My name is Magatte Wade. I’m a Senegalese-American entrepreneur. I’ve been living in the US since 1998, and I became a US citizen in 2018. I’m also an author of The Heart of a Cheetah, a book that talks about African entrepreneurship and prosperity.

Mr. Raskin, your words earlier really, really worried me, and I will tell you why. When you say we are here… to talk about Mr. Elon Musk and all the ‘unconstitutional’ things that he’s doing, and you said we shouldn’t be here to talk about regulation or anything like that. First of all, I want to say, then why did you have me here? As an entrepreneur, my time is valuable….

My continent, Africa, is the poorest region in the world today because it happens to be the most overregulated region in the world… if you need and want to wait until this country becomes like most African countries, I don’t know. I love this country and I don’t want to see it go down there. Also, just so you know, what does overregulation mean for regular people? It means death, death, literally. People are packing themselves into little fishermen’s boats, trying to leave nations that are overregulated.

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