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John Rice Carter: “These are serious times, and we have serious issues to deal with. Recently, I was privileged to be in a meeting with…”

On the recordMay 19, 2010
These are serious times, and we have serious issues to deal with. Recently, I was privileged to be in a meeting with some conservative economists... if we continue the policies of the Obama administration into a second term, if he wins a second term, in the third year of his second term we will be Greece. That is pretty serious. And, you know, you talked about the middle class. I bet if you questioned everybody that lost their job and is out of work and what class they were in, they would all tell you they were in the middle class, because we all consider ourselves to be middle class in this country. We are sort of proud to be middle class. So these concepts require work, and that means a budget.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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May 19, 2010

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The speaker discusses economic concerns and the potential consequences of continued policies from the Obama administration.

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