[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 41 (Wednesday, April 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          HOW DUMB CAN WE BE?

  (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, America's building a new war machine that 
promises to be the mother of all mayhem, an awesome air force and navy 
and the greatest land army ever in world history. And America is 
bankrolling this Goliath in China. That is right, in China, despite the 
fact that China is a brutal dictatorship that has already threatened to 
nuke their neighbors.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, I say to the Congress, ``If that's not enough to 
freeze dry your stir fry, check this out.''
  While China now sells Barbie and GI Joe to our kids, General Cho is 
stocking our assets.
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. Hard-earned dollars by American workers 
building the next national security threat to the United States of 
America; how dumb can we be? How dumb?
  The bottom line: Chinese toys today, but maybe just maybe a Chinese 
missile tomorrow. Think about it.

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