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Tim Ryan: We haven't borrowed money to make sure that we can hire enough people in the Consumer Product Safety Commission to make…

On the recordOctober 31, 2007
We haven't borrowed money to make sure that we can hire enough people in the Consumer Product Safety Commission to make sure our toys are safe coming in from China. We're borrowing money to give the top percent a tax break, people making millions and millions and millions of dollars a year, and hey, if you make millions, God bless you, but now we're in a position where we don't have enough employees to monitor the toys coming into the country and we're giving multimillionaires a tax break. We're borrowing the money from China, which is pretty interesting when you think about all these toys coming in from China, that we're borrowing the money to fund the war and the tax breaks from China. So China's now our bank. So now they, of course, want their products coming into the country. So, now all of the sudden, things like the reduction in employees at the Consumer Product Safety Commission happens because the Republican House and Senate and the White House have got us so dependent.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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Discussing funding issues related to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and tax breaks for the wealthy.

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