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08/02/01 02:01 PM: Traficant
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From the Congressional Record, is the speech I saw Mr. Traficant of Ohio give when I was watching the House in session while I was in DC.
Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my friend, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. TRAFICANT), who knows it is not right for U.S. taxpayers to subsidize businesses to close up here and set up shop on the mainland of China.
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, let us get to the point: China is a communist dictatorship. China has threatened Taiwan, and even Los Angeles. As we speak, China is shipping arms to Cuba. China has just signed an agreement with Russia. China held 24 Americans hostage, no matter how you want to state it. China stole our secrets. China just recently illegally bought U.S. microchips to make more missiles. China already, according to the Pentagon, has missiles aimed at American cities. Hey, China is on record, according to the Pentagon, as referring to Uncle Sam as imperialist and, quote-unquote, “the enemy.’’
Now, if that is not enough to spoil your stir-fry, China is taking $100 billion in trade surplus a year out of America. And we might laugh, but I believe that the Congress of the United States, with American taxpayer dollars, is funding World War III. World War III.
A dragon does not negotiate with its prey; a dragon kills its prey. When are we going to wise up around here? China’s record speaks for itself.
My God, even the Pentagon bought the black berets from China. On the Mall, the symphony was performing on Independence Day, and vendors were passing out plastic Old Glories made in China.
The last I heard, we were referred to around the world as Uncle Sam. So help me God, the way we are acting, the world is beginning to look at America as Uncle Sucker.
I will have no part of this. There is an old saying: ``Better dead than red.’’ This is a communist dictatorship. I want to give credit to former President Reagan, who crippled and dismantled communism, brought the Berlin Wall down, destroyed and destructed what he called that Evil Bear, the Soviet Union. And what we have done in the last 3 years, we not only reinvented communism, we are now starting to subsidize it. And, by God, we are funding, I believe, and I warn this Congress, a future World War III; and we had better be careful.
With that I thank the gentleman for his time, and I support this resolution, and I think this resolution is more important than the consideration it is getting very flippantly from some economists in America.
