[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11590]
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                    WHO IS DRAFTING ECONOMIC POLICY?

  (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, something does not fit. There is civil 
war in Mexico. The peso is so low it could walk under a closed door 
with a top hat on. Mexico's biggest business is narcotics and they end 
up on the streets in America. Up north Canada just dodged a bullet. 
They almost voluntarily self-destructed.
  After all this I keep reading the papers telling us how great the 
economy is. Well, if that is the case, how come wages keep going down? 
Workers are afraid of losing their house.
  Tell me, Mr. Speaker, why is individual debt so high in America? Why 
are savings so low in America? And after all this, this administration 
wants a free-trade agreement with Chile. I ask today on the House 
floor, who is drafting our economic policies in America? Larry, Moe, 
and Curly, or a bunch of bureaucratic masochists who never stood in an 
unemployment line and are so dumb they could throw themselves at the 
ground and miss.

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