Political Quotes

“Madam President, today, there are new revelations, new evidence about the extent of the radioactive contamination that has plagued the St. Louis area since the forties. Where did this radioactive contamination come from? Simple, it came from the Federal Government. Beginning in the forties in the Manhattan Project, St. Louis was a center of development for uranium. But what did the Federal Government do when the Manhattan Project concluded? Well, we know more today after 15,000 pages of documents that had previously not been released were obtained by a parents' rights group in St. Louis and shared with news organizations. Here is what we learned. The Federal Government gave this radioactive waste, fobbed it off, onto companies in the region--who did what?--who poisoned the water, who poisoned the soil, who poisoned the air, and the government knew about it. Oh, yes, they knew about it. They knew about it for decades, and for year upon year upon year, they played down the threats. They tried to hide the evidence. They told the people of St. Louis: Oh, everything is fine. Don't be worried. Don't worry at all. It is all fine. Meanwhile, kids were playing along a creek filled with radioactive waste. Kids were going to school in buildings contaminated by the waste. Residents were coming out to houses, building homes in areas contaminated. And then the government wonders why the levels of cancer and autoimmune diseases and rare genetic disorders have spiked in the St.…”