[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26060]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         COMMUNISM DOESN'T WORK

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Madam Speaker, I want to comment right now on 
a little article that was in the paper. Probably most Americans didn't 
see it today. But I followed what went on in Zimbabwe a long time ago 
when the communist leader, Mr. Mugabe, took over. He said they were 
going to make that country greater because of the movement towards 
communism.
  Well, here is what happened since he took office: The government says 
that it is going to have to import 100 tons of extra wheat but that is 
still going to be really short of the 375,000 tons that they need to 
feed their people. And the United Nations World Food Programme 
estimates that at least 3 million people will need emergency food aid 
in Zimbabwe before the April corn harvest.
  Communism simply doesn't work. It hasn't worked in the past. It 
didn't work in the Soviet Union, and it hasn't worked in Zimbabwe or 
other places. And we ought to be very thankful that we live in a 
democratic republic in this country. And we ought to do everything we 
can to help those living under the yoke of communism and do everything 
to can to make them free.
  I think it is extremely important because when you go to those 
countries, as I have, and you see what those people have to live like 
and you see the starvation, little children with big bellies because 
they don't have the food they need, you realize that the communist 
menace is very, very costly anyplace it occurs in the whole world.

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