[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19572]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           CHANGE WE CAN USE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I just got this e-mail from JoAnne Lewis 
in Coffee County, Georgia. She's with the Economic Development 
Authority. She says that Wayne Farms is now closing down, another 165 
jobs lost. This brings Coffee County, Georgia's, total job loss to 
2,979, or an unemployment rate of 16\1/2\ percent. Mr. President, 
where's the stimulus package? Where are the jobs?
  Now, on top of this comes Speaker Pelosi. She's planning to ram 
through a $1.2 trillion government takeover of the health care system. 
This will cause a $534 billion tax increase and a $208 billion tax 
increase on small business and farmers. Therefore, more layoffs, and 
more unemployed. Mr. Speaker, this is not the change the folks in 
Coffee County, Georgia, can use. They need jobs.

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