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Kendrick Meek: We owe OPEC $67.8 billion, but let us not leave Iraq and Iran and other countries that we have concern about where our…

On the recordMarch 28, 2006
We owe OPEC $67.8 billion, but let us not leave Iraq and Iran and other countries that we have concern about where our troops are getting sand in their teeth right now. Let us not leave them out of the OPEC nations and allies and people of interest. We have China, Red China, Communist China, China where U.S. workers are training their replacements in China to take their jobs, to make them unemployed. They own $249.8 billion of our debt. And Japan, the island of Japan, they own $682.8 billion of our debt. Now let me just say real quick to the Members, the Republicans have voted to put this on a credit card. They voted to put us into debt with interest. The Republican majority says we want to cut the budget in half by, and I do not know what the new number is, 2010, 2020. We have balanced the budget. The Democrats have balanced the budget. There is no other party in this House that can claim that something has been accomplished. The bottom line is when these countries call in the tab on the United States of America, what are they going to say? Are they going to say, sir, ma'am? Or are they going to say ``pay me.'' They are going to disrespect not only our seniors and others, but they are going to disrespect future generations. The bottom line is if the Republicans wanted to govern, they would have done it by now. They set up the atmosphere to allow this administration to be out of control. {time} 2340 What are the Democrats going to do?…
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