[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H301]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         LEAVE SOME FOR AMERICA

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I have some problems with the policy that 
allows Taco Bell to make great profits in America, but requires the 
taxpayers of America to make a loan to Mexico for Ma Bell to have a 
shop down there.
  Something is wrong here, folks. We have already propped the peso up 
with $6 billion with NAFTA. We have lost 40,000 jobs already with 
NAFTA. Now Mexico wants $40 billion in loan guarantees so they can 
become well.
  The $40 billion will not make Mexico well. It will make them more 
dependent and limping back to Uncle Sam. And I want to advise Members, 
while you keep worrying about the Mexican economy, you have got people 
unemployed and you have problems in our own country.
  By the way, what do we get for this $40 billion? Two baseball players 
to be named later? I think it is time to get on a business program 
here, folks, stone cold business. And we are losing our pants. Think 
about that before we go shipping more money now to Mexico. Between 
Russia, Mexico, and everybody else, it is a wonder there is any program 
left in America.


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