Burgess Owens: “what we are saying is that we want working families to live by a different set of rules. We want two Americas. Working…”

“what we are saying is that we want working families to live by a different set of rules. We want two Americas. Working families and the people who represent working families have to live by a different set of rules. We want a loyalty oath for a worker going into a business; they must take a loyalty oath. We do not ask people going into management to take loyalty oaths. We do not ask consultants who come to work for a company to take loyalty oaths. They might be spying on you, industrial spying might take place by an outside company. Nobody asks them to take some kind of loyalty oath and prove their intent. What would happen if Bill Gates was to say to all the young people who are information technology workers that if you want to come in, that you have got to take a loyalty oath that you are not going to use your experience here to develop some business later? Half of them who go in go into the larger enterprises for the purpose of learning the ropes, then they go out and they develop their own entrepreneurial activity. That is the American way. It is that way for businesspeople. Why should it not be that way for people who represent working people or working people? You want a different set of rules. This is part of the Republican assault on working families. We had it in 1994. There was a Contract With America. In the Contract With America, they said nothing about attacking working families.”