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TARP is not constitutional, and unsustainable

[Obama is] going to overreach. At some point, people have got to realize none of this is possible. You can't have people living in homes they don't pay for. I mean, you can for a while. But after a while--you're already starting to see evidence of these.

Aside from the bastardization of the Constitution that the Obama plans are, that TARP is, it's not constitutional. Aside from that, where is the evidence that [anyone] has ever succeeded in any similar plans before? There is no evidence it works. The president's stimulus package, the TARP, the budget, relies on one thing for its success. Well, aside from authoritarian government power. It relies on the complacency of the American people. It relies on their belief that they can convince the American people that there's such a crisis that the only government, the only entity that can fix its government, as Obama has said. Liberals will never understand about America: we are a competitive people. We strive, enough of us do, to be the best.

Source: Speech to 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference , Feb 28, 2009

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