Robert Berry: “I am an East Arkansas rice farmer, and I remember a story an old fellow in my community told me when I first started…”

“I am an East Arkansas rice farmer, and I remember a story an old fellow in my community told me when I first started farming. He said there was a man who came through during the Depression and he had a truckload of rocks. If a farmer would buy one of these rocks from him and put it where the irrigation water ran into their rice field, he claimed it would make them a lot better crop. He said, ``You know, he sold some of those rocks.'' I said, ``How did it do? Did it make the crop better?'' He said, ``It was pretty hard to tell.'' Mr. Speaker, that is what these fellows are trying to do, is to sell the American people a load of rocks. I think it is a bad idea. Mr. Speaker, we are all for tax cuts, but not if we have to rob the Social Security trust fund and our children's future to do it. It is a bad idea, and the American people need to recognize this load of rocks for what it is.”