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Kendrick Meek: A big number. And I will tell you right now if we had a little ticker here these zeros would be moving to a higher…

On the recordJune 14, 2004
A big number. And I will tell you right now if we had a little ticker here these zeros would be moving to a higher number as we speak. So the experience now that the American people have to witness and this is the U.S. Treasury credit card here, and we have Republican Congress there. What we are experiencing now is that every 3 weeks we are knocking on the bank of China saying, can you loan us money to be able to pay down on the debt? So as we look at that, more money in the American people's pocket versus out of their pocket.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida

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Discussing U.S. debt and borrowing from foreign nations.

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