Richard Shelby actually said...

Why should we continue to prop up banks that are basically insolvent, some of our large banks that are walking dead, so to speak, give them a transfusion, and there is no end in sight?

Context

Shelby questions the rationale behind bailing out insolvent banks.

03/09/2009

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