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Hank Johnson: It certainly will not create any jobs. There is a false perception that has been bought into wholesale, unanimously, by…

On the recordDecember 1, 2011
It certainly will not create any jobs. There is a false perception that has been bought into wholesale, unanimously, by my Tea Party-Grover Norquist Republican friends, and that is that deregulation somehow creates jobs. Now, I know what kind of jobs are created when you deregulate the health and safety of food, water, air quality, drugs, Wall Street. I know what happens when you don't have any regulations. It means you're going to have more people going to the doctor because of unsafe and unhealthy conditions--adulterated food, water. It means that you will have more----
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia
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Dec 1, 2011

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