[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8459]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, on the Joe Scarborough Show, 
Richard Haass, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, said China 
had been investing in its economy over the last 10 years while we have 
been investing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Haass proudly described 
himself as an elitist. Well, it is elitists like him and the 
organization he heads who helped lead to the rush to an unnecessary war 
in Iraq, and continues to push military and civilian spending in Iraq 
and Afghanistan that we simply cannot afford. These people apparently 
are not happy unless we are spending hundreds of billions in other 
countries.
  Mr. Haass seemingly did not feel guilty at all when he said China had 
invested in its economy while we have blown a couple of trillion 
dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, it's long past time for us to 
bring our troops and contractors home and start investing in our own 
economy. And it is time for us to start putting Americans first and 
stop spending so much money and sending so many jobs to other 
countries.

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