken care of. Believes to whom much is given much is expected. He lives up to that model every day. He says this. Having built a Small Business into a big one, i can tell you that today the impedimentings . The impediments that the government imposes are impossible to deal with. Bernie marcus. Huge philanthropist, wildly successful entrepreneur. Looks out at the landscape today and says the impediments put forward by government are impossible to deal with. He goes on he says, home depot would never have succeeded if we tried to start it today. Every day, he says, rules and regulations from a group of washington bureaucrats who know nothing about running a business. And i mean every day. Its become stifling. Lets go back to that chart. This is what Bernie Marcus is talking about. Regulations coming out every day. Federal register published every day. Pick it up in your library. Every day. And for last year and last year alone, last year an last year alone and last year alone, this government, federal government, not the state governments, not the local governments, the federal government and the federal 33. 9 nt alone imposed billion in new requirements on americans. Requirements that by the governments own estimation are going to take 81 million hours to fill out. 40,000 fulltime workers working every hour of every day for a year creating nothing. No productivity. Only complying with federal regulations. Ill finish, mr. Speaker, where i began. And thats why it matters. This is that chart of debt in america. Borrowing from the federal government. And i read the president s words, mr. Speaker, where he said it was irresponsible. Irresponsible. To allow our children to have amassed a 30,000 per child debt under the bush administration. That debt, mr. Speaker, is fast approaching 60,000. For every child. Undered Obama Administration. Under the Obama Administration. If we do nothing, this red line of debt, mr. Speaker, that destroys opportunity, that destroys america as we know it, continues. If we do nothing. F we do nothing. We cant ignore this problem away, mr. Speaker. We must do something. And so year after year, mr. Speaker, make it sound like im an old hand at this. In the three years i have been here, two years, two months, this house has presented a budget every single year. Budgets that make tough choices. Budgets that challenge each and every one of us to set those priorities of things that must happen versus those priority of things we would like to happen versus those priority of things that we could really do without. If it means a better america tomorrow. Three years. Touching things the prognosticators said would never be touched. Folks said medicare was doomed to failure because no congress would ever be bold enough to do those things necessary to save it for another generation. But all three years i have been here, all three budgets i have had the pleasure of helping to produce, made those tough choices. Made those vital changes, to fail to reform medicare is to destroy it. To fail to reform medicare is to end it forever. In 2023 it runs out of money, mr. Speaker. We all know it. Those arent my number, those arent your number, theyre the numbers from the medicare act vares downtown working for pd obama. 2023. Theres no more money. How many of us rely on have family members who rely on that money. We do them no favors by ignoring the problem and careening toward failure. We do the responsible thing, the hard thing, by making the tough choices we have in this budget that will save that program, not just for my mom and dad, not just for your parents and grandparents, but for more generations to come. Our responsibility here, mr. Speaker, is not to scare america. Our responsibility here is not to tell america who to blame. Our responsibility here is to serve america and make the tough decisions that previous congresses have not. The two paths, mr. Speaker, two paths. Im not going to tell you the path weve laid out in the Budget Committee is an easy path, its not. When youve been living beyond your means and i mean a trillion dollars beyond your means each year, 36 cents of every dollar the government spends is boar road. When youve been living that far beyond your means for years, its hard to change. But its the right thing to do. This chard shows the red chart of where america is headed today. I only ran that chart out to 2023. The truth of the matter is you n see it, congressional budget office, the models we have that predict Economic Growth in this country, they stop working. In about 30 years. Because they cannot calculate they cannot see, they cannot imagine in those models how america could still exist as an economy having borrowed as much money as it will have borrowed in 30 years time. The model is great. Theres little asterisks, cbo. Gov, see it yourself, theres asterisks that said we cant predict we could even continue beyond this point. Paul ryan is fond of saying this is the most predictable crisis america has ever faced. Everyone, everyone, every man and woman and every in every seat from the most liberal democrat to the most conservative republican, every congressperson knows the