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James Traficant: “AT&T just laid off 40,000 American workers. AT&T laid off 40,000 American workers, another 40,000 folks. In case you…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1996
AT&T just laid off 40,000 American workers. AT&T laid off 40,000 American workers, another 40,000 folks. In case you have not heard, because I know you care, another 40,000 American workers are laid off. But Uncle Sam keeps saying, do not worry, because NAFTA and GATT are going to replace those jobs with high-technology jobs. Right. The only high-technology job I see is that new Slurpee machine at 7-Eleven. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. What about a Happy New Year in Basking Ridge, NJ? They lost 7,000 jobs in 1 day. Neither party will balance this budget on minimum wage jobs. Neither party has a program. The country absolutely needs a third party to do something about jobs. If there is any consolation, Mr. Speaker, I never heard of anybody committing suicide by jumping out of a basement window, and that is about the only tenement our people will live in after we keep losing jobs.
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James Traficant
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Addressing job losses and economic concerns related to NAFTA and GATT.

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