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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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