economic destruction that awaits us if we choose to do nothing. Folks have been asking all day, r. Speaker, whats the there there in the paul ryan budget, in the house Budget Committee budget, what i hope before the april 15th deadline will be the law of the land, will be the american budget, the there there is that we shift direction from a pathway that will most certainly mean the end of opportunity for our children to a pathway that will mean more opportunity for our children than even you and i have had, mr. Speaker. We are not in this chamber talking about numbers. We are in this chamber talking about people. And if we fail to act, the devastation, the destruction, is not going to be measured in red lines on a ledger. Its going to be measured in real pain for real families and it doesnt have to be that way. I urge all my colleagues, mr. Speaker, to give prayerful consideration to the house budget. Dig deep into these numbers, dig deep into these choices. That is what america is. It is about making the tough choices. We have the freedom to succeed and we have the freedom to fail , to date, mr. Speaker, congresses have been adopting the freedom to fail. We can change that this year. I urge my colleagues in the senate, i urge the president , join us in that quest. With that, i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. Under the speakers announced policy of january 3 20, 13, the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Gohmert for 30 minutes. Mr. Gohmert thank you, mr. Speaker. Its always an honor to be recognized here before the United States house. I want to follow up on what my dear friend mr. Woodall was pointing out, with the amount of red ink that weve had, theres no person there is no business, there is no charity, theres no family that could continue to spend like this government is spending. Nd the trouble is, yes, this administration is driving this truck right toward and off the cliff, theyre so fond of talking about cliffs, we have been heading for a big one. The one at the first of the year was just a bump, it was a nothing compared to the overall collapse were headed for. Along the lines that the soviet union faced back in the late 1980s. There are stories about how they were trying to borrow money but they had continued to spend, of course, trying to catch up with our Missile Defense, they knew they had to match that. They were going to remain a superpower. And the great vision of Ronald Reagan had pushed that, he understood that continuing to push a doctrine of mad, mutually assured destruction, really was mad. That was nuts. Why not develop defensive weapons so if there was a mistake there would at least be a chance to stop it. But the soviet union, the soviet system, where youre rewarded not by how well you work, not by how productive you are, but because you exist, is a very noble system, very noble idea, but it doesnt work. It always goes bankrupt, and the s. D. I. , the Missile Defense just helped push them there a whole lot faster. So they got to the point, because they had spent so much, they couldnt borrow any more money. They owed so much, they knew there was no way they could ever print money fast enough as they went back to the preworld war ii days when people using wheelbarrows fig yourtively speak figuratively speaking to carry money to get a loaf of bread. They knew they couldnt do that. When there was no other way, they had to announce, the soviet union is now out of business. Its so ironic, a free market system never collapses. It only fails when people who are not well educated enough, and they can have all kinds of degrees, they could be like the late ms. Miland in my hometown growing up used to say, he may have a ph. D. But hes a phul fool. She had probably a third grade education but she was absolutely brilliant. So we have a lot of people like ms. Miland i talked about, they have a ph. D. But theyre phul fools. They dont understand that socialism doesnt work, cant work, in this world. The soviet union went bankrupt. If people think it cannot happen here, i can assure everyone, mr. Speaker, it will happen here unless we get responsible. A pox on republicansouses houses for not doing everything we possibly could to stop the democrats in the senate and the democratic president from heading faster and faster toward that cliff. Fortunately new york recent days, because we have taken a great stand, weve slowed this truck down. Were still heading there. And to have people, basically throwing a temper tantrum because they didnt get every dime that they wanted, yes, government increased 20 their entire budgets have increased 20 or so, oh, theyre get manager money than theyve ever otten in history, but just try to not cut them but just slow that big rate of growth down, slow it a little bit and we get a temper tantrum, oh, yeah, well if youre not going to give us all the money that so what if its going to bankrupt us . If youre not going to give us all the money, well, were going to let Law Enforcement go so they wont be there to protect you. And you know what, kids that need vaccinations to keep from being diseased, were going to spend the money elsewhere and