[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 130 (Friday, September 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8722]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            A LOAD OF ROCKS

  (Mr. BERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BERRY. Mr. Speaker, I am an East Arkansas rice farmer, and I 
remember a story an old fellow in my community told me when I first 
started farming. He said there was a man who came through during the 
Depression and he had a truckload of rocks. If a farmer would buy one 
of these rocks from him and put it where the irrigation water ran into 
their rice field, he claimed it would make them a lot better crop.
  He said, ``You know, he sold some of those rocks.'' I said, ``How did 
it do? Did it make the crop better?'' He said, ``It was pretty hard to 
tell.''
  Mr. Speaker, that is what these fellows are trying to do, is to sell 
the American people a load of rocks. I think it is a bad idea.
  Mr. Speaker, we are all for tax cuts, but not if we have to rob the 
Social Security trust fund and our children's future to do it. It is a 
bad idea, and the American people need to recognize this load of rocks 
for what it is.

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