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Hank Johnson: People in the mortuary business who are trying to determine the cause of death for people. You will have more cleanup…

On the recordDecember 1, 2011
People in the mortuary business who are trying to determine the cause of death for people. You will have more cleanup workers, workers who are dispatched to clean up toxic sites. You'll create those kinds of jobs. Yet, as for the kind of high-level, 21st century jobs that America needs in order to be the leader of the world economy in this global environment that we're in, there is not one measure that the Republicans have introduced that will stimulate the creation of those kinds of jobs. So what we're doing, Congressman Ellison, is just creating conditions of great suffering so that people will vote against President Obama next November. The stated goal of my friends on the other side of the aisle--their main, central goal--is to make sure that President Obama is a one-term President. They don't care about how much pain they inflict on the American people, on the 99 percenters--and 47 percent of them are millionaires, so they don't have to worry. It's just to serve a political purpose.
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia
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Dec 1, 2011

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