a couple years back when the justice department approved whirlpools takeover from maytag that gave a 75% control over all washers and dryers in this country, he said if there was ever any doubt in your mind that we have a government of and by and for the corporations, if you thought for one second we were not right back in the gilded age, if you have the least downs of faith in our regulators to do the right thing, you should give it up right out and went on and said auntie be i play a guy he was just out to make you money. but if you're not trying to get rich you should feel free to get mad. so in one generation of this country we have seen a true revolution of the structure of our political economy. how does this affect us? we know from seventh grade civics class monopolies affect us as consumers. the chinese vitamin cartel once they had power they jacked the price 400%. we know that is what happens. that is the way it goes. we should keep in mind but with a variety of product and quality of product put in front of us, but how aboutobs? that is a big issue to date i am sure the pre

a couple of years back when the justice department approved the takeover of maytag which gave will pull a 75% control over all of the washers and dryers in this country, he said if there was ever any doubt in your mind that we have a government of, by and for of the corporations, if you thought for a second we were all right back in the gilded age, if you had the least amount of faith in the regulators to do the right thing, you should give it up right now. then he went on and said on tv i play god that is just out to make you money but when you're not trying to get rich you should feel free to get mad. so in one generation of this country we have seen a true revolution at least in the structure of our political economy. so how does this revolution affect us? we all know from seventh grade civics class monopolies affect us as consumers. i will give you one example. the chinese vitamin c cartel pretty much the day after they finished consolidating the power over a vitamin c ascorbic acid the jack the price 400%. but we know that is what happens. that is just the way it goes but we should

still here but here again if we are going to take these rail car sallai have an mt factory, former maytag plant that was sourced out to mexico nafta. we would love to make them there so if anybody is interested in a wonderful facility -- aren't you glad and even here today. but these cars and these kind of things need to be made here and we are going to insist. i will be lifted if i find out we take the taxpayers' money and we send it to other countries to manufacture stuff when we are sitting here in illinois and 11.1 and the gentleman from florida talked about the unemployment rate there. so anything we can do to do that. to give one final example of this, mr. chairman, on the chicago thing to repay 800 jobs are going to be created. i just got to conclude by saying everybody's gone over their time limit i must be living in a different time warp because i hear people talking about how the stimulus isn't anybody to worker safety job or done anything. for those people, either on the wrong planet or i don't know where they are getting their figures because quite frankly, we are seeing a num