[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18502]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          1934 CHICAGO TRIBUNE

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, this weekend, I received a communication 
from a constituent at home who brought to my attention a political 
cartoon that ran in the Chicago Tribune 75 years ago in 1934. It is 
often said that history doesn't repeat itself, but if you listen 
closely enough, it will rhyme. Or said another way, those who do not 
recall their history are doomed to repeat it.
  The constituent who sent this to me is a retired FBI agent. He wrote 
in his e-mail, ``change the names and the situation looks very 
familiar.'' Saul Alinsky, the leader of community organizers in 
Chicago, would be pleased with the current situation. When you look at 
the caption, spend, spend, spend under the guise of recovery, bust the 
budget, blame the capitalists for failure, junk the Constitution.
  Mr. Speaker, this was apropos 75 years ago. It may well be apropos 
again today.

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