[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12335]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            WE DON'T DEFAULT

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Here's what we should do to avoid default: increase the 
debt ceiling with no strings attached. Here's how to get out of debt: 
end the wars, save $1 trillion in 10 years; repeal tax cuts to the 
wealthy, save another $1 trillion; Medicare for all, end the $400 
billion yearly subsidies for the health insurance industry; renegotiate 
trade agreements with workers' rights, human rights, and environmental 
quality principles to save millions of jobs and billions of dollars.
  The Fed creates money out of nothing and gives it to banks. Why 
should our country go into debt, borrowing money from banks when we 
have the constitutional power to create money and invest in jobs? We 
could have another New Deal, putting millions to work, rebuilding 
America's roads and transportation system. We could have a Works Green 
Administration where NASA is the incubator of jobs, designing and 
engineering wind and solar microtechnologies for private sector 
manufacturing, distribution, installation, and maintenance in millions 
of homes, saving money and energy and protecting the environment.
  We are the United States of America, the greatest country on Earth. 
We envision wealth; we don't default. We create wealth; we don't 
default. We build wealth; we don't default.

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