Burgess Owens: “We had a capitalism that worked for both the owners and the managers and the corporations and the workers. We had a…”

“We had a capitalism that worked for both the owners and the managers and the corporations and the workers. We had a capitalism that worked. Common sense will tell us that the present measures that are being undertaken, the abuses by the corporate powers, are going to destroy that capitalism. I think one appeal we can make to the American people and the American voters is to say enough is enough. We will put some chains on the abilities of corporations to dictate how our economy is run. We need to begin right away to make the necessary laws, to stop the tremendous abuse of power that is taking place. We need to exercise common sense and say we will not take conditions like the present post office is about to negotiate for a single source for the postal uniforms. We should say to the post office, ``No, we demand those uniforms be made in this country. Do not go all over the world for these things.'' The policeman, the post office man, whatever uniforms are being made, we should demand that they be made in this country. There are a lot of other common sense arrangements that we should start demanding now before we move to try to repeal NAFTA and GATT and some of these other laws. We must wake up because the hour is quite late.”