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Brad Sherman: “To think that still today even in the worst of times ordinary working people can buy--borrow 3 or 4 hundred thousand…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 2009
To think that still today even in the worst of times ordinary working people can buy--borrow 3 or 4 hundred thousand dollars is amazing and it is not available in an awful lot of other countries.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman highlights the accessibility of loans for working people in the U.S. compared to other countries.

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