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Steve Southerland: “A government big enough to meet all of your needs is a government big enough to take everything you own.”

On the recordNovember 28, 2012
A government big enough to meet all of your needs is a government big enough to take everything you own.
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Steve Southerland
Florida

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Southerland warns about the dangers of an expansive government.

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