Ron Kind: “That is really the point of tonight's Special Order is what is going to get the economy back on track. That is what all…”

“That is really the point of tonight's Special Order is what is going to get the economy back on track. That is what all of America embraces. We need to grow the economy, create jobs, stimulate investments. There is nothing that solves problems better for our Nation than a growing economy. But the fact of the matter is over the last 2 years, and the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt) recited these stats, is we have lost 3 million jobs in this economy. Two million of our citizens have gone from middle class back into poverty. During the 1990s when we had declining deficits and surpluses, 8 million of our citizens went the other way, from poverty into middle class. We have had over a trillion dollars of corporate assets that have been foreclosed upon over these last 2 years, one of slowest worker productivity rates in the last 30 years. The economic policies are not working. And that is what we need to do is get together in a bipartisan fashion and figure out a plan that is going to work for working families and for all Americans throughout the country so we can stimulate economic activity and create jobs again. That is what we need to do rather than pursuing an idealogical agenda that has a poor track record during the 1980s, the first part of the 1990s, and now it is deja voodoo economics all over again here in the new century. And that is really the task that lies before us today.”