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Steve King: “Let's just back up a little bit. Let's back up all the way to October of 1929 and think about what's really happened.…”

On the recordJune 15, 2010
Let's just back up a little bit. Let's back up all the way to October of 1929 and think about what's really happened. This Nation has been challenged over and over again to come forward and determine where we are with our economy. What kind of an economy are we? Are we the managed economy proposed by the Democrats on the other side of the aisle that believe that the President of the United States, the Cabinet, and the Pelosi Congress and the Harry Reid Senate should be the ones to make these economic decisions to manage the nationalized economy? Are we the kind of people that should be nationalizing even more of our economy?
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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govinfo.gov
Jun 15, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker discusses the state of the U.S. economy and critiques the Democratic approach to economic management.

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