[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 85 (Monday, May 22, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1089]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


        REPUBLICAN WAR PROFITEERING: COMMENTARY BY KEVIN PHILLIPS

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                        HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 22, 1995
  Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, the May 17 radio commentary by Kevin Phillips 
on the Republican budget plan hit the nail on the head:

       In the guise of crisis legislation, deficit reduction . . . 
     especially as put forward by the House of Representatives, 
     also has major overtones of special interest favoritism and 
     income distribution.
       Spending on government programs, . . . is to be reduced in 
     ways that principally burden the poor and middle class while 
     simultaneously taxes are to be cut in a way that 
     predominantly benefit the top one or two percent of 
     Americans.
       If the U.S. Budget deficit problem does represent the 
     fiscal equivalent of war--and maybe it does--then what we are 
     really looking at is one of the most flagrant examples of war 
     profiteering this century has seen. And it deserves to be 
     rejected with outrage.

  Mr. Phillips is right: The Republicans are practicing class warfare. 
They get upset when you use that term--but that's what they are doing. 
They doth protest too much about the term, and the proof is 
overwhelming that they are taking from the bottom half of our society 
to give to the top 1 percent.


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