Burgess Owens: “I would just like to comment briefly, because I think I have an hour after this where I will be continuing the…”

“I would just like to comment briefly, because I think I have an hour after this where I will be continuing the discussion of the downgrading of the wages of American workers, but I want to thank the minority whip and my colleagues for continuing this crusade to educate the American public, to educate American workers. We have just seen the majority of the masses of France sweep out a government that wanted to take care of the economy on the backs of the people at the bottom. We have just seen in Canada the same kind of phenomenon where the people on the bottom said ``No, we're are not going to take it any more,'' and they swept out, they almost swept out a government that insisted that the only way they could make the economy work was by putting one more burden on the people on the bottom, taking away their benefits, lowering their wages, a worldwide movement to press down wages. We always favored globalization and thought of taking the American standard of living to the rest of the world. We were going to raise the standard of living of the world. We did not know that globalization meant that we were going to have wages brought down to the lowest common denominator. We can measure this process in the trade balance, the deficit with China, in terms of trade, the deficit with Mexico. We can measure the amount of jobs they are taking, the dollar value and the amount of jobs they are taking. It is not so subtle.…”