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Barack Obama: “I'm telling the CEOs it hurts America when they cash out and leave workers high and dry.”

On the recordNovember 7, 2007
I'm telling the CEOs it hurts America when they cash out and leave workers high and dry.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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