Burgess Owens: “I hope at this point each one of you could sort of sum up and show how all of this ties together, when you give the…”

“I hope at this point each one of you could sort of sum up and show how all of this ties together, when you give the multibillion dollar tax cuts, and you have to go and cut something out of the budget, and what we have here is a display by what I call some high-technology barbarians who are approaching the situation without any heart at all. They want to throw a large part of American humanity overboard and just say we do not care; we do not care whether they have homes, we do not care whether they have food, we do not care whether they have medical care, we are going to help the rich get richer. It all ties together. They cannot help the rich get richer without committing these atrocities against the poor and atrocities are committed these days in ways where you do not have blood. When you refuse to raise the minimum wage, that is a kind of an atrocity. When you are going to force welfare mothers to get off welfare after 2 years and not bother to try to create an economy which is going to produce jobs for them to step into, those are atrocities without blood. We have to see how it all holds together and make the American people understand that the Contract With America, which many of us call the Contract on America, is a very deadly approach indeed.”