[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23890]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   FROM THE NEW DEAL TO THE RAW DEAL

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, we have come a great distance in 75 
years, from the New Deal to the raw deal, from having nothing to fear 
but fear itself, to being afraid of everything. We have traded 
democracy's warm heart, containing ideals of faith, fairness and 
frugality, for the greedy, cold, calculations of the Dow Jones ticker.
  The New Deal saved free market capitalism with jobs and regulation. 
Now both sink in the swamp of speculation, manipulation and 
capitulation. The golden rule of ``Do unto others as you would have 
them do unto you'' is submerged by the rule of gold: `Do unto others 
before they do unto you.'
  Some people will ask of this Congress, what were we thinking? Why did 
we give a $700 billion bailout to Wall Street without fixing what 
caused the problem in the first place? Why did we rig free markets for 
security fraudsters? Why didn't we explore alternatives to let Wall 
Street solve its own problems? Why didn't we have money to save 
millions of homeowners, create millions of jobs and a green economy?
  Why didn't we stop the speculators? Why wasn't there accountability? 
Why didn't we take time to make an intelligent decision? Why Why Why?

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