[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H1163]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                      HOOVERVILLE IS COMING AROUND

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, there is a saying that what goes around 
comes around. And the Republicans have adopted this as their mantra for 
their response to the American economic problem. Republican President 
Herbert Hoover presided over the Great Depression and stood by while 
millions of Americans stood in soup lines and unemployment lines. It 
produced Hoovervilles across the land, a kind of how-to guide on what 
not to do during an economic crisis.
  Today, Republicans are replaying the same old movie, responding in 
the same old way. And they offer America the same old outcome. 
Hooverville is the model community of the Republican plan to solve 
America's economic crisis. You won't need a mortgage in a Republican 
Hooverville because the town is already bankrupt. You don't need a 
stimulus package to revive the economy in a Hooverville because it is a 
Republican-planned community, and they have planned for soup lines and 
unemployment lines. And you won't see light at the end of the tunnel in 
Hooverville, because they drove the economy into the ditch over the 
last 8 long years. And they offer an economic plan to drive it deeper.
  What goes around comes around. And Hooverville is right around the 
corner. Republicans offer America an economic blueprint called 
``Hooverville.'' It didn't work the last time, and it won't work this 
time.

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