Mrs. BACHMANN. Last weekend my family sat down and we were watching the commercial movie ``Titanic.'' And as I was listening to Dr. Burgess from Texas talk about the debt and the burgeoning debt load that the United States takes, once the ice gash came in the side of the Titanic, which we all remember was called the ``unsinkable Titanic,'' we think of the United States. Nothing can possibly sink the United States. We will always be a superpower. But one thing that has kept us a superpower has been freedom, free market economists. We are in the process of watching the deconstruction of free market economists before our very eyes, something we have never seen. But as the ice ripped that hole in the Titanic, water started being taken on, and the engineer came out and brought the blueprint of the Titanic. Water came into the first chamber, spilled over to the second, spilled over to the third, and by the time it filled up so many chambers, it was over. It was impossible to resurrect that ship.
That's, I think, Mr. Akin, what you have been bringing before this body this evening. You've been showing to the American people that at a certain point when we have such excessive levels of spending that in turn leads to such excessive level of taxation that in turn leads us to excessive levels of borrowing that at a certain point we wonder what that tipping point will be if the United States will not be able to recover.
We do have an alternative, as Dr. Broun said. We have a positive alternative that next quarter we could already see growth in our economy. But this plan that President Obama has put forward is the kind of plan that we could watch last night, or last weekend on TNT in the movie ``Titanic.'' If we follow that plan that President Obama has put before us, we know what that outcome will be and a lot of very innocent people may go down with that ship.
