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Richard Shelby: “If the debt continues to accumulate and becomes unsustainable, as the Congressional Budget Office believes our current…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2010
If the debt continues to accumulate and becomes unsustainable, as the Congressional Budget Office believes our current policies are, then the only way that can end is through a crisis or some other very bad outcome.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby warns about the dangers of accumulating unsustainable debt.

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