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Tom Tancredo: “It is intriguing to me in a way as I sat and listened to the discussion about when the Members of the other side talk…”

On the recordJune 14, 2004
It is intriguing to me in a way as I sat and listened to the discussion about when the Members of the other side talk about the need for admissions of wrongdoing or failure. It would be so much more, I think, credible for them to approach this issue by first saying that we on the left have to admit certain things that we now know to be inaccurate. Let us start with the fact that the entire world has disavowed our economic theories of greater government control of the economy, of cooperation with foreign governments, especially those governments that were totalitarian in nature and Communist by design, but all of these things have failed and we know it and the whole world recognizes it.
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Tom Tancredo
Colorado

Editor's note · Context

Discussing economic theories and the need for accountability from the opposing party.

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