America is A Great Nation

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Mr. ALLEN. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for holding this special order.

This is a topic that we need to have a family discussion on. This Congress needs to sit down together and have a family discussion on where we are as a nation because I am deeply troubled by the state of our Nation, and most of my constituents who talk with me on a daily basis ask me what in the world is going on.

I go back to my childhood. I grew up on a farm, and I learned the value of hard work. I tell people that outside of this President, my daddy was the hardest worker that I have ever known. I am not sure he could outwork this President.

Mr. Speaker, my dad was one of five people in my county that you would go to see if you were going to run for public office. That is how much he cared about his community; that is how much he cared about that county; and that is how much he cared about his State.

I will be honest with you. My mother, my brother, my sister, and I would get upset with him because he spent time doing things outside of the home, trying to make our county and our State a better place to live. So, one day, I asked him about it.

I said: Dad, why are you so involved in public service?

He said: Son, I grew up in the Great Depression, and I fought in World War II. And in both times, I really thought there was a possibility we were going to lose this country.

I think he made a covenant with God that he would do everything he could to sustain the great Nation that he had the opportunity to grow up in and farm and to be involved in education and all the amazing work that my father did for that community. But he left me with this--and my dear friend, Ralph Norman, talked about this tonight.

My dad said: Son, you have to understand one thing. Apathy is the enemy of freedom.

You look at voter turnout, and you look at folks who say, ``I really don't want to get involved,'' or, ``I don't want to get out and knock on doors or make phone calls.''

Folks, I am going to sound the alarm. I am going to sound the alarm for a lot of different people groups.

Take the small business community. The small business community generates about 50 percent of the jobs in this country. Seventy percent of all the new jobs created in this amazing economy we had before COVID-19 were generated by the small business community.

The first reason I ran for Congress was because of the war on past administrations on small business.

Let me tell you, small business, you need to get involved in this process, because if we aren't careful, there will be another war on small business.

I came down here today to talk about two amendments, and a lot of those amendments dealt with the regulatory environment that, prior to President Trump, was destroying the small business community.

You know, one of the greatest privileges that I have had in my life-- and I think this is maybe the greatest gift I have ever received from God--is the privilege to give people the opportunity to have a good job, to have the dignity and respect they deserve, to empower them to be what God created them to be, and to allow them to provide for their family, their country, and their church.

There is no greater satisfaction that I have found in this country--I have not found one person who is unhappy, that is not filled with joy when they are serving others. And we still have a tremendous amount of that going on in this country.

But over the past few months, we have seen radical progressive attacks on our Nation. What started as legitimate and peaceful protests has since been hijacked by violent lawbreakers.

Now, let's be clear, the mob wants total anarchy. And we are seeing it play out before our eyes, and it started long before we got here. Now we are experiencing attacks on law enforcement. I saw that in my generation on the military.

The destruction of Presidential memorials, the establishment of so- called autonomous zones. If you ask these folks who are destroying these things, they don't even know who they are, but all that does is that represents authority.

Well, I was fortunate almost 20 years ago to become--well, I had a spiritual awakening, and I began to have this thirst for the Bible. And so I began to research the Bible and to try to run my business and to exhibit leadership skills and to deal with the issues of our culture based on Biblical history and what is going on in the Bible.

Well, Romans 13 is very clear about authority. God ordains all authority. And I encourage you to read Romans 13, because it will tell you and describe to you the issues involved with authority and what happens to a nation when those who rebel against authority, what can happen.

In fact, I also am involved in many Bible studies here in Congress, and it has been quite an education for me to understand what is the relationship between God and government in our culture.

Obviously, we heard tonight that this Nation was founded based on people who came here seeking religious freedom. And so if you look at exactly why God ordained government 4,000 years ago, it was one thing, and that is to restrain evil. That is to deal with anarchy. That is to deal with exactly what we are faced with right now.

