[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9116]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS DOES NOT WORK

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the 90th anniversary of White 
Castle, the 25-cent hamburger I used to remember, it came in that 
little cardboard box. You could buy four of them for a dollar. The 
price has gone up now, but I've got a feeling if this Congress 
continues to do business like it has, we will be eating about two of 
those little, small hamburgers, for dinner every single day.
  What they want to do, ladies and gentlemen, on the Republican side is 
to cut Medicare and gut Medicaid and do everything they can to take 
care of their wealthy patrons with another round of tax cuts. It's like 
a drunken binge that they have been on with these tax cuts.
  Trickle-down economics, ladies and gentlemen, does not work. It has 
not trickled down. And, in fact, it has closed off to where all of the 
money stays up top. It never trickles down to the bottom. We have got 
to change that.

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