Kucinich on Supplemental: “Cash for Clunkers and Bunkers”

[kpete]

Kucinich on Supplemental: “Cash for Clunkers and Bunkers”
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2009-06-09 16:19.

Washington D.C. (June 9, 2009) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement against the war supplemental on the House floor:

“It is good that our Administration is reaching out to the Muslim world. It is bad to spend another $100 billion to keep wars going which will kill innocent Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“It is good that we try to create an incentive for people to buy efficient cars. It is bad that the car vouchers will not be expressly for the purchase of cars made in America. It is even worse that we tie such an incentive to a war funding bill. Cash for clunkers and bunkers in the same bill!

“Cash for more war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Cash to help China sell its cars to Americans.

“Meanwhile, back in the U.S. of A., factories and auto dealers are closing, people are losing their businesses, their jobs, their homes, their health care, their investments, their retirement security.

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[HillbillyBob]

1. Also bad that those of us who live on low incomes and drive old clunkers

because we cannot AFFORD new fuel efficient ones even with the kick back from the fed. If you are like me and live on less than 10,000$ a year you drive the old pos until it won't go anymore then you buy another old pos. and repeat.