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Jack Kingston: I have a friend of mine named Ted Fox, and Ted says this is what Congress' basic mentality is, that it is the three of…

On the recordJuly 31, 1996
I have a friend of mine named Ted Fox, and Ted says this is what Congress' basic mentality is, that it is the three of us right here. We are walking down the street together, and one had more money than the other two. The other two could vote to take your money, and it would be morally fine and justified. That is exactly, that is the whole left-wing premise: It is okay to steal, as long as you vote it as law in Congress. That is their whole mentality. I want to yield to the gentleman from California because he has been involved in so many of these good changes we have done. First, I want to say this, the idea behind class warfare is a loser. You are just bashing people. The other day we had a leading Democrat say in the Congressional Record, and I will give you both and anybody else interested a copy of this, that the employer-employee relationship is similar to the jailer and prisoner relationship or the slave and the master relationship.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing perceptions of Congress and class warfare during a floor speech.

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