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Hank Johnson: I could not have said it better; and I will say, so that I don't repeat what you've said, that when we do have a strong…

On the recordDecember 1, 2011
I could not have said it better; and I will say, so that I don't repeat what you've said, that when we do have a strong government, then government is there to protect the interest of all of the people, those who are the so-called job creators, who haven't been creating a lot of jobs here lately, by the way. I don't know why they still have that title, because all the jobs have been moving offshore, out of America and leaving these workers here without jobs. We're doing ourselves a disservice by cutting government and cutting our ability to clean up the mess that has been created through decades, now, of deregulation. It has caused us to be a society where we spend more money on health care, but we're the sickest people in the industrialized world, among the industrialized nations. {time} 1850 We've got a financial system that nearly collapsed because of lack of regulation. And the same people who profited so mightily back during those winner-take-all days want to keep the winner-take-all days, make the big bonuses, the obscene bonuses at year end that they're getting ready to publicize now, and they would rather collect those bonuses than create jobs for Americans to clean up the environment, to reregulate Wall Street. They want to cut those jobs, so job creation, it will actually result in the job creators, or the 1 percent, being able to experience even more profit. People should understand that if you help someone else, it comes back to you.…
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia
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Dec 1, 2011

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