[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H8]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      MORE JOBS LOST FOR AMERICANS

  (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, AT&T just laid off 40,000 American 
workers. AT&T laid off 40,000 American workers, another 40,000 folks. 
In case you have not heard, because I know you care, another 40,000 
American workers are laid off. But Uncle Sam keeps saying, do not 
worry, because NAFTA and GATT are going to replace those jobs with 
high-technology jobs.
  Right. The only high-technology job I see is that new Slurpee machine 
at 7-Eleven. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
  What about a Happy New Year in Basking Ridge, NJ? They lost 7,000 
jobs in 1 day. Neither party will balance this budget on minimum wage 
jobs. Neither party has a program. The country absolutely needs a third 
party to do something about jobs. If there is any consolation, Mr. 
Speaker, I never heard of anybody committing suicide by jumping out of 
a basement window, and that is about the only tenement our people will 
live in after we keep losing jobs.

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