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Trent Franks: “Some of us, myself included, voted against the bailout early on because we could kind of sense from history that…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2009
Some of us, myself included, voted against the bailout early on because we could kind of sense from history that whenever government gets a hold of things and comes in and tries to run things that the disaster that follows is predictable
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Trent Franks
Arizona

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Franks expresses concerns about government intervention leading to predictable disasters.

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