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Darrell Issa: “More than 100 years of giving away a million dollars a day, somehow, you know, causes people--or more than 1,000 years…”

On the recordJuly 8, 2014
More than 100 years of giving away a million dollars a day, somehow, you know, causes people--or more than 1,000 years of giving away a million dollars a day, it represents such a large amount of money that nobody can really understood what it would be like to just stack up those bills that long.
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Darrell Issa
Republican · California

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Issa highlights the enormity of government spending over time.

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