[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13402]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THANK GOD BUSH IS GONE

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, it's been interesting listening to the 
discussions this morning and this afternoon. Social Security is 75 
years old. It came about because of Franklin Roosevelt, a great 
Democratic President, and a Democratic Congress, evolving out of a 
Depression caused by Republican Herbert Hoover. And now 75 years later, 
we look at the situation where another Republican President, a Hoover 
George Bush, caused us the next worst financial crisis.
  Republicans talk about privatizing Social Security. Social Security 
is money that needs to be there to preserve people's standards of 
living when Republicans who let the economy get out of hand because 
they don't have any regulations let it happen. This is the most foolish 
thought I've ever seen, if we didn't learn from September of 2008 that 
the market is a gamble and comes up and down. It's not social security; 
it's social insecurity.
  People have gotten up here and said, You haven't noticed that Bush is 
gone? That's all they can say is Bush is gone. Nobody can defend him, 
rated the second worst President in the history of the United States. A 
man who earned record deficits by giving tax breaks to millionaires and 
billionaires and fighting a war based on lies to raise great deficits, 
and now all they can say is he's gone. Thank God he's gone.

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