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On the recordJuly 20, 2009
The private sector always makes these decisions better than government and if we take it in reverse look what happened when the government owned the telephone companies, it was a disaster.
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Trent Franks
Arizona

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Franks argues that government ownership leads to poor decision-making compared to the private sector.

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