Mr. Speaker, Members of this body are turning away from God. We should be one voice here condemning this anarchy and evil we are seeing across this country.

Well, I believe the best way forward is for our State and local governments to step up. The Federal Government also has a unique role to play.

Like I said, Speaker Pelosi and Democratic leaders have shown time and time again that they would rather pass partisan, political messaging bills than work with Republicans on bipartisan legislation-- like meaningful police reform.

My dear friend Senator Tim Scott has worked tirelessly to provide police reform that I believe will work for America. The police force needs it. They need our support. And I will tell you, they have my support. Yes, there are going to be bad outcomes. It is the human condition. We talked about that as well.

But there should be, at this time in the history of our country, under this pandemic, unprecedented bipartisanship. But, clearly, over the last few weeks, it shows that we would rather appease those on what we term the radical left than work toward a more perfect Union.

Please, my friends, please, America, wake up.

Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues across the aisle realize sooner than later that appeasing the mob will never stop. It will never be enough. It is just like government funding. I have seen that in reality with this pandemic. It is a feeding frenzy, and we are seeing it play out right before our eyes here.

And let me tell you something: We need to look and try to look into the future. Say, for example, if we were born today, when we look back and understand why we are leaving our children and grandchildren--and I don't know how many generations--400, 500 years--the obligation of this debt. I don't know of any nation in history that has done something like that. I mean, that in itself is a crisis.

Yet we are continuing to explode the debt. When I saw the appropriations package, I could not believe it. We are trying to fight the pandemic. Yes, we have created a lot of debt to deal with that, and, yes, you are going to have to deal with emergencies. But just to go and spend money that you don't have?

People say, well, this is taxpayer money. This is not taxpayer money, folks. This is maybe 400 to 500 years down the road. Now, how are you going to explain that to your children and grandchildren?

Mr. Speaker, there are seven influences in our culture: There is the church. There is family. There is education. There is arts and entertainment. There is the media. There is the government. And there is the business.

And where do those influences stand today?

The church has been mitigated. Our Founders--yes, they didn't do it perfect, but let me tell you, the church was a tremendous influence in the founding of this country. When they couldn't agree, they brought in the great ministers. And the ministers would reveal the Scriptures and tell those Founders: This is how you come together.

We don't have that here. I have never heard somebody stand up and say: This is what the Scripture says and this is why we need to come together, and this is how we need to move forward.

I did say on this House floor in a Special Order on Bible Week that I believe that the Bible has an answer to every problem we have got, if we just researched it and we had someone to come down and tell us how we should go. There are profits everywhere. We listen to them on Sunday mornings.

Come on, folks, we need wise counsel.

Then there is the family. The family has been devastated. Fifty percent of the children in this country are born in single-parent homes. I don't blame children for being angry. And single moms, I tell you, my heart goes out to them.

Education, you know, we took the values that God gave us out of the education system, and we are seeing the fruits of that right now.

Arts and entertainment are supporting everything out there that, frankly, is very difficult for us to understand. The media, the media is so biased today.

The government, the government is trying to fix everything. Let me tell you, the more problems we have in this society, the more this government has got to spend. Folks, there is not enough money in the world to fix a culture in anarchy. It won't work.

The business community, the business community is under siege. Like I said, the reason I ran for Congress is there was a war on small business.

Big business, I will tell you, I am disappointed in some of these large companies that are buying in to some of these things that we see today--the anarchy, the other things.

Mr. Speaker, I think it is time in America that we stand up and defend the Nation we love. And those who wish to harm it--yes, people ask me: Do you think we are under God's judgment?

I say: No, I think that would be a lot more difficult than what we are seeing right now.

When you are under the judgment of God, you have got to look back at what Israel went through. But I can tell you this. God could have stopped this pandemic like that. God can stop this anarchy like that. But God has removed his protection, in my opinion, from this Nation. And until we repent from our evil ways and confess our sin, then God will heal our land, and that is the only hope that we have.

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